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DEED HEW. TARIFF TO PREYENT RUIH C. W. Fairbanks, in Address at Seattle, Discusses After War Trade Conditions. LESSON 07 TWO YEARS AGO Seattle, Wash., Oct 8. Warning that the United State is enjoying only a transient prosperity, based upon the temporary necessities of war and that with the end of the European conflict stored goods from European factories will come down upon our industries "as the flood upon , Johnstown," was sounded by Charles W. Fairbanks, republican candidate for vice president, in an address here tonight Mr. Fairbanks made a plea for the election of Charles Evans Hughes and pledged a tariff that would "prevent ruin." , The address was said by Mr. Fair banks' associates to be the most im portant of his western tour. It was called the "big tariff speech" by mem bers of the Fairbanks party. ' Poindexter Preside!. Senator Miles Poindexter, repub lican nominee for senator, and a for mer progressive, presided over the meeting and introduced Mr. Fair- , banks. Henry C. McBride, republican candidate for governor, and former progressive leader, was one of the . speakers. Prominent republicans of both wings of the party were on the ' platform, and the meeting, it was an nounced, marked the beginning of a campaign in this state by a united republican party. Coming to an emphasized part of 'his address Mr. Fairbanks - declared' "The republican party has always believed that it is an essential to erect barriers against commercial invamon at the hands of those who are armed with the unfair weapon of a cheapened human factor in production, as to pre 7 pare forts,- fleets and armies against a possible foe possessing, in better ' preparedness, an undue advantage in combat . . "The republican party has realized . . and exemplied in legislation, the idea ' that surrender to the foreign producer of the American home market, which, under republican policies has become . incomparably the ricnesst in tne world, inevitably involves one of two ..things; the lowering of our productive costs, including labor costs, to the -.European and oriental level, or the extinction of American industry. How Parties Differ, " "The essential difference between the democratic and republican parties today, as it was in Lincoln's day, is ! that of their underlying attitudo to ward productive enterprises and employment . The republican party .has always believed in that policy which visibly has produced here na tional industrial independence the . best possible preparedness either for war or peace which has resulted in " the raoid develnnment of our ' re- ' sources and the reservation to the .American people of the wealth 'ac cruing' from them the most active spirit of industrial and commercial . enterprise that has been at work any- where in the world; the greatest dif fused prospreity" ever experinced by any nation in all history, despite the fact that throughout an entire half century of republican policies we have been dividing our wealth with the poverty of millions - of empty Iianded Europeans who have pressed to our shores for no other reason than that here they majt find better re wards and broader opportunities.; ' "In the single decade between 1900 and 1910 the increase alone in the wealth of this country was creater than the aggregated accretions of the countries in the great and prosperous jrmpire of Germany. And this was achieved,' not through, taking advan tage of the misfortunes' of a world at war, but Nn the normal and healthful 'activities of peace; it was the pros perity of achievement and not of acci dent . ' Real Social Justice. 'The greatest possible measure of social justice is the general profitable, fiermanent employment in productive abor. This is possible, only through the general, profitable and permanent employment of capital in productive industry. It is when employment of capital is most general that the wage worker finds it easiest to secuie rec ognition of his demands foe better Jiay, hours and conditions. Under ying whatever ia undertaken- through private or public means to better the . status of the toiler, must be as the only assurance of permanency, a sta-' ble state of manufacturing activity, , agricultural prosperity and commer cial confidence, based upon the knowl edge that the activities at the time are founded upon the wise provisions of real statesmanship, rather than upon the fortuitous circumstancea of for v sign war "To restore such a foundation for ' enterprise and employment where we . learned, before the European war be gan, that it was missing, is the pledge of the renuhlican nartv in this ram. paign. , ' "One of the very large Issues of this campaign and for many years to come will be, is that issue which touches in a vital way the daily welfare of the millions of 'wage earners in this coun try. (".', '- - "There is no greater, ana certainly no more pathetic misfortune than to have an army of the unemployed within our borders. '.'