The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-09-19
EXPERIENCE WITH ONE PROFESS
soR WILSON SUFFICIENT
FOR THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.

PEOPLE.
!.
Herald Republican! The people o
the United States, without respect L
creed or avocation have a bitter mem
DRY of the last college president, re
ioicing in the name Of Wilson, wh'
was given power and authority as
member Of the government. The pres
ident of the University of Virginia
William Lyme Wilson, as chairman
OF the ways and means committee o.
a Democratic Congress under Presi
dent Grover Cleveland framed and
secured the passage Of tariff mea
sure known as the Wilson bill. The
legislation was so bad that President
Cleveland denominated it an example
of party perfidy and dishonor" and
refused to approve 1t, permitting II
10 become law without his sigma
ture. But the public remembers II
more clearly as the direct agency that
sent thousands of workingmen ana
women into bread lines and soup
houses to ward off starvation; that
closed mills and factories; that par.
alyzed industry and brought our en-
tire commercial structure to ruin with
a crash that echoed and re-echoed
for years.
Professor " lillian Lyme Wilson
was a theorist of the same calibre as
Professor Woodrow Wilson, who has
been put forward by Murphy, Belmont
and Taggart as their candidate Tor
President. The earlier Wilson was
professor of ancient languages until
elected to Congress through the in
fuence of his students and the alum
nj of his university; his ideas as to
legislation had been Cleaned from
books rather than experience. The
finely spun theories which he evolved
in the clustered seclusion of his study
were written into the Wilson bill.
Like every other idealist who can
prove with mathematical precision
the inevitable success OF untried prin-
ciples, he insisted upon free wool as
a test of the wisdom of free raw ma
terial and compelled marked reduc'
tons in the schedule imposed upon
manufacturers Of wool as we'll as iron
and steel products.
Immediately following the initial
operation of this measure the country
became involved in most desperate
financial straits. Factories and work
shops closed and employees were
thrown idle 1.-THE unprotected mining
industry languished; the farmer with
out market for his wool and his other
products plastered his farm with mort
cages; business was PROSTATE, banks
failed from one end of the country
to the other; money fled to strong
boxes for protection, and the whole
Industrial fabric of the United States
was crushed. So much for the col
lege president who thought he could
revise the tariff along theoretical
lines.
The burden of this unfortunate ex'
pertinent by Professor Wilson fell
upon the laborer, the wage Garner and
the salaried man. The privations OF
the wealthy were only those of alb
sent dividends, and idle money that
should have been working day and
night; their comforts and convenien'
ces were not lessened, their children
were well nourished and we'll clothed
Unfortunately for those whom the
Professor Wilson of this present day
regards as Improbable servants,
when their savings disappeared they
became objects of charity.
The Professor Wilson who flourish
ed in 1928 was an expensive luxur.
for he people of the United States
and the similarity between his env
ronment, his training, his academi
theories and his lack of experienc
and that OF the Professor Wilson VIII
enormously supposes himself to
flourishing now Is so remarkable tha
the lesson which he would teach ca
not be disregarded. Experience is tn
only lamp which the American PEE
pie may employ to illmuinate tn
pathway of the future that they ma
not stumble and fall in the dar
ness, The only possible test OF tn
future is the past, and by that gaug
the professor falls to qualify.
The tariff ideas of the present da
Professor Wilson are amazingly III
those OF his well meaning but intens