The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23

cent cases, then YOU will understand
nte-elcction pledges. and he might
have added. especially when his anto-
election pledges To revise tho tariff down
ward Uerc Tho cause Of tho party'H sue.
cess 81 the polls The late Senator Dol
liver prosentcJ another phase OF the cause
OF insurgency when he said AN insur
gent is merely legislator vho desires 10
bear a bill read before Inc votes upon IL"
Which translated means that so insolont
and powerful has become The specially IA =
vorcd big business" Of tho country that
without much question; and demand
for an Investigation and inquiry into the
Justice of the proposed l.e:sislsion Is de-
gency. so brilliantly led. is now so wide
| spread that IL numbers among It's tri-
umphs the control Of nins states: New
| York Wisconsin. Michigan. Iowa. Kan
ssas. Indiana, Nevada: California. New
Hampshire; while 81 the two states whose
elections have already been held this fall,
one rock ribbed Republican Maine. has
gone strongly Democratic while the Re
publican majority in Vermont has been
| greatly reduced Cannon -Alorichism Is
| every where disrcedtted Cssye only In
Utahl; the conventions dominated by In
| surg"nts have in tho main either re
fused To indorse President Taft's admin
istration. or have been content 70 praise
| him for his good intentions .; giving
him such faint praise, as one great Re-
| publican paper puts it. that Mr. Taft
| would probably havo preferred that they
fdid not mention him ~ al. MI this and
much more. could We take timc To set IL
down grows out OF the failure Of tho Re-
| publican congress to keep its sntC-eleC
| tion pledges TO revise the tariff down
ward.
The Republican party" said Woodrow
| Wilson, not long since, has Illustrated It's
tendencies by the uso II has made of the
protective tariff Less and lees has .it
used IL 10 effect the economic Development
Of the country; moro and more TO favor
particular interests; less and less as
means OF protection. moro and more as
means OF patrouagc--a means OF guaran-
tcelng profits TO certain big undertakings
and interests, whether they were wisely,
Justly, honestly conducted or not, The
Republican party has been in turn sup
ported by these interests. A partnership
has sprung up which no man can reasona-
bly, hope to see broken UP by the Re
publlcans. II is futile 10 expect this party
TO undo the mischief Il has done, TO tear
down The trusts IL has fostcrcd Tho
Democratic party he continues. rs free
from such alliances Its principles ally
uhem;" and for that reason the Democrats
ought 10 win in the nation and In Utah
no less than in every other part of the
nation
AS Applied In Utah.
But here in Utah. Mr.. Chairman, more
Than anywhere else the Infamous tariff
Gill OF the TAFT administration receives
unqualified support. and Instead OF mold
ing out The hope that some measure oi
relief viii come from it's burdens by re-
vision OF Individual schedules downward,
on the basis declared for in the party
PLATFORM 10 use terms accredited TO MI,
IaTt himself, as is quite generally done
In other states, the senior senator from
Utah In midAugust at Saltair made
the prediction that within eight years
there will be Il cry for stu higher tar
III" In the latter part OF the Same
month, however. President Taft in giving
out from Beverly, Mass, the outline OF his
keynote speech Tor the congressional clec-
tions, announced that he was In favor OF
further revision OF the tariff" schedule
by schedule. The new revision, saiu
the press dispatches, representing the
presidents views, lis 10 be based upon
the findings of the tarlit commission as
to the cost OF production AT home and
abroad, Only q fair profit is TO nc al
lowed the American producers, EXtor-
tionatc and unreasonable profits, the
president declares, arc TO be tolerated no
longer Very much political history has
been made In the United States since !
senator Smoots mid August speech al
Saltair among which Items OF history are |
the success OF insurgency In six or eight
states. the changed attitude OF President
TAFT towards the insurgents. and the de-
viSlng OF this scheme of tarin reduction
by separate consideration OF Individual
schedules. and the defeat OF the high tarlT
party In Maine. the state OF Blaine and |
OF Dingley, each champion, in bis day, OF
the high tariff principle. Really II the |
and II the national executive and the Re |
puolicans in many states as expressed |
through their state platforms persist In |
their determination TO revise che Payne |
Aldrich tariff to the point where II shall |
be measured by the difference between |
the cost OF production here and abroad" |
for the reason that ''less than this is uu- |
just TO American laborcrs, more is uu-
just TO American consumerS'-thcn ! fear |
that while our senior senator Will be re- !
for many things In this politi-
cal career-among them his general pollt-
lc8l astuteness, calm political wisdom.
accompanied by a certain poise and coun- ,
ter poisc OF physical bearing and mental |
attltude-he Will scarcely reach distinc
tiop in the matter of tariff prescIence.
This, however, will give him little con-
cern, for doubtless nc will treat all these
ma tiers with that same mastery indifter-
encc with which he contemplatcs the pos
sibilty, 10 him remote. OF course, OF Dem
ratIc success: an Indifference which he
Is reported 10 have expressed in terms OF
equal oelicacy and elegance and AT once
and expressive.
The Liquor Jobbery.
Turning now 10 matters local. NJ.
Chairman, think our party was right in
concluding that public opinion in our
state really demanded state wide prohi-
billion OF the manufacture and sale OF In