( ' New Tariff Brings Idleness. "Under the normal Operations of the existing tariff law, before the European war began, sve recruited an army of the unemployed equal in aiie , to the army which the British empire has mobilized for the European war. The plight of the man, dependent upon his labor for his living, cut off from employment and- facing either hunger or dependence upon charity for himself and family, ia surely not vastl" more enviable than that of the man In the trenches, fighting for his country, conscious at least that his loved ones are safe from suffering. 'This is vastly wore t a sordid question of dollars and cents. The question is . whether our civilization can endure the strain of a readjust ment under the unrestricted competi tion pledged by the traditions and declarations and , only ' temporarily concealed convictions of the party in power, to that basis of compensation (a. .MnlflunuMt in . 1. farm mnA ii tory which prevailed in Europe, the orient and in South America . before the war, and which will prevail on a more keenly competitive and there for lower level when the European war is over. Lesson of Two Years Ago. "We appeal in this campaign to the memory or every AmericaQwage earner, business man and farmer not as to the disaster which followed the ending of the European war under the Walker tariff, not as to the depres sion which came upon American in-1 austry under the Wilson tariff of iwenty years ago, but as to the condi tions which prevailed under the Un Jerwood tariff law throughout the 'ength and breadth of the land just two years ago. "We ask them to recall the failing revenues which caused the United States treasury to confront a defici ency; the decreased exports; the large and rapidly growing imports, which were fast dispossessing the American producer of the American market; the slowing or silent factories,'- the multi plied thousands of empty box cars and die engines; the vast and growing army of the unemployed and the crea tion of special governmental agencies to meet the problems thus created. We ask them to remember that by all the signs ot tne time we were in the first stages of what inevitably must have pecome tne most calamitous period of industrial depression in American his tory. ' New Competition to Meet "And then we ask the voters of this country to thoughtfully figure out for themselves what will with deadly cer tainty recur when the armies now fighting in the trenches are mustered in the factories of Europe beside that new industrial army of women, chil dren and hitherto untrained workers now in the factories. They will work under the necessity of exchanging their output for the gold which has been wasted in this struggle across the seas. "We are now enjoying a transient prosperity, based upon the temporary ' necessities of war, '. It began with theS war; it will as certainly end with the war. ... Vast Stores Will Be Released. I "The significant feature of our foreign trade is the vast steady increase in importations from every quarter, which the war's end will not end, but accelerate. We must count not only upon the released and increased pro ductive energies ot Europe focused tipon this great neutral market but the -elease of hundreds of millions of stored products which will come down upon our industries in the released .-hipping of the world, as the flood upon Johnstown when the leak in the 1am became a torrent "We cannot whip back that tide with phrases; we cannot repel it with visions; we cannot defeat it with pro- csaiuuB ui ieuuu inicnuoni, AS a prac tical people we must meet this prac tical problem in a practical wav. "Let us now, while-we can, prevent ruin, rather than seek afterward to repair n Columbus to Greet ; Hughes En Masse Columbus. Neb.. Oct 8. CSDeclaU A large crowd will greet the repub lican candidate for president, Charles v.. nugnes, when ms special pulls mot Columbus Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. According -to oresent indi cations autos and special train , will bring people trom seventy-five miles around. Raymond Robins, chairman of the recent progressive national conven tion at Chicago, will speak for Hughes Thursday. . . Funeral of Z. A. Brlgga. West Point. Keb.. Oct. . fSne. cial.) The funeral of Zealand A. Uriggs took place at West Point on Wednesday- afternoon. He was bom at West Point and was a son of the late Judge Emory Briggi. He was IS years of age. The cause of death was tuberculosis. He leaves, besides I is aged mother, his wife and infant child, and is also survived by two sis ters and two brothers .one of whom l Lieutenant Zano Briggs of the United States battleship Santiago, U.-S. N. , , ' - 100o Right "PIPER" ; You'll find "PIPER" always reliable, wholesome, delicious and satisfying. If your work is a heavy tax on your nervous energy, you'll be delighted to see how a good, tasty chew of PIPER" comforts and refreshes you, C FIPER HmifsfdBk VJV: CHEWING The ripest leaves of the finest crops of White Burley are used fa "PIPER" and the juicy mellowness ti tr.13 su perb tobacco b enhanc ed by the wonderful. appetizing, "PIPER' taste. Compare it with any tobacco you're now using and learn how much more enjoyment yOU. v ': . 