The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-02
HON. E. |. HAMILTON
OF MICHIGAN ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

The gentleman from Alabama said
year ago that one of the greatest
difficulties a ways and means commit.
tee has to deal with is that only men
come before the committee.
And now the only persons heard
are interested persons. and they ace
not heard by the committee, but are
heard in private" BY the Democratic
members Of the committee.
In the earlier and less holy times
when you felt particularly reckless
about language you used to berate
the Republican party unjustly for
what you called it's association with
the interests" but we never framed
tariff bill in secret with the advice
of unknown interests"
We never framed a tariff bill upon
secret communications of interested
parties, who knew they would get
hearing because OF sympathetic poll.
teal affiliations.
DO not know why II is, but | am
reminded Of prayer of the chaplain
that made an impression on me at
the time and which for some reason
comes back to me now: Since cant
and hypocrisy are the worst of sins,
preserve us, o Lord, from these,
The Republican party had entered
upon a rational, scientific plan for
tariff adjustment.
That policy has been supplanted
now by policy of tariff revision,
based upon star.chamber, backstairs,
secret communications and political
guesswork.
The Need Of Political Sanity.
But the country can stand all that
1t has lived, thriven and grown for 1886
years, counting the Declaration of
independence as the beginning Of
things national, and during all that
time there have been legislative poll.
tical manipulations, political agita.
tons and political agitators.
Generation after generation has
come into being in land of constant
ly widening opportunities, and the
explorations of political showmen,
keen to guess what sensation the pub
lie will want next and to pander TO
It, keen to exploit a political emotion
and to pander to it, have apparently
had no retarding influnece.
The country can stand these things
They are the surface operations Of the
men of the hour dealing with surface
manifestations for their own ephemer.
al uses.
But below these are the profunder
problems of the social relations oi
the people, by whom and for whom
this government was organized ont
OF dream of human equality, which
ought to be realized more and more
as the years go by.
But our population is becoming con
gested in great cities. Lines Of caste
are becoming more and more defined
The corporate machine employer ant
the corporate machine employe have
taken the place d the old persona
relation between man and man. We
are building industrial tower of Babel
and we go our ways separately, al
though we jostle one another ON the
sidewalk. In short, the incubator II
becoming more and more the mother
OF the chicken.
There never was a time of greater
need of velheaded stability thai
now.
The nation was never more in nee:
of the kind of patriotism and politica
seeking than now. -.
And yet there never was a tim,
when men were apparently more viii
ing to fan any smoldering disconten
/ into a blaze for personal political gail
/ than now.
There never was a time when mel
: were more willing to SOW grudges au,
/ discomfort than now.
There never was time when mol
: were more ready TO strain or ament
} the constitution than now.
) On the other hand, there never wa
: time when larger element of or
= population were susceptible to inflam
atory influences than now.
/ There never was time when
! larger element of our population coul,
be played upon by opera-bouffe, whlrl
ing-dervish methods than now.
And there never was a time wheI
+ party fealty sat more lightly upol
American citizenship than now.
Dangers.
The danger to our republic is no
in a strong. central, constitutional gov
ernment-a government of 'indestruct