The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-13

sprung. II surrenders our right Of for
tifying the canal. We have surrendered
on questions Of finance to England.
and now we are to give up our right
to fOrtify this great canal. According
to this document, we are not to possess
the canal in time of war and can build
about it no forts to hold it.
But that is not all. There is the
tariff with Porto Rico. Not long ago
President Mckinley said that the tariff
between Porto Rico and the United
States should be abolished: that there
should be free trade between the two.
And | think that this is a very good
doctrine. We have no right to plumber
THAT country and make poems of those
people.
President McKinley's Change.
But there came a change. The pres
ident reconsideTed; he advocated a
small duty on imports from Porto Rico.
Why this change? Because the great
sugar trust and the tobacco trust to
which the Republican party is subserv-
lent demanded it. But consider this:
Either Porto Rico is within the Union
or it is without. If Porto Rico is with
in the Union there must be no barb
wire fence shutting out the products
of that country. No one says that
Porto Rico is not a part of the Union
and not subject to its control. Then l
say the constitution is extended over
it, and if so, we cannot put up tariff
wall. There can be no tariff wall be-
tween parts of the Union"
The speaker read from a speech Of
General GrOsvenor in congress con-
corning the policy toward the Philip
pines. in which it was said for the ad-
ministratiOn that when il got ready it
would extend the principles Of the Dec
laration Of Independence. Then they
would announce their policy. In the
meantime all the money that was pos
Sible should be made out Of the trans
action.
This" said Judge Powers. SIS the
apotheosis of imperialism. Fortunate
is Democracy that these questions have
arisen. In view Of such is there any
question that there are issues above
our local affairs?
The administration has surrendered
to the banks in the currency bill which
/ has been introduced in congress. 1t
/ gives to the banks power to contract
| the currency at will, to make people
| richer or poorer as they please. Can
! there be graver questions for our con-
1 sideration?
Should Return to Old DAYS.
| When a nation has reached the point
! Wnefs It's chief executive may change
'front.' upon such a matter as free trade
! or tarlm between Porto Rico and the
| United states, it is time to come back
/ TO first principles of government such
/ as prevailed when the Democratic
! party was founded 100 years ago by
/ Thomas jefferson. They argue that
/ the constitution of the United States
/ does not extend over the islands we
have taken. They say congress alone
can have power over them. That is
/ their doctrine. But we have been
| taught Tor 100 years that the constitu-
/ ton follows the flag, and where one
| goes the other must go, too. They
would change all that.
/ These are questions which confront
/ US IN this campaign. They are mat
/ terS OF vast and immediate cOnse-
/ quence. These are no local issues.
And We have named for our candi-
date a man who will discuss these
questions in congress as we'll as any
man from any state. The doors Of con-
gress will swing in when he advances
His return will be looked forward to
with favor by members he knew before.
! When people stop and consider the
growing power Of trusts they must see
that II VIII be a mistake to add in CON
greSs one more vote in their favor You
must see that we are drifting away
! from the principles on which the gov
/ eminent IS founded, and we must stop;
we must return"