The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-04-21

that canal, and prohibits any ship |
from passing through which is own
ed by any American railroad com
pany.
You see the object Of that, don't |
you? We don't want the railroads
to compete with themselves, be-
cause we understand that kind Of
competition. We want water car
riage to compete with land carriage,
so as to be perfectly sure that you
are going to get better rates around
the canal than you would across the
continent.
Our platform is not molasses to
catch flies. 1t means business. 1t
means what 1t says. 1t Is the ut
terance of earnest and honest men,
who intend to do business along
those lines and who are not wait
ing to see IL they can catch votes
with those promises before they
determine whether they are going
to act upon them or not.
On the binding obligation Of party
declaration l quote from the distin-
guished three ply Democratic candi'
date for President, and the present
most disappointing Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan, who, in
speech before the House Of Represen-
tatives of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg,
Pa, May 10, 1918, said:
lay 1t down as proposition and
am prepared to defend 1t any
where, that the representative who
secures office upon a platform and
then holds the office and betrays the
people who elect him is criminal
worse than the man who embezzled
money entrusted to him.
| In the fact of these positive pledges
when scarcely a year has passed
since he was inaugurated, the Pres
ident with the approving smiles and
Jealous applause of the Secretary OF
! State, delivered in person this brief
but startling edict to the Congress.
Mr.. howell then reads the Presidents
command and continues.
This brief dictatorial command
with it's mysterious hints and impli
cations or greater delicacy and near
er consequence, unless his demand II
granted in ungrudging measure, has
stirred the nation from center to cir
conference. The address takes on
an added significance, since, in De
cember last, the President. In pur
suance Of his constitutional duty, hap
PLY advised the Congress that
There is but one cloud upon oui
horizon. That has shown Itself tt
the south Of us, and hangs ovel
Mexico.
What has happened since to cal
forth this ominous message? From
whence comes the gathering clouds
now discerned by the President ath
wart our foreign horizon? 1t II
small wonder that, as now presented
the economic side Of the question II
Of small consequence and is given bu
scant consideration and that the ear
nest attention of the people nov
turns to the more vital inquiry a
to the causes that have prompted thi
humiliating sacrifice and backdowl
. from a position unitedly taken by al
national parties. Is the brillian
achievement of American diplomac,
to come to naught. Do we not hay
, sovereignty over our own territor
: and the wonderful achievement on
of American genius and American
treasure? 1t is in vain In this crisi
for gentlemen to debate its econon
, ic features. The economic questio
is no longer before Congress. Tn
: people will not be diverted from tn
, paramount issue by noisy declamatio
by some gentlemen against ship trust
and ship subsidies, and by other
against the unconscionable plot