The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-04-11

OF corporations Whicn transact inc
business of the country. But our
Democratic friends denounce them,
one and all, as common scourge. I
do not recall that in the five years
of my service here that | have ever
heard a Democrat say a kind word
for an Industrial or other corporation
or ever performed an official act
the benefiting of the business IN
which they were engaged. On the
other hand, have heard them de-
nounced almost daily as thieves and
robbers and the common enemy OF
all mankind; and, as the surest way
of exterminating them all, they pro.
pose not only to take away from
them all the protection which under
the laws they now enjoy, but. as thou
gh that were not enough. tax them
completely out of existence.
In their desire to render some OK
cuse for this wholesale and unjust
accommodation of our business inter
ests no care even Is ever exhibited
for poor and unfortunate employee
who will be obliged to either take the
wages paid to his unfortunate brother
in other lands or starve But who
cares for the workingman, anyway
Certainly not the Democracy, who
have ever stood for cheap labor.
And, besides does not their scheme
contemplate affording them an oppor-
tunity of purchasing in the markets
of the world all that which they
were heretofore paid for and produc-
ed? What difference is 1t whether he
has the price to purchase his daily
bread and the other necessaries OF
life or not? Has not Democracy ag.
reed to remove every tariff Chinese
wall, and that Is all that II ever
agreed to do? When did Democracy
ever agree to keep the laborer EN-
ployed at present or even living wag.
es? Never. They only agreed that
everything he required Tor his daily
comfort would be cheaper, because
he would be privileged to purchase
of others cheaper than has heretofore
been possible for him to produce them
for himself.
Oh, this Democratic free.trade idea
is fine thing! Just think of IL sor
moment, for under 1t you can pur.
chase all your goods from foreign
lands cheaper; and II any employer
in this country tries TO lower the
wages OF his employees because he
can no longer get his old prices, aud
therefore can not afford to pay high.
er or usual wages, have not the Dem.
ocracy assured him in advance that
the employer is simply an old mem.
Der of the Ananias club and is rob.
bling him of every opportunity?
And besides has not the Democra.
cy proposed to so amend existing law
that no iniunctions can hereafter be
granted by the courts against them
and hence they are at liberty not on.
ly to strike but to boycott and destroy
their employers property at will and
beat up and destroy him personally
to their hearts content? Is not tnaI
enough for laboring man in addition
to the Joy of free trade? What does
he want anyway-the earth? Why
should he be ever heard to suggest
that free trade means free labor?
Why should he ever inquire how his
employer is going to be able to pay
him a thousand dollars for producing
a given quantity of merchandise when
1t must be sold in competition with
similar articles in the same market
which have cost only one-half or one
third as much to produce? Why
muddy the Democratic waters by
the asking of such irrevelent ques
tons?
II has ever been the policy of The
Republican Party to raise its reven
ues in time of peace by an internal
revenue tax, levied for the most part
on Injuries, such as liquors and to
bacco, and tariff upon imported ar
ticles which has only resulted in pro
ducing a sufficient large revenue fol
the support of the Government, but
has protected the laborer and secur
ed for him more than living wage
The National Government has nevel
attempted in times of peace to in
wade a State and take from II III
sources of income by levying a ta'
either upon it's business or propert!
The various States, and the counties
touns and municinalitieS therein