The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-10-08
EDITORIAL,
BROKEN PLEDGES

That the present National Admins
tration believes platform making, and
pledges, one thing. and literal fulfil
ment decidedly another is evident
from the following as related by
Hon. Fred &. Britten, Congressman
from Illinois. In fact it would ap-
pear that the democratic platform is
to shatter platforms and break pledg
es:
We have now had little more
than nine months experience un
der a Democratic tariff law and
the new freedom" and what is
the result? VIII any man in this
nation outside of padded cell or
Democratic office say that he
r"efers the conditions existing to.
day to those that existed for six
teen years under Republican rule.
My Democratic friends. your pol.
icy is a failure, your Underwood
tariff bill will not produce the rev.
enue which you predicted upon its
passage, but it has jeopardized or
destroyed great part Of the Am
erican industries. It is the fallacy
of free trade, and If continued will
reduce the American nation to the
level of the Asiatic nations and
races.
| wonder how many Democratic
members of this House recall a
plank in their last platform which
read as follows:
We denounce the profligate
waste of money wrung from the
people by oppressive taxation
through the lavish appropriations
of the recent Republican Con.
crosses, which have kept taxes
high and reduced the purchasing
power of the peoples toll. We
demand return to that simple
ity and economy which BELTS
democratic government and re-
duction In the number of useless
offices, the salaries of which drain
the substances of the people.
No one but a scared Office seeking
Democrat can read that plank to-
day without smiling. That plank of
the Democratic platform has been
demonstrated to be merely "molas-
SEES to catch ilies.s 1t has been
braZenly repudiated as will be the
plank in regard to a second term
for the president. Yet that Palti'
more platform closes with these
solemn words;
Our pledges ARE made to be
kept when in office.
In the light OF the present that
is one of the most humorous sen
fences ever uttered by Democrat.
What an altogether lovely picture
Democratic promises and Democrat
ic performances make when placed
together.
This Democratic Congress, p edg-
ed to economy, that came into pow
er with the hot denunciation Of Re
publican extravaganza upon their
lips, has not only created many
useless high priced offices which
have been filed by faithful Demo
'lhNo bb a iN"hiu w PNp''N w.
vice, but has already appropriated
500 100000 more this session than
was ever Appropriated in any SEES
sion by any Republican Congress
that ever met In this capitol. fe'
says the Democratic platform:
Our pledges are made to Do
kept when in office.
Is this a time to indulge IN uh
limited expenditures? The peopi'
everywhere are compelled to econ
omize. The people OF this nat'oi
today are spending far less money
than they did under Republican
rule. They are buying less clothes
they are eating less food; they ar
spending far less for pleasures an
enjoyments; they are deny IN
themselves the Injuries and man.
OF the comforts of life. In suci
times as these why should not th
Democratic administration practic
ut least reasonable economy? VIII,
should they now tax the peopl
that they may be INDUCED In tn
-"1st extravagant aud wasteful eS