The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-24

The foregoing answer is Of itself suf-
t1clent. But other points are not want
ing.
Those members Of the United States
senate who first organized the silver
Republican movement, made their Sc
cesslon from the Republican party in
Washington four month previous to the
81. Louis convention Of 1895; and made
their secession, not upon the silver
question, but upon the tariff question.
Their action was not because of dis
| belief IN protection when equitabIy ap-
pied, but because of the perfectly man.
lfest intention OF the Republican party
20 make a bill such as Democrats had
always denounced as the Republican
idea ana such as Republicans had al
ways denied-a tariff which would IA
vor certain powerful industries and is-
more the weak ones; a tariff bill which
would lay the burden upon the farmer
atorolng to him no ADEQUATE recon-
pense; tariff composed of schedules
prepared by the trusts and under which
the domestic manufacturers could and
would sell their goods abroad at less
prices than they charged at home. The
original Dingley bill of February. 1896,
demonstrated this intention by the Re-
publican party, although the bin did
not become q Jaw; and the second
Dingley bill, which was enacted into
law ia 1887, fulfilled the intention.
Following the determination of this
point" of separation. came the recess
sion Of the Republican party from its
old principles OF bimetaIlism: and this
was the acute matter upon which the
silver Republican split from the party
at the convention in St. Louis
Following this, In turn, was the CO.
lOnial and imperialistic policy of the
Republican party-so antagonistic to
all the ideals which had been held
through more than a century of this
eountry's life. so dangerous to the fu-
tuTe OF the republic as that men al
ready separated from the party found
ample point 10 justify their remain
ing in antagonism to it.
And, SIN, following this. came the
accidental appearance Of ROOseveltisfn
as the dominating force in the Repub-
ncan- party. Mr. Roosevelt is q party
and law unto himself he has sub
Verted the plain statutes OF this coun-
try by executive order. He has sought
TO make the army a creature OF his
VIII by the elevation Of his personal
favOriIes TO positions Of power; and
while his friends may claim that he
does not incline toward military dicta-
torship in this country. this is exactly
the step that he would take if lie did
thus incline-and Americans should be
forever on their guard against the dan
ger. he has abandoned the great
ideals Of the fathers under which hu-
man liberty was a sacred thing and
under which peace witE all mankind
was one Of our most desired posses
siOns: and in his insensate zeal to an
pear as a military figure he has inter
fered IN the affairs of other peoples
and has Swallowed this land with a
cloud Of war menace.
To deny that the Rooseveitian ideal
is Il, the state" is 10 deny the fact
which is palpable to every observant
person who comes in contact with this
accident Of the presidency or who reads
his words and doings.
The Republican party OF 1896 started
away from its party creed and the
magnificent examples OF the old party
leaders Il hss not returned; but Oh
the contrary IL has proceeded further
and further away from the old safe
guards, the old purposes, the old az
fections. for the peoples need and the
old splendid leadership. To see the
party of Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and
even the party of Mckinley ana Hanna
new dominated by Theodore Roosevelt
is TO see ample point" to Justify for
ner Silver Republicans IN adhering to
their present Democratic aff7liation. re-
fusing to 20 back TO the party whose
error of 1895 sses abesri zrstitibIied and
whose dangerous tendencies Of that