The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-25
SEES SWEEPING
SENTIMENT FOR
LOWER TARIFF
Folk Defines Issue for Demo-
cratic Party in the Next
Campaign.
FAMOUS REF0RMER is
SALT LAKE VISITOR
SOME HOT SHOTS At CRAFT AS
RELATED TO SPECIAL
PRIVILEGE.
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= TARIFF REVISION.

= Unless a satisfactory revision OF =
y the tariff-and by satisfactory revis- y
y ion I mean revision doWnWard-is y
= made By the present session Of con- =
y gress. il seems certain TO me, 5udg- y
= ing Of the sentiment have gathered =
y during my trip through the west y
4 that the Democratic party viii win =
y the next presidential election. The y
4 tariff agitation has made it clear that y
y the tariff is tax The people are =
y awakening TO the injustice or $1,000
p 000 persons being taxed in order 10 =
y make a few men rich. II is better =
y that all be prosperous than that y
y some be exceedingly wealthy The =
y demand now is that the people be y
y protected against monopoly instead =
e Of that monopoly he protected y
= against the people. There should be y
y no tariff for protection A munop-
= oily tariff IS a graft. Statement by =
y former Governor Joseph ". Folk in =
y interview with representative OF y
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Salt Lake City yesterday entertained a
man who is recognized as one Of the
foremost citizens Of the United States. for
mer Governor Joseph w. Folk Of Mis-
souri,. the man who eight years ago made
the then startling declaration of an opin-
ron that citizenship in a free country car
rfpd with il certain civic obIigs tiOns. and
ing attorney in tine circuit court Of 81
Louis No. started I'm campaign Ia
prosecute grafters and bOOclers Some or
the men he prosecuted have served terms
in the penitenuary, some Of them turned
states evidence. some of them are still in
prison. On being elected governor OF Mis-
souri, MI FOLK carried our AIS IDEAS on
larger scale and Influenced the passing
of laws that reduced bOOdliag and graft
I'm his city and state. put stop to race
track gambling and checked other evils,
took the police administration out or poll
tics. removed officers who failed to en-
force the laws. prohibited child labor, and
brought about numerous other reforms
that made him famous and inspired move
ments of a similar refoTmatory nature IN
other sections Of the United States
Governor Folk is O. most approachable
man. His smile is pleasant, bis hand
clasp warm his greeting BE- senulne- But
every expression OF his face, every ges-
ture. every movement OF his body indi-
Gates his strong character. his determined
will his devotion to principle. integrity
confidence sincerity-the qualities that
have helped him IN his long fight against
graft. against the forces that made Just
laws farcical and that contaminated the
principle of government.
Governor Folk is q man who could
throw some light on almost any subject
that an interviewer might suggest and
there are a few subjects that he could
tell more about than any other man an
interviewer might approach. The writer
asked him to express his views on the
tariff revision. and be did It concisely.
without hesitation. cOnYincingly as quoted
above.
An Issue Against Graft.
The fight Of Governor Folk has been
against privileges of lawlessness in this
country. against the privileges conferred
by law. Graft he says. is privilege
which the law allows A privilege of soma
kind is the hinge upon which every graft
swings. IF he SHOULD have the say re-
garding the principle upon which the
Democratic party viii enter the next pres
idential cOmpaign. that partys leading
fight viii be against the privilege Of law
lassness. He would center the forces or
the party on that issue end he fully be-
l.eves that the fight would be- a success
fUl one u is bis theory that the people
do right when they know right and he
believes that the great fights that have
been IN progress during the last few years
in various parts Of the country against
graft against boodlers- municipai and
state. have been fights that have gained
public approval and public sympathy He
believes that the disclosures made have
educated the people to sense Of revolt
against practices which heretofore were
so long continued and continued in such
an open. daring manner that the public
generally had grown insensitIve 60 a re-
grettable degree TO the injustice Of them.
lie said Yesterday
"If the Democratic party in the next
campaign viii institute = clear, clean cut
fight against the privileges OF laWiessness
and privileges conferred 10y law. Do VIII
triumph. There are many evils To be
fought and many wrongs TO be remedied.
but everything cannot he done at once.
In the endeaVOr 10 correct everything az
once the danger is that nothing a. all
viii be accomplished. Tn the last several
campaign the Democratic party has had
so many issues as to confuse the people
The fight against the privilege of law
lessness and the privileges conferred by
law makes issue easily understood.
and. as the people usually do right when
they know right, such an issue would be q
winning one