The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-08-13

Spanish officials for hundred years
namely. to enslave the people and
steal all the revenues
On the subject Of controlling the
waters of the Mississippi and tribu.
tary rivers there is no divided opin-
ion in the United States. The only
question is how can the work be
done effectively and not in the fu.
ture, as in the past, have It nearly all
terminate in waste of money.
The most startling thing OF all in
this speech is what the candidate SAYS
about our merchant marine. 1t is to
be restored without bounties or sub.
sides by some new process which
he did not outline, until our ships
cover the seas. What his PROPOSE.
ton is no man can understand at
least, no man but himself, and IL he
understands It he gives no hint Of
how the great work is to be perform
ed. II cannot be by giving mail con.
tracts, because they are only another
form of a subsidy. 1t cannot be by
throwing off the tariff on goods i'm.
ported in American ships, because
when the tariff is fixed, according to
Mr.. Wilson's idea, there will be
nothing to throw Off. Steamships are
costly institutions to run, so costly
that at present no American company
could, had it a full line of new ships
of the first water presented to It in
New York harbor, put those ships to
work in any foreign trade and pay
expenses. A ship like the City Of
New York, for instance, burns about
1900 tons of coal a day, and that, at
the lowest estimate, means SO a ton.
A ship like the Lusitania burns from
800 to 400 tons Of coal day. and to
keep it going 1t and it's sister ship, the
British government pays a subsidy Of
100000 per year.
Now by what means Governor
Wilson proposes to run ships in COM
petition with those Of Great Britain
or Germany or France and pay ex-
penses is his secret No one can pos
sibly share 1t with him, unless 1t be
Mr.. Bryan. Perhaps he intends to
use dirigible balloons tor motive
power, or maybe he has dream Of
using the ways of the sea in such a
way as to generate power for them.
Until something new is developed in
that line the world will have to &C.
cept his promise Of great merchant
marine as a campaign roorback, cal
culated to cacth the vote of the suck.
ers and to die as soon as the election
is over. :.
| Put the conservation which Mr..
Wilson expatiates on for the west Is
table to make Mr.. Pinchot Jealous.
II 1t means anything, it means that
th7 men on the frontier must Keep
their hands off, Tut the general Co.,
nrnment must Gr paternal end de-
gelop the coil and iron and other
In.neral lands ard make business tcod
fol the people.
There is not a man in the west Of
ordinary understanding that does not
know that such program means
hardship and loss to the people Of
the west, and great expense to the
government SO long as 1t is tried. 1t
means the prostration of business, it
means the flooding of the country
with government agents; it is an at
tempt to galvanize into life a policy
which the country tried thoroughly
fourscore years and more ago and
dismissed as altogether unjust and
impartial.
The peroration hardly corresponds
with the sounding phrases of Mr..
Wilson's exordium. 1t is dIsap-
pointing speech, the speech of an
academic schoolmaster; not quite the
/ sDpech of seasnnad atataeman