The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
GOVERNOR WILSON'S SPEECH.

\ no particular promise IN democracy or
TO Progrcssiveness. The Governor.
after sone preliminary words. lays
down his foundation principles as fol.
lows:
What is there TO do? II is hard to sum
l Tie great task up, but apparently this IL
the sum " the matter; There are two
! great things to do. One is To set up the
rule OF Justice and OF right in such mat
tcrs ss the tariff, the regulation OF the
! trusts. aud tho prevention OF monopoly.
! the adaptation oi our banking and cur
renCy laws to tho varied uses 10 which
[ our people must put thcm. tho tres tmcut
, of those who do tho daily labor in our
/ factories aud mines and throughout all
/ tur great industrial and commercial un-
1 dertaldncs, and the political life OF the
! people OF the Philippines for whom wc
| hold governmental power IN trust. for
| their service not our own. The other. tho
/ additional duty is the great task u pro-
tecting our people and our resources and
OF keeping open 10 tho whole people the
doors OF opportunity through which they
must. generation by generation. pass II
| they arc 10 make conquest of their for
/ tunes in health, In freedom. in peace, and
/ IN contentment. In tho performance Of
I this second great duty VIC arc face to
! face with questions Of forests and water
powers and mines and water wavs. OF the
| building of an adequate merchant ma =
rinc, and tho opening OF every highway
ana facility and the setting up o( every
safeguard needed by a great industrious,
expanding Nation.
He then proceeds to discuss these
propositions in a rather jumbled sort OF
way. passing from ono to the other
without much cohercncc aud without
paving attention TO any logical So,
quencc. OF course, the Governor says
that he ''docs not care q pcppcrcorn
for logic but really the maker of
public address Of National importance
ought 10 be able TO so construct that
address that the consideration of priD-
ciples will bc treated coherentlv and in
due order. This address puts one in
mind Of the story of the Highland
preacher who spoke Of the seven trum.
pets, and was declared by critic To
be equally vehement in all, but with
out due separation. and good deal of
the time appeared TO be blowing on all
seven at once. II is much this way
with this speech Of acceptance of Gov.
ernor Wilson 8.
On the tariff, ne denonnccs the Payne
Aldrich bill as tic most conspicuous
example ever afforded the country of
the special favors and mouopolistic ad.
vantages which the leaders of the Re
publican party have so often shown
themselves willing to extend To those
10 "nom they look for campaign con.
tributions. This is probably the most
direct and virile sentence in the whole
OF DR.. Wilson s speech 1t is a telling
sentence too, because there is truth be-
hind it. And here again we see the
eNll consequences Of the treacherous
and abominable act OF the standpat
Senators in 1909, which completely
Inundated the Republican party and
gave hope TO those Nhe wished for its
destruction. But DR.. Wilson does not
believe that even these wicked tariff |
schedules should be ''too radically or
too suddenly disturbed. - and his idea
is to begin the tariff revision with |
schedules (which have been most OBJ
viously used TO kill competition and to
raise prices in the United States And |
yet, further on, DR.. Wilson completely |
abandons this position that the tariff |
mas raised prices. when in discussing
the manner in which the combines 6r |
Prices ne states as matter of com
mon knowledge that prices arc not
hxed by the competitions of the mar |
ket or by the ancient law Of supplv !
and demand which is 10 be found |
stated in all the primers of economies
but by private arrangements with re. |
gard to what the supply should be and
agreements among producers them |
selves. y Further. that E'those who buv
are not even represented by COUNSEL !
in the making of these agreements. |
and that By such agreements "the high |
cost of living is arranged by private |
That is precisely
what The Tribune has been saving all |
along; and our opinion is that the tar |
~ has very little TO 10 with these |
arrangements and agreements. |
The prices are fixed. as we have often
insisted and shown, by speculative
combines. and not by reason of tariffs |
or actual cost of production. But if
So as DR.. Wilson agrees what becomes
Of his argument that the tariff raises
priees'
As to the trusts and combines DR.. |
Wilson insists that they NAV be con. |
trolled and deprived of their power TO
create monopolies aud DESTROY rivals;
which is good. common-sense doctrine;
but how 20 do il is the question. |
He holds that these trusts have grown !
up naturally, and he does not intend !
70 make anv violent interference with |
them. saving that what we are seek. |
ing is not destruction OF any kind nor
the disruption OF anv sound or honest
thing, but merely the rule Of right and
OF the common advantage.
On the matter of labor DR.. Wilson |
holds that it is also subject to the rnlc !
of lght and justice, and that we have |
this labor question "on!v because we
have not vet found the rule Of right I
IN adjusting the interests Of labor and |
capital This rule OF right however. !
he docs not do ANYTHING towards Law.