The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-25
TREACHERY TO THE CASE,

In the course Of long editorial un
der the headline "Playing with Dyna
mite, the Philadelphia North Amer
lean says that the United States Sen
gtaion INTO the high cost Of living and
its causes. il names the Senators on
that committee. Messrs. Lodge, Calm.
ger, Smoot. McCumber and Crawford
| Republicans. and Simmons and Clarke
Democrats. 1T dwells upon the earnest
interest the country is taking on this
question, and protests against the APP
pointment of that sort OF a commit.
tee. Something has taken place in
this country, that has elevated the cost
of clothing. housing, and of all the ne.
cessities of lifc, ard especially Of whole
some, nourishing food, above the reach
of millions of honest, hard working,
selfrespecting Americans, says the
editorial. 1t dwells at length upon this
phase of the question, praises the people
for not indulging in any hystcrical out
burst by reason of the wrctchcd situa.
''yct it comes home to them with dead
iy bitterness each day that they enter
their homes, that at the present wage
they cannot lead the life Of decent, self
respecting, we'll fed and well clad citi~
zens. -
Noting the patience Of the people,
that editorial says that weighing all the
contradictory and illogical chatter, the
people have been waiting grimly. but
with open minds; and the answer of the
elder statesmen of the Nation of the
body which the American people are to
consider the embodiment of the calm,
ripened wisdom of the country, is the
of this committee. And it
appcnds certain comments upon the
composition of that committee as fol.
lows:
Headed by Lodge. of Massachusetts,.
the sum OF whose scholarship i'm politics
lay in his authorship of the declaration
that the consumer is myth
AIDED by Smoot, the Mormon. scrvilc
aide or AldriCh in advocacy of every in
lqultous currency and tariff proposal. UNI
cleared OF accusations of close afliliation
with the beet end of the Sugar Trust,
gaining with the Mormon church prevailed
over the protest of the petitions OF the
good women of tho country. who today
are the chief sufferers from the cost OF
living.
old DR. Galinger. OF New Hampshire,
a less notorious duplicate Of Cannon type
Df the obsolete senatorial representative
Of a state nominally really OF a railroad
that debauches every smallest phase of
politics and public life within that State.
McCumber. another servile Aldrich dis.
whatever power for the moment is iii
the ascendant: one Democrat. an eager
and useful recipient of Aldrich favors, and
)ne nonentitY,
And this transparent plan to exhibit
the Aldrich- Payne tariff bill as a fawless
achievement of unSelfish patriotism utter
" dissociatcd from the soaring cost OF
Wing. is the reply Of Congress TO the
sober plea OF the nation for honest and
complete information concerning all the
yaried yet correlated causes.
The gentlemen in control at Washing
on are very wise in many ways. But
hey are mistaken in the present temper
# the American people. They are. play |
ng with dynamite.
And surely those who are acquainted |
With the records of these men will not
consider that the judgment of the Phil |
ldelphia North American upon them is
much at fault. They are partisans. ex-
RENE and virulent. They were active
u the framing of the present unjust
md faithless tariff law. and doubtless
he majority of them would concur with
;moot that ono of the main objects to
10 set forth clearly and loudly is that |
he tariff is not responsible for the raise
n prices And that would he not only
stupid piece Of negatiou, but would
,e received by the country is an insult
o its intelligence.