The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-20
NR. sHERMAN'S SPEECH.


More interest attaches to the speech
OF Mr.. Sherman, nominee for vice presi-
dent. than usually pertains to a minor
candidate because of Mr. Sherman's
record and personality. He is a con-
gresham from New York. banker
and corporation man, and he has been
one of Speaker Cannon's most efficient
aides in the prevention of legislation
recommended by President Roosevelt
and demanded by popular opinion
In view of these facts. il is worth
noting that Mr.. Sherman derides Mr.
Bryan's declaration that the issue this
year is "Shall the people rule?" 1t was
10 be expected that Sherman would say
Me. too 10 every phrase of Mr.
Taft's speech of acceptance. 1t must
have been a little difficult for him TO
subscribe to the supplementary planks
10 the Chicago platform which were
written into it by Mr.. Taft; but the
New Yorker took his medicine like a
man and Endorsed Taft in everything
he said.
Mr.. Sherman says the people do rule,
and he says il without blinking. He
reaffirms his belief in the Republican
tariff and insists that the country owes
its prosperity to the Dingley law.
though he overlooks any reference to
the kind of prosperity the tariff
brought last fall. With sardonic hu-
NOR he declares the tariff revision
pledge of the Chicago platform win be
fulfilled in IAN adjustment based in
every particular upon the broad prin-
ciples of protection for all American
interests: alike for labor. for capital.
for producers and consumers"
How does he expect anybody TO be-
lieve that? What has the Republican
party done during the past twelve
years to fulfill any such pledge? Who
but the trusts and their progeny have
been considered in any adjustment Of
the tariff since the Dingley bill was
conceived by the trusts and enacted as
they directed? What trust has given
its labor any equitable share of the
enormous profits accruing from its mo-
nopoIy under the tariff? What hope can
there be that the Republican party will
reform the tariff in the interest of la
Dor or the farmer or anybody but the
trusts that maintain the party in power
and furnish il most of the money for
its campaign expenses?
In his very associations and record
Mr.. sherman furnishes the most com
plete answer TO these questions. He
naturally believes in the Republican
doctrine that the tariff should be
framed for the benefit of the trusts
most interested in its workings. He
personally has shown in congress his
unwillingness to permit the represent
atives of the people to enact legisla-
ton demanded by the people. He was
one of the little coterie of Republican
leaders that prevented the removal of
the duty on wood and pulp and paper
at the last session, although ma
jority of the house of representatives
was pledged in writing to vote for the
removal il il could be brought before
The house for a vote. He is the perfect
representative of a monopoiistic pluto
cracy profting by government favor at
the expense of the producer and con-
sun,cr: type OF the Republican of to-
day as distinguished from the Repub-
licans of Lincoln's day who fought and
died that the equality of opportunity
for men might be preserved in the form
intended by the founders of the re-
public.
Whatever Mr.. Sherman may say of
public effect. he himself is living ex-
emplar Of the fact that the people do
not rule under Republican domination.
and that Mr. Bryan Is right when he
says the great issue is shall the peo-
pie rule?"
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