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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
Favors for the Few.

There has been no more denoralizing
influence in our politics In our time than
the influence of tariff legislation. the in
fucnce OF the idea that the government
was the grand dispenser OF favors, the
maker and unmaker OF fortunes, and OF
opportunities such as certain men have
sought in order TO control the movement
OF trade and industry throughout the con-
tinent, 1t has made the government a
prize to be- captured and parties the
means OF effecting the capture. 1t has
made tho business men of one OF the most
virils and enterprising nations in the
world timid, fretful. full OF alarms: has
robbed them OF self confidence and manly
force, until they have cried out that they
could do nothing without the assistance
of the government at Washington. It has
made them feel that their lives depended
upon tho Ways and Means Committee Of
the House and the Finance Committee Of
the Senate 0n these later years particu-
larry the Finance Committee Of the SEN
atc). They have insisted very an,dously
that theses committees should be made
up only of their friends; until the coun-
try In its turn grew suspicious and won
dered how those committees were being
guided and controlled. by what influences
and plans of personal advantage. Gov
ernrncnt cannot be wholesomely conduct
cd In such an atmosphere. Its very hon
esty Is IN jeopardy. Favors are never con-
celv cd In the general interest, they are
always for the benefit OF the few. and
the few who seek and obtain them have
only themselves TO hlams IL presently
they seem TO be condemned and dis
trusted.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08

Conn, and report to Brlgadier General Al
bert L. Mills. general stan. for duty In
connection with tho Connecticut maneur
Yer campaign.
Second Lieutenant r. Taintor. recently
appointed second lieutenant Philippine
scouts. with rank from April "a, 1872 Is
assigned to the Twenty-flrst infantry.
The leave or absence granted First
Lieutenant George r., Tuttle. medical re-
serve corps. ts extended two months and
fifteen days.
Leave Of absence for two months, ef-
fective September l. Is granted Captain
Orrln II. Wolfe. ouartermastcr.
Captain w. A. Kemp, Fourth infantry,
now on leave Of absence, will proceed 10
Fort Leayenworth and report TO the com
mandant, the army service school for tenn
porary duty and upon the completion
thereof, win resume a status of absence
with leave.
First Lieutenant Thomas l.. Crystal
Fifth infantry, will proceed 10 Fort Leav-
eDworth, Kan, and report to the COM
mandant. UDitod States military prison,
for duty.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08

TO blow up the Los Angeles Times build
ing prior 10 Its contamination.
Judge Hutton took the question under
advisement until tomorrow.
The question put TO Cantrell. In effect.
was whether on October j. 1910. IN the
citv OF San Luis Ooispo. Cal, Job Harri~
man had said to him with reference 10
the blowing up OF the Times building; u
have known for sorne time that preDara
tions were being made 10 pull off the
job
Before an objection could be made.
CantreIl gave an affirmative answer, but
IL was stricken out. The w'itnoss testi
fed that at tho time mentioned he was
a candidate for secretary Of state on the
Socialist ticket and that he and Harr-
man were engaged In the campaign.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
Old Order Gone.

am not one OF those who think that
competition can be established by law
against the drift Of a world wide eco
nomio tendency; neither am ] one OF
those Who believe that business done
upon a great scale by single organiza-
tIon-call it corporation, or what you
willis necessarily dangerous to the ib-
critics. even the economic liberties, of u
great people like our own, full OF intel
ligence and OF indomituble energy 7
am not afraid of anything that is nor
NAL dare say We shall never return
to the old order OF Individual competi-
tion, and that tho organization Of bust
ness upon great scale OF CO. ope ration
Is, up TO a certain point, Itself normal
and inevitable.
Power in the hands of great business
men does not make me apprehcnsivc,
unless 1t springs out of advantages
which they have not created for them
selves. Big business IL not dangerous
because II is big. but because its big
ness Is an uDwholesome inGatio Gre
ated by privileges and exemptions which
It ought not to enjoy, While compcu-
ton cannot be created by statutory on
actment, It. can in large measure be re-
vlved by changing the laws end forbid
ding the practices that Killed It, and by
enacting laws that will give II heart and
occasion again. We can arrest and pre-
vent monopoly. II has assumed new
shapes and adopted new processes in
our time. but these arc now being dis
closed and can be dealt with.
The general terms OF the present fed
eral antitrust law. foroIddIng 'oombi-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
INDICTED LUMBER MAN :
Is RELEASED ON BAIL

