The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-17
JUDGE KINGS SPEECH.

State, JUDGING by the squeal uttered
about it in the Smoot paper, the paper
which is the exponent of stand -patism
Aldrichisn, Cannonism, and everything
that the people of the United States
find revolving.
And yet we do not see anything sc
very much out of the way in that
speech, We think it might have been
somewhat more vigorous, and that 1t
would have been better reasoned out
if the Judge had taken pains to write
1t and cite facts and figures in place
of depending altogether or eXtempor-
apcous utterance, In his arraignment
of the. Utah delegation in Congress he
was perfectly right i'll a general way,
but he would have been more effective
| if he had given the votes and the in
stances in which those members voted
England at the dictation of Aldrich,
rather than to have confined himself to
general denunciation. Aldrich framed
tariff law expressly, distinctly, almost
avowedly, in the local interests of his
own State; and yet Smoot and his sat
elites and dependents from this State
voted with Aldrich every time, and
against the interests of Utah always,
save only as to the matter of lead,
and in that the day was saved by the
tors from Utah As to thc wool sched-
ules, so much prated about by the Smoot
adherents, the result of the action of
Congress on those has been precisely
what The Tribune pointed out it must
necessarily be, to put the wool growers
absolutely at the mercy of the wool
manufacturers. Judge King would
have done we'll if he had brought out
these facts,
When he spoke of the tendency in
this country to erect bureaucracies to
Cypress the people, this bureaucratic
method being apparently copied from
Russian administrative methods, he
touched upon present and growing
evil. There is no question about it.
The bureaucracies OF the United States
are now greater threat to the lber
ties of the people than any other one
thing that we have, They set aside
the law. They oppress the people They
run things to suit themselves, without
regard to the public interests, i'll a way
that absolutely exasperates everyone
who has TO do with them.
In his general denunciation of the
Utah delegation. however, Judge King |
was absolutely right. 1t is a contempt
ble delegation all through, thoroughly |
unworthy, and wholly subservient to
interests foreign to Utah and inimical |
TO the welfare and prosperity of the |
people of this State, Judge King was
specially severe on Howell, as man
vho had not even been heard from in
he House Of Representatives who had
lot done anything whatever. He was
| good citizen in private life, but alb"
olutcly a nullity in public life In
reating Apostle Smoot as actually tho
olc representative in Congress from
Utah, as the bio chief, and the others
is being absolutely quiesccnt and sub
ervient, Judge King did no more than
\ man unframed. uneducated, inexper-
enced. who has no ideas of his own
worth a moment s notice, and whose
trcngth consists wholly in putting
Iimself and his two servitors at the
disposal of strong men in Congress!
Doubtless when Smoot' S seat was con-
ested and he managed through and by
to play upon Republican
artisan prejudice. bringing it to his
upport, he was forced to make ALI
pces that tied him up with and made
i'm subservicn5 to interests antagonis-
lc 20 Utah S welfare; but in his sec
nd term he was free from all of that,
nd ought to have shaken himself loose
rom these entanglements However,
C recognized them as continuously
inding upon him, and thercupon took
With him his two servitors and put
hem also at the command of the IN
ercsts which he felt himself bound to
erve in consideration of those inter
oio wing llc "dy Ou LLc tuultot VI |
is scat.
In his assault upon the corruption,
xtravagance and maladministration of
he State affairs of Utah. Judge King
as abundance of truth TO support his
osiiion. The Tribune has from time
o time laid bare the very evils that
udzc King denounces. 1t has recently
rinted aomc astonishing records show
Ig looseness, maladministration, and
eruption in the State Land Board
-hich would have raised storm in
ny other State in the Union, but
fhich is received placidly in Utah;
of the public mind which can
My be accounted for on the basis
hat the popular expectation of Repub-
lcan NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is that it is s
eccssariy bad. and results Just as was
expected. The people do not warm M {
Yer these things because they expect !
d nothing better from the incompe.