The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-01
rxrRAvAeAnr AND DISHONEST.

ExTRAvAGANT AND DISHONEST.
Mr.. Bryan expresses volume in
sentence when he says the Republican
leaders are more intimately associated
with the taxeaters than the taxpayers
This is the real secret of the official
extravaganza i'm Washington: the real
reason why this is 'billion-dollar
country" ana also why when reform In
any given line is proposed so many
ready-made arguments at once appear
that I'VE are getting along just as
cheapiy as possible" and that We
should spend more money each year
rather than begin TO draw i'm the line.
Perhaps one secret of Republican sue
cess In securing votes lies in the fact
OF running the country upon a high
pressure principle. throwing the money
right and left, the rank and file living
in hope of getting hold of some of it,
This year the scheme won't work.
The limit has been reached i'm every
direction. Prices have been inflated
until they will no longer respond to
boost while thousands upon thousands
of men are ont of employment and I'M
able To pay for the necessities of life.
The reaction is a very present fact. and
il is worse than foolish to expect any
thing like a return of conditions exist
ing prior to the Republican Roosevelt
Wall street panic of 1913 With a re-
al iuctmapf ~ nricac ,rDo, a living ha-
sis we can get back into prosperous
condition. but so long as the big COM
binations, from the steel trust down,
keep the prices of their protected wares
30 per cent higher for the consumers
in this country than they sell them for
in the markets of the world. there can
be no real prosperity.
Mr.. Bryan also points out that the
theory of the Republican leaders is that
tariff taxes even beyond the revenue
needs of the country are direct ad-
vantage to the protected interests of
the country, and an indirect advan-
tage to the whole country. The theory
carried out to its full extent resolves
itself into something like this: Tax
alton is blessing: therefore. the taxes
should be kept as high as possible in
order that the people may enjoy the
blessing In the greatest possible meas
ure.
This is another Republican PROPOSE
ton that will not work out 10 the ad-
vantage of the party in the present
campaign. The Republicans are COM
mitted 20 tariff revision. even to the
extent of calling an extra session of
congress for the purpose. But right here
Mr.. Bryan points out that the case is
no more urgent now than il has been
for years past. and that with all the
machinery of government in their pos
session the tariff could have been re-
vised at any time Furthermore. the
Republican leaders refused at the last
session of congress to even allow action
upon the wood pulp and print paper
tariff, the basis of one OF the most
grinding trusts in the country. What
hope, then, that a Republican congress
would revise the tariff at an extraor-
binary session or regular session? 1t
is the old story of scattering money
broadcast. government money and trust
money. in the futile endeavor to keep
up appearances until after election
when it will be everlastingly too late
for the people to get action with their
ballots
Renuhlican extra apance can only he
rebuked and ended by the election of
Bryan and Kern and a Democratic
congress.