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Show UTAH DAILY OF ACCEPTANCE -- (Continued from Pace 1.) Commercial wars are unprofitable. A relapolicy of good will und friendly tions will prevent reprisals. Reciprowith the city treaties are in harmony of remeasures of the times; spirit taliation are not. This argument was made in the interest of our manufacturers, whose products, he urged, "have so multimarplied that the problem of more Immekets requires our urgent and rediate attention." He had come to mt1 stand alise that the must policy must give way that there lie a reduction of duties to enable our manufacturers to cultivate foreign markets. The last words of this pres-lilewho had won the affection of his countrymen ought to be studied by every man who has any doubt of the necessity of a reduction In tariff rates In the Interest of the manufacturer. They present with clearness a situation and a proposed remedy that prompted the provision In our platform which declares that We favor liberal trade arrangements with da and with peoples of other countries whcr,. they can be entered Into with hem-ti- t to American agriculture, manufactures, mining or commerce. The persistent refusal of the Republican majority in the federal senate to ed nt ratify the reciprocity treaties negotiated in pursuance of the policy advocated alike by Mr- HInine and Mr. McKinley, and expressly sanctioned in the Dlngley act itself, is a discouraging exhibition of bad faith. As already mentioned by me, the exorbitant duty Imposed on many an Imported article by the Dlngley tariff was avowedly intended by its author not to be permanent, but to serve temporarily as a maximum, from which the federal government was empowered to offer a reduction, in return for an equivalent concession on the part of a foreign country. President McKinley undertook honestly to carry out the purpose of the act. ,A number of reciprocity agreements were negotiated, - . . which, if ratified, would have had the two-fol- d result of cheapening many Imported products for American consumers, and of oiiening and enlarging foreign markets to American producers. Not one of those agreements has met with the approval of the Republican masters of the senate. Indeed, they did not even permit their consideration. In view of the attitude of the present executive, no new agreement need be expected from him. Nor does the Republican platform contain a favorable reference to one of the suspended treaties. The reciprocity clauses of the Dlngley act seem destined to remain a monument of legislative cozenage and political bad faith, unless the people take the matter in their own hands at the ballot box and command a reduction of duties In return for reciprocal concessions. Independence for the Filipinos. In some quarters It has been assumed that in the discussion of the Philippine question In my response, was inthe phrase tended to mean something less than It was not Intended independence. that it should be understood to mean, nor do I think as used it does mean less than lndeiiendence. However, to eliminate all possibility for conjecture, I now state that I am In hearty accord with that plunk In our platform that favors doing for the Filipinos what we have already done for the Cubans; and I favor making the promise to them now that we shall take such action as soon as they are reasonably prepared for it. If lndeiiendence. such as the Cubans enjoy, cannot be prudently granted to the Filipinos at this time, the promise that it shall come the moment they are capable of receiving It will tend to stim- ulate rather than hinder their development. And this should be done not only In Justice to the Filipinos, but .to preserve our own rights; for a free people cannot withhold freedom from another people and themselves remain free. The toleration of tyranny over others will soon breed contempt for freedom and and weaken our power of resistance to insidious usurpation of our constitutional rights. - American Citizenship. The Pledge of the platform to secure to our citizens, without distinction of race or creed, whether nutlve born or naturalised, at home and abroad, the equal protection bf the laws and the enjoyment of all the rights and privileges open to them under the covenants of our treaties, as their Just due, should be made good to. them. In the accomplishment of that result It is essential that a passport issued by the government of the United States to' an American citizen shall be accepted. the world over as proof of citizenship.' Civil Service. The statute relating to civil service Is the outcome or the efforts of thoughtful, unselfish and public spirited cltixens. Operation under it has frequently been of such a character ns to offend against the spirit of the statute, but the results achieved, even under a partial enforcement of the law, have been such as to both deserve and commund the utterance of the Democratic party that it stands committed to the principle of civil service reform and demands its Just and Impartial enforcement. Reclamation of Arid Lands. A vast expanse of country