Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-31
MAS REPUBLIC AN NIGHT LAST NIGHT
enthusiastic Gathering at the Exposition Building Last Night to
Hear the Hon. Thomas Ftc1-Orator Presents the Re-
publican Side of the Political Question.
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Bryan has prepared for the Demo-
cratic party viii sadly misfit its record.
Jefferson was for expansion and the
country west OF the Mississippi dropped
from the loose grasp Of Napoleon and
our young flag ioated over creole New
Orleans to Where rolled the Oregon
and heard no sound save It's own dash.
ings Monroe was for expansion and
southern Mississippi passed from the
possession OF Spain, and our flag
streamed over the Mexico gulf and
faced the caribbean sea. Polk was for
expansion and broad Texas and beau
tiful California and busy Utah and Ne
vada and New Mexico and Arizona be-
came ours. ana our Pacific coast line
was extended along twenty degrees OF
latitude. Pierce was for expansion,
and a strip Of country was added 10
New Mexico and Arizona.
But these territories, II Is said, were
contiguous while an ocean divides us
from the Philippines We are told that
II we keep the Philippines at all we
must admit them as a state Of the
Union. with Agulnaldo probably as one
Of the senator's. The argument Is nuer-
the treaty Of Guadalupe lidalgo we
agreed with Mexico 10 accept as cltl-
zens the people Of the territories she
ceded to US, and In due time to admit
those territories as States, yet Utah
waited forty years, and after nifty years
Of waiting, New Mexico and Arizona
are still in their outgrown swaddling
clothes
But waste time In discussing profit
less distractions. The American peo-
pie have a duty 10 perform 10 civillza-
ton. to humanity 10 the century that
Is dawning, and Il will be performed
fairly and fearlessly. That clause OF
the Constitution Of the United States
which declares that Congress shall have
power TO make all needful rules and
regulations concerning the territory
and other property belonging 70 the
United States, is ample to warrant
Congress In giving TO our new posses
sions tariff laws or free trade laws;
with territorial government, or CO.
lonial government or a military govern
ment
Paradora's box resembled the Demo
cratic platform, for It was filed with a
varied assortment Of evils to be let
loose upon mankind. But there was
hope at the bottom Of the box, while at
the bottom OF the platform there Is no
hope, but only the greatest evil OF all,
a demand for the repeal Of the Dingley
tariff law and an outcrv against the
Republican doctrine Of protection.
No State In the Union Is so much in
terested in sustaining the doctrine Of
protection as Utah
Mr. Fitch here corrected the report Of
the Tribune (which made him say that
Brigham Young was Republican.
Our opponents have had but one
chance In forty years to enact their
party doctrines into law. But once In
forty years did the voters OF this c0un-
try clothe them with the power TO enact
and repeal federal laws, and so carry
out the pledges they had made.
In their national platform they prom
lsed a reduction In tariff duties that
should open the door TO free trade and
bring poverty 10 the Republican rob-
Der tariff barons-as they politely des-
ignate the manufacturers. And after
months Of Congressional tinkering,
they enacted a tariff law which was a
medley OF injustice and uncertainty. a
tariff which gave high protection TO
some favored interests, and inflicted
ruin upon some disfavored ones.
OF the midsummer madness Of the
Chicago convention Bryon was born.
With his pilfered rhetoric concerning a
cross Of gold. he rallied TO his standard
az the cave OF Adullam every one that
was disconnected and every one that
In, Aahf h.. a
political horizon like meteor OF ruin.
The workers Of the country did not,
this time. lose their heads. They could
not be brought 10 believe that the
Bryan mill would be able TO grind a
pound Of -four out Of half a pound Of
wheat. They had been deceived four
years before into voting themselves out
Of their jobs. and they did not now ac-
cept the doctrine that Il would be to
their interest. when they should again
obtain jobs. to take their pay In dol
lars worth 80 cents
In November. 1886, the blackness Of
the night passed away and the "splen-
did sunshine" OF prosperity came sail
Ing over land and sea" We have had
since then three years and more OF
condition which Senator Depew rightly
deslgnates hopeless prosperity" Ag-
riculture. manufactures and commerce
have each crashed through the barriers
which our foes had erected TO stay
their progress. and the people are look
ing outward 10 the larger world Instead
OF inward upon their narrower selves.
our watchword since 1896 has been for
ward and not backward. President
Mckinley Is not so much a leader OF
popular sentiment as he Is a shrewd
and conscientious and instantaneous
follower OF II when II Is for the right.
A Republican Congress tore 20 pieces
the patchwork Wilson tariff, and enact
ed a measure which protects the Ameri-
can worker and gives confidence TO the
American capitalist.
As a consequence the land now rings
with the music Of contented and we'll
paid toll and the waillngs over pre-
dcted disaster which has failed 10 ma
terialize are out Of tune with the times
and out OF tune with the tune OF the
day. The people are satified with the
Of the protective tariff. II
has been well said that the laborer Is
better contented TO carry a lucent pro-
tected tin dinner pail that Is always
full than he would be 10 carry 10
cent free trade dinner pail that would
be empty. The worker is not
attributing II 10 the crime OF 1873. He
Is not now concerning himself about
the parity Of the dollars Of the last CEN
truy for he finds the uncrlmlnal and
easily earned dollar OF 1900 very sat
sfactory coin. and not even the ogre OF
the trusts can brighten him into again
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