The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-29
UTAH DELEGATIONS WORK.

Since there has been so much lauda.
tory rubbish printed about the Utah
delegation in Congress, the influence it
has exerted, and the great work it has
done, 1T is proper to state tho plain
unvarnished fact, that it has had less
influence and has been moro contemp-
tlble in its activities and lack of activ
ity than any other delegation either
from Utah heretofore. or from any other
State IN the Senate the members from
this State have ben openly posted as
knowing less about more things than
any other members of that body. They
have, with a blind devotion greater
than the Senators of any other State,
followed the lead of the corporation
Senators. and have fought with more
uniformity for corporation greed and
monopoly and against the interests of
the people than any other Senators
They have stood with the Aldrich fac
ton all the time, the faction which has
been moro uncompromisingly antagonis-
tic to the interests of the people than
any other clique of Senators that ever
made their influence felt In the Sen.
ate Of the United States. They have
voted to protect all the powerful in
terests all the time. No longer ago
than the closing days of the session
they voted against an amendment to
the railroad bill which places the tele.
graph and telephone companies under
the jurisdiction of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, where they evident
ly and naturally belong, in their in
terstate business. They have never at
any time failed to meet the demand of
Mr.. Aldrich to come to heel at his beck
and call They go out of their way
to serve the intrenched "interests
and influences that have monopolized
serve those who have placed the pco-
pie at the mercy of those interests. The
going Of Smoot to Massachusetts to
speak a good word there for his friend
Lodge, who voted for him in the in
terests of the polygamous hierarchy
here, and who is an especial servant of
greed and monopoly, is fresh in the pub
lie mind. A more subservient, time
serving trio never misrepresented and
betrayed the interests of the people
than the Utah delegation has done in
both the special and regular sessions
of Congress.
In the meantime, the local interests
of Utah are neglected, save where pri-
vate interests control. 1t is coinci-
dcnce more or less noteworthy that on
the day when the extravagant, ridicu-
olus claim was made of wonderful serv-
ice to the people by the Utah delegation,
The Tribune should receive letter
showing complete neglect of local in
terests by that delegation. We print
here that letter entire, as follows:
Stateline. Utah. June 26.
Editor Tribune We are about to lose
our mail service for reasons unknown
to any one here. Mr., w. II. Perry put
in bid OF $3.50 for three times per week
D. c., would not accept 1t, but instead.
has given the postmaster here permis-
sion to give two-thirds of his cancella-
tlons per quarter 70 have soo mall carried;
the same AS nothing. as 1t Will take So
per trip TO get mail here. There are
some fifty people that get their mail at
this office. ana prospects of more. SO II
looks like some one has slipped In a
Joker. After next Thursday I will not get
your paper. which ! like very much.
owing TO no mail. We now have daily
mail. Please help US In this matter.
(signed5 JOS. JOHNSON.
Here is case where fifty people or
more, are about to lose their mail
service because our delegation in
Congress were too busy serving per
sonal and monopolistic interests to at
tend to it. One case like this out
weighs in the balance a whole sky full
of empty boasts and windy hot air. The
Utah delegation simply looks to the big
interests for its protection and support.
1t represents chiefly President Joseph
f. Smith of the Mormon church and is
subservient to his beck and call and to
the monopolistic interests with which he
is affiliated and the concerns in con
tact with them. To praise an affilia-
tion like that is to betray the people,
and to play them for ignoramuses who
do not know when they are served and
when their interests arc slaughtered to
make sport and fatness for those = in
power.