in the West, portions 0f which are to be TEA There is no bond between you and us but our tea and our moneyback money. . TAaVm UUImi bwfc " ""W k ra don't UW. found In each of the sixteen States and Territories mentioned in the law, is directly affected by the national statute the outcome of intelligent and persistent efforts of leading citizens, providing for the reclamation of the arid lands for the benefit of home seekers. During the years of the development of the meusure which finally received the vote of every member of the upper house of congress, it encountered opposition, based to a large extent upon the view that the aim of its promoters was to secure the benefits of Irrigation to private owners at government expense. The aim of the statute Is, however, to enable this vast territory to reclaim its arid lands without railing upon the taxpayers of the country at large to pay for it. Whether the purposes of the bill will be fully accomplished must depend in large measure upon the ability, sobriety of Judgment, independence and honeaty of the officers of the Interior department having this great work in charge. In 1902 the main canals and ditches affected aggregated In the region thousand miles, more than fifty-nin- e and the work of reclamation is but in The total cost of conits infancy. struction of the necessary headgates, dums, main canals, ditches, reservoirs and pumping stations was at that time millions of a little over ninety-thre- e dollars, which of itself suggests the hundreds of millions that may eventually be Invested In the territory covered by the statute. The magnitude of the conception, and the enormous expense its carrying out involves, makes us realize the overwhelming Importance of a broad, capable and honest administration of the work authorized by the statute, if effect is to be given to that part of the plan that relieves the country at large from ultimate liability. Panama Canal. An Isthmian cannl has long been the hope of our statesmen, and tbe avowed aim of the two great parties, as their platforms in the past show. The Panama route having been selected. the building of the canal should be pressed to completion with all reasonable expedition. The methods by which the executive acquired the Panama canal route and rights are a source of regret to many. To them the statement that thereby a great public work was assured to the profit of our people Is not a sufficient answer to the charge of violation of national good faith. They appreciate that the principles and healthy convictions which in their working out have made us free and great, stand firmly agnlnst the argugment or suggestion that we shall be blind to the nature of the means employed to promote our welfare. They hold that adherence to principle, whether it works for our good or ill, will have a more beneficent Influence on our future destiny than all our material upbuilding, and that we should ever remember that the idea of doing a wrong to a smaller, weaker nation that we, or even all mankind, may have a resultant good is repugnant to the principles upon which our government was founded. Under the laws of the United States the duty is imposed on the executive to proceed with due diligence in the work of constructing the canal. That ' duty should be promptly performed. American Shipping. Our commerce in American bottoms amounts to but eight percent of our total exports and imports. For seventy years prior to 18(0, when the Republican party came into power, our merchant marine carried an average of seventy-fiv- e per cent of our foreign commerce. Ry 1877 It had dwindled to twenty-seve- n Now we per cent. carry but a contemptibly small fraction of our exports and Imports. American shipping ln the foreign trade was greater by over one hundred thousand tons in 1810 nearly a hundred years ago than it was last year. In the face of the continuous decline in the record of American shipping during the last forty-thre- e years, the promise of the Republican party to restore It is without encouragement. The record of the Democratic party gives assurance that the task can be more wisely entrusted to It. It is an arduous task to undo the effect of forty years of decadence, snd requires the study and investigation of those best fitted to find the remedy which surely doe not He in the granting of subsidies, wrung from the pockets of all the taxpayers Investigation of Government Departments. Recent disclosures, coupled with the rapid augmentation of government expenditures show a need of an investigation of every department of the government. The Democrats in Congress demanded It The Republican majorThe people ity refused the demand. can determine by their vote In November whether they wish an honest and thorough Investigation. A Democratic congress and executive will assure it. Army and Navy. We are Justly proud of the officers and men of our army and navy. Both, however, have suffered from the persistent injection of personal and political influence. Promotions and appointments have been frequently based on favoritism Instead of merit. ls Trials and