The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-02
CONSISTENCY. HON. {. |. HAMILTON
OF MICHIGAN ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Continued from Page 2.


iJOd and American citizenship, an
that one reason why the American la
boring man is the best all.round MAJ
on earth. mentally and physically, h
because he is the best fed, bes
c,C..ea and best housed man OF
ear "a and that 1t takes wellfed, well
clo,nsu and well housed man to max,
a GOD citizen.
on never told him these things
You never read to any audience Of
american laboring men that John
Mitcnell said In the Outlook in Sep
temBer 1908, that ANY reduction II
wages means lowering OF the stand
ard of living; and the standard of liv
ing among a civilized people can not
be lowered without lowering in the
same ratio the physical standard and
the intellectual and moral ideas OF
that people"
You never told any audience of
American laboring men that inasmuch
as this is a government of the people
and by majorities the government is
not lodged in executive, Legislative
and judicial branches in the last an
alysis, but is lodged under every mans
hat, and that as a man thinketh, 30
is he and that as a majority think,
so goes the republic, and that a man
l.. 81 ts, al riU a
stomach or when he sees his family
In want.
You never reminded the American
laboring man that the more people
there are employed In factories the
more people there are to buy what
the farmer grows to sell, and that the
more the farmer sells of what he
grows to sell, the more he buys of
what the manufacturer makes to sell,
and that the more the manufacturer
sells of what he makes the more the
people he employs to make more
goods to sell everybody and the more
the, railroads houl for everybody. You
never told him any of these things.
You ever told hln that when a fac
.cly .uns full time, at full capacity, |
each unit of production is made cheap.
er than when it runs haltlrgly to sup
Ply spasmodic demand. and that
therefore, consumers buy cheaper ana
laboTe's receive higher and steau.
wages.
You rever told him that other en-.
lghtened nations protect their own
people and their own markets, and
that by year policy we would be
throwing opoa THIS twenty-elght bill
lion dollar market for the exploitation
OF otAer nations which protect their
markets against us.
You never told ..... an" OF these
Tags.
AND y. l,o fundamental reason sor
= IL ,-a. t does better pro
Iect m elican ,a.or Gud me Ameri.
can l;.srng man never received bet.
..r .. Or shorter hour5 ohan nov,
and never went nome to - better homo
than now, aai never lad mole money
deposited N savings baa@s tLan nov,
md never woat home to better
lCme than GOr, So ,.o .-MCr.-aG
school ia the les. scEc,. 81 ecE,.:,
anu the man born or naturalized undo"
he American flag has the best chance
On earth. and therefore the American
lag is the best flag on earth and q
my man born on foreign soil is dis
posed 70 deny this, why did he come
here?
The Payne law did three things
hal place it tar in advance of pre-
Sious tariff bills in constructive legis.
ation.
First, it established customs court
Ter the speedy and uniform construc-
lion OF tariff law.
Second, it gave us equality Of or.
Dortunity with all other nations in the
markets of all other nations by sys.
y. ---sl~