Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-09-29
.CULLINGS FROM GOLFERS.

What is important? To newspapers,
apparently, politics, in time of peace,
and rejecting, sheep-like, this judy
ment of the trade, we give first place
at present to the struggle of the part
les to increase their membership in
congress. That this combat is the
most momentous doing now on earth,
the administration would agree, for
every sinew is being bent to rout the
evil foe. Speaker Cannon Secretary
Taft, Cicero Beveridge, and other
men of gravity and stress, barring
their simitars, betook them urgently
to Maine and smote the opposition
Justify. The inhabitants of that state
of prohibition and Peruna listened to
the claps of earnestness and voted,
far more than is their custom, for
the Democrats. They were told that
Mr.. Roosevelt was the issue. To their
simple minds he figured but feebly in
the election of a governor, and not
prominently even in judging of a
congressman. All over the country
we hope to see corresponding in
dependence. Let state issues be con-
sidered in state elections, and in Sc
lecting congressman may the best
man win. We have an excellent
President, but in spite of his party
ardor it can not be made to appear
that Republicans help and Democrats
injure the work that he is doing. The
Philippine Tariff bill was Killed by
the Republicans. Speaker Cannon had
to be frightened out of opposition to
the Pure Food bill. The American
people are not credulous enough to
engulf the assertion that the Republi-
can party and the Presidents per-
formances are bound together in any
Siamese relation.
Labor has the right to fight in pol
itics, to the same extent as any other
organized interest, neither more nor
less. If it thinks certain congress-
men hostile to it's just demands, reason
would prompt it to oppose their re-
election. Any honest man, on the
other hand, should defy labor as well
as capital when his conscience so
commands him. Mr.. Littlefields opin-
ions on labor measures are to some
extent shared and to some extent
opposed by us, but regardless of such
differences of judgment we rejoice in
the reelection of brave and upright
pTeClSely DIS we TeJOlCc
had he been an equally bold, straight,
and capable labor representative
slated by capital for destruction. La
Dor will continue it's political activity,
gaining power here as it has in Eng
land, but inevitably, like any other
party, it will often endeavor to ruin
some of our high-minded office-holders
because of honest differences of con-
viction.
Intensity of feeling is being main
tanned, if not increased, as the trial
of Meyer and Haywood draws more
near. A hearing before the Supreme
Court of the United States on points
of law is scheduled to begin at Wash
ington on October 8. During the sum-
mer each faction has been assailing
the other for preventing speedy
trial. The Socialists of Shoshone
county, in their platform declared
that the principles for which Meyer
and Haywood stand are Numerically
opposed to murder, which is at least
interesting, although in some conflict
with other expressions of the miners
union. Clarence barrow, addressing
his party at Spokane, made long
Speech most of which, as reported
in the papers, was in line with this:
"If he 1.-THE labOring man knew any,