have been set aside under circumstances indicating political Interference. These and other abuses should be corrected. Pensions for Our Soldiors and Sailors. The natioiuil Democracy favors liberal pensions to the surviving soldiers and sailors and their dependents, on the ground that they deserve liberal treatment. It pledges by lt platform adequate legislation to that end. But It denies the right of the executive to usurp the power of Congress to legislate on that subject. Such usurpation was attempted by pension order No. court-martia- JOURNAL, and effect has been given to It by a congress that dared not resent the usurpation. It is said that this order was made In the performance of a duty imposed upon the President by act of Congress. but the provision making the Imposition is not pointed out. The act to which the order refers. which is the one relating to pensions to civil war veterans, does not authorize iiensions on the ground of age. It doez grant penzions to those suffering from any mental or physical disability, or disabilities, of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which so inthe performcapacitates them from aa to render ance of manual labor them unable to earn a support. This is in effect requirement of Incapacity set aside by order No. 78 aa to all per78. PARKERS LETTER STATE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1904. coertiny for themselves free from the cion of any European State. Reform in Governmental expenditures. years have passed Twenty-eigparty of the since the Democratic State of New York, in convention assembled, recommended to the national Democracy the nomination of Samuel candidate for the j. Tliden as its declared it to be Presidency, and -their settled conviction that a return to the constitutional principles, frugal expenses and administrative purity of the founders of the republic is the first and most Imperious duty of the times the commanding issue now before This strong the people of the union. expression was called forth by the national expenditures for the year 1875, which amounted to $274.000,000 a situation which, in the opinion of a maimjority of our people, justifiedin an adthe perative demand for reform ministration of public affairs. As the expenditures for the last fiscal year amounted to the enormous total of $582,000,000, it is evident that a thorough Investigation of the public service and the Immediate abandonment ht generous assistance of every man who believes that a change of measures and of men at this time would be wise, and urge harmony of endeavor as well as vigorous action on the part of all so minded. The issues are joined and the people must render the verdict. Shall economy of administration be demanded or shall extravagance be encouraged? Shall the wrongdoer be brought to bay by the people, or must justice wait upon political oligarchy? Shall our government stand for equal opportunity or for special privilege? o, nothing quite 80 good as l'Urt, wholesome bread. Crescent Flour may start Retains the sweet, a nutty flavor of the well-matur- ed berry and makes most satisfactory bread, Bear $532,-000,0- food-tliei- is despotism ? sons over sixty-twWith calmness and confidence we The war closed nearly forty years the peoples verdict await ago. In the meantime many of our If called to the office of president I soldiers and sailors long survived the shall consider myself the chief magisand passed away age of sixty-twtrate of all the people and not of any Skillwithout receiving any pension. faction, and shall ever be mindful of ful pension attorneys hunting through the fact that on many questions of the statute failed to find there a pro- nf useless and extravagant expendi- national policy there are honest difvision giving a pension to all who had more necessary now than ferences of opinion. I believe in the Many tures are reached the age of alxty-tw- o. were then. This astounding in- patriotism, good sense and absolute they prominent veterans urged the Justice crease I shall of all proportion to the sincerity of all the people. out is of congressional action giving a serfinde strive to remember that be may serve and our of population, increase to veterans to all Bills vice pension excuse from whatever aspect we his party best who serves his country that effect were Introduced in Con- no the situation. The national best. view gress. And not until March of this Democratic If It be the wish of the people that that platform declares claim one ever to did have any yeur I undertake the duties of the presimade can be reductions easily large made the discovery that the President the annual expenditures of the gov- dency, I pledge myself, with Gode had power to treat the statute as if it in ernment without impairing the effi- help, to devote all my powers and enread that when a claimant had passed of branch of the public ser- ergy to the duties of this exalted ofany ciency o necesis sixty-twhe of years the age be any doubt of the fice. Very truly yours, Can vice." there one-half to In ability sarily disabled BeALTON B. PARKER. statement? of this