The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-08
MORRIS MAKES THEM sQuEAL

MORRIS MAKES THEM SQUEAL
The surprisingly loud AMI long wall
w3ich was cae-icd in the Smoot organ
yesterday morning directed against
\ Nephi l., Morris, shows that Mr.. Nor
ris must be doing immense damage TO
the Federal bunch. SO far rs the gen
era public had observed. Ny, Morris
was conducting a rather quiet cam
paign, without any specially sensa
tional features, and was doing fair
work for the local Progressive cause
although. of course il is impossible 20
DO much for Roosevelt, because OF
Roosevelt 8 nntagonism 10 our form OF
government and his hostility to the
| Federal constitution.
But on the local issue. Mr., Morris
was making use Of the material which
the Federal bunch had supplied him So
abundantly by lis vicious and arbitrary
course in this State. Having had
control OF everything for many years
the Federal bunch now all at once
wakes up 10 a sense of the fact thut
the people are deeply discontented
with it. and that lis steam roller pro
cesses both in political campaign:
and in civil administration, are re
sented by the public as the most dis
reputable form of arbitrary govern
ment under preteuse of Republicanism
that was ever inflicted upon long
suffering people and party. Mr., Nor
ris has emphatically called public at
tention to the miserable work Of the
Federal bunch in its administration OF
the civil affairs of this State He has
shown that the people lose and that
favored individuals gain large profits
through the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
public funds, and through favoritism
in preference for public Office and pub
lie employment.
Under the vicious administrations
controlled by tho Federal bunch, the
peoples burdens arc continually in
creased. Mr.. Morris has been able TO
expose the utter fal)acy of the claim
that the State taxation is reduced,
when, in fact, although there is de-
crease in tho tax rate of half mill, this
is more than Offset by the enormous
inhations of assessed valuations
throughout the State, and especially in
Salt Lake City. This city has been
oppressively Disseminated against right
along in the taxation imposed by the
Federal bunch, but the impositions Of
that bunch have been carried to every
county in the State. The only differ.
ence is that it is somewhat worse in
Salt Lake than in other places.
The maladmjnistration Of the Federal
bunch agencies has given Mr., Morris a
weapon heavy and keen, and he is using
that weapon boldly, skillfully, and
strongly in his addresses to the voters.
Mr.. Morris has not created the condi-
tions he complains of, but finds them
created by the Federal bunch, and in
pleading for the relief Of the people
from tho Iniustices. e1tortiops, and the
vicious administration of the Federal
bunch, he exposes with fairness and not
in any way Indignantly the abuses, the
viciousness and the effects of those
abuses in their evil eXactions upon the
people.
And for this Mr.. Morris has the
volcano of mud thrown upon him that
usually is thrown out upon any citizen
who happens to incur the wrath of the
vicious organ of the Federal bunch.
Many a first-class citizen has been the
victim Of that shower of mud, but they
all have the consolation Of knowing
that it is easily washed off, and the
public gives clean bill of health to
every one so abusively assailed So
that Mr., Morris has no cause to worry,
since the mud bath has been passed
through by many good men before him,
and doubtless he Will emerge from it
with a clean bill of health lust as
others have done in a like case.
But it is surprising that the bunch
should not have sense enough 10 know
that in making such a tremendous
uproar about Mr.. Morris's campaign
they are certain to help him ten fold
more than they can hurt him. Mr.. Nor
ris is evidently making headwav, and
the people of Utah will be glad to
see that he is inActiug such blows
upon, the bunch as to bring forth the
prolonged and agonizing squeal that
the bunch organ emitted Yesterday
morning.