The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01

study Of the race problem, something
that Mr.. Gillette of Massachusetts
knows little more about than he knows
of the social system of the planet
Mars. No one knows better than Mr.
Williams that the very existence OF
the south depends on a wise solution
Of this question. All that Mr.. Will
Jams or anybody else knows Of the
subject at this time is that the only
safety is in race integrity, and the
only possible way to maintain race
integrity is continued white suprem-
acy. Every northern man capable of
looking at this question with intellec-
tual integrity and moral charity
should read John Sharp Williams
speeches on IL.
There is something in the make I'D
Of John Sharp Williams that cOmpels
men to love him as well as admire.
Speaker Cannon seems to think even
more or him than he did OF Governor
Sayers, who was his chum for several
years. 1t is not that he is a sound
reasoner and strong debater that he
has been fortunate in his leadership.
but that men respect and confide in
him. Perhaps John c. Breckenridge
and Abraham Lincoln did not think
less alike than Williams and Lincoln.
reminds
people of Lincoln, and it occasions
common remark 1t is related that
when his brother first read of this he
served notice like this: Look here.
John Sharp, if you are going to run
on the Abraham Lincoln ticket I want
you to understand that you will not
get my vote" for to this day Missis-
sippi has more love and reverence for
President Davis than for President
Lincoln, as is absolutely natural.
1t is impossible to listen to John
Sharp Williams ten minutes without
concluding that he is a strong man. He
does not employ a lot Of words to saw
nothing. He never engages in debate
TO show off He never speaks merely
TO appear in the record of that date.
He appeals to the judgment Of the
house, and he can, ard frequently
does. appeal to the manhood of the
house 1t is impossible to think of
him other than as an honest and an
honorable man. He may be wrong. but
he is always sincere, and when wrong.
II wrong he be. he has a mighty knack
OF making the wrong look exactly
like the right ought to look.
1t is but Just to say that Mr.. Will
Jams has distinguished himself as the
leader OF the minority. He is as ready
in debate as he is skillful. and the
whole Republican side might go 10
sleep-something it has never vet done
without the slightest apprehension
that an unfair advantage would be
taken or 1t so long as John Sharp
Williams is in command.
If you would see the splendid de-
batter he is, read his discussion with
Mr.. Dalzell on reciprocity with Canada
and the balance Of trade. Robert 7
walker himself could not have done
II better. From the protection stand
point 1t Is preached that when an
American sells to a foreigner he al
ways makes money, but when he buvs
from foreigner he is absolutely GER
tain to lose money. One of the Re-
publican statesmen eternaIly used the
the terms, our trade with Canada"
and "Canada's trade with US" What
a fine piece of absurdity Williams
made of that AS for the balance of
trade, he discussed il with a luciditv
that was simply admirable Nor did he
take the simple elucidatiOn of Bastiat
which the late Frank Hurd gave So
aptly, something after this fashion. A
merchant in Maine exports q cargo of
slaves worth in Maine s.. 600 He
sends them to Cuba and exchanges
tnem Tor sugar. In Cuba the slaves
are worth more than the sugar. but
the slaves. According to the protec-
tiOn idea of the balance of trade botb
Maine and Cuba lost money by that
transaction. According to John Sharp
Williams, both Cuba and Maine made
money. No man in public life knows
more Of the philosophy OF honest and
constitutional taxation than John
Sharp Williams, and no man in pub
lie life can debate the question with
more force Of reasoning and cIearness
of statement than he. rough and
tumble between him and Foraker
would lend zest to a tariff debate
rarely enjoyed by capitol galleries.
1 take 1t that Williams nomination
for senator will dissipate what little
opposition there is to his leadership Of
the minority OF the Sixtieth congress
l take II. too, that he Will be returned
to the Sixty-first congress, and stran-
ger things have happened than that
he VIII be speaker of that BODY. In
the ordinary course of events. he will
not enter the senate until 1911. when
Mr.. Moneys term expires The worlr
of the next session may determine the
election of 1908. If the minoritias of
both houses are led with consummate
skill and the majorities commit a series
Of plumbers there is no telling what
might happen In 1908. The Republic
cans decline to take the country into
their confidence on the question of
the tariff, except to confess that thew
cannot revise 1t in advance of a GEN
eral election; but there is the tariff
Roosevelt and Root have made with
Germany and extended to France and
England.
The Republicans will have to do