Semi-weekly herald., 1912-10-21
ADDRESS OF SENATOR BURTON.

AtS Apip"fhk 80 "a TsOts tt'tN' -
the address Of Senator Burton, which
he delivered in Denver on the night
of October 9th, and which will no
doubt help to swing Colorado into
the Republican column:
Senator Burton gave most Of his
time in answer to Governor Wilson
to treatment Of the two subjects
most touched upon by him-the tariff
and high prices. There was no un-
certain note in his advocacy OF a
protective system, though he advocat-
ed revision, and without delay, where
duties are unnecessary or unneces-
sarily high.
IN the course of time" he said,
further reductions may be made rs
industries and the different forms of
production become more thoroughly
developed. But we have planned to
organize an industrial empire which
is self sufficient. We have establish
ed standard of wages which is far
and away in advance of that of any
other people. This standard is abso-
lutely essential for the social condition
and betterment of the wage earning
classes. The Republican party has
sought successfully to establish and
maintain the greatest possible diver
sity of employment thereby affording
field for the various capabilities
of our people, and giving to US broad
and at the same time symmetrical
development.
"In comparison with all other coun-
tries, the United States has unlimited
possibilities. Its great variety of eli
mate, Of resources, of treasures of the
mine, the farm and the forest, afford
an opportunity for self sufficient
nation which is enjoyed by no other
people.
Between all of our 48 states there
is absolutely free trade, and an op-
portunity for commercial intercourse
which cannot be compared with the
whole of Europe, where tariff restric-
tions are found at almost every border.
We cannot afford TO give away our
markets to other peoples. The con-
sumption in those markets is in some
catagories of products greater than
in all the rest of the world, and in
nearly all, it exceeds any other coun-
try. We are now enjoying an unex-
celled prosperity. Never were the
prospects for the future better. In
order to maintain that prosperity,
confidence is absolutely necessary.
The employment of labor, the invest
ment of capital, all substantial pros
perity depends upon two classes of
enterprises-those already in opera
ton, and those which are undertake
en- to meet the ever increasing de-
mands. Millions of dollars, yes hun
dreds Of millions, are now waiting
for investment in new enterprises or
in the enlargement of the old.
"This capital will be locked up until
the question is settled whether we
are to have vital change in our
policy. If the present policy con-
tinues, all the brilliant hopes and pros
poets for the future will be fulfilled.
In no state does the bow of promise
have brighter hue than in Colo
rado. This state has enjoyed most
wonderful growth, during the fifteen
years beginning with the administra-
tion of VIM. Mckinley, in 1897, citi-
zcns of Colorado, are you ready to
throw away your chances? 1t is a
time to pause and think, to turn a
deaf ear to vague promises, and to
careless or superficial statements of
possibilities, such as are made by
Democratic leaders. 1t is time to
bear in mind that homely saying Of
Santor Hanna: Let well enough
alone" Vital changes in our fiscal
system, such as are proposed by Mr..
Wilson, have always been followed
by disaster.
II call as a witness Mr.. Wilson,
the historian, as against Wilson the
candidate for office. In his history
of the American People in the edi-
tion of 1902, volume S, pages 235 and
236 Of that book, he said, in describ-
ing conditions prior to 1897:
"a great poverty and depression
had come upon the western mining
regions and upon the agricultural
regions Of the west and south. Prices
had fallen. Men of the poorer sort
were idle everywhere and filled with
sort Of despair. All of the larger
cities and manufacturing town teemed
with unemployed working men, who
were with the utmost difficulty kept
from starvation by the systematic
efforts Of organized charity.
Again on page 265 of the same
volume, he said: Not until the year
1897 when the Republican admins
tration came in, did the crisis seem
past
why has he changed his mind i?
Can you follow him? Do you believe
that you will obtain better results
by following Woodrow Wilson than
were obtained by the adoption of the
views of his namesake, William l..