The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-30

ance. The months Of July and Aug
ust, 1915. presents the Government
with a deficit Of s30,000,0OO as the
ample revenue of Speaker Clark and
Chairman Underwood Free tade
prophecies again yield TO mathemat-
les. The fiscal decisions Of Democrat
ic statesman require treatment by
Republicans who are able to. distin-
guish between surplus and a defic-
It.
The great interior region between
the Alleghanies and the Rocky Noun
tains Is known as the Middle West.
In territory and agriculture 1t is the
great body of the North American
Republic. II is washed by no tide
water and its southern borders blend
where both corn and cotton grow.
1t contains the nations granary.
without its generous yield we would
depend on foreign markets to support
our people. It numbers among its
cities the second largest in the Wes-
tern Hemisphere and one of the
most cosmopolitan cities in the
world. Manufactures, mining, rail
ways and agriculture, commerce and
banking have sprung from its fertile
resources since the Civil War.
When peace returns to a troubled
,.,cx,L. ,,,a f,on tbz patiop, u,oo mus
turn their surplus to our markets.
They must sell their excess. Their
highly perfected organizations for
war purposes will be diverted to
peaceful pursuits. A vast produc-
ton must result. The temporary
protection given our markets by war
will end The free lists of the De-
mocratic tariff will food our markets
in an unprecedented volume. The
crippled and the MANNED must live.
Their handiwork will aelp swell the
flood until our people must feel the
strain. Wage scale adjustments
alone cannot meet merchandise pro-
duced under such conditions.
Subject to the essential principe
of protection, reciprocal advantage
must be sought in return from other
nations so that our surplus may
reach foreign markets. A construc-
tive policy, not an exclusive and de-
structive course, is required.
The most abhorent act OF the
present Democratic Administration is
the statement that an American who
seeks to open market or extend the
area of proper American influence
abroad must expect no help or pro-
lection from the mother country
They are told all who enter on a
foreign soil for gain are guilty Of
greedy commercialism and must as
sumo there the risks OF life and of
property. A more reprehensible. I'M
American declaration never came
even from the Democratic party.
The Democratic party, appeals for
son be reelected because he has kept
us out of war with Europe. In 1858
Franklin Pierce, a Democrat. was
President. The Crimean War be-
gan then. For more than three
years Great Britain, France, Turkey
and Sardinia fought Russia. Presi-
INT oil
1871 the Franco-Prussian War broke
out. General Grant, Republican,
was President. He kept the peace.
A few years ago the Russo-Japanese
War presented similar questions OF
neutrality and the rights of neutrals,
Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican,
was President He, too, kept us at
peace.
Why should Pierce, Grant or Roose
vet, have involved us in any Of
those past wars of the Old Word?
Why should President Wilson involve
us in the present European War?
Other Presidents did only their duty
then. 1t Is equally President Will
sons duty now. There Is no more
reason why the President should
enter into war now than the Presi-
dents named in other years.
The Government at Washington is
not now representative. It is sec
tional 1t represents neither voting
power, wage earners, occupations, or
material resources. The thirteen
states Of Alabama. Arizona, Arkan-
sas. Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi. North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and
Virginia are a group of solidlv Dem
ocratic states. Connecticut, Califor-
MIA, Illinois, Massachusetts,, Michi-
gan, Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey,
Ne. York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, and Wisconsin are |
thirteen states that are certainly Re- /
publican, or may be regarded as |
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