The Delta independent., 1910-04-15
GREAT SPEECH AT COLORADO
EDITORS LUNCHEON
IN PUEBLO.
Looks Like Colorado Republicans
Had Made Best Possible Selection
In Man for Chairman.-A Speech
Full of Strong Points Ably and
Clearly Presented.

In my opinion dispassionate log
ical discussion of the new tariff
schedule, Is our strongest political
asset. 1t is not as perfect as the
president stipulated that it should
be, but the reading public knows
well that every unfair schedule in
the present tariff law was put there
by the aid of Democratic votes and
with Interior motives.
Its provisions clearly explained
| to your readers will be suff1cient to
elect the Republican ticket this fall
in spite of the hurried, desperate
attempts of the opposition press to
prejudice the public mind in advance
of statements of facts. Our 7,OOO,-
900 farmers whose condition enlisted
the campaign solicitude of the free
trader candidate heretofore, are not
complaining of high prices and the
| fear that they will elect Democra-
tic congressman to displace Repub-
licans in districts under thier con-
troll does not square with common
sense.
This. era of high prices for farm
| products is precisely what the oppo-
sition party has been telling the far
n:els was their just due. Now that
it is here. the simple result of the
inexorable law of supply and de-
mand; the Republican party is
blamed for producing a condition it
was previously taunted for failing
tc do.
When the country is prosperous
money is plentiful. When money or
any other commodity is plentiful,
it is cheap. When money is cheap
it takes more of it to buy food.
These statements are SO trite and
generally understood that their re-
petition is almost offensive.
Add to this axiom the further
fact that our consumers have in
creased proportionately faster than
our producers and with the know
ledge that in good times people buy
riore and better food. The explana-
ton of high prices is simple neither
can it be laid at the door of high
eli tariff.
Ask your readers to compare the
condition of business during the rule
of any Democratic national admin
istration with that of the Republi-
can administration either preced-
ing or following it.
Suggest a comparison of our pres
ent state government with the pre-
decessor and decide for themselves
which most commends itself to them
Our present state administration
is troubled dream; feyered fancy
o requiem sung from the lost soul
of populism.
Its legislative paramount issues
were the still-born sons of political
i,legitimacy.
Its pride of ancestry is an agita-
ted memory and it's hope Of poster
ity perished with the premature
'paramounts."
The Democratic party is one OF
regation. 1t is against everything
that is. In Colorado it is against
itself Its officials investigate each
other; charge petty thefts and
prove it and wrangle over the bust
ness of the state in the capitol, like
boys at play in the alley.
"It dissipated nearly half a mil,
lion dollars left in the state treas
ury by the Republican party, togeth
or with the states annual income
It fails to meet the states obliga'
tions promptly; urges the assessors
to increase the tax levy; and con
tinually cries hard times in the
most prosperous period of the state
history. The business incompiten
and the spendthrift are always II
| want. 1t is the professional mourn
er in the cortege of Republican pros
perity. Finding its greatest happi
ress In the extremities of its life
long enemy and frets itself by 1T
own incompetency.
'The political leader who has es
poused the tenets of three politi
cal parties could not have been righ
all the time. but necessarily wroni
two-thirds of the time. Sort of {
political comet, its blaze of glory be
hind 1t, rather than a fixed star O.
guidance
"The day OF the political boss hai
passed in Colorado forever. but h,
did not go until he had prostitutet
party patriotism with money.
"A political party may go forwar'
under vicious criticisms. for sucl
attacks stim ulate the support o
fI0aa uhn fhink dif9aranflx hut fI,