Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-17

tory, we must defeat our opponents
whose exclusion from power is desired
by the country and deserved by them.
REPUBLICAN PARTY'S RECORD.
No political party in modern times
can show such a record of achieve
ment during the last SO years as the
Republican party. Upon that record
we can stand and challenge all com-
ers to the lists. But IL is well to re-
member that the test we have to meet is
much less severe. This IL COM
parative world We do not go forth to
contest the great prize with an ideal
party, which we sometimes see beauti-
fully depicted by persons of self-con-
fessed superiority and chronic discon-
tent. The glittering abstraction which
they present never existed yet on sea
or land. II CLEANS upon us in print
ers' ink but IL has neither substance
nor organization nor candidates. for
organizations and candidates must be
taken from the ranks of men and can
not be the floating phantoms of an
uneasy dream.
THE TWO PARTIES.
The American people must choose
next November between US and the
Democratic party. With the Demo-
cratic party, and with that alone, must
the comparison be made. We differ
from that party in some important par
ticulars We both, It is true, have a
past and a history but we treat those
possessions very differently. They
wish to keep their past a profound
secret. We seek by all means to
publish ours to the world. If we re-
fer to their history; they charge us
with calumny. We regard ours truth
full and undistorted, as our greatest
glory. To the youth of the country
they say: Judge us solely by our
undiscovered future" We say Read
our record, judge us by our past and
our present and from these. learn what
we are-what we have been and what
we mean TO be-" Recall the cries which
have sounded from the lips of these
two parties during the last half CEN
fury. On the one side-"Slavery;
secession; Reputation of the public
debt; Nat money; free trade; free sill
yer; the overthrow of the courts and
government ownership"
On the Republican side, Free soil;
free men; the Union, the payment of
the debt; honest money; protection to
American industry: the gold industry
the maintenance of law, of order and
OF % courts and the government reg
ula~,n of great corporations" The
n
day the epitaphs of policies which arc
dead and damned They serve only
to remind us of dangers escaped or 10
warn us OF perils TO be stunned. The
battle cries of the Republicans have
been the watchwords of great causes.
They tell of victories won and triumphs
tasted--they are embodied in the laws
and mark the stepping stones by
which the Republic has risen to ever
ity.
NEW PROBLEMS.
have spoken Of the seriousness NJ
the situation with which the country
was confronted. Its gravity can hard :
lly be over estimated. II grew out Of
conditions and was the result of force
Fbeyond the control OF men.
The social and political problems
thus created, are wholly new. 1t is 4
fallacy TO suppose that because the
elements are old the problem itsel
must therefore. differ only In de.
gree from those which have gone be-
fore. The elements may be old but the
problem presented by a change in the
| proportion of the elements may be
and, In this case is. entirely new.
HUGE FORTUNES.
1t Is the huge size of private for.
| modern combinations of capital, made
| possible by present conditions, whici
| have brought upon us, In these latter
| years. problems portentious in thei,
| possibilities, and threatening. not only
our social and political welfare. bu
even our personal freedom, IL they ar
| not boldly met and wisely solved
| TO those who looked beneath tn
surface an ominous unrest was APP
| parent. The violent counsels of VIC,
lent men, who aimed at the destruo
lion OF property and the overthrow Of
law began 10 be heard and hardened
to. The great order-loylng, industri
GUS masses OF the American peopl
turned away from these advocates o
violence, but, at the same time. de
manded that their government SHOULD
give them, in lawful and reasonable
| ways, the protection 10 which they
were entitled, against tho dangers the,
Justly apprehended.
The great duty q fulfilling thes
righteous demands. like all the grea
public services OF the last hall century
was imposed upon the Republican part
and thoy have not finched from tn
burden. Under the lead OF the presl
dent. the Republican party has crap
pied with the new problems, born %
The new conditions.
PARTYs POLICY.
The policy OF the Republican party Il
dealing with these new and formlds on
| uuestioua which have taken concrete
form in enormous combinations OF oapl
tai and IN great public service corpora
lions. has been formulated ana deter
mined. That policy Is 10 use govern
ment regulations and supervision 10
the control OF corporations and combina
tions so that these great ana nsceshar
| Instruments Of commerce ana pusln'S
| NAV be nraserVed as useful servants AM
not destroyed because they have threal
ened TO become dangerous masters.
This policy is the apsolnoed SpPoiIIhI M.
meas,Ires, advocated by our. opponenii
which tend directly 10 Socialist ana
ali lis attendant mlserles ana eNlls'
LAWS ENFORCED
The president has enforced NE ieN
~ tnaS thsm on tho statute boob