The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-03
Fourth ward ReputlIcan Meeting.

The only unprotected infant industry in
Ogden sought protection Wednesday even
ing by importing foreign brain capital in the
shape of John Morgan, ESQ.,, and Hon. John
Henry Smith. The Fourth ward amuse-
terial was scarce. The most noticeable
feature of the meeting was the plan adopted
by the managers in seating all the Repuoll-
cans behind the speakers and all the Demo
Gratis in front of them. President Allison
did not catch on to this plan at first, for In
calling for votes on the election Of club OIL
ficers he addressed the Democratic end OF
the house. The speakers were well re-
ceived by the audience in front, and car
ried out the programme foresnado"eo In
The HERALD, indulging in but little argu-
ment and giving but few facts, boastlng Oh
the greatness of the grand old party and
denouncing the sins of the Democracy and
the illiteracy of its adberents. AS stated
m these columns, the people OF this terri
tory want plain arguments and plain facts
They see all about them q great nation,
amazingly increased in population and In
aggregate wealth, the extremely poor ana
the extremely rich rapidly increasing, ana
the moderately we!l-to do as rapidly oil
minishing in numbers. The people OF
Weber county have looked in VAN Tor
an explanation of this state OF anairs
from the local expoun ierS OF the doctrines
of the party which has held uninterrupted
control of the government since the good
OLD days when there were few paupers ana
fewer millionaires In the country, ana
many OF them have thought that the mex
perience and lack of political education
in those would-be expourders, with
held from them the eXplana-
ton that might be given, but
when they 90 disappointed from meeting
addressed by men imported Tor their sup
posed ability TO clear away all uncertain
ties, they draw the only possible conclu-
sion, namely, that there is no explanation
that Will not damn the Republican party.
Nr. Morgan was the first speaker, and 1t
was apparent that mis- knowledge OF and
experience in American politics belonged
exclusively TO a period ante-datlng the re-
beliiOn. He told how he had learned Re
publicanlsm from the lips of Oglesoy,
Yates. Corwin and others. He made no
mention of Greedy, Sumner, Trumouli,
Dooittle, Palmer, an 1 scores OF the giants
OF the Republican party IN the days Wnen
lie lived ln.the states, VINO, disguised with
the party that in a very few years had fui-
filled all Of the good in its destiny, existing
only for plumber, died denounclng II, or yet
as staunch aQherentS Of the Democratic
party. MIR. MorgaDs history is on par
with his politics. A greater than he,
James O. Blaine, speaking of the two great
parties in the very beginning OF our gov
ernment, after enumerating their funda-
mental differences, concludes his sentence
with these words: "rhe party, in short, of
Jefferson against the party of Hamilton"
And in speaking of Hamilton's tariff pos
ton, says: mir. Hamilton sustained the
plan Of encouraging home manufactures by
protective duties.'' The first tariff bill,
with incidental protection, was signed by
Washington, and Hamilton was his secre-
tary of the treasury. The next tariff bill,
with like incidental protection, was passed
to increase the revenue demanded
by the expenditures to carry
on the war OF 1872, and was
signed by a Democratic President. The
next was in 1924 and the next in 1S2S. In
1907 the notification resolutions of Virginia
and Kentucky were passed, and in 1914 the
Hartford convention threatened not only
notification, but secession. Yet Mr.. Nor
gan made free trade a child OF the Democ-
racy and the parent OF nulllhcatlon and Sc
cession. John Z. Calhoun and South
Carolina notification did not come on till
1882, and were promptly suppressed by the
Democratic President, jackson.
Mr.. Morgan discovered that in 1S43 and
lSi4 ''most cunning ly devised scheme"
was put in operation by the southern Dem
ocrats. and resulted in the election to the
presidency of Polk, ian obscure country
lawyer who had no political record, and an
abolition of the then existing protective
tariff Folks mo political record" con-
sisted in being member of the Tennessee
legislature from 1923 to 1925, a representa-
tive in Congress from 1875 to 1899, and
speaker during the last four years Of that
time, and governor of Tennessee in 1899.
The reduction of the tariff, or the free trade
measure spoken of by MIR. Morgan, took
place in 1916. and from that time to 1861
was what Prof. Sumner designated ''the
golden erar of our history, and MIR. Blaine
saws of 1t: 1.-The business of the country
was in fiourlshing condition, money be-
came very abundant, large enterprises
were undertaken" etc.
Then the speaker turned to Van Buren,
and the Mormons IN Missouri and said, had
the former been Republican President he
would have sent federal troops into Mis-
souri, and have forced that state TO leave
the Mormons alone. Van Buren, mad read
section 4, article t, of the constitution and
had sworn that he would maintain it.
There was no parallel between the Mis-
souri, affair and that of Fort Sumter. In
the latter he stated militia had attacked
tort garrisoned by United States troops.
Then Mr.. Morgan derided the idea that
Utah, with only > per cent OF illiteracy,
should cohabit with Alabama with 81 per
cent and Georgia and Mississippi with
90 per cent, and Delaware with IL per
cent. instead of Iowa with per cent. an0
Maine with per cent. Why did he not
give statistics from Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Mich
igan, Missouri and other states.
Mr. Mor2an's Master, nineteen centuries
ago. taught Democracy to the poor and the
iIliterate, out his later master, Hamilton,
and all the successive masters, taught
their doctrines to the well born, the
wealthy and the educated.
When the majestic form Of Hon. John
Henry Smith arose, the Democrats in front
expected to hear something and they were
TO demolish the only telling point Mr..
Morgan had made. He pointed out the diff
ference between Democratic and Repub-
lican methods, and showed that Buchanan,
in dong what he mad right TO do, accord
ing to Morgan quoting Carlisle in the ter
ritory, by sending troops to suppress what
lad been officially reported at Washington
as an armed rebellion, and, according to
Morgan, what Van Buren, should have done
in the State of Missouri, had committed
great wrong, while the Republicans in Civ
ing the Mormons Hail Columbia in the
courts ana by legislation had acted strictly
according to Hoyle. Neither speaker had
alluded to the fact that every appeal made
by Joseph Smith to the Democratic courts
of Illinois and Missouri resulted in justice
being done.
On constitutional questions Mr.. Smith is
a good Democrat. 1t is only when he
touches the tariff that he becomes Re-
publican. But in that he is several
lengths behind his leaders in
the east He has his infant in
dustry supplication. Why, Brother Smith,
that was abandoned by the apostles of pro-