The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-03
STAND UP STRAIGHT.

STAND UP STRAIGHT.
To the thoughtful, sensible voter in
the state of Utah, the line between the
Republican party and the Democratic
party is clearly defined. The Demo-
cratic party rests on a platform Of
tariff for revenue only. The Republi-
can party stands firmly for a protec-
tive tariff; not for a sectional tariff;
but for the protection of American in
dustries wherever found
Utah has vital interests at stake in
this matter The critical moment is at
hand for a decision that means the
veal or woe of this commonwealth
Sensible men and women exercise due
care in reaching their decision Under
the experience of the past twenty years,
the Older. people are not to be deluded
into following false gods With the
lessons of the same period so clearly
portrayed in recent history, the
younger voters ought not to be misled,
and only the thOughtless or injudicious
will be.
The political situation in the nation
has developed a class which, hereto
fore lined up with the Republican
party, now propose TO proceed along a
different road, yet claim allegiance to
that party, and it is said they have
sympathizers among some in Utah
who claim to be Republicans. These
sympathizers assert a harmony on
their part with Senators Cummins,
LaFollette, and others in Congress of
like tendencies, denominated insur-
gents.
Note carefully where Utah's welfare
depends on this point. These insurgents
resisted the tariff on wool, lead and on
sugar Utah was interested above all
other parts of the country, and even TO
e great extent above party lines. in re-
tanning the duty on those articles. The
present hostility on the part of Wis
consin Iowa, Nebraska ct al toward
Senator AIdrich. Speaker Cannon and
the Republicans who stood with them,
is due solely to the latter having up
held the interests of Utah in retaining
the tariff on lead, on sugar and on
wool. If these schedules had been sac
rificed at the behest of the Cummins-
LaFOllette crowd, Aldrich and Cannon
would not have been singled out for
the bitter criticism they are receiv-
ing; but Utah would have been sorely
stricken in her mining, manufacturing
and agricultural industries
And the Utah men who are upholding
the Cummins-LaFollette crowd are
listing themselves as direct enemies
of Utah's material welfare in respect
10 any protective tariff measure.
The insurgents in Congress are in
open, emphatic hostility to tariff for
protection of Utah's vital industries.
In not one of the leading articles
named would they consent to an iota
of defense therefor. The regular Re
publican organization protected the
American industries in Utah as we'll as
elsewhere. The shouting of Aldrichism
and Cannonism is against the stalwart
coura geous Repubicanism which gave
TO Utah that protection; and if there
be people claiming that the policy OF
protection is calculated to promote the
interests Of our state. yet who are car
ried off their feet by the shouting OF
Aldrichism and Cannonism, they but
advertise their own ungrateful repudi-
alton of their best friends.
Look at the situation carefully, and
you will find that we have stated tn,
case accurately. And at this critica
time there is no lover of Utah and
Utah's welfare who believes in tariff
protection but who viii maintain hi:
ground as the unwavering supporter Of
the Republican majority, and at the
same time will have no use for the
Cummins-LaFollette sophistries and
sympathizers except as a common
enemy to our state.
This is where the sensible men and
women voters of this state are stand
ing. They viii not follow noisy mol
of malcontents; they will not be swep
off their feet by the clamor Of abus'
against their friends; they will not bt
stampeded into sympathetic association
with the migrate and the enemy; bu
they stand for the policy that protects
Utah industries and benefits them, and
for the party and party leaders wh'
put into effect that policy, in the teetl
of threats and assaults from insurgen
foes.
And they are standing up straight.