5c and 100 Everywhere. th American Tobacco coup ant THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, OCTOBER PASTORS LINE UP AGAINST LIQUOR Thirty-Six Local Preachers Use Booze as Sermon Topic in Pulpits on Sunday. CHURCHES STABT CRUSADE Eighteen Omaha ministers ex changed pulpits yesterday morning with eighteen other Omaha ministers and in each of the thirty-six pulpits the topic preached upon was "The Drv CamnaiB-n." . Rev. Gustavus A. Hulbert, pastor of St. Mary's Avenue Congregational church preached at the Calvary liip tist church. ' "The problem of liquor is a terrible one, he said. 1 know two noDic mothers who died, heartbroken, not long ago, and shortly after them their sons uicu in ine muai nurnuic, ucvir ish bebauches imaginable. "When a man has an important piece of work to do he needs to have the oest tools, in a great navai ngni the admiral needs to have the best shies, in tne tight wnicn we are waging this fall against liquor our greatest and all-powerful weapon is the spirit of Christ. "There is a lot of cheap talk nowa. days about the decadence of the church. But the fact remains that ia the weltsorins of Our civilization the .treat underlying power of all good. ' Education roweness. "Some would have you believe that education is the foundation of the great things of today. But education atone is powerless. I knew a pro fer of moral philosophy once who ff maa a, me presiueiu ui in w - lege and burned down one of the cot In, huilriinffs. He was a very edu cated man. But that didn't make him a good citizen. . .... ', "I was a delegate to the National Conference of Charities and Correc tion in Boston. For several years they had not asked the churches to join in their work. So I asked one of the officers why they had decided to invite the churches. Ana ne toia me that they had found that their work waa powerless without the oirituat element. "The strongest nations, the greatest heroes among men in an tges, nave been men and women with the spirit of Christ. "I consider mvself a good citizen if I don't take from my neighbor what is his, but Christ says, 'If anyone ask for thy coat, give him thy cloak also.' I may consider myself a good father if I take care of my own child, but Christ commands us to help tne other children. "So, in the fight to make Nebraska dry, our great leader is Christ and 1 1 . T u. l. .... -. " ilia apiiib in urn 10 uui gnai jiunsi. Bavard to Have Twenty- Four-Hour Light Service Bayard, Neb., Oct. 8. (Special.) A ten-vear franchise has been let. whereby the town of Bayard will be furnished with electric lights by the Intermountain , Electric Light ind Power company. This means a twen ty-four hour service for all the light and power needed by the town. It is expected that the town will be lighted sometime before Christmas, Fremont Republicans Will Entertain Shaw Fremont. Neb.. Oct 8. (Special.) -rThe Hughes and, Fairbanks' club is making elaborate preparations for the meeting Monday night, when Les- Llie M. Shaw will speak at the Audi torium here. A, band will be em ployed. i Tecumseh Tteacher Resigns. Tecumseh, Neb., Oct 8. (Special.) Miss Helen Wright, an instructor in the Tecumseh schools for years, has offered her resienation to the board of education, and the same has been accepted. TOBACCO JUSTICE CLARKE TO TAKE OATH TODAY Supreme Court Begins Fall Term With Many Important Cases on Its Docket. ' - TEAS BEHIND IK WORK Washington, Oct 8. Reception of a new associate justice, John H. Clarke of Cleveland, D., adds unusual ceremony, observing century-old precedent, in the opening tomorrow of the 1916-17 term of the supreme court. A full bench for (he first time in almost a year will sit to hear an array of cases of national and international importance. Justice Clarke was ap pointed last summer to succeed former Justice Hughes. The new as sociate justice, the third appointed by President Wilson, was formerly fed eral district judge in Ohio and will take his oath of office tomorrow. He will be seated at the extreme left of Chief Justice White. . No opinions are to be given tomor row by the court. The first decisions are expected next Monday. In the absence of President Wilson from Washington, the justices will forego their usual visit to the White House to notify the chief executive that the court has reassembled. Motions, however, will be received tomorrow and arguments will begin Tuesday on many cases specially assigned for im mediate hearing. Seven Hundred Cases. More than 700 cases await disposi tion. About 200 have been filed since court adjourned last June. Many gov ernment anti-trust dissolution suits under the Sherman law, entailing probable new interpretations of that act, are to be argued during the com ing term, ut first importance among them are the government's suits against the so-called Harvester, Steel. Coal, Moving Picture, Kodak, Bill Posters, Shoe Machinery and Great Lakes Tow boat "trusts." Argument is expected during the week on the first of these the federal attack against the alleged anthracite monopoly of the Reading, Lehigh