The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01
CAMPAIGN SPEECH
Of WILSON BODS UP
President Shown to Have Ad.
vocated Free Tolls for the
American Ships.
STOOD UPON PLATFORM
Congressman Knowland of
California Has Address
Printed in the Record.
BY Iuterna atiopsI News Service.

BY 1uterpa tiopa News Service.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Congress
man Knowland OF California today re
celved unanimous consent in tho hous,
TO insert in the Congressional Record
extracts from campaign speech o.
President Wilson e1tolling toll exemp
tions for American ships. Tho speool
was delivered at Washington Park, N
j., on August Is, 1912. Mr.. Wilson
said that the Democratic platform wa
mot molasses 70 catch flies, and tina
gentlemen who talk one way and vote
another arc going to be retired to {
| private and quiet retreat
! The extracts inserted in the record
! follow:
90 Now there is another matter yor
! know we are digging a tremendous
! ditch acress the isthmus of Panama
! II is predicted by the engineers in
charge OF that colossal enterprise that
we shall be able to open it TO the ships
of the world by tho year 1915, What
interest have You in opening it to the
ships of the world7 We don't own the
ships of the world.
Blames Legislation.
BY very ingenious process which
| would not keep you standing in tho
lSlation of the United States has de.
stroyed the merchant marine Of the
United States. The chief road by which
your crops travel to the Orient is
through the Sucz canal. They don It
go around by the Pacific. Most of
your maps do not show you the short
road to the Orient because they are
spread ont flat.
g II you will get globe and draw a
circle around the globe, you Will see
your short road is through the Suez
the western farmer, therefore, has to
ship his crops across the continent in
order TO reach the ships that are to
take that road. And when his crops
reach the port, do they find American
ships waiting for them7
Not at all; in most years not a
single ship carrying the American flag
goes through that canal carrying
freight.
Flag Off the Seas.
"Some ships carry the American flag
through that canal, but they are mostly
private yachts. A friend of mine who
has Just travelled around the world, told
me that he did not see the American
flag once between New York and Hong
kong, going by way of the canal, and
until he reached the island of Ceylon,
and then saw the flag of Nj James
Gordon Bennett IS yacht. If the ship
owners Of the nations carry your grain
and cargoes, they are going to carry
them by routes and markets which suit
them, not the routes and tho markets
which are chosen by you.
One of the great objects in cut
ting that great ditch across the isthmus
Of Panama is TO allow farmers who are
near the Atlantic TO ship to the Pa
clIlc by way OF tho Atlantic ports, to
allow the farmers on what l may stand
ing here, call this part of the continent
to lind an outlet at ports Of the gulf
or the ports of the Atlantic seaboard,
and then coastwi8e steamers carry their
products down around through the
canal and up the Pacific coast, or down
the coast of South America.
Free Tolls.
Now, at present there are no ships
TO do that and one OF the bills pend
ing passed, believe, yesterday by the
senate, as it had passed the house, pro-
vldes for free tolls for American ships
through the canal and prohibits any
ship from passing through which is
owned by any American railroad com,
pany, You see the object of that, don t
youf We don t want the railroads to
compete with themselves, because we
understand that kind OF competition.
We want water carriage to compete
with land carriage, so as TO be perfect
~ sure that you arc going to get bet
ter rates around the canal than YOU
would across the continent
The farmers of this country are, in
my Judgment, just as much concerned
in the policy of the United States with
regard TO that canal as any other class
of citizens OF the United States. Prob.
ably they arc more concerned than any
other one class, and what ] am most
desirous to see is the farmers Of the
country coming forward as partners in
the great national undertakings and
take wide national, nay, information
al view of these great matters, feeling
all the pulses of the world that beaf
in the great arteries of their own life
and prosperity. Everything that is
done in the interest Of cheap transpor
tation, IS done directly for the farmer
as well as for other men So that Won
ought not 70 grudge the millions
poured ont for the deepening and open.
ing of old and new waterways.
Praises Platform.
''Our platform Is not molasses to
catch flies. 1t means business n
means what It says It is the utterance o
Of earnest and honest men who intend
TO do business along those lines and
who are not waiting TO see whether
they can catch votes with those prom.
ises before they determine whether
they arc going TO act upon them or
not.
~ know the American people are
now taking notice in 2 way in which
they never took notice before. and
gentlemen who talk one way and vote
another are going to be retired to very
quiet and private retreats. -
SENTIMENT FAVOpS