The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-30

Of the United States by the Wilson Dill 1
because you who were voters at That /
/ time remember IL TO your sorrow.
4 propose TO tell you what the Re |
publican party promised in its platform /
adopted al Chicago, at the time william /
III. Taft was nominated Tor President or \
the United States. The Democrats have /
said that the issue OF this campaign Is /
the promises Of the Republican party, /
which. they have asserted, have not /
! been fulfilled. ] want 10 say that, /
with possibly two exceptions, these /
promises and pledges made by the Re
I publican party have been fulfilled, and /
this has been done in only eighteen
months
Never have there been in eighteen /
months SO many beneficial laws passed |
By any Congress- affecting the vel /
fare OF the whole people. as have been /
passed by this Congress.
Railroad Bill.
Among the pledges OF the Repub- /
ican party was that a railroad law /
would be passed. and as a result the 4
! last Congress passed a railroad Dill /
that seven years ago would have been /
called revolutionary. This bill cOnfeIf /
on the interstate commerce commission I
| power 10 regulate all rates, and also |
gives power in making rates and trans
ters from shippers the necessity Tor |
proving the unreascnableness OF rates !
10 the railroads. Now the railroads /
have TO prove everything themselves.
"The long and short haul clause |
means millions OF dollars TO the ship
pers Of the state OF Utah. II means
that man can do business in Salt Lake |
on the same basis as a man in San
Francisco or Los Angeles. In the past, |
a san Francisco man could do business
better than the man in Utah, for, in
many instances the rates from Chi
cago to the Pacific coast were less
than half the rates from Chicago 20
Utah
An overall factory in ogden would |
have to pay 500 a carload for denims
shipped from Chicago, while a manu- |
racturer in san Francisco would have /
10 pay only $500 10 have carload
shipped from Chicago. This put a
handicap OF $500 a car on the Utah |
manufacturer. through this unjust dis
elimination. This long continued abuse
can never be repeated as the result OF
the passage OF the railroad law.
Il had the honor 10 close the debate
in the Senate on this proposition and
/ know that the President and the
Republican administration were be-
hind H.
Bureau of Mines.
Eve promised TO create a bureau of
mines, and what does such an act
mean for a mining camp like Bling
ham. The best experts that the world |
PE os& ana have Izs sngaged bd t9s
the benefit of their knowledge and eX- /
perience when he asks advice regard |
ing the development or reduction Of I
ores. The creation of this bureau also
means that miners VIII be protected
I frtsm accidents by Che best means and
/ methods known 10 science
The Republican party also promised
/ to give enough money 10 finish rapidly
/ the reclamation service projects now
/ under way. These projects have not
I only received every dollar that has
come from the sale OF reclaimed lands,
but We have appropriated S2O,0OO,OO0 ]
more for this work which means so
much 10 the development of Utah and
other western states Ne passed the
enlarged homestead ae- giving every
one the right 10 take up 800 acres Of
land and relieving the homesteader from
living on the property. Under this act
any citizen, by providing for the eul-
tivatiOn OF his land, can acquire title
while living in the city or town. II is
such laws as this that the Republican
party is trying TO enact
Withdrawal Bill.
we passed the withdrawal bill, CIV
ing the President the right to with
draw all unappropriated coal, oil and
timber lands. This means that the
great natural resources OF the country
will be held in trust for the people OF
the United States.
again, we promised that the two re-
naming territories should be admitted
as states. We gave each an enabling
act and the charge that this would not
be done by the Republicans, because
/ these states were Democratic, made no
difference. These territories had good
reason TO ask for statehood and they
received il.
I'VE passed the customs court bill
preventing millions in losses on ac-
count OF differentiation Of goods
shipped in by foreign manufacturers. /
Senator SmoOt refuted the attacks OF
yellow journals which had charged /
that tariff rates on cotton goods had |
been raised and. with samples or cloth
hela before his audience, he showed /
that The advances in the tariff were
simply measures introduced 10 (do
away with swindling on the part OF
| importers who took advantage OF i'm /
projections In the old tariff bill.
lie said there was not a single thing
used b. the laOoring men OF the cOun-
try on which the tariff had been raised
and, on the other hand, the advances
had been in luXuries. I am a pro-
/ tectionist for the interest OF the state I
OF Utah and for the interests OF the
| United States. said Senator SmOOt Il
defy any man 10 say that everything
+ produced in this state has not been
I taken care OF in the Payne tariff bill.
/ We provided for lead, sugar wool and
cement This keene cement deposit OF
I Utah Is the finest in the world, except
ing one deposit in Italy. l was APP
pealed 10 by Democrats and Republic
/ ans and ii made no difference 10 me.
/ They SAID they must have rates or they
could net ship the cement with profit
Now the very man who appealed TO me
/ is denouneing the Payne tariff bill as
a robbery.
knight Turns.
while the lead schedule was being
considered and there was a movement
10 reduce the rate from 2s cents TO IA
ceRts, 1 received hundreds OF letters
and kilograms telling me that rate
OF "a cents on lead would result ia
iel0sing the lead mines OF Utah
received a telegram from Mr. knight
saying that unless the rates were kept
al the old figure the mines OF the
state would close down and ruin would
I follow. j want TO say that when Mr..
knight sent that. telegram he meant
I just what he said Now, when he Is
sponsor for the Democratic party in
Utah he says he didn't think Senator
SmOOt was looking out for the inter-
ests OF the west, for he was working
for the east Now. my friends. L ask
you which time Mr.. Knight was tell
] ing the truth. He knew at that time
that I would refuse to vote for the
tariff bill unless Il took care OF the
/ industries OF Utah"
What would Ferdinand Erickson or
any Democrat have done, If he had
| been appealed 10? II was the Repub-
lican party that helped Utah in pro-
! tecting its industries Why think OF
] sending a man to Washington who IL