The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-16

/ 20 have so large a bill, but explained
it by saying that he started out with
ties and didn't strike a single county
| that had money enough to change it.
| He told how the bill could be made to
| work, citing the manner in which it
passes from hand to hand
| Then he took up the sale of worm
| out yachts and embalmed beef and ar
| NOR plate to the government. He said
| that such things weren't paid for IN
| greenbacks. Instead they were paid
for in government bonds, which never
work like money, but which draw in
terest. He came cut in favor of pay
! ing government debts and contracts in
| greenbacks which drew no interest, but
| which performed the functions of
money and were just as good as bonds.
both being based only on the credit
and good faith of the government
For American Citizens.
Senator Cannon declared his belief
in work and wages for the American
/ citizen, but he wanted the wages to
! follow the work. He believed in a tar
/ lift which would yield a revenue suf-
ficient to give the government all the
money Il needed, but he would make
| that tariff so as to equally protect 1T
| parts of the country. He favored the
| election of United States senators by
/ direct vote OF the people, and stood for
/ direct legislation.
! islation would result in fewer laws, and
/ that 4 would make those which were
! passed of better quality. Senator Can
non told of his conversion to the in
! come tax theory. At first he was
/ against it, because it looked like double
| taxation, but during the last four
! years, while he had been without a
! party, he had looked into the question
! thoroughly, and was able to give rea-
| sons for his faith. He believed the peO-
= -f.n Co. = he
extra protection they received on ac-
count of it,
''They don't make any money in Wall
street. he said, they only take away
/ what other people make" Then he told
q story OF how rich man lay dying in
New York, and of how the government
! placed tan bark along his block and
stationed policemen there to see that
the sick man was not disturbed by the
| slightest sound.
Different in the Tenement.
His next picture was of the poor
mother in the tenement house, equally
PAIN racked, equally sensitive to noise,
but the government didn't lay down
any tanbark or station any policemen
for her. 1t was all right to protect the
rich man, for his life was valuable, but
he should be made to pay for his pro-
lection.
Next Senator Cannon took up the
ship subsidy question and pointed out
the robbery of it. He said he would
never favor paying men for carrying
on a business that was already being
conducted at a profit. As a sample of
the abSurdity of such legislation he
said:
why under that subsidy act the
Standard Oil Company can take it's oil
out of it's own wells in its own United
States, ship it on its own trains over
it's own roads to its own docks load
nd
its own oceans to its own foreign ports
and sell 1t to its own customers and
then get paid by the government for
transacting its own business"
Up to this time Senator Cannon had
been talking as a citizen to citizens.
He now took up the choice of political
parties and told what had induced him
TO join the Democrats. His natural
inclination had been for the RepubIi-
cans, but that party no longer stood
for his principles.
On the Tariff Question.
am stu in favor of protection
ne said, but not in favor of protec-
i Lioh as II is interpreted by the Repub-
lcan party. The Democrats denounced
Republican protection as a fraud and
ROBBERY; L didn't believe it then but
DeheVe 1t now When did I find this
out? / found it out when ] saw the
Republican party make a tariff hill
The trusts dictated every schedule of
the Dingley law
This statement was received with
tremendous applause, and then the
speaker told OF his experience with the
man VINO wished him to vote for the
cutlery schedule.
But there is no cutlery schedule
man.
We'll I know that there is no sucb
he
in the committee and there could be
no schedule decided upon
Oh, my dear young man" said the
other. you have much to learn. See
mere And. said Mr. Cannon, "he
showed me the schedule which he drew
from his pocket. 1 said that it wouId /
not be in the bill, but he knew more
BILL III INC
Then Mr.. Cannon told how Hanna !
went 70 the cutlery men of New York /
state and told them that if they would I
SWING the delegates to st. Louis from
Lew +. Morton to Mckinley they could I
nave any kind of a schedule they
wished The delegates went to Nc |
<inley and the schedule was written.
Trusts Dictate Terms.
1.-The sugar trust and the other great !
trusts dictated their terms when the
Olngley bill was prepared, and the /
l-iCAS SUI AAOb4llli5s 80 LudL the law IS
half protection and half free trade. The
-armers are getting the free trade part
u II and the trusts are getting the pro
lection. Andrew Carnegie has more
money than he wants, and has to lie
awake nights thinking as to how he
VIII spend it It is a matter of court !
record that his income is S24. 600 900 a
year Think of it, To earn that much
money 24.0O0, 900 of the bread-winners
IF the nation would have to work at
Il per day, the wages of the Pennsyl-
Tania coal miners, one day of each
year. Why not give the other 364 DAYS
II the year to that and many other
trusts at the same rate?''
The trusts were next taken I'D and
he Republican method OF suppressfne-
hem There were horse thieves in
salt Lake county at one time" said the
speaker Surprising the prosecuting
attorney and the commissioners would
AVE resigned and called in the horse
hieYes TO fill the vacancies They
YOU'D nave met and selected horse
hleVes for the places, of course. and
would have then gone out and skipped
With the best horses they could find
And this is identically the way that
he Republican administration is hand
ing the trusts. John w. Griggs of
New Jersey, who is completely con
rolled by the trusts, is put in by the
rusts as the attorney general. and
verything is lovely"
This shot went home. as the sDOn-
aneOus applause attested. The illus
ration of the horse thieves v-aS CO 90 l