SPOKANE Wash. Aug, IA. l.
Porter OF Spokane, secretary of the West
orn Retail I.umbeymens association. who
With thirteen other secretaries OF retail
lumber dealers associations, was andicf-
cd i'm June 1911. OH a criminal charge or
violating the Sherman law. has been re-
leased on his cash bond Of $500 by Judge
crn district OF Illinois, and his bond ac-
cepted
This action is said to Indicate that ths
criminal suit against Mr. Porter Will oa
dropped AS soon as the civil suits brought
by the government against various luna-
ber dealers associations are decided
The government will begin taking testt
mony August 90 In Seattle against the
Northwestern Lumber Mems association
OF Minneapolis. The case finally Will be
argued before three circuit court Judges
In Chicago.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
Plan of Revision.

II should begin with the schedules
which have heen most obviously used to
kill competition and to raise prices in the
United States. arbitrarily and without re-
gard to the prices pertaining elsewhere
In The markets OF the world and 1t
should, before 1t is finished or iutermitted.
be extended to every item In every sched :
ule which affords any opportunity for
monopoly, for special advantage TO limit
ed groups OF Deneaciaries. or for subsi-
dizcd control Of any kind In the mark cts
or the enterprises OF the country: until
special favorS OF every sort shall have
been absolutely withdrawn and every
part OF our laws Of taxation shall have
been transformed from a system of gov
ernmental patronage into a system OF Just
and reasona BILE charges which shall fall
where they will create the least burd en-.
When we shall have done that, we can
Ak questions OF revenue and OF business
adjustment In n new spirit and with clear
minds. We shall then be partners with
all the business men Of the country. and
q day OF freer. more stable prosperity
shall havo dawned,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
All Equally Interested

We cannot undertake Ii EXCEPT in a
spirit which some find II hard 10 under
stand. Some people only smile when you
speak OF yourself as q servant OF the
people; 1t seems to them like sffectatIon
or mere demagoguery. They ask what
the unthinkins crowd knows or compre-
hends Of great complicated matters of
government They shrug their shoulders
and lift their eyebrows when you speak
as If you really believed in presidential
primaries, IN the direct election Of Unit
ed States senators, and In an utter pub
ltcity about everything that concerns
government from the sources OF cam
paign funds to the intimate debate OF
the highest affairs Of state.
-, They do not, or win not comprehend
the solemn thing that is In your thought
You know as we'll as they do that there
are all sorts and conditions of men-the
unthlnking mixed with the wise, the
RECKLESS ,;H ~ With The prudent, the unscru-
know what they sometimes forget, that
every class. without exception. affords
q sample OF the mixture. tho learned
and the fortunate no less than the un-
educated and the struggling mass But
you see more than they do You sec
that these rnultitudes Of men. mixed OF
every kind and quality, constitute some
how an organic and noble whole, a sin
gle people. and that they have interests
which no man can privately determine
without their knowledge and counsel
That is the meaning OF representative
government Itself Representative gov
ernment Is nothing more nor less tha n
an effort to give voice to this great body
through spokesmen chosen out of every
grade and ClHss.
You may think that 7 am wandering
off into a general disquisition that has
little to do with the business in hand I:
but am not. This Is business-business
difficulties il you will but take 1t as
business
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
SENATE REFUSES TO
PASS PENSION BILL

