The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-07-09

cratic partY's position from which il
Will not be driven or bullied. No amount
of misrepresentation will cause it t.
bulge from that position. We SAT- fur
thermore that not one dollar more ir
the shape of tariff taxes or anv other
! sort OF taxes should be taken from the
! people than is necessary to pa- the ex-
| penseS of a government economically adj
| ministered. On these propositions we be-
| lteve we are right and on them We con-
! fidently rely in the approaching election
| in November.
Our Merchant Marine.
"When Napoleon signed the title deeds
IN this vast country west of the Missis-
sippi he turned to the American commits
Sioners and said Now I have given
Until Unsuitable greed and criminal NAL
! administration crowded the starry banner
| OF the republic from the high seas and
abdicated the rich domain of the ocean
In 1850 we had the second largest mer-
chant marine in the world; our sails
Whitened every harbor and our flag
flOated in every breeze under the heavens
How sadly all this has changed after
Last year of all the merchantmen that
went through the Suez canal, not a single
vessel, great or small. except battleshipS,
bore the American flag at it's masthead,
and our flag is seen in foreign waters only
when flying over man-of-war.
Humiliating Spectacle.
Worse than this-more Illuminating
than this-a few years ago wheE congress
appropriated a large sum of money to
BUY corn and wheat and meat 90 send to
the tamlne-stricken East Indias. we could
not send it in an American ship for the
all sufficient reason that there was none
70 send 1t in, but to our great humiliation
mad TO hire foreign ship in which to
send our charity to our starving fellow
men. When an American goes abroad he
= flac On, TFrai ion
ship. a foreign officer.
why have things come to this shame
Iul, this pltiful complexion in q country
shat has the finest material for ships and
sailors in the world? Because our ex-
orbitant tariff system has made it i'm
possible for an American to build ship
IN competition with the British ship
builders on the river Clyde.
Yet the Republican gang has the in
Unite gall to pirate about It's patriotism
Our boys are rushing to face death in
search Of gold in the Klondike region, |
when the oceans of the world contain a |
million Klondikes if the Republican party |
would only permit them to work the |
waterway
Straws.
Republicans claim in public to be the |
great and only trust busters. notwith /
standing the fact that under Republican |
nlsrule trusts have sprung up like mush-
rooms in damp cellar and have become |
plentiful as berries in JUNE.
1t is said that 'StraWs show which way
ne wind blows. Here is straw when
indicates that the trusts have nothing to
ear from Republican trust busters. 1t
$ the appointment of Attorney General
'hilander c. Knox, Republican trust
'uster par excellence, to succeed the late
lave been nothing strange or suspicious
we're 1t not for the influence which Sc
ured the appointment tor Mr. Knox.
mere can be no question about his in
eilectual qualifications for the position.
he same can be said of some other
'ennsylvanta observation-disclosures
Ohm Dalzell and Joseph c. Siblay for in
lance.
Work of the Trusts.
People will open their eyes in aston
shment and begin to inquire as to the
WY and wherefore of his appointment
Lhen they learn that the transfer of Mr..
AnoX from the attorney generalship to
he senate was procured by the earnest
tforts of Mr.. Prick, Mr.. Cassatt and Mr..
Donald Cameron to induce United States
enatOr BOieS PenroSe, the new Republi-
an boss of Pennsylvania, 10 permit Mr..
,noX to be senator, for Governor Penny
acker,, who nomipally made the appoint
lent, does not appear to have keen con-
idered at all in the premises. The
mazement OF the people will grow like ]
onah,s gourd vine when they learn thai '
lr. Prick is the heaviest stakeholder in !
he Steel trust; that Mr.. Cassatt is |
resident of the Pennsylvania Railroad {
)mpany, which is one of the members of !
ne trust. and that Mr.. Cameron repre- {
ented the Standard Oil trust ana Wall l
-reet interests in persuadng Boss Pen !
1se to let Mr.. Knox go TO the senate.
Here we have the strange spcctacle-the !
ystifying anomaly of three OF the chief :
'ust magnates in the land. securing the
ppointment to the senate of Attorney
enera1 Knox. who has been exploited far
nd wide as the greatest trust buster on L
IRA firma. q
Reward For Mr. Knox.
Folks who still dare to think will be :
reed to one of two conclusions-either :