accuracy perform manual labor and therefore tween the expenditures of the year entitled to a pension. to $242,000,000, and 1886, The present pension commissioner those amounting of the last fiscal year the sevindicated hie view of the order when enth after Grover Cleveland ceased to in a recent address he thanked the be president aggregating $582,000,000, You president for what he had done, and there is a difference so great as to exadvised his hearers to use their influ- cite alarm in the breasts of all ence that a law might be passed to Savings thoughtful men. Even excluding the the same effect. Full confidence after sum Panaof $50,000,000 paid for the Account all seems not to have been placed on ma canal rights and to the State of the defense of Justification, for it is Panama, the expenditures of the last to Compound pleaded in mitigation that a former fiscal year exceeded the sum of Democratic president did something being more than double the looking in that direction. Even if that for all were so which is not admitted our expenditures of the government of Mr. purposes during the first year 3 the none would be less the present duty Cleveland's administration. Our people plain and imperative. Ogden must never tolerate the citation of one The expenses of the first four years act of usurpation of power aa an ex- succeeding the last Democratic adcuse for another. The first may pos- ministration amounted to the enorSavings sibly be due to mistake; the second, mous average of $511,000,000 per year. with being based on the first, cannot be. In This large expenditure was due to a to of extent cost the the considerable should said it be explanation, however, war, which octhat the order relied on simply pro- Spanlsh-Americcurred . during that period ; but the vided that the age of seventy-fiv- e years should be regarded as evidence termination of that war brought no too of Inability to perform manual labor. relief to the treasury, for the average of annual the government, expenses Few men are able to perform manual labor at that age, but nearly all men during the three subsequent years are at sixty-twThe first order is ending June SO, 1904, were about which is the largest sum hithbased on a fact that experience teaches, the other Is based on the as- erto reached, during a like period, sertion of that which is not true as a since the close of the civil war. This draft upon the revenues of the general rule. The old Inquiry, What are you go country has bad the effect which might have been anticipated, and now we ing to do about It? is now stated In a new form. It la said by the adminis- have presented the reverse of the situLoaned salaried people same day led to the famous obsertration, in reply to a public criticism ation, which for without security or Inasked is a not a It and vation, condition, of this order, that it is easy to test dorsement, without knowledge of our opponents sincerity in thla mat- theory, which confronts us; for, alter. The order in question is revocable though the present Incumbent found employer or any one; payments to close of the first fiscal year, at the pleasure of the executive. If at the which suit. be assumed control of our opponents come into power they during LOWE8T RATE8I BEST TERM8I can revoke this order and announce the administration, a surplus of re more over of than ceipts Your credit once established at my expenditures that they will treat the veterans of sixty-tw- o and seventy as presumably $91,000,000, there was an excess of exoffice you can get money at a moin full bodily vigor and not entitled to penditures over receipts at the close ment! notice. Call and get my Will they authoritatively, of the last fiscal year of $42,000,000, pension. terms before going elsewhere. official the made and monthly reports state that they Intend to do this? If D. D. DRAKE by the treasury department show that o, we accept the issue. 410-1- 1 This suggests the suspicion, at the expenditures are continuously and Tel. 500-Eeelee Bldg. rapidly Increasing, while the receipts least, that the order was made to ere are 8:80 to 10 to 11 Sunday Open 7:S0,; diminishing. ate an Issue that it was supposed to present a strong strategic position in In this connection it is interesting tbe battle of the ballots. But as the to note the recent administrative orforbidding government officers making of that order was, in my Judg ders ment, an attempted, though perhaps from making public any statement of unwitting encroachment upon the leg- estimates on which future appropriaislative power, and, therefore, unwar' tions are to be based. If a man of ordinary Intelligence Z ranted by 'the constitution, the chal ienge Is accepted. If elected I will re- and prudence should find in the oper voke that order. But I go further and ating expenses of his business such a say that that being done, I will con- tremendous percentage of increase, tribute my effort toward the enact- would he not promptly set on foot an ment of a law to be passed by both Inquiry for the cause of the waste, and houses of congress and approved by take Immediate