Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-05

4 passed the Chinese exclusion act, which
keeps coolie labor out of the republic,
and diminishes the number OF coolies
/ already here We passed the govern
/ ment employees liability law. by which
every man who works for the govern
j ment is certain of compensation for li,-
/ jury or his family for his death While
in the governments employ.
THE TARIFF.
or the work that remains, the first Is
to revise the tariff. The tariff we shall
make will protect American industries,
/ and also open foreign markets to Amer
| lean products. A straight out revenue
tariff is ancient; single protective
! tariff. is out of date. we Republicans
| a straight out revenue tariff gives
| everything away to foreign nations and
gets nothing In return, so a straight out
| protective tariff gives nothing away
| and gets nothing in return. The mod
| ern tariff Is q maximum and minimum
| tariff--a high tariff to be applied to any
| nation that will not givetus. advantages
| In Its markets, and a lower tariff, stil1
| protective, to be granted to any nation
| that will give us advantages in its
| markets. The Republican idea is to
meet other commercial nations with
their own weapons. Yet the only hope
for tariff commission Is in the Re-
| mission idea was advanced. Mr.. Bryan
opposed it in formal printed debate.
When tariff commission bill was in
troduced in Congress, every Democrat
was hostile to it.. A tariff commission
has not 4 single friend among Demo-
cratic public men. Certain Republican
public men are against 1t too; but it's
only friends are Republicans. A DEM
ocratic vote is a certain vote against
tariff commission. A Republican vote
Is a possible vote for this business-like
reform.
LABOR QUESTION.
Every labor law we have passed and
will pass is a part of that web Of In
dustrial questions which we call the Ia
Dor problem. But after all the funda-
| mental labor problem is the problem of
employment and pay. Work and wages
are the foundations OF labor's we'll
being. without which all labor legisla-
ton is the giving Of stone instead of
bread. More American workingmen
own their own homes (and those homes
have more colnforts) than the working
men of England, Germany, Japan,
and France combined Had any politi-
cal economist been told % years ago
that carpenters, miners and steel work
ers ever would be paid the American
wages of the present day, he would
have scoffed
THE PANIC.
B We are quickly recovering from the
briefest panic in our history. Let work.
ingmen contrast that panic with the
one that occurred under the last Demo-,
cratic administration and then answer
this question for themselves: Will the
election of Mr.. Bryan or Mr.. Taft best
help the rapidly improving business Of
the country? And remember that act
i've business means we'll paid employ
mcnt.
That Mr.. Bryan and the opposition
would make business practically i'm
possible is proved by their national
every enterprise big enough to do bust
ness in more than one state shall Sc
cure national license. which can be
granted or Withdrawn by any admins
tratlon. But no business can succeed
Without certainty; no business man
could afford to invest dollar when
he knew that his very right to do bus
mess ut all might be taken away by
the caprice of a president or the acct
dent of an election. The franchise
years7czar with absolute power over
the life and death OF every business
concern large enough to trade through
out tho nation.
THE NAVY.
A nation without power is. a nation
without influence. A maritime ma
tons power is in her navy. With
longer coast lines than any three of
the greatest commercial. nations COM
bined: with far-flung possessions and
foreign commerce which in a quarter
of a century will pass that of England
and Germany together; with the canal
giving us undreaned of advantages in
foreign trade, the republic must build
a navy as great as these tremendous
-, t. -.
work today, and we mean to go on
With that program of economy, safety
and peace.
Had our navy been as large in 1898
as it is today, Spain would not have
gone to war and Cuba would have been
cash, spent In that little war; would
have built two navies as great as the
one we have, today and maintained
them for a score of years.
BRYAN AND TAFT.
This is q campaign of candidates
even more than Of platform. The ques-
ton is not which candidate Is most
upright, patriotic. brave, for both are
equally so. Both mean equally well
ticn is which candidate will make the
best president? Which is the wisest
and stendiest? Which man would you
select to manage your business? Which
has the best training and the most eX-
sperience?
Mr.. Bryan never has handled a sin-
gle foreign problem. He has governed
no Philippines, regenerated no Cuba,
built no canal, avoided no alien danger,
saved us from no threatened peril.
Mr.. Taft has done all. 1t was his
genius for the practical and devotion
to humanity that took Philippine chaos
and made Philippine order; took Philip
pine hate. and changed it. by the al
chemy of his tact, to Philippine love.
1t was his craftsmanship that achieved
the impossible, converted an oriental
people into a voting citizenship, and
laid the foundations for a future which.
as God wills, may become a separate
nation or glad and patriotic part of
this great republic.
1t was William H. Taft who set Cuba
in order, established her feet in civiliza-
TONS upward path; and it was he WHO,
when SO directed by President Roose-
Welt. who first advised with Mr.. Taft,
when these children of liberty tore his
work to pieces. set UP once more the
blessed rule of order and liberty and
law with fathers patience and
statesmans wisdom. 1t Is he who Is
the practical work of that
greatest enterprise of human history,
the building of the Panama canal.
BRYAN'S RIGHTFUL PLACE.