The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-02

seek to ascertain the difference b
..een the cost OF production at hon
and abroad.
differ with some of my associate
in believing that the declaration in on
platform OF 1908 that duties should b
80 levied as to equal the differenc
between the cost of production O
home and abroad was the declaratio
of the most enlightened policy Of RI
cent times, because 1t is polio
framed TO meet conditions which hay
greatly changed in the comparativel
brief time since the passage of tn
Dingley law.
Speed.
Draper,n his intellectual DEVELOP
ment OF Europe" says, Empires ar,
only sand hills in the hourglass o
time" and the running of the san,
for a quarter of a century is swifte
than a watch in the night.
Sometimes It runs red with blood
sometimes 1t runs golden with tn,
harvests of peace, sometimes 1t II
stagnant with doubt as If humanity
were pausing which way to go, and
sometimes 1t is electric, charged with
the spirit OF unrest and change, but
always 1t is the seed bed and grave
yard of mankind, and always the san
runs on, and the old order is AWAY 8
passing away.
The occupant of the spot light plays
his part and moves off the stage. The
political faker Of today becomes the
laughing stock of tomorrow and q
hazy memory next week.
Across the stage pass kings. con.
luerors, lawgivers, saints, harlequins
and testers in pomp and squalor, 81
ephemeral triumphs or desperate ~.
verses, and always the sand runs on
The period since 1898 has been &
period of swift and feverish evolution
from what Carlyle called gross
steam-engine civilization" into an
electric civilization.
No one is willing to take 40 yeats
or even 40 days now in trying TO
reach any kind of promised land.
but everybody wants to so by express
in e Pullman car
We live IN an age OF hurry and con.
10 I'd
liked upon the moving picture before
the moving side has slid on.
In 30 minutes now. measuring life
By its experiences and not by lcagth
OF years. man lives longer, sees
acre, hears more and gets more in
l.sestion aud nervous prostration thar
2" MetIusslan did IN all his sag.
!, Ut years.
S., 40 lot want Contehtment am
abstraction. II We have them, we
want something else. We want sensa-
ton.
And II We have a president who IS
SONS steadily along his unadvertised
way, every day doing something sub.
the political gallery gods are
because they want him tc
smash something so they can heal
/ jingle
The Tariff and Capitalization.
We I've in world of fash ana
-o-se and machinery-in tariff
World and world OF Capitalization,
n which industries are centralized Ie-
5ardless of fee trade or protection.
Something like a hJnured years
,TJ AGam smith, writing about cOrpor
.,ioDs aid they could never hope to
-am much ground because 1t is lin
'ereut "A men TO manage more dili'
-tutly Their own properly than the
property OF others" e,
But corporations nowld,Ss are viii,
ng to manage not only their own
t,I,cs bul & erybody 'ss's affairs.
Immediately after the passage OF the
Dingley law in 1897 the country en-.
tered upon a period OF restored public
confidence. in which men strained
every resource to make the most out
of time of phenomenal prosperity.
Feeling the necessity OF producing
1t central points commodities to sup
ply increasing areas of trade, created
by increasing facilities of transpor-
tation, communication and exchange,
resulting from the increasing use OF
steam and electricity, they organized
new corporations and reorganized old
corporations into new corporations un.
ill complete combinations. organized
under the laws Of various states, have
outgrown the states of their organi.
cation and become nationalan d inter.
national in their scope.
For illustration, down to May 81,
1900, 2lGO heretofore separate, in,
dependent industries were organized