The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-08

local interests. Come, come" said the
judge. you cannot make yourself out
TO be a Welshman." But / have made
a good deal Of money out OF Welshmen
la my time" We'll, we'll" Fsioined
the judge, we may call you a Welsh
man by extraction" There are Demo
Gratis and "acting Republicans" in~plen-
~ of that lineage. Strictly speaking, 2
however. they no more deserve to be
called party men than do those PiEsia
delphia thieves whom Secretary Root
denounced for daring TO assume the
name Republican"
One Of the evils OF corporate money
in politics Is that IL kills the spirit or
self-help. The parties are paupeTiZed.
The rank and file will not give their
81 and s. contributions, as in the Lin
coin days. What do the great corpora
tiOns exist for. is the tacit question, II
not 10 put the party ia funds, without
troubling the individual member II
is like the decentralization OF the Bap-
fist church by tho gifts of J. ID. Rocke
Teller. The statistics show that the
average beneVOlence Of The den0mina-
ton is much lower than before the
method OF I'm see your 100000 and
double it." So the humping cOntribu-
lions of corporations have changed the
party attitude from that of every man
giving what he can, 10 every man get
ting out of the campaign treasury IS
much as he can.
Everybody knows that life insurance
companies and other corporations do
not underwrite political parties with
out expecting a profit. Their motto is
strictly, do at des.Y The kind OF
reward they count upon is Well de-
scribed by Judge Parker. Having
tend TO use il for their own benefit.
They doubtless supposed that they had
securely purchased the Republican
party last year. President Roosevelt
has done much 10 show that he ct
least was 10 party 10 that bargain. IN
many respects. il is certain. the cor
pOratiOns do not look upon him their
best friend But there Is ole particular
i'm which the president has. thus far
laid himself open 10 suspicion Judge
Parker asserts that one purpose Of the
contributions made by corporations To
the Republican party was TO retain
permission to manufacturing corpora
tons 10 levy tribute on the people" la
other words, a syndicate OF stand-pat-
ters was at work. Now. what are the
suggestive facts In his letter of ac-
ceptance, President Roosevelt turned
his back on his former tariff utter
ances and posed as the best stand-pat-
ter of the lot After election he began
again to talk tariff revision earnestly
in private. IL was known. for the fact
has been published. that he intended to
send a special tariff message TO con-
gTess. But he was somehow diverted
from his purpose. Republican tariff re-
vision was slaughtered in the house Of
its friends. The question now is whether
EB,.acfaa41f paaGeyralf will IN n
under the malisn implication which
many have seen in this course He has
il in his power To make more COM
plete answer 10 Judge Parker than be
made last November Let him indig
nantly brush away all these rUmors OF
a stand-patter purchase by coming our
sduarely for tariff reform and urging
it with every argument and influence
al his command. In this way he can
at once put his detractOrs to confusion
and rejoice his friends.
|, We may yet distill goodness out of
this evil thing if we follow up these
revelations of corporate bribery in poll
tics by drastic legislation. making every
act of the kind criminal. The penal
code is your great purifier. Let every
director or officer be made to know
that if, directly or indirectly he gives,
or allows to be given, one dollar OF the
funds of his corporation 10 a politician,
! or the agent of one, the Jail viii yawn
Tor him. Let the terror of the law be
| held also over the heads of campaign
committees and their solicitors By
both state and federal statute, let the
practice of either soliciting or giving
corporation money for partisan pur
poses be so outlawed that the director
| sgho is besought viii feel that he is
invited to commit a crime while the
party treasurer who Is seen going to ia
terview financial magnates viii be re-
garded, even though he be- the most
| respects BILE OF wnfted seputChres, as no
! better than q sneak thief.