The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
ALBERT j. BEVERIDGE
BY SAVOYARD.

/ tNSNhN POlllOSs hdS VI lUC HUN
| kind, more gorgeous than splendid, q
house of cards, a carmen. of shoddy.
/ The only speech that Fairbanks made
that now remember was on that alb
surdity and hypocrisy-the creation of
a commissioner to cross the Atlantic
| Ocean and convince Great Britain that
Is to l was sound finance, and beg the
Bank of England to go in for ii. Up
TO that time L had COMPOUNDED Fair
banks with a Mr.. Fishback, a real
lawyer of indianapolis. and 1 went to
the senate to hear q real speech. 1t
was not for year that l found out my
mistake. I have heard 10000 speeches
on the silver question. / do not now
recall a poorer one than Fairbanks.
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| Beverage is ranscendentalist. with
/ a little more patriotism than the law
allows; but he is no hypocrite. though
he belongs 10 a party that has a prac-
/ teal monopoly of that depravity The
/ princess dowager. the mother of George
/ Ill was not more anxious that her son
be king than Beveridge is determined
to be statesman, and George was bet
ter king than Beverage is a statesman.
| George very nearly ruined his realm by
his Kingship; BeVeridge would entirely
| if he had swing as full as George was
allowed to have.
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He is an indefatigable man, and
works without ceasing. He went en-
tirely around the globe for material
for a single speech-that on the Phil
ippines. In the wilderness of language
tina: grafton is made of It is possible
to find a passage here and a sentence
there that sounds like Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Then you bump up against
something that reminds of George
Francis Train. The central idea is that
the American union is as hot as Tophet
and they as would not get scorched
would better give us room. II was de-
livered about the time our fried-meat
statesmen first discovered that we were
a world power. a thing we were even
before Maj. Gen. Andy jackson bullied
France over the spoliation claims. We
had just licked poor old Spain for the
sake of p set of contemplate scamps In
Cuba and had acquired by mingled con-
quest and purchase the Philippine arch
ipelago. The question Mr.. Beverage
was debating was the altruism Of pow
er, the duty of patriotism, and the wis
dom of imperialism. I confess that
there was little of it that / understood;
but there is no doubt that it served the
purpose of making Beverage the fancy
statesman of the day and Q lion in the
salon of Mistress Leo Hunter. We
know he was eloquent: we hoped that
he was wise. The speech was widely
circulated There was d Beverage
presidential boom. Young America
came to Washington; not the young
America of Stephen A. Douglas, that
had nothing particular agin slavery In
Mississippi but the young America of
Mark Hanna, that clinched slavery in
the Philippine Islands. For slaves they
are and ruled by masters Il 600 miles
away.
And now Beveridge was a leader of
the senate, and. next to Mark Hanna,
the most pointed out man on the floor.
He was a very busy man, solonizing at
Washington and Grating before Chau-
tauquas all over the country. Words.
words, words, oceans and oceans of
language Not one scintillating
thought, not one atom of hu
NOR. Everything profound and the des-
pair of Ill the normal school cadets be
tween the two oceans, who wrestled
with il, and their name is multitu-
dinous.
When I was lad just emerging from.
childhood my father put in my hands
THE Ara bian Nights Entertainment"
and therein l read cock and bull story
Of an Oriental monarch, who had three
sons. all i'm love with the same girl,
princess of those parts and beautiful
as becomes a princess. The king was
at q loss TO decide between them and
appealed to chance. He sent them out
in the world for q year and a day and
upon their return he that had fetched
back the most wonderful thing was to
have the girl When the time was up
the three met and compared notes.
One fellow had rug that would trans
port one sitting on it to any part of
the earth's surface desired. and do it
in the twinkling of an eye. Another
had secured magic crystal. which put
TO the eye would discover your friends
anywhere in the world and reveal what
they were Their doing. The third had an
apple, which, put to the nose Of any one
sick. would restore him to perfect
health. 1t was suggested that they
take a look at their sweetheart which
they did. and found that she was just
about TO expire of some fell malady
Immediately they got aboard the carpet
and were transported to the sick cham
Der The apple was put to the girls
nose and she bounded up rosy and
buxCm entirely recovered.
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Beveridge thinks the constitution of
the United states can be trotted
through all those stunts-carry Won
you wish to see, and do for you what
YOU wish to do. Is a thing desirable?
Put the constitution to it and the thing
is done. In his philosophy. whatever
is expedient is constitutional. 1t is
wonderful Instrument that can be con-
fined within my Iadys thimble, or
stretched from pole to pole from Orient
TO Occident.
For example. child labor in the states
is an evil. Declare It commerce. and
send the constitution to eradicate it,
That is ahsolutism. If the federal es-
Enlistment IS clothed with that power
tho power to define production to be
commercials power is unlimited and
may be resoTted to to turn water into
wine or perform any other miracle il
has the whin 10 attempt. The heresy
of the child-labor bill is that il works
a destruction of the states; reduces
them to the place the counties now oc-
cupy.
The misery of ii is that the leader of
the Democratic party has Endorsed the
chiid-labor law, proposed by Beverage
The curious thing is that the ablest
argument against IL was made by a
Republican senator from Pennsylvania
There is I victory for the Democratic
party in two issues, if the party We're