Valley. Central of New Jersey and other railroads. The government lost the cases in the lower court, as it did the dissolution suit against the United States 'Steel Corporation, which will be reviewed later. , The anti-trust suit against the In ternational Harvester company, is to be reargued. Other important cases set for reargument are to test consti tutionality of the Webb-Kenyon liquor law, the migratory bird act; the Underwood tariff act's clause giving per cent discount on merchandise imported in American vessels under the "most favored nation treaty provisions, involving refund claims of A How ; , Will Vote ' - To sense the trend of union labor sentimant in the coming Presidential -election, the editor of THE LITERARY DIGEST addressed a letter to the presidents; vice-presidents, and secretaries of labor organizations, representing practically all branches of industry, in every State of the Union. The letter asked for an expression of opinion as to the sentiment of their unions toward the different ';. Presidential candidates. , About five hundred replies, from thirty-two States have been received. . ; In this week's number of "The Digest" dated October 7th, the result of this poll is given. Many interesting statements from labor leaders are quoted, and this feature of the "Digest" will be read carefully by workers in every branch of industry. The article, in the opinion of many people, quite definitely answers the question "Will Organ ized Labor Vote Solidly?" It ia handsomely illustrated with reproductions of original photographs. Among some of the other striking features in "The Digest1' for October 7th are : : "American Business Bursts Its Jacket" Tha Praaidant aad Lavdara of His Party Assart That th Hlfhast Paak in American Business Ha Ba.n Raachad Uadar Democratic Administration, and This Without Counting War Importations or Exportation! The Zeppelin Raids on London New York's Traction Strike India's Six Invasions Our Future Hybrid Race A Government Show on Wheels - The Medical Fee System of the Future The Birth of Our Popular Songs Opposite German Views of Atrocities A From week to " week the columns of THE 'LITERARY DIGEST present a complete moving-picture of the world's events, happenings of every sort in all landa, skilfully condensed so as to make a real of actqal, vital news that exactly meets the requirements of the busy man or woman of today. FUNK & WAGNALLS Z1 TT The "ITv isi iter lMest 9, 1916. $26,000,000; Oregon laws providing for a minimum wage for women and a ten-hour day for men; a Louisville, Ky.,'ordinance segregating blacks and whites, and the Mann "white slave" act as to its application to cases hav ing no element of commercialized vice. This latter question is raised in the celebrated Diggs-Caminetti case. War Cases to Come Up. F.nrnne'i war also has broucrht new questions before the court. The first is over possession of the British liner Appam, brought into Norfolk by a Oerman prize crew and ordered oy Federal Judge Waddill returned to the British owners. Other important questions to be nagged UDon are suits from West Vir ginia and Utah, challenging legality zation: Blue Sky laws of Ohio.Michi gan and South Dakota designed to protect investigators from "wild cat" securities; iiucrprcmnuna ui m; come tax law: validity of the North Carolina liquor and Alabama do mestic corporation tax'laws; prosecu tion of the United State District At torney H. Snowden Marshall of New York for alleged contempt of a con- ?ressional investigating committee; ederal water power rights on public lands; railroad land grants in Oregon and California, and numerous railroad cases entailing further application of the Hepburn, commodities clause, employers' liability and other acts af fecting common carriers as well as intrastate and interstate rate regula tion. A case of special interest to rail roads, to be reargued, is over the so called "railway mail pay adviser" suits, to determine a basis for comput ing compensation for transportation of mails. The court now has under advise ment, with decisions expected shortly, cases testing constitutionality, for the first time, of workmen's compensation laws, and their application, of Wash ington, New York, Iowa and New Jersey. Court Year Behind. While the court opens its new term with more than 700 cases upon its docket, and approximately one year behind in its work, much greater speed in disposing of cases is ex pected. A new law enacted just be fore congress adjourned, it is believed, will reduce the number of cases heard by the court by from 25 to 33 per cent This law will cut off appeals in bank ruptcy, employers' liability and cases from the Philippines together with many from state courts, except with consent, of the higher court, instead of at the option of the lower court or litigants as at present It does not, however, curb the court's power to order review of any case. The new law also adds another week to the supreme court term, requiring that it convene the first instead of the second Monday in October, and limits filing of appeals to the high