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

injuries, lower on comforts and low
est qr mono at all ON the necessaries.
They furthermore say that taxes
should BE- uniform on all articles be-
longing to one class That Is the Dem
ocratic party's position, from which H.
VIII not be driven or bullied. No
amount OF misrepresentation viii cause
them to bulge from that position. We
say, furthermore, that not one dollar
more in the shape Of tariff taxes or any
other sort Of taxes should be taken
from the people than Is necessary TO
pay the expenses OF government
economically administered. on these
propositions We believe we are right
and on them we confidently rely in the
approaching election in November,
OUR MERCHANT MARINE.
When Napoleon signed the title deeds
In this vast country west of the Misss-
sippi he turned to the American COM
missioners and said Now | have Civ
en- England a maritime rival" and so
he mad until Unsuitable greed and Grim
inal maladminlstration crowded the
starry banner Of the republic from the
high seas and abdicated the rich do
main OF the ocean. I'm 1860 we had the
second largest merchant marine I'm the
World--our sails Whtened every harbul
and our flag iloated I'm every breeze un-
der the heavens. How sadly all this
has changed after IS years Of Republi-
can mlsrule. Last year of all the mer-
chantmen that went through the Sucz
canal not a single vessel great or
small, except battleshps, bore the
American flag at its masthead and our
flag is seen In foreign waters only when
flying over man Of war
A HUMGLIATING FACT
Worse than this-more humiliatipg
than thls-a few years ago when Con-
gress appropriated large sum Of
money to buy corn and wheat and meat
to send to the famine stricken East In
dams, We could not send 1t I'm an Ameri-
can ship for the an sufficient reason that
there was none to send II i'm, but to our
great humiliation we had 90
hire a foreign ship in which
TO send over charity to our
can goes abroad he must salute a for
eign flag on a foreign ship, a foreign
officer
Why have things come TO this shame
full, this pitiful complexion in country
that has the finest material for ships
and sailors I'm the world? Because our
eXorbitant tariff system has made IL
impossible for an American to build a
ship in competition with the British
shipbuilders on the river Clyde
Yet the Republican gang has the in
finite gall to pirate about It's patriotism.
our boys are rushing to face death
in search OF gold In the Klondike re-
giOn, when the oceans Of the world con-
tain a million Klondikes If the Repub-
lican party would only permit them to
work the Waterman,
THE ONLY TRUST BUSTERS"
Republicans claim IN public to be the
great and only trust busters notWith-
standing the fact that under Repubi-
can misrule trusts have sprung up Ike
mushrooms in a damp cellar and have
become plentiful as berries In June.
II is said that "straws show which
way the wind blows" Here Is a straw
which indicates that the trusts have
nothing 10 fear from Republican trust
busters II Is the appointment Of Atty
Gen. phlaudcr G.. Knox, Republican
trust buster par excellence, 90 succeed
the late Matthew Stanley quay There
would have been nothing strange or
suspicious were II not for the influence
which secured the appointment for MI
Knox. There can be no question about
his intellectual qualifications for the po-
siti0n. The same can De SAID or some
other Pennsylvania Republicans--Con-
gresham John Dalzell and Joseph c,
Sibey for instance,
ABATEMENT OF PEOPLE.
People viii open their eyes in aston
ishment and begin to inquire as to the
why and wherefore of his appointment
when they learn that the transfer OF
Mr. Knox from the attorney general
ship to the senate was procured by
the earnest efforts of Mr.. Frick, Mr.
Cassatt and Mr.. Donald Cameron to
induce United States Senator Boes
Penrose, the new Republican boss Of
Pennsylvania, to permit Mr. hno% TO
be senator Tor Coy. Pennypackef,
who nomnally made the appointment,
does not appear to have been considered
at all in the premises. The amazement
of the people Will grow like domains
gourd vine when they learn that Mr.,
Prick is the heaviest stakeholder In the
steel trust, that Mr. Cassatt IL presl-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany, which is one OF the members OF
the trust, and that Mr. Cameron rep
resented the Standard OH trust and
Wall street interests IN persuading
Boss" Penrose to let Mr., Knox 90 10
the senate.
Here we have the strange spectacle
the mystifying anomaly of three of the
chief trust magnates in the land, se-
curing the appointment TO the senate
OF Atty.-Gen Knox, who has been eX-
plotted far and wide as the greatest
trust buster on terra firma,
Folks who still dare TO think will be
forced TO one or two conClusions-one
either that MIR. Knox Is the only lawyer
I'm America capable of conducting a
suit against trust--whlCh Is absolute
ly preposterous, for there are thousands
of lawyers as able as he-and that the
trusts were anxious to get him out Of
the attorney generals Office because
they fear him more than they do any
other person, or, two, that they know
that the antitrust crusade has been a
bunco game from tie beginning and
that Messrs. Prick. Cassatt and Cam
eron, together With these whom they
represent, procured him the senatorshlp
as reward for faYors already rendered
the trusts secetly while in the cabinet
and to be hereafter rendered In the sem
ate,
a BIBLICAL PARALLEL,
According to the press reports. Pres-
dent Roosevelt stood by consentng 20
the transfer of Knox from the cabinet
10 the senate. Just as Paul stood by
to the stonlng Of Stephen.
one paper says: THE president Is
greatly pleased that Mr. Knox win ac-
cept the position which looks Ike he Is
glad to get rid Of him,
Here Is another straw. II has been
told In Gath and proclaimed on the
streets Of Askaon by the Roosevelt
shouters for 10! these many months
that the trust magnates--cspeclall
those whose habitat lairs Is wall street
ARE Bitterly opposed To the president.
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