The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-15

Idle not from choice, but because
there was no work to do and no pros
porous industries to furnish employ
ment and pay living wages.
Some factories we're able to run
half time or to pay half wages, but
even such were the exception to the
general rule Three millions or more
of honest laboring men were out Of
employment, looking for work and
unable to find it, Coxey's army was
tramping down the grass all the way
from the district of the gentleman
from Iowa to the Capitol Grounds In
| Washington; and in the great cities
all over the land men were living at
| free SOUP houses because of the uni
versal depression in all lines OF indus
try which then prevailed. ! wonder
ltf anyone in the district of the gen
tleman from Iowa was injured then!
| If remember correctly the farmers
of my district and of his district were
| glad to get one.half the prices or less
than oneholf what they nav get FOR
The products of the soil.
Mr.. Chairman and gentleman of
the committee, the industries OF this
country and all through the Middle
West, everywhere, have been built
up under the protective policy OF the
Republican Party. That policy Is the
same today that IL has always been
In the past. II the Republican party
Is wrong now as to that policy, then
Il has always been wrong. II the
Democratic party Is right now In its
policy of free trade, revenue tariff,
and destruction OF American indus
tries, then It has always been right
Men may change, but the policies OF
the two great parties upon this ques'
ton have not changed and can not
change. The Republican party
stands for the policy of protection to
American industries and to American
labor today as it has always stood.
This policy of protection was the
policy OF Abraham Lincoln, of James
G.. Blaine, of William Mckinley, and
of all the great leaders Of the Re.
publican party in the past.
Mr.. Chairman, am not a st nd.
patter nor standstiller ! do not
advocate that there should be no
change in tariff schedules. believe
in progress and reform. believe
that as conditions change tariff
schedules sometimes become too high
and sometimes too low and should
from time to time be changed to
meet existing conditions; but they
should not be changed, and the bust
ness interests of the country unduly
disturbed, except on accurate knowl
edge and scientific principles, so tibet
reasonable degree of protection
| should be maintained and no injury
done to any American industry.
| believe In America for Americans.
believe in giving the American manu-
| facturer, the American business man
the American farmer, and the Ameri
can wage Garner preference owe
every other country on earth. 1t Il
not claimed by the Democratic spon
sors for this bill that 1t is protec
| tive measure at all or that II Is In
tended to afford any protection L
any industry. Certainly, as to thes,
items proposed to be placed upol
the free list, that is absolute, pure
unauthorized free trade, for tn
benefit of the foreigner only, an,
which, in my judgment, can not pos
sibly benefit any American citizen o
any American industry, unless 1t i
the great trusts and combinations
which need no protection.
Mr. Chairman, | am firmly convinC
ed that the attempt on the part o
the Democratic majority in thi
House to pass this bill, which | be
lieye to be in the interests of tn
foreigner and of the trusts and larg
combinations and against the inter
ests of the people, is purely polit
cal play, intended to fool the peopl
and to catch votes. If all genteme
would vote their honest convictions
II could never pass, and the indui
tries of the country might rest S,
cure. Under the pretense of strikin
at the trusts, at the "malefactors {
great wealth." as they have bee
, called, let us not strike down an
] destroy the smaller but no less in
, portant industries that under the r,
publican policy of protection hav
= been built up in almost every tow
, and hamlet in the lard. The trusts
I the "malefactors of great wealth." d
r not need protection. They can TAX
: care OF themselves. The little IA