The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-01-24

ring certain portions Of the annual
message Of the President Of the Uni
ted States to committees.
Mr.. Humphrey of Washington
MIR. Speaker, few days ago ! pre-
scented to the House list Of 227 lum-
Der and single mills in my state that
were closed on the first day of last
December just to demonstrate the
great blessing that had fallen upon
the country since It had been so di.
v,nely favored by free trade and De-
mocracy. Some of my Democratic
friends seemed to be somewhat per.
turbed and resentful because I did
this. They did not and they have
rot and they can not dispute tho
facts, but they said that we on this
side Of the House were preaching cal.
amity.
The list Of closed mills that I read
at that time tell story Of panic and
depression, of idleness and poverty, so
insignificant in comparison with the
list that now hold in my hand and
which I propose to lay before the
House ais to seem Of little import.
Suppose that 1t is admitted that the
presentation of these facts and figures
as to the business conditions of the
country is preaching calamity; why
should Democrat complain? For 16
years of unexamp'ed prosperity they
increasingly howled calamity; now
that we have calamity, they are indig-
nant because the facts are told. To
preach calamity when there is none
is Democratic; to preach 1t when 1t
exists is Republican.
AS started to say, our Democratic
friends are fearfully agitated because
we tell the facts But truth and
Democracy to cath are seldom happy
companions. II preaching calamity is
q sin. then even our honored Speaker
Ia hardly in position to cast the firsr
stone, or even the last one. Compar-
ed with the doleful predictions. tear
full tales, and mournful exhortations
that have come from the sad end elo-
quent lips of the Speaker in days gone
by, the lamentations Of Holy Writ are
az paeans Of praise. In those days
there was prosperity everywhere but
the smoke Of industry painting the
sky the Speaker could not see and
the hum Of countless wheels he could
not hear. But row amid the gloom
end silence of closing mills and dying
fires he is impressed with prosperity.
The Speaker reminds me Of an old
gentleman knew in my early days
when l lived in Indiana. He was
like the Speaker something Of phi
losopher and somewhat emphatic In
his language. He was greatly troubled
with the toothache. One day I met
him and said to him, Uncle Rease,
how is your toothache? He said, We'll
you know have had the toothache SO
long that I never notice 1t any more
unless the damn thing stops.
When I talked the other day ex-
hibited the list Of closed mills in the
state of Washington. That list has
been considerably increased since
that time. But l did not intend to re-
fer to that fact. There were some in
situations before that the conditions
complained Of were merely local. This
time I do not Propose to 60 to the
Pacific coast; expect to read a story
OF disaster and business depression
here in the East.
Here is a list giving the name and
location OF 1913 steel mills that were
all running a year ago, representing
an annual output of 12,s0o,000 tons
or 3S per cent of the entire produc-
ton of the entire nation.
Now, let some Democrat arise and
say whether that is preaching calam-
ity without facts to base 1t upon.
will read % list of the mills and the
localities.
Mr.. Reed-I suppose the gentleman
knows that some of those factories
which he presumably has in the list
have since resumed operations, ac-
cordlng to the accounts in the news
papers from which presume he COM
piled his statistics.
Mr., Humphrey of Washington-The
gentleman knows no such thing. Here
Is what the gentleman does know.
! thought some one on that side would
ask such question, so sent a wire
10 Cleveland to find out about the
facts and have here in my hand the
reply, which is addressed to me and
which received about twenty min
utes ago:
Cleveland. Ohio, Jan. 10, 1914.