The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-02

have a right to test the sincerity o
ycur denunciation Of rules by YOU
adoption OF rules; that they have
right to test the sincerity of your de
nunciatlOn OF the methods OF 1910 by
your adoption of the methods Of 1910
in 1911.
The constructive craftsmanship
of the extra session of the sixty-sec'
ond congress passed a half of a trade
agreement with Canada, the net re
suit of which is free wood pulp and
print paper.
When first heard that story about
Herman Ridder taking Uncle Joe up
on the top Of the capitol and showing
him all the zones of newspaper intlu-
ence and telling him that all these
would be for him for president If he
would order the ways and means com
mittee to report free wood-pulp ana
print paper bill, it seemed to me like
an oriental dream; but when the
shouting and the tumult in the Unit
ed States and Canada died away and
nothing was left but free wood pulp
and print paper standing out, spared
solitary and alone above the ruins
of an otherwise repudiated transac.
ton, could not help wondering
whether a Democratic house Of rem
resentatlves, with its splendid record
of constructive craftsmanship had
left Il standing there inadvertently
Definitions.
This is the splendid record of con
structive craftsmanship to which the
speaker referred, and which he want
to see duplicated this session.
II will do no sood to refer to 1t as
the most grotesque thing in legisla-
tive history. People might think that
was an exag eraticn and even con
suientious, Demo Gratis might feel CON.
relied to call it campaign canarG.
The story is largely written in the
presidents veto messages which ac
tually saved Democrats from them
selves, but Immediately after these
messages were transmitted to con
gress Democrats, who were otherwise
good, churchgoing citizens, felt con.
strained to refer to them as q tyran.
meal exercise of executive power.
What they did do and what they
would have done are quite different
things, but If they had done what
they would have done it would have
been a good deal like one of Caesars
cOmpaigns written by himself, "hav-
ing taken the city and killed the citi-
zens, Caesar invaded another tribe,
and they would still have called 1t
splendid record of constructive
craftsmanship"
MIR. Chairman, the word constructive
has two meanings; one implies the
power to construct something, the
other implies something assumed, sup.
positions.
Let 1t pass, then, as splendid
record of assumed suppositious,
constructive craftsmanship" which
fortunately constructed nothing.
The Year 1910.
The year 1910 was a comet year,
and, while there is no scientific basis
for the theory, it would almost seem
as II the tail of Halley's comet had
whipped into the atmosphere of this
particular sphere in passing mephitic
gases conductive to hysteria, which
found congenial Judgment in hospit
able brains, which have ever since
harbored and retained them.
In the year 1910 the public MIND
was predisposed to see things and tc
be seduced by stories Of ghosts, hob
COLLINS and chimeras, and even staid
old New England began to slip tn,
moorings Of her reason.
The year 1910 was abnormal alsC
IN that it produced discomfort in {
lllut Vi Dlthlys III lulO Wci'
good and prices were high. We al
like high prices, but we like them foi
what we have to sell, and we all lik,
low prices, but we like them for wha
we have to buy; that is, as Josh Bill
lngs said some years ago:
1T takes less philosophy to taxi
things as they come than it does :,
part with things as they go"
But what we have to sell some ont
else has to buy, and what some on
else has to sell we have to buy; am
inasmuch as we are all buyers ani
sellers 1t is obvious that we must al
go up and down together, except whei
some monopoly locates itself at tn,
commercial crossroads and COLLECTS
toll from human necessity, and ever!
law upon the federal statute book