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Show H' 1 ? i I'ftuTH. 2 . f ; church for pure patriotism and love of Utah, Deseret, Deseret. You have gone over to the enemies of your people, to the enemies of Utah) the land which gave you birth and honored you and cherished you; you have joined with those whose motives are the basest, who have been and are slandering and villifying and lieing about all the people of Utah, Gentile, Jew and Mormon. Shame on you, shame on you. Senator Cannon. i i i Jl J Two political meetings were held in Bingham last week, one by the Kearns Kickers and the other by the Republicans. A report of each appeared in the Tribune. The Kickers meeting was described as a most enthusiastic affair, crowded to excess with sympathizers of the movement, who applauded Judge Hiles and other speakers in their laborious efforts to show that the K. Ks. were the salt of the earth, h i 3 or at least of this portion of H i '.'ll t .if - Jf 'I' . . H i r i . We would suggest to Mr. Lippman that the courtesies due between gentlemen are such that it is not in good taste to have a spy around. Salt Lake City is not Russia, and the sight of Joe's mouse poking his diminutive presence around gentlemens legs trying to hear what they are saying, and running in and out of Republican headquarters and using Republican telephones is not pleasant. Joe, be decent Call off your mouse. t i : All of which is false and most misleading. The facts are that the meeting was well attended, but only a small percentage of those present were K. Ks. or sympathizers of the movement. The enthusiasm was furnished almost exclusively by the K. K. drum corps and other hirelings and clacquers. taken from Salt Lake at the expense of the K.K. organization. Judge Hiles speech was not delivered as it appeared in the Tribune. The report of the Republican meeting as it appeared in' the Tribune was just as misleading and false as the report of the K. K. meeting. It was represented as a frost and a farce and the speakers, although most of them talked for the national Republican ticket, were belittled and poohpoohed by he former Republican organ. Now as a matter of fact, the Republican meeting was attended more largely than the K. K. meeting. It was an enthusiastic audience and the speakers were listened to with interest throughout. Judge Bowman scored the K. K. party, exposed its corruption and bad faith and was liberally applauded. Judge Christopher Reed, C. S. Kinney and Harry Josephs received rapt attention and were treated with respect and evident appreciation. . V: it o THE ONLY REMAINING REGIS- TRATION DAYS ARE TUESDAY, OCT. 18, TUESDAY, NOV. 2, AND WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3. o NATIONAL POLITICAL SITUATION. : . The Review of Reviews lor the current month has a very interesting article dealing with the national political situation, with particular references to the two presidential candidates. The article is clear, plain and dispassionate, and highly interesting to thinking people. We reproduce from it the i ...i , : j ' L j i t . ; i ! r i following: Judge Parker as the Country Sees Him The campaign thus far has remained totally devoid of any squarely joined Nothing as yet has public issues. clearly disclosed Judge Parker's personality to the American public, and his selection of topics and mode of presentation have not revealed a very masterful grasp of national affairs, or any' detailed acquaintance with them. But this was to be expected. Nothing has happened, or been brought out by his opponents, that in any manner takes away from the prevailing estimate of Judge Parker as an admirable gentleman of fine mental poise and political sagacity. But the progress of the campaign season has made more prominent the fact of his lack of experience in executive work, and especially the absence in his case of a background of experience and familiarity in public matters on the national plane. Thus, in discussing the question of trusts in his speech of acceptance, Judge Parker had said that his studies of the question had convinced him that the common law provided adequate remedies. Subsequently, lawyers of his own party called his attention to the fact that the common law has no application to matters of national concern, and that railroads and industrial corporations doing interstate business could only be dealt with from the national standpoint by virtue of the enactment of federal statutes. Trusts and the Common Law' .. When this was pointed out to Judge Parker, he recognized his mistake readily enough, and it was understood that he would correct it in his letter of acceptance. The matter has importance only as illustrating a certain lack of convictions formed in consonance with the long history, at Washington, so familiar to constitutional lawyers who have dealt with federal rather than merely state