Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-07


were reared on the fiction that "rhe
king can do no wrong" but when he did
wrong they boldly trampled the false
hood under their feet and Wrestling
continent from his iron grasp, dedicat-
ed II as the home of freedom and TO
the twin proposition that governments
derive their Just powers from the con-
sent of the governed" and that "all
men are created equal"
MEN OF 76.
There We're men in the land In
l116, And there are only manikins now
] do not believe such monstrous libel
George III did wrong. our fathers
fought and conquered him. Theodore
Roosevelt does wrong. We viii oppose
and overthrow him Support the presi-
dents policy? win some gentleman
please tell us what that policy is? Has
he any2 If so, why doesn't he say go?
The truth Is he has none. He Is an OPP
portunlst waiting for something TO turn
up He is letting things drift and they
are drifting to the deuce. Meantime
our soldiers are being killed and dying
Of disease IN shoals, For what purpose?
VIII anybody undertake to say? ! de-
~ any lingo to stand up and declare
with a straight face what the presi-
dents policy or the Republican policy
so. but some say--"More Is the pity and
the shame"
PRESIDENT is WRONG"
The president is wrong. But we must
support the president?
To this complexion has 1t come at last
by reason of the new tangled ingosm
that we must shut up our thinkers.
close our mouths and chloroform our
consciences IN order to be considered
patriots, II avails nothing TO claim that
Col. Roosevelt Is better than his party.
II Is to be hoped most fervently that
he is, a great deal better; but truth
TO tell, q president cannot be better
than his party. Even II he tries to be
he Is ruined politically.
No man ever found himself I'm worse
political company than does President
Roosevelt In this year Of grace. He Ia
In the hands Of the Republican Philis-
tines and they will bind him with their
wishes.
REPUBLICAN FALSE PRETEN-
SIONS.
In every state in the Union 1t Is a
felony TO get property of any sort--or
to attempt to get 1t by false pretenses
If the same rule applies to the getting
of offices or to attempt to get them, the
whole Republican party could be sent
to the penitentiary.
one of their false pTetenses-the one
on which they harp the most--is the
Democratic party is in favor Of free
trade. -
The charge is utterly false-a lie
made of whole cloth, There are indi-
vidual Democrats who are free traders
just as there are individual Republi-
cans who are atheists, but It would be
precisely as true and fair to denounce
the Republican party as the party Of
atheism as to denominate the Demo-
cratic party as the party of free trade
II was never a free trade party, and
is not now The man who charges that
II Is does so because OF his ignorance
or Of his mendacity.
Democrats favor the cutting down
OF exorbltant tariff rates TO a reason
able basis, They believe that In many
schedules OF the present law the rates
weNe too high; those that are too high
we are In favor of cutting down,
a BOOMERANG.
we favor any modification Of the
tari1 schedules that may be required
to prevent them becoming a shelter for
monopoly"
/ wonder If Mr.. Secy. Shaw ever
heard those words before? They are
taken verbatim from the Republican
platform Of 1901. The secretary who
opened II up at great rate for Gov.
Cummlns and others nominated on that
platform, He scornfully refers to as
THE dead Iowa idea" But II was a
righteous declaration borrowed from
Democrats and is not dead-not even
dying
Where tariff rates are so high that
they enable American manufacturers to
sell their wares abroad cheaper than
they do to Americans here at home. we
say that they ought to be reduced
IL this Is anarchy or treason, made
the most Of ii.
Let Republican spellbinders and edi-
tors explain why an American farmer
should pay from q third to one-half
more for an American pillow titan his
competitor In farming pays for IL in
Australia or South America or the ends
of the earth. Democrats say IL Is wrong
and they stand by the American farm
er.
Choose ye between us In November
Not quite all Republican statesmen be-
lieVe II right, Once In a while a ray Of
light breaks in upon the benghted in
tellect Of a Republican For example,
a year or two ago, Hon J, w Bah
publican congressional campaign COM
mlttee. had lucid interval and advo-
Gated in several interviews the cutting
down of tariff rates, when they are so
high as TO encourage the trusts and
when they enabled the manufacturer
to sell his wares cheaper abroad than
at home. He went farther and intro
duced bills to that effect but the Re-
publican leaders got hold Of Babcock
and by croaking bullying or other
means checked his ardor as tariff re-
former, since when he has been as
dumb as an oyster
] am citing Babcock's performance In
his moment Of lucidty TO show that 10
advocate the cutting down OF outrage
Gus tariff rates In the foregoing cases
does not porye that man Is the enemy
of his country as the standpatters
would have YOU believe.
The standpat organs and speakers
claim that only antiquated sorts Of our
manufactured articles are sold abroad
cheaper than 70 Americans at home.
That theory is very ingenious, but un-
fortuna tely II g not true, for steel rails
are sold abroad az IS per ton less than
they are sold az home, and the fashions
In steel rails remain the same or sub
sion;ially SO,
sTANDPATTERS. EXPLAIN.
VIII he or some other staudpatter eX-
plain why Americans should be made to
pay one-thlrd more for American steel
rails than the citizens of other nations
pay Cor them?
lie may answer as aid Mr. Represen-
tative Omstead OF Pennsylvania, that
the railroad companies pay for the steel
rails. and that it is the business Of nos
body else how much they pay for them,
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