WASHINGTON. Aug. THE fight
to pass the $l5o.0oo,0o0 pension appro-
pristiou bill was los1 by one vote in
the senate today and the measure was
sent back to the house for further cou-
ference.
After a motion to agree to the house
amendment TO abolish the seventeen
outlying pension agencies had been lost
on tie vote. the senate agreed, 90 to
%. to stick To its demand that tho pen.
sion agencies be retained.
This is the only point upon which
the house and senate arc Mt odds.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
Dignifed Campaign.

a presidential campaign may easily de-
generate into mere personal contest and
There is no Indispensable man. The
government will not collapse and go TO
pieces If any one OF the gentlemen who
are seeking to be entrusted with its guild
ance should be left at home But men ara
instruments. We are as important as the
cause We represent, and In order 10 be
important must really represent a cause.
What is our cause? The peoples cause1
That is easy TO say, but what does 1t
mean? The common as against any par
ticular interest whatever? Yes, but that.
too. needs translation into acts and poll
cies, We represent the desire to set up
an unentanSled government, a government
that cannot be used for private purposes,
either in the field of business or In the
field of politics; a government that will
not tolerate the use Of the organization Of
a great party to serve the personal aims
and ambitions OF any individual. and that
VIII not permit legislation to be employed
to further any private interest, II is
great conception, but am free to serve
H. as you also are I could not have ac-
TO any man or any group OF men. No
man can be just who Is not free. and no
man who has TO show favors ought to
undertake the solemn responsibility of
least of all In the supreme post OF Presi-
dent OF the United States.
To be free Is not necessarily to be wise.
But wisdom comes with counsel, with the
frank and free conference OF untraulneled
men united in the common interest.
Should be entrusted with the great office
OF President. I would seek counsel wher-
ever It could be had upon free terms. I
know the temper OF the great convention
which nominated nc; know the temper
OF the country that lay hack Of that con-
vention and spoke through II. heed
with deep thankfulness the message you
bring ME from IL. I feel that / Am sur
by men whose principles and am
billions are those OF true servants OF the
people thank God. and take courage.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
Definite Object in View.

The rule Of tho people is no idle phrase,
those who believe In 1t, az who does not
that has caught the real spirit OF Amer.
ica2 believe that there can be no rule OF
right without 1t: that right In politics Is
made up Of the interests Of everybody,
and everybody should take part In the
action that is to determine IT, We have
been keen for presidential primaries and
the direct election OF United States SEN
etoTs. because we wanted the action OF
the government to be determined by per-
sons whom the people had actually des-
ignatcd as men whom they were ready
70 trust and follow We have been anxl-
Gus that all campaign contributions and
expenditures should be disclosed to the
public In fullest detail. because we re-
garded the Influences which govern CAM
paigns to be as much a part Of the peo-
pies business as anything else connected
with their government We are working
towards a very definite object. the uni
vcrsal partnership In public affairs upon
which the purity OF politics and its aim
and spirit depend.
For there is much for the partners to
undertake. In the affairs Of a great ma
tion we plan and labor, not for the pres
ent only, but for the long future as we'll.
There are great tasks OF protection and
conservation and development 10 which
we have to address ourselves. Govern
mept has much more to do than merely
TO right wrongs and set the house In
order,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08

