The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-06

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commence buying up free passes. and
we know from past experience that
| that will bring cheaper coal and a fair
] deal.
THE railroads have put the price too
/ long, and they have not been fair.
/ Now, you know the Democratic legis-
/ iature and senate, If they are elected
/ they Will be fair and they VIII fix a
freight and passenger rates, and they
viii be more fair than the railroads
/ have been: l know they Will
NOW. then, / could speak along
the lines Of economy, il could think OF
| IL, for quite a little while, but l don't
think Of IL. (Applause.) But l know
that is the surest economy, If we can
get il any other way; l know II viii
bring cheaper coal, with the free passes
the railroads have given away. since
I il has been the duty of the leglsla-
| ture to fix the rate, the passes they
have given away would furnish, IN my
Judgment, every poor person in the
state of Utah, coal all through the coiu
weather-the worth OF those passes
They might as well make the other
| fellow pay for them and give their
donations TO the poor, but they haven't
been doing IT,
Prohibition and Economy.
81 guess / have said enough. l
| thought / could also talk "A little on
/ prohibition as being eeonomy-poIltlc
ecOnOmy-tO stamp out the saloon; l
know Of two little towns that mao
a good deal 10 do with starting, ana
the first thing we did in mining camp
was 10 build "A meeting house before
/ the saloons got the start or US. LAP
J plause). And we did that, and we want
ed a school. too, and we could not get
school taxes. We wanted 1ree
We're forty miners in the Humbug mine
then, and they all voted 10 pay a dol
| lar apiece for free school, unul we
could get big enough as town 10
',The teacher cost fifty, and there
was not quite enough, so we called
another vote and voted that every man
that did not have any chlldren shOuiu
pay 81. URughter). And that carried
| that carried, so we had free school
/ (Applause).
! omy-pOlitical economy. 1 know or
good many quite a good many, some
| in that little town, who have grown
wealthy; a good many are well fixed
and there has never been dive III that
! town. not a dive from that day 10 THIS
and il has been prOvidential.
Also In Canada.
| Another little town started in Can
ada; We did about the same thlhs
I there. We started the town ana we
/ put a clause in the deed-in that case
/ we had a little string on II, which was
almost like a forced issue. or course
/ IL was not Democratic, but We ala II;
we put a clause in the deed that II any
]
/ reputation they forfeited their deed
| We had it tested by attorneys up there,
| and they said il would stand the test;
| and in three miles of the sugar fac
/ tory, of Raymond, and of the town,
/ that clause was in every deed, and
| don't think there has ever been dive
/ or saloon in that tow, and the people
have grown wealthy there.
/ Il know these things are economy
| of the highest type. Somebody else
! can talk about the crimes that are
/ brought on. ] have heard a few aged
| Democrats that said that prohibition
/ was not Democracy q course their
/ minds run back a good deal older than
I ] am, and they can always remember
/ things away back better than they
/ can now. The Democrats in the west
I here believe in progress, and we be-
/ lieVe now in our platform, and by our
! talk, and by our actions, we believe
] and we know. without talking about
I il at all. that the saloon leads 10 more
] crime than everything else put to-
gether, and therefore that is econ
| Omy.
Invited Sutherland.
Now. I am sure l am taking up too
| much time ] Will wind IL off quick;
/ but 1 would like 10 ask II senator
! George Sutherland is in the room
/ daughter and applause.) Well, the
made his political speech, his first
/ speech, like / am trying 10 do now,
/ over in Eureka, he invited me 10 go
and hear him speak. 1 said;
/ George. If YOU Will talk on the sill
yer question, l will go down and hear
And so s went down. won't take
/ time 10 tell you what he said. After
! the meeting was over, why, 1 told
~ don't see how you could have
I said that
= Won't say any more about this;
/ 1 haven't got time, but the fact was,
| the substance OF what he said, the way
II interpreted il, was something like
] this-that Cleveland. away back IN the
I east there, had turned traitor to the
silver question, and consequently about
/ a hundred thousand OF US Republicans
viii turn traitor TO the same principles.
They were not producing any silver
back there, and George was elected
i'm favor Of silver four years ago, and
now he is pledged for gold standard,
and he wanted me TO go down and hear
him explain IT, 1t was really cOmical.
George used 10 be my adviser
Dent he Personal.
NOW. 1 hate 10 say anything about
persons when they amt here Ny
motto has been, in this campaign. and
I still think III is the only correct prin-
I ciple-and that is not 10 be personal
about any person. l do not believe that
i ever attacked person In my lie
first SLaughterl. l do not believe believe
fun at my expense up in the ogden
/ convention, he spoke of me about per-
I sonal things, and made a good jolly
time for the Republican party, and /
enjoyed il. / enjoyed what he said
/ but The Inter-MOuntain Republican fol
lowed up what he said don't know
: whether George wrote all The Repub-
ncan said after that, or not L believe
George would have known better.
want to say something about what
The Republican said.
Now, / kind OF think George lnu-
mated it-anyway he gave them a
start IL was something about tariff
and / amt going 10 talk on tariff 1
never claimed 10 be smart enough Tor
that: but The Inter-MOuntain Repub-
lican made statement like this, right
after George had given them the text,
They said that 1 wanted the tariff
taken off sugar so that l could ship
beets from Canada into here and un-
derseu these infant Industries out OF
the sugar question. George must have
known better than that. (Applause) /
do not want 10 spend too much time
talking tonight.
Politics ia Canada.
"The fact il. up in Canada want
10 tell YOU something about things m
Canada. just a few minutes Up there
in politics, they have a Liberal party
and a Conservative party, and lnVar-