The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-10-24
Sen. SMOOT ON
The BULL MOOSE
Discusses Roosevelt, the Constitution
and the Many New Fads Some
Sound Common Sense
Doctrine.

unrest all over the world, unrest in
our country, and when you ask man
for what reason you cannot find one
that can tell you, and 1t reminds me
OF a condition that existed in the his.
tory of this country and was called
to the attention of the American peo-
pie by that great statesman, Daniel
Webster, in a speech in he year 1888
in the Unittd States Senate, and this
is what he said:
There are persons who constantly
clamor, they complain of oppression,
speculation and pernicious influence
of accumulated wealth; they cry out
loudly against all banks and corpora
tons and by all means by which small
capitalists become united IN order to
product important and beneficial re-
suits; they carry on mad hostility
against all established institutions.
They would choke the fountains of
industry and dry all streams in coun
try of unbounded liberty; they clam.
or against oppression in a country
where property is more evenly divid.
ed than anywhere else. They rend
the aid shouting agrarian doctrines in
country whert wages of labor are
higher beyond parallel. They would
teach the laborer he is but an oppres-
sed slave.
But I want to say to you that Dan.
lei Webster will live forever, but who
can recall the name OF one who was
crying distress and was unsettled at
that time in the history of our coun
try"
DO you believe for a minute that
the dearest friends that President
Roosevelt had on earth would desert
him and dtnounce him If they thought
for minute that he had been robbed
of one single vote in the Chicago con-
vention? Who were his dearest
friends? Where are they today? Are
they supporting him in his denuncia-
ton Of the party and in his claim
that he has been robbed? Take the
dearest friend that he has on earth
Senator Lodge-a man who was with
him every day, l suppose, that they
We're together in Washington-a man
that he consulted upon every public
question: man that he loved. | be-
lava thop h
own brother. want to say that you
Ind Senator Lodge, panied as he was,
opposed to this claim. And sometimes
wonder If it were agreed to by the
man that l loved.
Why, my friends, / would have
crawled from San Francisco to New
York for President Roosevelt If he
were in the right. Take, for instance,
Senator Root--a man who he said
was the greatest statesman in all the
world. He had him not only in one
position in his cabinet, but two. Can
he support him in these claims?
Take President Taft. man that
loved him, a man who President
Roosevelt said would make the best
President of any mas in all this coun-
try. Take his own son-in.law and is
he supporting him in this so called
clam OF fraud? No! No! Why, / am
name them the balance OF the night
TO you, but | haven't time. only
hope and trust that this was started
by some one else than Roosevelt and
yet we cannot excuse him for his very
actions since have given credence to
II, and he has consented to the claim.
Considers New Fads.
Now, my friends, let us consider
for just a moment some of the new
tangled fads and 'isms' that have ta-
ken hold and been advocated So per-
sistently and consistently by so call
ed reformers First is the initiative.
Do you know what 1t means? Do you
know what the result would be? Well
let me just call your attention to this
official ballot November s, 1910.
Hughes county, South Dakota. The
print is so fine that cannot read it.
and there, my friends, are some Of
the questions that were initiated fol
the people Of South Dakota to vot,
upon, and with IL there is issued {
book Of nearly a thousand pages TO
every voter to study and learn wha
each provision and amendment to tn,
law means. ] take 1t that there &
not hundred attorneys in the I'm
ted States ha would take the tim
or could take the time pass upo
the questions on that initiative ballo
Eternal Round Of Elections
Why the one in Oregon, II ha
1t here, could place II upon this Il
BILE and every crank who thinks tha
he is lawmaker or has some idea
that perhaps ultimately will land hill