Ile partnership and understanding It rep
aesenls Is between the leaders Of con-
S.ess and the whole people of the United
cS@ssa. SsGs. instead of between the leaders OF
,sless and small groups OF manufac-
is eu.eis demanding special recognition and
cohsldcratton. That Is why tho general
iuea @ OF representative government be-
comes a necessary part Of the tariff
question. Who, when you come down to
the hard facts OF the matter. have been
teuse tepu ssehted IN recent years when our
da da,liL sChedules were being discussed and
9etermined, not on the floor OF congress,
tor that is not where they have been
determined, but In the committee rooms
ana she conferences? That is the heart Of
LIe whole anair. VIII you. can you.
bring the whole people into the part
hcrshlp or not? No one is discpnte tent ed
with representative government, 1t falls
under question only when 1t ceasaa TO
be representative, 1t is at bottom a qucs-
tion OF good faith and morals.
Democratic View.
How does the present tariff look in
the light OF it? | say nothing for the
moment about the policy Of protection,
conceived and carried out as q disinter-
ested statesman might conceive 1t, Our
own clear conviction as Democrats is.
that III the last analysis tho only safe
ana legitimate object OF tariff duties, a
OF taxes OF every other kind, is TO raise
revenue for the support OF the govern
mcntt but that is not my present point.
We denounce the Payne-Aldrich tariff act
as the most conspicuous example ever
aHorded the country of the special favors
ana monopolisttc advantages which the
leaders OF the Republican party have SO
often shown themselves willing TO ex-
campaign contributions. Tariff duties.
as they have employed them. have not
been q means OF setting up an equitable
system of protection, They have been.
on the contrary, method OF fostering
special privilege. They have made II
easy TO establish monopoly in our domes-
Tic markets, Trusts have owed their
origin and their secure power To them
The economic freedom Of our people, our
prosperity in trade. our untremmeled en-
ergy In manufacture depend upon their
reconsideration from top TO bottom In
an entirely different spirit.
We do not ignore the fact that the
business OF country like ours is ex-
ceedingly sensitive to changes in egis-
lation OF this kind. 1t has been built up.
however ill-advisedy, upon tariff sched-
lles written in the way I have indicated,
and It's foundations must not be too radi-
cally or too suddenly disturbed. When
We act we should act with caution and
are about, and not Ike those In love with
B. theory. It is obvious that the changes
we make should be made only at such a
rate and In such way rs Will least in
terfere with tho normal and healthful
course of commerce and manufacture
But we shall not on that account act with
umidity, as II we did not know our own
minds, for we 3To certain OF our ground
and Of our object. There should he an
mn1 ediate revision, and it should be
downward. unhesitatnsly and steadily
ri
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
MONTENEGRINS FIGHT
WITH TURKISH TROOPS

SAL0NlkI, Aug. 6 delayed In trans
mlssion). Fighting continued without
cessation along the Montenegrin frontier.
where q. number OF guerilla bands have
boon In conflict with the Turkish troops
for the past three days.
The Nontenegrln troops who came into
contact With the Turks Yesterday when
they crossed the frontier and The Mails
sori iribpsmen have destroyed eleven
Turkish blockhouses Reinforccments
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
CONSIDERS HIMSELF
IMMUNE FROM LAW

DENVER Colo, Aug. &c. *. Hash-
ina, former treasurer Of the Colorado
Japanese society and keeper OF u jap
deputy sheriff when he latter arrested
him here today on u charge OF enlbezaling <
$4,000 while treasure" ~ the society,
Tashlma seemed TO think thut because OF
his nationality he was immune from
American LAW. Tashima disappeared u
few days ago and members OF the society,
claiming he had taken With him SIS, 900
OF tho oreanlzations funds. swore out u
warrant and helped tho authorities lind
their cQuntryman,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
Lesson Of the Past.

For what has the result been? Pros
perity2 Yes, II by prosperity you mean
vast wealth no matter how distributed
or whether distributed at all. or not; if
you mean vast enterprises built UP to be
presently concentrated under the control
of comparatively small bodies OF men,
who can determine almost at pleasure
whether there shall be competition or
not Tho nation as nation has grown
Immensely rich. She iH justly proud or
her industries and OF the genius OF her
men OF affairs. They can master any
thing they set their rpinds to. and we
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
"BACK TO THE FARM
MOVEMENT PLANNED

CHICAGO, Aug. IA S5.oeo.ooo agri-
cultural and industrial exposition building
to adorn the lake front, IN which aliens
will be taught the agricultural posslbili
tics nf the country and the back 20 the
farm movement. has been planned by
officials OF the National Immigration Oh
ficials' association
The building Is TO cover an entire block
and wlll contain several convention halls.
ranging in capacity from 2500 TO %. ooU
people. The entire lower floor Will be
devoted to the exposition OF tho aaricul-
tural and manufactured products Of the
various states Of the country
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
|l|N ATTORNEYS
(CK PROSECUTION
lnlpeac1 Testimony
y Hartman Fails for
Time Being.

