The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-06-05
HON, ], G, Cannon ON
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

eilner the congress or the president
forgot or ignored the command If
their masters.
The Rough Road Of Reform
l have no doubt President Wilson
will remind congress Of the same
promise-that the Democrats are to
carry out the command Of their mas
ters, who have voted for u change in
our revenue policy. I do not believe
1t will succeed any better than It did
in 1894; but l recognize that 1t would
be craven and disloyal II they did
not make the effort and devote their
best energies to tariff revision in
harmony with their PLATFORM tar
III for revenue only-and set their
faces sternly against incidental pro-
lection or progressive free trade, or
any other compromise between the
two systems. They have declared all
protection to be unconstitutional and
the robbery Of the many for the
benefit Of the few. They can not COM
promise the constitution nor can they
compromise with robbery. have no
doubt they will try to reach their
ideal in tariff bill, and I suspect
they will find fairly good Democrats
in congress who are perfectly willing
to strike down the tariff that pro-
tects some other industry in some
other state, but who will urge delay
touching schedules that benefit their
own people in the states and districts
they represent.
1t is the weakness of human nature
for men to be more eager to reform
the affairs of others than to reform
their own. We had that kind OF hu.
man nature to deal with, and the
Democrats will have 1t to deal with
They will even find the great metro.
politan press, which has been with
them in favor of tariff reform, differ
entiating as to what the term means
when they come to deal with its pro-
duct. But they will have to do this,
whether their work meets with the
approval of majority Of the people
or not, for political parties are made
up of the best manhood of the coun-
try, Notwithstanding the walls Of the
muckraker, and the manhood of the
Democratic party is now compelled
to go forward with legislation to car
ry out the platform of that party
whether their new legislation spells
political defeat or political victory.
A constitutional majority of the PEG
pie has given the command and the
Democrats can not ignore that com.
mand without being condmened for
cowardice and treachery to the peo-
pie, which would be worse than con-
demnation for another failure of
their policy. They will be opposed
by the same forces that have oppos-
ed them in the past. The opposition
will not be measured by the men who
are called Republicans in congress
these may be few-but the opponents
will be the people of the United
States who believe in protection-the
men on farm and in factory, who will
be the first affected by the policy
when written into law. They are the
| producers and they arae also the con-
sumers of the country.
II was one OF the Democratic poll
cies that brought defeat to their po'
lrtical opponents last year. They fur
nished the votes to pass the recipro-
city pact, which received the indorse-
ment of a Democratic House in the
beginning of the Sixty-second con-
gress. That act, carrying into law
the recommendation of Republic
an president, raised up more opposi'
tiou to him than any other act OF his
administration; in fact, the good acts
of his administration were not all
equal in the balance to the weight
of that one act with very large part
of the American people. A majority
of the Republicans in congress voted
against that bill, though it came from
Republican president; hut 1t receiv
ed a Hybrid majority both in the
House and in the Senate that placed
It on the statute books and some meT
said the tariff had been taken ou
Of politics. The opposite was true
That act raised up opposition to thu
president in his own party and al
explorations could not satisfy thu
people.
We had there demonstration o
the fact that the tariff Is IN politics
whether men in public life choose
to discuss It or not. The president
friends tried to ignore the reciproc
ity psct-tried to forget that ther'