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Show CONTRADICTION IN UTAH POLITICS There is not a Progressive on the I state fusion ticket in L'tah, who, on the stump this year, will dare quote I j from Roosevelt's speeches. There Is not a Progressive spellbinder who, if I called on; w ould venture to read any I cne of the political addresses colonel Roosevelt, since his return from the River of Doubt, has made. Why? Because to do so would make j a roaring farce of the union of Pro jgressive and Democrat in Utah I Roosevelt is the masterful mind of) I the Progressive party In the nation. I I I in fact he is the Progressive party.: I What he stands for. the party is obligated ob-ligated to espouse. But here in Utah, I the clever politicians of the Democrat- ic party so completely have hood-! I winked the reformers that they have placed the Progressives In the attl- i tude of self stultification Here is what Rooee-. elt said yea-terday yea-terday at a political meeting in Pitts- I burg, which wc challenge any Pro- i j gressive, who subscribes to fusion, to ) read before any public political gath- j ering during the present campaign In Utah. "As regards the tariff, I wish espe- cially to call your attention to the promises made by President Wilson and his supporters two years ago I They asserted that their method ot I taiiff reduction would reduce the cost of living and would thus solve the trust question because, as they said, j the trusts were the creatures of the I Liriff. We then answered that their j promises were empty words, that no ! such results as they stated could or would follow from the course they ' advocated, and that onlj by the meth-1 jod we proposed could either the trust ' or the tariff question be dealt with so as to abate the existing evils and at the same time increase the gen-oral gen-oral well being. Two short years have proved us to be right. Their promises have not been kept. Their performance has brought distress upon up-on the nation The cost of living has not been reduced. But the ability of the average man to earn a living has been greatly reduced. Not the slightest slight-est progress has been made toward I solving the trust question. But the business community has been harassed har-assed and harried to no purpose and the prosperity of the business man has been checked, exactly as the pros perlty of the farmer and the wage worker has been checked. Ab for the ' farmer, the present tariff, the administration's admin-istration's tariff, was so framed as to result in the sacrifice of his interests. He had no spokesman, no friend in high quarters and his welfare was contemptuously sacrificed At every VOint where hjs interest was concerned, concern-ed, he was made to suffer. As for the wage worker, the result of the tariff m that he suffered even more than hM employer, for he wa thrown out 'mploymcnt. and lost the means to his livelihood ftsforjie emploer, sometimes he has been able to struggle on with the loss of profits, sometimes he has had to close his shop. In business and in which any of the big trusts were concerned, it was the small competitors com-petitors of the trusts who were in- I jured and In many cases ruined Tariff Tar-iff reduction as put into practice by the present administration has chiefly chief-ly benefited foreign rials and competitors com-petitors it has done grave injury to the business community and the farm-i lng community, and has caused suffering suf-fering to the wage workers, and the I whole policy of the administration has I I been one to cause our people in busl-loess, busl-loess, our people on the farms, our I people with dinner pails, to look toward to-ward the future with grave concern and apprehension." The one essential thing to do is to ! turn out the Democrats who are re I sponsible for this grave concern and apprehension; to restore to the country coun-try the prosperity that always pn vails when a protective tariff is In force. That cannot be done, either in the nation or in Utah by voting to defeat Republican candidates |