The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-19


tons for army and navy? No nation Is
unfriendly 10 the United States; no inter-
nal causes justify the increase No out
side cause except Imperialism can fur
side causes, and if it is due to inside
causes there is no cause except that the
country has been under Republican rule.
Affiliated With Taxeaters.
There are two reasons why the Re-
publican leaders are less careful of ex-
penditures than the Democrats. The first
is. to be. found in the fact that the Re-
ISOLATED with the taxeaters than with the
taxpayers, and. being governed by public
opinion with which they come into con-
tact, they naturally lean toward extrav-
agance.
THE second reason is to be found in the
fact that the Republican leaders have
been representing taxation as blessing,
and they naturally want to give the peo-
pie as much of the blessing as possible
They argue that we should have high
tariff whether we need the revenue or
not, but recognizing that there is some
opposition to unnecessary taxation, they
try to make the appropriations high
enough to compel the extortionate tariff
rates demanded by. the protected inter-
ests. The Democratic party, believing that
a tax is a necessary evil, endeavors to
limit the tax to the actual needs of the
government economically administered.
President Selects Successor.
1.-THE present campaign presents another
tendency of the Republican party, name
ly. to substitute a presidential successor
for the Democratic plan of popular Sc
lection. The president felt 1t his duty to
select a Republican nominee. and, hav-
ing reached the conclusion that he ought
to select such a nominee, he brought the
Influence of his great office to bear in
behalf of the candidate of his personal
choice, and is now using his influence to
election candidate whom
he assisted in nominating.
The President Is Bad.
eff Mr.. Roosevelt can pick out the Re
publican candidate this year and then use
the prestige of his office and the influ-
ence of the army of office holders to
elect him, may not Mr.. Taft pick out
successor and elect him. and so on from
no defense of such an Interference with
the popular will to say the guilty party
means we'll Kings have often meant well
whenever they have suppressed free
speech and representative government.
and in aristocracies the few have often
meant we'll when they rode roughshod
over the opinions of the multitude. Our
government rests upon the will of the
people, and any interference with the free
choice of the people, either before NOM
nations or after nominations, is contrary
to the spirit of our Institutions"
1.-The time to correct this abuse and to
stop this tendency is now. IL this at
tempt is successful, it will be regarded
as a precedent for another attempt. and
the people having submitted once VIII De
less aroused by repetition of the attempt
Capitalization of Power.
1.-The third dangerous tendency of the
Republican party is toward CONTEMPLATION
It's leaders are inclined to overlook state
lines and to advocate legislation and ad-
ministrative methods which enlarge the
central government The safety OF the
union depends upon preservation of the
distinction drawn In the constitution pc
tween state and nation. The nation mas
its delegated powers; the state It's re-
served powers. Only by the recognition
of this division can the balance between
state and nation be maintained
Imperialism.
''Fourth-In its advocacy of imperialism
the Republican party tends to ignore all
constitutional restraints, for ii admins
tiers a government in the Philppine
islands without constitutional limitations.
The ignoring of the constitution In DEAL
ing with the Philippine islands tends to
the weakening of the constitution at home
and tends also to disregard of consti-
tutional principles of government
Tendency Toward Socialism.
1.-THE fifth Republican tendency to
which 1 call your attention is the ten
dency toward Socialism. The Republican
party is loud in its Remuneration OF 80,
ciaism but IL is constantly feeding and
augmenting the socialistic spirit Ii per
mits abuses which cast an odium upon
individualism and furnish an argument
to the Socialists. 1t cultiyates the ldea
that the government must act as a Wet
nurse for favored industries instead OF
cultivating industrial independence and
spirit of self-rellance; In its laes that
reasonable profits should be guaranteed
10 the protected industries. IT DEFENDS
the principle of monopoly on the tneory
F.rl In
this position it supports the main conten-
ton of the Socialists. Mr.. Tart, the Re
publican candidate, in the speech ah-
nouncing his candidacy, advocated sucn
Amendment of the antitrust law as would
make 1t apply only to unreasonable re-
straint of trade. This idea that reason
able restraint of trade Is unobJectlonapie
is the entering wedge1it IS the Iirst SUP
towards the annihilauon OF the pfihci-
pies of competition
Democratic Position Stated.
THE Democratic party has been called
a Socialistic party and / have been de-
nounced as a Socialist. contend that
the Republican party, not the Democratic
party, is aiding the socialistic party: ana
this is evidenced from the TACT that so
cialist leaders prefer Republican success
to Democratic success. They fear the
Democratic reforms will retarc Socialism,
and they believe that Republican abuses
can be used to arouse opposiron 70 .ne
cratic party believes that the Socialist
is honest, but mistaken. The Democratic
party would argue with the Socialist,
while the Republican party denounces
him. hut the Democratic party would re-
move the spirit of unrest and discomfort
by eliminating the abuses that are the
foundation of unrest and discomfort.
Appeal to the People.
eve appeal to the sober sense of the
American people and ask that they join
us In the Inauguration of reforms which
will restore the government to Its OLD
foundations and win for the government
the love of all the people by making 1t the
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