The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-13

Fairbanks me idnk hOOSler looked
his full six feet four as he uncoiled
| himself from his chair and step7.ed be-
1 fore the footlights. His black Prince
| Albert coat and his solemn countenance
Seemed to even add to his stature and
there was hardly room in the proscen-
ium arch for his gestures
Audience Was With Him
From the outset the majority of his
audience was with him. He made few
attempts at oratory. combining himself
| chiefly to statements of what he laid
down as facts. There were several
periods, however, when he rose to
heights of elOquence such as few pub
/ lie speakers can command. This was
| specially true of his dramatic descrip-
ton of the passage by the senate of
/ the bill appropriating $50. 000, 600 to the
president for use as an emergency war
fund.
ssAs said in Denver the other night.
! Senator Fairbanks began, Il have not
| been accustomed to addressing ladies
who hold in their hands the potential
/ ballot. What 1 shall say to you to-
night will be in no spirit of carping
criticism I do not propose to descend
/ to the abuse of any man. We are all
interested in good government
There is a logical relation between
/ good government and prosperity, be-
i tween bad government and adversely,
! If we have good government we nave
prosperity and if we have bad govern
| ment we have adversely Four years
| ago there existed in this country a
/ today How brief those years are
| when measured by the calendar; but
when measured by their achievements
how great and splendid they are.
From Poverty to Plenty.
-Four years ago there was want and
| distress from one end of this country
to the other. There was want in every
I II in. n limo
While thousands upon thousands of our
citizens were walking the highways
and byways seeking for work; desiring
only chance to labor at any wage
/ How different today Prosperity IS
( smiling from one end OF the country 20
the other as never before.
The farmers are prosperous and
work is seeking the laborer. In 1896
the Republican party declared for pro-
| lection as one of its cardinal issues.
1t nominated one of the purest, wisest
] and best of American citizens, William
/ Mckinley of Ohio
Senator Fairbanks told of the extra
! session of congress which was at once
| called, and Of the passage of a pro-
! tective tariff act. He described how
the trainers of the bill looked out at
''Utahs plains and saw the great
number of sheep here The leading in
| dustry of the state was not forgotten,
| either One of the prominent mining
men of the state had told him that the
! price of lead had advanced $33 per ton
| as a result of protection. He argued
| against turning the country over to a
! party which he said would paralyze the
4 lead industry.
Balance of Trade
The balance of trade in favor of the
| United States during McKinley's reign
was next touched on by the Indiana
| statesman. In this connection he gave
it out as a cold fact that 1,60O, 900, 900
| had been added to the wealth of this
country since the Republican admins
tration went into power from the bal
] ance of trade. The audience gasped
/ slightly over this assertion, but Sen
| ator Fairbanks never skipped a cipher.
| Then he came down to the war with
! Spain.
when the present administration
! came into power" said he, there was
| no thought of war, no dream of terri
| torial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT" He referred
to the war for independence in Cuba
] and spoke of the sentiment in this
/ country in favor of extending aid to
| the sufferers In this connection the
! speaker took occasion once more to
! laud President Mckinley, concluding
/ by the statement that McKinley's
! fame, would live long after his de-
tractors are scattered and forgotten
! dust.
Passage of Emergency Bill.
| Senator Fairhan.ls spoke of the blow
| ing up of the Maine in Havana har-
/ Dor, and of the excitement and demand
for war that followed it. He told of
/ the passage by the senate of the
emergency appropriation bill in most
eloquent words, concluding with: "And
| as l looked upon this scene ] thought
! that at last we are one country, one
people, one flag"
The war was well described. but few
, in the audience could restrain a smile
| when the Hoosier spoke of the mag
! nificent charge of Teddy Roosevelt up
San Juan HILL" as if the Twenty
/ fourth and Sixteenth regiments had
| never existed, and as if, as G1r. DooIey
/ said, Teddy was ''alone in Cuby"
Every member of the Paris peace COM
mission came in for a tribute. although
/ Senator Frye would have been entirely
overlooked if Mrs. Foster hadn't re-
minded Senator Fairbanks of him.
/ Speaking next on the question of ter
ritorial expansion, Senator Fairbanks
mentioned the acquisition of the Louis
lana territory by Thomas jefferson.
The mention of Jefferson's name Gre
ated a little half-subdued applause but
the speaker encouraged it by saying
that Democratic convention was the
only kind of a meeting that didn't have
a right to cheer jefferson. Then there
were cheers in earnest, led by Mrs
Foster.
Bryan's Name Cheered.
Senator Fairbanks first mentioned
Mr. Bryan's name in connection with
the latter's advocacy of the ratification
of the Paris treaty. A pronounced rip
pie of applause came at the mention of
the leader of Democracy Cheer him
now, my friends" said the senator
"fOr after election day he'll be bevOnd
cheering"
Yes. McKinleyll be in the SOUP
then" retorted somebody, and the Incl
dent closed
Senator Fairbanks charged Mr. Bry-
an with favOring the treaty solely be-
cause he wanted an issue for the cam
paign. Skipping from this to the Nc
Kinley policy in Cuba and Porto Rico
Senator Fairbanks defended the tariff
on the products of the latter island
1.-The Porto Rican tariff is rational
equitable and republican" he declared
Nothing in it is inconsistent with our
rights to those people or our duties to
them.
Defends Porto Rican Tariff.
THE constitution does not extend TO
Porto Rico because it would operate
against its people. For one thing, the
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