The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-11
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By PATTERSON
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Smoot sl.all retain his seat in the sen
ate is not q question Of polygamy-it is
conceded everywhere that Senator
Smoot is not a polygamist-bur il win
be decided on tie question whether or
not there is in Utah a hierarchy that
molds and controls the politics of the
state. Whatever the result of TIE cleo
ton in the nation or in the state, the
question to be decided with reference
to Senator Smoot is as to whether a
hierarchy exists that is greater than
the state. and greater than tie laws
Of the nation The political action of
the people OF Utah should be such as TO
give the lie TO this charge against the
Mormon church. Tie Mormon Demo-
Gratis should so conduct themselves
that the suspicion cannot exist in the
minds of the American people that the
Mormon church does interfere with
their conscientious political duty
Coming from senator of TIE United
States who may have TO pass upon the
eligibility of Senator Smoot these
the applause with which they were
greeted furnished the proof that peo-
pie in the audience endorsed every
| sentiment uttered on this point.
Talks of Standing Pat
After discussing briefly the influence
of woman in politics as illustrated in
Colorado and Utah, the speaker took up
the stand pat" policy of the Republi-
can party. He said:
This year, our friends, the Republi-
cans, have gone TO the poker table for
their Shiboleth, stand pat In the
game of poker a man stands pat when
/ he thinks he has the best hand in the
/ game Sometimes the hand is called
Often in that case it is discovered that
the holder of the stand-pat hard was
only bluffing. and when his bluff is
called he loses everything on the table.
Seriously speaking, this stand-pat
policy gives no promise of progress.
| According tG it, everything is now COM
plete, Business is as good as il can be-
Morals are perfect Nothing can be
improved. An there is to do is to stand
pat. This is pretty near stagnation,
and stagnation means DEATH
| At this point Senator Patterson
charged the Republican administration
with being an enemy to the great mid
die west. He cited to prove this the
policy Of the Republican party on the
silver question. on tariff and on reci-
procity. The silver question was brief
/ ~ discussed, and then the effects of
| the treaty Of reciprocity with Cuba was
| set forth. The effect of the treaties
! with Cuba and the Philippines, he said.
would be TO admit sugar and tobacco
| at greatly reduced rates. The sugar
! would come in direct competition with
| the beet sugar Of Utah and Colorado.
| The senators of the west" he said,
| opposed these treaties not because
| they were opposed to the principle OF
reciprocity; but becaJse they believed
I hat
| this way then lumber, nails. cutlery.
agricultural implements. clothing and
other necessaries of life should come
in in the same way.
Answers Plea of Republicans.
The plea of the Republicans was
/ that this admission of the Cuban sugar
| at low rate of duty would open up
/ this market to the people and stimu-
| late the sugar industry of the island.
| That was one side of the picture. The
other was that every pound of sugar
J brought in from Cuba would replace a
| pound of sugar produced by the farm
| ers of the west The fact is that the
/ benefit of this reciprocal treaty Injured
| tothe sugar trust and not to the Cuban
planter; neither did il inure TO the ben
EFT Of the American consumer for the
reason that the trust controlled the
I price.
Did you ever think. my friends. Of
the menace to the beet sugar industry
OF Utah and the other states of the
west contained in the lowering Of the
| duty on sugar from the Philippine ISL
ands2 Just think Of it, in those ISL
ands there are 5000, 900 acres of SUGAR
lands. Those lands are superior 70 the
/ best sugar lands in Cuba From those
I lands the natives can put sugar aboard
! the steamers for 80 cents a hundred
pounds. The freight 70 this country is
but 80 cents a hundred pounds. and
with the present, sugar duty and ali
other expenses added this Philippine
sugar comes into our country COSTING
l% cents "A pound. With Filipinos and
chinese employed on the plantations
after these sugar lands have been ex-
plotted by the sugar trust of this coun-
try this Philippine sugar can be placed
in the barrel under the counters of
american stores for cents pound.
How Will the beet sugar that costs in
the west az cents a pound compete
with this product Of the sugar trust and
coolie labor? Already the sugar trust
has its greedy eye fixed uuon these
lands and will succeed in getting pos
session of most of II.
Like Stone Wall.
The senators Of the west stood like
stone wall against this Republican
reciprocity. We were not opposed to
tariff reduction. On the contrary. We
We're heartily in favor of it. What we
did oppose was the singing out of one
industry of the agricultural west and
sacrificing that industry at the behest
OF the sugar trust. No hand was laid
on the manufacturing Industries of
Massachusetts, New York or Ohio and
we maintained that the interests of the
farmers of the west were just as sa-
cred as the interests of the men i'm the
east who sold shoe pegs, saws and car
pet tacks.'
Taking up the trust question, the
speaker said that last spring practi-
cally. all the trusts in the country were
opposed to the election of Theodore
Roosevelt to the presidency. They
were in favor of Senator Hanna for
the reason that he was considered safe.
Now all the trusts favor the re-elec-
ton of Roosevelt: the MoTgans. Rookie
fellers and Schwabs all argue that the
best interests of the country demand
the election OF Roosevelt, and they de-
clare that Parker is not safe. What
has brought about the change?
How the Change Came.
To account for the change of senti-
ment, Senator Patterson told how
Roosevelt. when the time came TO Sc
lect a chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee, turned down all the
party leaders and himself named Cor
telyOu. Cortelyou had been at the
head of the department of commerce
and labor. In that position he had
access to the records of all the great
industrial combines. For 500 days he