The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
CANNON DEFENDS THE SCHOOLS
THE BULWARKs OF THE MA
TONS SAFETY.
Utah's Senior Senator Delivers q
Lecture at Richfeld-Large Audi
ence-Tendered Banquet.

Richfield, Dec. 1-Richfield, en- masse,
scented, heard Senator Cannon in the
newly-completed opera house here last
night. The auditorium, with a seating
capacity of 1,000, was comfortably filed
by an appreciative audience. 1t was
the first time Mr. Cannon had visited
Sewer since 1895, and the first time he
had reached this city by rail. On his
last previous visit, the then candidate
for the United States senate, was driv-
en- from Salina 20 miles, the nearest
railway station, to address a RepubH
can gathering, along with Heber M.
Wells and G. e. Allen. In opening his
lecture on the orient. Senator Cannon
remembered this circumstance, re-
marking that now. for the first time,
he stood before a Richfield audience
made up of citizens of all party tenden-
cies, to champion the cause of all.
The lecture last night was given I'M
der the auspices of the Richfield high
school, its proceeds to apply upon the
purchase of a school library. Inciden
tally in the course of the lecture, Utah's
senior senator touched upon the Ameri-
can system OF free education. II be-
heve in our school system, said he.
Il believe in high schools. 1 regard pub
lie schools as the most necessary bull
WarkS of our nations safety and per-
petuity. We need all the education we
can get to hold our own against the
entertainments of other nations, and to
offset the dangers of certain internal
elements in our government. Educate
your children and save them and your
property. The more money you expend
upon schools the less will be your cost
of insane asylums, poor houses and
prisons. In the international struggle
oncoming in the world, [ hope Utah
will take full part, and that out OF our
schools will uprise giants, to do battle
without fear or favor
THREATENED BY CHINA
Senator Cannon thanked God for the
enforcement of the immigration laws
against the Chinese. He predicted that
China is the future industrial over
whelmer of the world on the grounds
that her native sons can produce more
and live on less than any other people
under the sun. Their wants do not null
tiply with their power of production, in
his opinion, and they can raise COM
modities sufficient to supply the worlds
markets so cheap as to defy compet1-
ton among warmer blooded and faster
living folks. To uphold this theory,
the senator stated that the Chinese
granger raises one crop OIL wheat ana
one of beans on the same ground in
one season; that he harvests three
crops OF millet in one year. and that
he produces wool at 1 cent a pound. At
Pekin he saw an American dealer buy
ing wool outside the very gates of the
city No class of mechanical labor de-
mands prices so high as those paid
makers of marine boilers" said Senator
Cannon. Here the wage earned for
such work is from Sc to $40 per day. The
Chinese marine boiler maker is a bet
ter workman than the American, and
receives So cents D day for his toll.
The worlds cottlH S of the future
will be located in li.l-4.. The cycle of
prestige tending westward is well nigh
run It has made its last stand i'll
America. When the sceptre of power
passes from us it will fall to China.
Therefore, let US, as superiors, delay as
long as possible, the day when we
must compete with the Chinese, our in
feriors."