The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-15
BUSINESS Will IMPROVE.

BUSINESS WILL IMPROVE
There seems abundant reason for
the belief that business viii improve
rapidly as soon as the effect and the
results Of the recent election has been
digested by the country. It is appar-
ent that with a Democratic House and
a Republican Senate and President,
tariff legislation need not be expected
to any great extent The matter viii
be fought over undoubtedly. for the
Democratic majority in the House viii
wish 10 make campaign material with
which 10 go before the people two
years from now. when the people of
this great nation elect another Pres
ident
The probability that the Republican
Insurgents and the Democrats will
work together in the next Congress IS
very remote. The average Democrat
admires more readily the out-and-out
Republican. the hereditary enemy OF
the BOurbons. than the halfway Re-
publican, the insurgent The Democ-
racy is already preparing for the bat
tie that must come in 1912 over the
presidency and every move made by
the Democratic majority in the lower
house when the new Congress sits
Will have its relation TO that campaign
that is coming.
Champ Clark undoubtedly will be
floor leader of the minority for years.
and is well qualified for the position
10 which he viii be chosen. His per-
sonal opinion of the Republican insur-
gents is not at all flattering 10 them.
Clark was willing 10 work with the
insurgents to wreck the Republican
party in the House. although he de-
spised the tools with which he worked.
He referred to them as 'guerrillas"
and they understand that term in Mis-
souri, much better than we do in Utah,
for they had experience with them
during the War OF the Rebellion. A
guerrilla at that time was a fighting
thief who was first on one side and
then on the other, and always looking
out for a chance TO murder and rob.
Holding those views of the insur-
gent brethren, Mr.. Clark is not at all
likely 10 give them any encourage
ment. He has been a suppliant for
favors during the present Congress;
in the next. he viii be in the saddle.
and things viii be different. very Diff
ferent indeed. So the probability Of
the insurgents and Democrats uniting
upon a tariff bill and rushing il
through the House and creating a
storm with it in the Senate is very
far-fetched, indeed.
Business can. therefore. settle down
with the assurance that It will be
several years before there IS a new
tariff bin. and, therefore, a new basis
upon which trade will have TO be car
ried on. Even If a Democratic and
insurgent coalition We're possible it
could do nothing under eighteen
months and for that length Of time.
the man with money 10 invest can
viii know that conditions will not
change for a reasonable length Of
time. 1t ought 10 have a splendid eff
feet upon business. and that state
ment need not be revised even In the
face of a stock market that refuses
to rise. Wall street does not control
all the business there is.
There are indications that the
Democratic party viii revert 10 the
Democracy of fifteen years ago. Bry-
anism would seem TO have had its
day and has gone 10 join the other
isms that were nothing but the pass
ing fancy Of the hour. The Demo-
cratic majority I'm the next Congress
will be the nucleus from which the
party must be built. Much viii de-
pend upon what is done there. Mr..
Bryan viii have little weight, and none
knows it better than Mr.. Bryan HIM
self.