court to three months instead of allowing two years, as at present - 1 Nation -Wide Poll Showing Union Labor Many Interesting Half-tone Illustrations, Cartoons, Etc V "Movie" Film That Girdles the Earth And you can be abso- October 7th Number on COMPANY (Publishers of the LUTHERANS STAND AGAINST PROHIBS Synod in Session at Arlington Adopts Expression of the Church's Position. PRAISE FOR PROFESSORS ' Arlington, Neb., Oct 5. (Special.) Yesterday's session ot the Ne braska convention of Lutherans af filiated with the Missouri synod, being held here,-October 4 to 10, in the country parish of St Paul's church, was made memorable by the celebra tion of a triple sliver jubilee. The 30,000 communicant members of the synod in this state remembered that three of their professors of the Luth eran Teachers' seminary at Seward have finished a twenty-five years' service as pastors, teachers and pro fessors, namely Profs. A. Schuelke, F. B. Fehner, K. Haase. One of the speakers at the evening service said in part: . "Christian teachers in common or higher institutions of learning do more effective work in preserving peace to our country than congress could do by an appropriation of $800, 000,000. By military preparedness the heart of man is not changed, which' is by naturenclined to general strife, envy and war. But by the gospel as a means of training such citizens are trained, who not only love their coun try, but who lead a quiet peaceable and decent life and who are the chief support of a nation's liberty, prosper ity and welfare. A professor's work does not strike the public eye, because it is chiefly a work in seclusion, in the school room and the study. But your work is remembered every Sunday ir the common prayer by over 1,000,000 Lutherans, and before the tribunal of the Almighty-on judgment day yours will be a distinction which not even the builder of the Panama canal can boast of. The medal you will then receive for faithful service will bear the inscription, 'They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.' Against Prohibition. The synod's standpoint on some modern issues was also briefly defined in a paper submitted and accepted: "On prohibition: We hold that the temperance movement, aiming at FIB I IB SUNDERLAND BROS. CO. 1 111 Negro Labor Coming North The War Caused by Coal and Iron Germany's Luxurious Trenches (Specially Illustrated) Who Started the War? Sterilizing Oysters Conquering Heavy Roads in France French and Belgian Art Losses A Study in Rural Religion lutely sure that nothing is colored or distorted in the least. Each fact is recorded for you without fear or favor just as it occurred. This constantly changing film represents all shades of opinion, all diversities of thought. It is uniform in one respect only, its impartiality. It holds the mirror up to life and leaves you to judge for yourself. Sale To-Day 10 Cents Famous NEW . Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK changes in the laws governing ..the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors ouglit to be treated as a po litical, social and economic, and not as a religious issue. Both the oppo nents and the supporters of this move- . u. ..AmA nnrlv DV ment oug'it iu uc considerations of public welfare. We reject, because contrary to the doctrine that the use of liquor as a beverage is in itself a sin. We recog nize the evils connected with the liquor traffic, but do not church, presume to interfere in a mater which as a political issue purely concerns the state. The church's duty ends when it teaches the sinfulness of the misuse ni i;n.,w an uhn thrmiffh the sanc tifying power of the Gospel strength ens its members against the abuse and temptations that lurk in the use of alcoholic drink." Regarding the Bible: "We Believe that the Bible, as the inspired revela ;nn nf HnA i unalterable and com plete, requiring no human interpre- . 1 . J . . : aJJiltnn. taiion, ana pcrmiiuuB u. u. to its teachings and no changes from any source." Reports and resolutions on colored missions, on foreign language mis- college, Concordia, Mo., and on the Lutheran High school at Deshler, Neb., took up the rest of the fourth day's session. Union services of the Lutheran churches in an open-air mission fes tival were held Sunday. Wants It a Marriage Church Rites or None Madison, Wis., Oct 8. Following the plea of guilty in the court of Helen Griep of Wtertown, that she 'had killed her illegitimate child and threw the baby's body in the park lagoon, District Attorney Harry Sauthoff has announced that he is going to ask the coming legislature tor a new law to correct sucn situa tions. - "Every girl who becomes a mother is entitled to a husband," said Mr. Sauthoff today. "I think a law should be passed which will consider the mother and father of a child married from the instant the child was born, whether there be any church cere mony or not" To cm Children! Cold. Kefep child dry, elotha oomfortabla, avoid eipoaure, alv Dr.. Ball's Plna-Tar-Honay. Ralsea phlegm, redacea Inflammation. Only 250. All drusg-lita. Advartlaement, ; AIC 111