concerns, of the struggle to bring railroads under public control and to find methods for the protection of the country as a whole against the larger forms of industrial monopoly. For more than thirty years these questions have been very prominent ones, and their consideration by able legal minds in both houses of congress and in practice before the federal courts has formed a large part of the political and constitutional history of the United States. Judge Parkers experiences, having been confined to a long career on the state bench of New York, have so shaped his thinking that the national aspect of questions like those of the trusts happens to be unfamiliar. No one, however, will doubt his ability to adjust himself readily to the national viewpoint. or Sovereignty? Another illustration is to be found in Judge Parkers somewhat vague discussion of the Philippine question in his acceptance speech. He committed himself in that document to the idea for the Filipinos, qf and his most prominent supporters among the leading newspapers were divided in opinion as to whether by he did not mean political independence in the sovereign sense. In order to clear up this point, he addressed a letter to the Hon. John G. Milburn, for publication, in which he declared himself for full independence not now, but at some appropriate future time. This does not differ, for any working purposes, from the position that is taken by President Roosevelt, Judge Taft, Mr. Elihu Root, and the Republican leaders, Judge Parker has, however, adopted the view of those who hold that while Philippine independence is a future affair, it is our present duty to express our intentions. This rather attenuated distinction may appeal to the g minds of a few gentlemen of academic inclination; but people who are doing things and are in concrete touch with the real phases of such problems as we have on our hands in the management of the Philippine Islands know perfectly well that there is no real question involved in this theoretical discussion. The status of the Philippine Islands has already been fixed by the decisions of the courts. The intentions of the American people as to holding the Philippines were fully Self-Governme- nt self-governme- nt self-governme- nt hair-splittin- four years expressed in the campaign before the was ago, when the subject of country. Judge Parkers discussion the subject, as amended in the Milburn attempt letter, savors somewhat of the imterms Roosevelt Mr. to. do what provising convictions. The Speech on Extravagance. an Again Judge Parker has foundcamopportunity to help shape the paign issues when, on September 8, he was visited at Esopus by a steamboatload of Democratic editors from differwho had been ent parts of York in orNew at brought together der to consider how best to promote average ordinary expenditure during Mr. Clevelands second administrate was $360,000,000. Every one familia! with the history of our finances aware that expenditures would hav! averaged fully $400,000,000 in thJ period but for the fearful deficits fo revenue caused by the failure of Wilson tariff bill to produce anything like revenue enough to pay the most ? I'necessary public bills. The govern ment was obliged to sell bonds at di advantageous terms, and, in a time of profound peace, to borrow enormous quantities of money in order to meet running expenses. Under these ciit seems rather absurd rcumstances, the interests of the party in this cam- Judge Parker to invite comparisons forin m paign. Judge Parker had carefully the matter of the management of prepared a written address to the edifinances. The last four of tors. His principal theme was the ex- Democratic administration, years which travagance of the Republican govern- Judge Parker pronounces so superior He ment in national expenditures. in fiscal management, exhibited defimof instances no mentioned specific icits exceeding $150,000,000, an aveproper appropriation of public money, rage yearly deficit of about $40,000,000. but merely compared the size of the How Figures May Prove Too Much. budget during the past three years with its average size in Mr. CleveIf, then, as Judge Parker plainly adreckless extravagance is to be Parkers term. holds, lands first Judge was inferred from- a total growth of the vice to the Democratic editors that they take their theme and ring budget, how shall we characterize the the. changes upon it through the cam- wastefulness of the last Cleveland aJJ paign. As party fighting generally goes dministration, when we remember that this is as legitimate as anything else, it used, in the ordinary expense of aprovided the facts are stated fairly and dministration $360,000,000 a year, and by not disingenuously. Judge Parkers so doing ran in debt $40,000,000 a presentation seems to come a little year, whereas the last Republican ashort of frankness, although no