measures to stop it, the executive that will give an age especially when trusted employees pension without reference to disability have been found dishonest and conLET THE to the surviving heroes of the civil victed, and a widespread Impression war; and under the provisions of exists that a thorough investigation & which a pension may be accepted with may discover other cases of malfeasdignity because of tbe consciousness ance? When the chief executive rethat it comes as a Just due from the ported to congress that through people through their chosen represent- frauds, forgeries and perjuries, and by atives, and not as largess distributed shameless briberies the laws relating Furnish you with either to the proper conduct of the public by the chief executive. service in general, and to the due ador both. Foreign Relations. x ministration of the postofflee departThe foreign relations of the govern- ment have been notoriously violated ment have in lute years assumed spe- . . . E. W. WADE, Mgr. fer Ogden was a general popular there cial Importance. Prior to the acquisi- demand for a investirigid, sweeping tion of the Philippines, we were pracgation by congress, In addition to that ticably invulnerable against the at- undertaken by the executive himself. tacks of foreign states Those tropi- Such an investigation the Republican cal possessions however, seven thouin congress would not persand miles from our shores, have majority mit, although the minority insisted ALBERT F. RICHEY all this and have in effect put ihat the Interests of good government changed ue under bonds to keep the peace. The demanded it. And the minority was new conditions qull for a management The liberality, patriotism and of foreign affairs the more circum- right. national pride of the people should in spect that the recent American in- not be made an excuse for waste of Phone 150 2372 Washington vasion of foreign markets in all parts the funds. Official public extravaOpen Day and Qght. of the world has excited the serious gance i official crime. apprehension of all the great IndusThere Is not a sentence In the Retrial peoples. It Is essential, therefore, publican platform recommending a remore than ever, to adhere' to duction in the expenditures of the the traditional policy of thestrictly country government; not a line suggesting The Cheapest Place to Buy as formulated by its first president, that the Increase in the cost of the and never. In iny Judgment, wisely de- war department from $34,000,000 in parted from to invite friendly rela- I88( to $115,000,000 in 1904, should be tions with all nations while avoiding Inquired Into; and not a paragraph alliances with any. Such calling for a thorough entangling investigation of BALLARD & RINCKER. a policy means the cultivation of those departments of the government pence instead of the glorification of in which TeL (53. 881 34th Street war, and the minding of our own busi- disclosed. dishonesty has been recently ness In lieu of spectacular intermedThe however, can by their dling with the affair of other nations votes, Ifpeople, desire it. order such an they It means strict observance of the prininvestigation and inaugurate a policy ciples of international Law and con- of economy and retrenchment. It is demns the doctrine that a great state, safe to say that this will not be acreason of its strength, may rightby complished by endorsing at the polls fully appropriate and sovereignty or the Republican majority of the house The longer eyes are deprived of the territory of a small state on nccount of representatives which refused the of its weakness, it means for other aid they NEED, the worse they beInvestigation and made the appropriaAmerican states that we claim no tions. come. This is especially so In eye denor by in continuing power the tects of rights and Mill nssume no functions administration which young people. The eyes of mail, the dia. save thouse of a friend and of nn alchildren should receive special attenbursement. and defender as against European ly tion during their school days. Many Reform in It means that we re- both In the expenditures must be had a child aggressions. might have become a power in civil, military and nnval pudiate the role of American contiIn order that the na- the land if not handicapped by some nental policeman; that we refuse to establishments bodily defect Of all the ailments to expenditures may be act as debt collector for foreign states ational basis of peuce nn,j the brought to which children are liable, eye defects or their citizens; that we government respect the maintained without recourse to the are becoming the most common. I exindependent sovereignty of each taxes of war. ercise great care in examinations of American State and its right to prethis kind snd GUARANTEE satisfacConclusion. serve order and otherwise regulate 1,1 its " to1 own internal affairs in its own If"1' "'"Wnlal work, tion. which I ho exp,-- , ted to devote mv and that any Intervention In Itsway; afl fairs by us Is limited to the single of- life. 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