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

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winter TO tell the wise men in the Ma
ional Capital that there were Amer
cans in Oregon who had made thet
way across the mountains and were
teg.nning to set up housekeeping To-
themselves with a government undel
the American flag, but without recog
milton of the parent government.
have seen one.half OF the 4S states
admitted TO the Union and as a mem
her OF the House |, have helped admit
II OF them.
The Westward Course Of Empire.
The West IL not all-wise and the
dcmagogues have been as successful
the O as in the older sections OF the
country. They have preached new
doctrines and are trying some expert
ments that have failed elsewhere. The
people have been too busy 10 study
these questions for themselves; but
they will in time and then they Will
Cease 10 Dt buiitu ~
theories as opposed to practical con.
ditions, | have heard much talk
about progress and the progressive
ideas and policies in the last few
years; but | have seen no better evil
derces OF progress than were mani
tested by the pioneers who peopled
the West and created an empire great
er and richer than was the whole Nat
ion, which at that time gave more OF
disbursement than Of aid to their
progressive efforts.
| have heard in Congress some OF
the men who aided in that first pro
gressive movement westward denoun'
ced as reactonaries. They cannot
protest because they are dead; but
that is the way of progress-in the
hurry to get forward we fail to note
the work OF the front rank who bIazed
the trail and opened the way fer the
newer Progressives. When | see men
beat the air and grow hysterical about
progressive policies, 7 am tempted to
call their attention to the great pic
ture that fills the wall space over the
western stairway OF the House wing
of the Capitol, which portrays the
progress of their forbears who went
out and conquered the West | have
l., h., 80 hui
to me that picture is one OF the
most inspiring paintings ! have CTer
seen. have passed 1t these many
years; and have never ia %
look up at those heroic men and wo'
men who moved westward scaling the
Rocky Mountains which some of those
in Congress marked as the boundary
the Almighty had placed there to limit
the adventurous spirit of the Ameri-
can and forever fix the western con.
fines of the Republic.
Those progressive spirits OF the
past did not make the air vibrate
with lamentationse but with shouts of
encouragement as the stalwart youth
planted the flag on higher cliffs t.
inspire with courage the women and
children who were toiling up the path
to find way to the golden Pacific
beyond. They did not even tarry long
to bury the dead, but silently prepar-
cd the grave there in the mountain
Businesses and with a benediction,
passed on to the new duties and new
conquests.
When the history Of the West and
the men and women who made 1t is
written, larger space will. ] hope be
given to the pioneers who toIled and
suffered in silence than to those who
have from time to time grown hyster-
ical over the growing plains Of this
mighty empire that has spreac in my
time from the MississIppi to tn Pc
ific and beyond the Arctic circle and
almost to the shores Of Siberia
have for forty years heard the la.
mentations OF western political pro-
gressives because nature gave that
section of surplus Of wheat and corn
which could not be turned into gold
and silver at once and a surplus of
silver which could not be turned into
coin of the realm at the mint on de.
mand have heard the lamentations
of the Greenbscker and the Populst
in days gone by and they were no
more doleful than some OF the Pro.
gressiyes Of today. More than 90
years ago when | offered an amend
ment TO the Mills tariff bill to place
sugar on the free list as we did not
then need the revenue, the Kanas de.
legation to a man complained that
was striking at the great Sunflower
State which had begun to raise sorg-
hum. They had the figures to prove
that with protection to sugar Kanas
would in few years produce more
sorghum aupar than would he neceSs.