The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-26
TIME TO LEARN
new BATTLE CRY
Stock Arguments of RepubIi-
| cans Prayed, Tattered
and Threadbare.
RESPONSIBLE FOR PANICS
SPEECH BY REPRESENTATIVE
GARRETT OF TENNESSEE.

Washington, Feb. 25.-A general ar
raignment of the Republican party was
made in the house of representatives
today by Mr.. Garrett of Tennessee. He
charged that during its entire career
that party had had just three funda-
mental arguments with which to appeal
to voters. He asserted that the party
came into power by an utilization with
the anti-slaYery sentiment of the coun-
try, while in the second stage the Re-
publicanS retained power by appeal
ing TO the heroic memories and the in
tense but inevitable prejudices engen-
dered in the war in which slavery was
abolished For two decades, he de-
clared, the "bloody slirt" was the par
ty banner. land behind its crimson,
flowing folds they marched TO victory
after victory" The third stage, he said,
was 1.-The argument with which We of
this generation are so familiar, thai
Republican success means prosperity
and Democratic success does not. This
last contention had become the battle
hymn of the party.
Not i'm fifteen years, he charged. had
the Republican party as such faced an
issue squarely 'Out in the open sun
light of judgment and reason.
Republican Panics.
Mr.. Garrett declared that every panic
since 1850 "has had its beginning with
the Republican party in power and with
Republican legislation on the statute
books" He refuted the Republican al
legations that the panic of 1898 was in
anticipation of a Democratic admins
tration" Referring to conditions ex-
listing in October, 1907, with the RepuD-
licans in full control, he said the bust
ness interests knew in advance there
would be no tariff tinkering before
1909.
He secuted the idea that the Repub-
licans during the short session would
revise the tariff "Oh, no. 'ehe said,
1.-THE tariff will be revised at the next
long session of a Democratic house.
He spoke of the industrial. lethargy
since October, 1907, the number of men
out of employment, the bank failures,
and, in discussing the causes of that
condition, said they were not due to
Democratic administration. Something
Just stopped, he said, and ii all hap
pened under a Republican administra-
ton.
Republican Dilemma.
"Oh. Mr. Chairman" he continued.
.'the Republican party has reached a
new Gfd. IL SldIuS ldCE to ldNt WIN
cold dispassionate industrial facts
which belle its words of fifteen years
You must come out i'm the sunlight now
and meet this tariff issue on its merits
and its dement's.
This dilemma confronts you. Either
you must deny the teachings of fifteen
years as TO responsibility of an admin
istration for an Industrial depression
which occurs while il is i'm power, or
you must assume responsibility for the
present conditions.
IF your covenant to preserve pros
perity was sincere, il was silly; if il
was insinceTe, it was criminal: but you
made your bed-lie in it, or lie to keep
from lying in it." In any event, he de-
clared, there would be heard some new
ideas.
Must Learn New Speech.
You have got to learn another
speech. The third era has passed. In
the first stage of your party life, the
argument was prayer: in the second,
praise and prejudice: in the third. pros
perity. In the fourth. what are we to
have? 1t must be new. The panic of
1898 will be no more vicarious atone
ment for your party sins and the chart
ty soup house will be for you no more
a means of saving grace. We await,
gentlemen. with interesting anticipa-
ton the birth of the new thought