Evening star., 1902-09-12
BEET SUGAR VICTORY


Which He Favored Presidents
Cuban Policy.
A dispatch from Ogden Utah. last night
says: The republican state convention today
nominated Joseph Howell of WellsvilIe.
Cache county, for Congress, and Judge
William McCarty of Sewer county for su-
Treme court justice. and adopted a plat
form IN which mention Of Cuban reciproci-
~ was omitted. On this point the beet
sugar interests of the state won after a
somewhat bitter and protrac5ad debate in
the committee on resolutions
Friends of Congressman Sutherland vino
was enc of the republican insurgents on
the reciprocity question in the last session
of Congress, We're determined that specific
Endorsement of the Presidents Cutan
policy should have no place in thc Platform
and they prevailed. In this they were aided
by the sugar people who insisted that
compromise platform cordially indorsIng
President ROOsevelts administration be
adopted, but leaving out DIRE co reference
To the proposed ~ per cent reduction. SO
strong was the feeling that had the oriSi-
nal program as regards the Ordc- of buSi-
ness been carried out it is probable that
an unpleasant incident would have en-
sued.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana was sched-
uIed to deliver speech this evening,
marking the formal opening of the republi-
can campaign in Utah. This program was
changed last night to have Senator Bever-
idge speak at the close of the morning Scs-
SION today When the beet sugar sympa-
thizerS heard of this they openly threaten
ed to give him a hostile reception. believing
1t plan to influence the convention in
favor OF Cuban reciprocity plank the re-
salt being that the program was changed,
Senator RpvpriIpyp
Then, with the platform adopted. the dele
gates more than made up for their refusal
to hear him in the morning by greeting
him with wild cheering
For Roosevelt in 1904.
An amendment to the platform offered by
Congressman Sutherland declaring it to he
the sense of the convention that "Presi-
dent Roosevelt be nominated for President
in 1904 as his own successor was carried
with cheer, the delegates standing in
their seats and cheering for some time
The platform, as adopted, deplOres the
death of President Mckinley, recognizes in
Theodore Roosevelt his worthy successor
and expresses unqualified approval of his
administration. 1t indorses the republican
national platform of 1900, favors the pro-
tective tariff as it now exists, recognizes
the right of labor TO organize for its own
protection. and favOrs a national board of
arbitration to decide controversies between
capital and labor. 1t favors the passage
of laws providing for governmental super
vision and control of trusts. 1t condemns
unjust and oppressive aggregatiOns of
capital but also condemns the demo
cratic policy of destruction regards
corporations; democratic assaults on the
army and navy are condemned as being
purely partisan and productive of rebellion
and blOodShed. The government is con-
graduated on the final steps toward build
Ing an interOceanic canal Stringent i'm
migration laws are demanded.
Senator kearnS' efforts to open the Tin
tan Indian reservation and in behalf of
irrigation laws are heartily commended
On the subject of trusts Senator Beve-
ridge said:
THE only law ever enacted to regulate
them was passed by a republican Congress:
the only President who ever attempted to
enforce that law was our republican preSi-
dent. Theodore Roosevelt The tariff is
not the parent of trusts If it IS. why did
not trusts develop during the Morrill, war
tariff. that lasted from the civil war to the
enactment of disastrous Wilson tariff. If
the tariff causes trusts why did they first
appear in free trade England. If trusts
exist in different countries with different
tariff systems, must we not look deeper for
their cause? And is not that cause to be
found in the complex conditions of modern
life? The individual dealer. the little cor
porat1on of generation ago could not pro-
duce and distribute the necessities of mod
ern life When each community was sep
arated from the rest of the nation because
there was no means of communication it's
wants could be supplied by individuals and
small concerns. But the railroad the tele-
BTdpn, all the agencies OF modern cOmnu-
niCatiOn have knit the nation into a single
community and individuals acting separate
ly can no longer do the work required by
modern life: and organizations of industry
become vaster than the little concerns of
the old days. as the consolidated industrial
nation is vaster than the little separate
communities Of the old days. Organiza-
tiOn of industry simply keeps pace with
the organization of society"
What is the general result? Is it better
for the merchant, manufacturer or farmer
who ships over railways to have the little
short separate lines Of twenty-five years
ago. or is it better for them that those lines
are so consolidated into systems sweeping
TO the farthest city markets and to the ma
tion's ocean ports? The little lines of road
what you had a generation ago; the
trunk line is what you have today. And
yet then you paid 20 to 900 per cent more
freight on every pound of grain and every
box of merchandise you shipped than you
pay today
Another Phase of the Case.
"Is II better for the 100000 laborers en-
ployed by railways to work for the little
lines that existed twenty-five years ago or
for the mighty railway consultations that
employ them today? The little separate
lines of a generation ago. acting In COM
petition, without scientific or sensible con-
nectiOn. paid their laborers 10 to 30 rer
cent less in wages than the same men re-
ceive today; and statistics show that hun
dreds of those little lines went into the
ndNdS OF receivers every year. OFTEN their
labOrerS lost their wages utterly. Today
hundreds Of thousands more of men are
employed by railways at higher wages than
ever before: receiverships are almost un-
known. and no railway labOrer loses dol
lar Of his wage. And vet the opposition to
the government demands the dissolution of
these consultations"
These modern conditions have caused
these modern industrial developments. not
the tariff. not the favor of the government,
not legislation nor the want of ii. Destruc-
tiOn of the tariff, therefore, would not de-
stToy trusts. II would merely create inter-
national trusts. English. American and
German trusts would combine instead of