one dministration preceding the first Clevwill say that there was any intention eland term, namely, the Garfield-Ar- to create a false impression. Thus, he thur period, had carried on the gocites the great expenditure of last vernment very comfortably at the rate year, which he gives as $582,000,000, of about $255,000,000 a year, and, at and then says: "There is an inevit the same time, had piled up splendid able result to such extravagance. surpluses of income amounting to This result, as he proceeds to declare much more than $100,000,000 a year, in the next sentence, is now a deficit with which it paid off a large part of of forty-twmillion dollars, instead of the countrys interest-bearinpublic a surplus in the annual receipts of debt? Or, if the mere growth of the about eighty million dollars, which the budget is to be presumptively regarded present executive found on assuming as due to culpable extravagance, what control. shall we say when we compare the second Cleveland administration with the Facts as to National Expenditure. first one? A fuller statement of our financial informs us Judge Parker impressively Mr. Clevthat condition, however, would have to rec- elands first term theduring average annual eognize the fact of enormous reductions xpenditure was about $269,000,000. of revenue caused by abolishing the does to us that the he omit tell Why taxes imposed at the beginning of the annual average expenditure during Mr. Spanish war. Furthermore, the excep- Clevelands second term was tional outlay of last year was swelled had Nothing happened to make by the inclusion of $50,000,000 paid to any radical change in Uncle Sams the, French company and to Panama scale of befor the canal right of way. This is to tween living in the brief period the two Democratic administrabe- regarded as an investment rather of which Judge Parker than an item of current expenditure. tions, both for their superior management The usual method would have been to praises of issue bonds for such a purpose. Our fromtreasury affairs and their freedom reckless extravagance and waste government, however, was so well of with money that it could make of the peoples money at the ratefirst $100,000,000 a year more than the this valuable acquisition of property, orwhich includes the Panama Railroad, Cleveland, administration, and, in was a large amount of canal excavation, der to have the money to spend, rates and many other assets, out qf current borrowing a great deal at high There is precisely as cash on hand. This appropriation of of interest. sort of money was made with the approval of much justice and value in this as in the country at large, and was support- comparative financial statistics ed by the Democratic leaders of most the sort that Judge Parker presents in of the states that will cast 'their elec- his address to the Democratic editors. Uncle Sams Scale of Living. toral votes for Judge Parker this year. There has, indeed, since the first adThe general situation may be easily ministration of Grover Cleveland, a stated in a few bold figures. But for period of some twenty years, been a the failure of the income tax and the very .large growth in the national ex- disappointing results of the penditure, but Judge Parker will have tariff, we should undoubtedly to go into much detail before he can have seen in the last Cleveland ad- convince the American people that ministration a fairly this general growth of the budget is budget of about $400,000,000, that is the mere result of extravagance, and to say, national income on the one that the Democratic party would take hnad, and expenditure on the other us back to budgets substantially like hand, would have reached almost that those of 1886, for example. figure. The growth of the country since that time, and the expansion of ' On Comparative Statistics. certain public services, have now in Mr. Parker himself particularly in- creased Uncle Sams housekeeping bill vites comparison of the total yearly to a of about $500,000,average yearly expenditure of Roosevelts adminis- 000. He spent that much last year J, tration with that of Clevelands first and also j: purchased some valuable term. A more useful sort of comparithat property with additional money son is one which would also include he had saved out of his recent income. Mr. Clevelands second administration. Parker does not in the least Judge Speaking in round figures, the total or- clarify the subject by trying to niake dinary expenditure of the government it appear, when he mentions $582,000, in Mr. Clevelands first administration 000 as last that the expenditure, years increased from $250,000,000 a year to mere figures themselves are evidence $300,000,000. Now, It happens that the of extravagant living. As respects the the-countr- - y r. i pub-li-e - o g $365,000,-000- ? - pro-vide- d Wilson-Gorma- n well-balance- . d :: w, , |