The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-29
nIseUsTED REPUBLICANS.

DISCUS Ed EPOBItCRNSs
The Kansas City Star. which is pro-
fessedly independent in politics. but at
the same time usually alights on the
Republican side of the fence when the
test comes. has been sizing up the situa-
ton as regards the tariff bill now be-
ing Matched in Washington and returns
the following indictment:
The Aldrich tariff bill is the first tariff
bill since the Civil war which has not
had the support Of the party press. The
Mckinley bin and the Dingley bill were
accepted unquestiOningly as the true par
~ gospel by the Republican newspapers
at the time. and even the Wilson bill with
al the disappointments It brought TO hon
est advocates of a tariff for revenue
evoked approval from most Of the Demo-
cratic newspapers.
But the Aldrich bill is too much for
even the most hardened Republicans to
stomach Among its most conspicuous
critics stand such staunCh Republican or
gans as thu New York Tribune and the
Chicago Tribune
The Herald is the only newspaper of
importance in New York to uphold the
senate finance committee. The Boston
Herald and Transcript are thoroughly
dissatisfied.
the Record Herald and Evening Post dis
sent from the Aldrich policy, and even the
Inter Ocean, a stand-pat newspaper. says
that the campaign promises of down
ward revision should be fulfilled. The
ST. Louis Globe Democrat the St. Paul
Dispatch and the Minneapolis Star are
up ia arms.
gonian. the chief Republican newspaper
of the northwest. has been bitterly at
lacking the Aldrich bill, and the Spokane
Spokesman Review resents the Aldrich
kind Of tariff revision
IL
adds that these newspapers expressed
the enthusiastic satisfaction Of their
respective communities when Taft ran
ana won. They express today only the
anger and disgust of their millions of
honest Republican readers at the result
Of the Administrations seeming trans
fer of the control OF the party to the
very men directly and Intentionally re-
pudiated by the nomination and cleo
ton Of Taft"
The Springfield Republican harks
back to November 8 of last year and
shows that a change of little more
than 100000 votes in western states
last November would have defeated the
Republicans. and if we take the states
Of Ohio, Indiana, Kansas. Missouri and
Iowa and add Montana, without count
ing either Wisconsin or Minnesota,
change Of less than loo, 900 votes in a to-
tai active electorate of about $500, 600
would have defeated the Republican
ticket. other states going as they did. 8"
The people in the central west were
banboozled into voting the Republican
ticket by II q Interpretation Of the tariff
plank in the Chicago platform by Will
liam H Taft, the Republican candidate
The North American, in commenting
upon The figures given by the Spring
field Republican. rises in righteous in
dignation and says:
And no fair observer can doubt that If
the American people had known that Al
drich and Cannon were to dominate the
party action. with the apparently COM
pleta sanction and support of the ad-
ninistration. the states named would not
have been the only ones made more
than doubtful.
The American people are very patient
But the time of the sancttty OF a name
without works has passed. They would
accept uncomplainingly any error of the
party of God and morality as long as
the issues of the Civil war were alive
Mntns III AttNtAdllu NbAt the DELNAd-
-nence not of some tariff schedules, but
Of the protective principle was imperiled
all lesser doubts were sunk In the gem
eral desire TO prevent disaster to the
countrys commerce and industry.
Those periods Of blind regularity are
over. The party label put upon a law
that Is a cheat, a trick and lie. will
Tot save the lawmakers who enable Al
drich to break every party pledge and
principle from the condemnation and
righteous anger of their Republican con-
stiruents who are not liars, cheats or
trtcksters.
Liars. cheats and tricksters" is pref
" strong language when used by a Re
publican newspaper to designate mem
bers of its own party, but the North
American goes further and pays its
respects to Senator Aldrich personally
as well as those who fetch and carry at
his command:
One OF the ablest students of Ameri-
can Institutions has said that cOnstitu-
tiOnal government remains vital only as
long as there is periodical renewal of I'M
Outstanding and confidence between the
governed and those selected to govern.
The position taken today by the foremost
Republican newspapers, east and west.
proves simply that that sympathy and
that understanding have been destroyed
between March 4 and July 4.
Never before did Washington present
such a spectacle of the blind leading the
blind" Senators and congressman mere
" laugh when the very street boys in
the national capital speak Of going 10
'''The Aidrich" when they mean the Unit
ed States senate.
They are content 10 follow meekiy the
man more ignorant Of real AmeTicanism
than any other man In America; the shall
low pretender to wisdom conce rning the
tariff and currency whose ignorance and
trickery at last have been thoroughly ex-
posed: the servant Of every thieving,
predatory corporation. from the sugar
trust which once saved his private and
political fortunes. TO the traction swim
tlsSs Of NJ York the E2 Yhose stateS