/. o' Aug. The defense
~ trial of Clarence S. barrow
1, feopttaI case OF the prose-
"A c "ra' by n lengthy continue
4 o''ss-c&amination began veg
Iransn.. -. r. Mayer. the "nys-
n 't' and later by blocking
man "npeach the testimony of
|ness one OF the Important de-
|ernoo an The Inter effort the
nc.rn,n was consumed by argu-
\ rds INC ndnIIssjbility Of tes-
.t,,r aSard Adams Cantren. q So
F|np, "hch purported 10 show
"'d knowledge OF the plot
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
CONFERENCE FAILS
TO SETTLE STRIKE

HONOLULU, Aug. T.-Confersnces held
today In an attempt to settle the strike
of masters and mates which has almost
tied up the passenger and mail service Of
the islan were unsuccessful. As thA
steamers constitute the only traffic COM
municatlon between the Islands, the prob
lem threatens to become serioua.
Plans were discussed today for sending
to the mainland for captains and mates,
but no action wes taken, The Matson
liner Wilhelnlina took the mall to Hilo.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
Whole People to Confer.

These are all great matters upon
which everybody shodld be heard. We
have got into trouble l. recent years
chiefly because these large things, which
ought TO have been handled by taking
counsel with as large a number OF per-
sons as possible, because they touched
every interest and the life of every class
ana region, have In fact been too often
handiod In private conference They
nave been settled by very small. and
often deliberately exclusive groups OF
men who undertook to speak for tho
Whole nation, or, rather, for themselves
III The terms of the whole nation-very
honestly, II may be, but very ignorantly
sometimes. and very shortStghtedly too
"a poor substitute for genuine common
chiusel. No group Of directors eco
homlc or political, can speak for a peo-
pie They have neither the point Of
~ not that wicked and designing men
nave plotted against US. but that our
common affairs have been determined
upon too narrow a view, and by too prt-
Nste an Initiative Our task now is to
effect great readiusirnent and get the
1orces of The whole people once more
into play. we need no revolutions; we
need no excited change, we need only
new point OF view and new method
and spirit OF counsel
We are servants Of the people, the
whole people. The nation has been un-
necessarily. unrcasonably at war within
Itself Interest has clas1led with inter
est when there were common principles
OF right and OF fair dealing which might
and should have bound them all togeth-
er. not as rivals, but as partners As
the servants OF all, We are bound to un-
derlake the great duty Of accommoda-
ton and adjustment.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
Ogbourne Not Ill

SANTA BARBARA. Cal, Aug Mrs
Isabel Strong sister or Lloyd 0sbourne.
the author. said today that her brother
had not been indisposcd and was as
well as usual. 4 report from san Fran
cisco last night said that Mr. Oebourne
who is a stepson OF Robert Louis Steven
son. was critically III.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08

have been sent 10 the Turkish troops End
To tho Moutencsrin militia who have
formed strong Gordon 10 guard their
frontier.
From The town Of Uskup reports have
been received that several bomb Nplo-
slonS have occurred on the railroad, O
freight train being wrecked and scv cral
persons injured
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
UTE INDIANS TO GET
PART OF JUDGMENT
Special TO The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Aug, THE confer
ence committee on the Indian appropria-
ton bill today reached compromise
agreement by which an appropriation Of
tho cnnfoderated bands Of Ute Indians in
part payment on tho Judgment rendered
by the court of claims In their favor for
sS.3o5, 900
The committee retained the amendment
providing funds for Strengthening. the Du-
chesne river within tho puohesne town
site.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-08
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