Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-08-16
HON. F. T. cuTHBERT OF DEVILS
LAKE TELLS WHY REPUBII.
cAN1sM IS CONDUCIVE
TO PROSPERITY.
BELIEVES DEFEAT OF PREs1.
DENT TAFT uNMERITED
AND WOULD REACT
ON THE FARMER.

speaker cancelled MS engagement at
the eleventh hour by telephone so that,
through no fault of President McMil-
Ian, Miss Democracy was not repre-
sented on Thursday afternoon, as ad-
vertised. Governor Burke could not
come and Ex-senator Purcell of Wah.
peton had been substituted.
City Attorney Cuthbert of Devils
Lake was the Republican speaker. Mr..
Cuthbert is man of pleasing ad.
dress and speaker OF exceptional
ability. He is forceful in his state
ments and impresses one of earnestness
in those things which he advocates. He
evidently hit upon responsive cord
and set his hearers to thinking, for in
conversation with many upon conclus-
ion of his speech the writer was told
there was more solid facts than poetry
in what he said-that large portion
Of his address was history and there
fore uncontrovertable.
In starting out, Mr.. Cuthbert dwelt
upon he Constitution and what it stood
for. Things contained therein were
not susceptible to change in day,
but should be given long and thought
full consideration as it was upon the
constitution upon which our govern
ment was founded and prospered. He
declared that someone had said that in
the heat of political campaign in
which personalities were INDUCED in
SO per cent Of the charges made were
untrue and that this was about the "a
ito in which charges hurled by candi-
oates in the pre-convention presiden-
tial contest could be placed.
The speaker dwelt Upon the Repub-
licanlican split and didn't blame the
Democrats for rejoicing in present po-
litical conditions. He had been sup
porter Of Roosevelt and had campaign.
ed for him in the late primaries, as a
Republican candidate, and would stay
with him as long as he remained such,
" that he believed in the supremacy
Of laws based upon principal as
against the theory that laws are in
ferior to any man.
To be patriotic one must belong to
some political party whose policies he
thought would be for the best inter
ests of the country. He didn't take
any stock in the man who prided him
self of having no fixed politics. In
ancient or modern history such a man
never amounted to much in matters
of reform. The history of the republi.
can party was the history of this re-
public, and he challenged any Demo-
crat to show what that party had
done for the country, from an econo-
mic standpoint: It always has been a
party Of progress, and the difference
between a Stalwart and socalled
progressive is confined to the men
loking for office.
The Republican party, the speaker
declared, was committed to protec-
ton, while the fundamental principle
Of Democracy was free trade with pro-
lection for revenue only. North Da-
kota being an agricultural state the
policy Of protection is of vital i'm
portance. The people easily forget,
and he would recall the Cleveland ad-
ministration when the farmer received
II cents for corn, 10 cents for oats and
80 cents for wheat. The speaker here
told good story Of a farmer and his
COW and calf. He was driving them
over a hill when the calf kicked up
its feet and was soon lost to view.
The farmer was disguised and said,
eco, COLL darned ye, yiu'll be sorry
when supper time cimes.'' He believ-
ed the American people. would find
themselves in the position Of the calf
at supper time-and be sorry-if they
discarded the party Of protection for
one of free trade. While Taft was
responsible for reciprocity, he only
threw down bars so far as Canada is
concerned, and the bill was passed by
Democrats, not Republicans. It now,
however, is dead issue. What we
are now interested in is economic con.
ditions in the future, and the Republi.
can platform is for tariff. Why vote
for Wilsons He taught in college and
IN books that free trade is the only
solution; he is now, has been and will
be free trader, and for proof of
this statement the audience was re.
ferred to Wilson's speech Of accept.
ance or to Harperis Weekly, free
trade paper, whcih indorses the speech.
In 1894 an army Of 100000 men I'M
der "general" Coxey marched to
Washington in an attempt to get con-
gress to appropriate $5oo,ooo,ooo to
prevent people from starving to death,
and not long after the Democratic ad.
ministration had been replaced by a
Republican, this same Coxey was ad.
vertising for men to work for him at
So and $3.50 per day-and he found
them hard IN ook a. %ho$