Show I THOSE SPEECHES When wo come to analyze the speeches of tho gentlemen whQ talked in the Salt Lake Theater night before last there Is a great deal of fun In E I them The chief humorist was Judge r Henderson Ho gave away thefact In the beginning that ho does not read The Tribune when he wanted to know why The Tribune did not discuss certain thIng all of which are In the files of The Tribune for tho last week Next lie declared that the Republicans could not tell what their principles were until un-til the next national convention had met and formulated them Wo wonder at what time and under what conditions I I Judge Henderson becunio a rabid silver I man The Tribune made a steady appeal ap-peal to him < a after day for quite i twelve years to rouse himself and to help restore silver while yet there was fa r chtance antI he renialned impervious to any of the appeals until some men II who had been Republicans and some other men who had been Populists got Into the Chicago convention and with j I some enlightened < Democrats made n I majority and indorsed the silver plat form Since then not to howl silver I every morning Is a mortal offense In Judge Hen ersons eyes His elucidation elucida-tion of the Porto Rico situation was most peculiar There are some people starving to death The Government has just l paid back to them all the money collected under the Spanish tariff for the last two years It is n question how to take care of those people who i arc starving and to educate their children I chil-dren but If one reads Judge Henderson It is simply a matter of the trusts When did Judge Hen crson raise his Yolcp against trusts before He says that President McKinley has announced tho strange doctrine that the lag and Constitution do not go together Where did he find that Wo believe all the speakers made that reference In discussing P < 4rto Rico and In telling what an oppression and oPJIes wrong the I tariff on the exports of that island 1 would be And sUill we have a dim recollection that there I a clause in the Constitution which reads this way The Congresr shall have power to dispose dis-pose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to tho United States and nothing In this Constitution shall bo so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United Stales or of nny particular State I I seems then that by the Constitution Constitu-tion Congress might sell out and out Porto Rico or the Philippines and the Constitution would go with the sale i that Is It would be entirely constitutional constitu-tional to make the sale We are afraid that In the hurry of business and In tho anxiety of politics neither of the I learned Judges who addressed the audience I audi-ence In the Salt Lake Theater has been ableto look up and read the Constitution Constitu-tion for several years But when a Democrat can work In n word of five syllables on tile ordinary Democratic audience the Found of it rolls sAvcetly underJils tongue and there is an air of wisdom and reserved strength about i which is i Impressive on the people who swear by Democratic gods When Judge Powers came upon the stage and declared that the Democratic party was a party o principle that had n good sound and reminds us of an Incident that happened Just as the great wnf of 61 broke out A young lawyer whose mother was Intensely I Southern sUddeniy changed from the Democratic party to the Republican His mother wrote him expressinG her fear that he had made n mjstake tell ing him that the passions of the people were greatly excited am that they would change when they grew calmer He wrote back n follows My Dear Mother Your most cherished favor has hen carefully read In reply catQfuly ing I beg to say that If 1 you know of any people who can got the start of mo In euunglnsr principles when necessary please inform me nccCa We do not say that the Democratic part is not rt a party of principle but we do say judging by the acrobatic performances per-formances of the party In Utah during the past three or four years that It has given to outsiders the impression that with it principle Is Mice thd spare room In an old New England home never lobe lo-be used except for company Jut gc Powers ridicules U C Republican Repub-lican platform hut hc cannot charge It with what Mr VnnCnft rOini > inri nn f Democratic platform sa lng 0 Jt was made simply to catch votes We think oven Judge Powers would not have the I hardihood to make that charge against the republican platform The next thing that worries the Judge is the HayPauneefotb > jtreaty Why surren der outright the right to fortify the canal after I t is built We will make a little prediction That is 1C the amendment to the treaty now before Congress passes and it Js confirmed byhe British Government Govern-ment If after that the canal Is built i Vlll never be fortified because by that time even as stupid lme Democrat as tfudjro Powers will see that William II a Scwiird was right that Admiral Dewey is right that the foremost statesmen of life world have been right in IU rlrht their Idea that such a work lmt as the Nicaragua canal ought to be like the guest lke the canal and ought to have Its absolute ls neuirall ty guaranteed lest some accident might miht happen to it jvhlch would Interfere Ill the commerce of the world I is all right to appeal to the prejudices Jpcc1 prCjudlci 01 peo pIe who have given no thoughtto the subject tQ loll them how > earful a tiling it would be lo have a great work like that n 1m and have no chance to pro tect 11 bul that reasoning will not bear analysis because in tho event of a war suppose a case It Is not presumed that tha the canal would be fortified through Its entire length Now suppose the war vas with Croat Britain The safety of the canal would depend not upon the fortifications J but upon the ability of our fleet on either ocean to Ice 1 1 l keep off the British feet Suppose England Jiad tl < sunk our fet In thc gulf the fortlllca lions would b < all right at the two ter minals of tiio canal But suppose that England were to land her marines at Blue Fields Just a few miles above the eastern terminus of the canal march them across the country and blow the canal I to pieces with dynamite what good woul the fortiaeillons do DItuwirK I Porto iLtco Judge Powers < li lanvj hut Porto Jile lhrNl lhlt Jtlto Is a part of I the talon I Porio J ttlrn IK I a flflPt J f the Union then her people ought to vote for TreHldont next fall Porto Rico Is not a part of the Union hut Is territory ter-ritory belonging t the United States and subject by the Constitution to Just exactly such treatment as Congress pleases to give It oven Ie l shi it Then Judge King got a little gay His chief anxiety apcmed to be the ab cence of poInts in the Republican plut form which he could attack That was Q fearful omission because when a Democratic orator cannot exhaust his time In telling of tho shortcomings of the adversary ho is gone because he has not anything to tell of his own party except what that party will certainly i cer-tainly do if I ever gets a chance And the people are n little distrustful of that because the party has lied I few times In the past and the sounding words of the exordium have hardly been realized 11 the peroration Of course the Judna had sompthlmr to say I of silver I although the Judge we think I would honestly confess if appealed to behind a barn somewhere whcro he could not be heard that there is not a Stale In tho Union that could be carried on the silver Issue this year not ono Finally the Judge found n ploce where he could land safely Then he poured out J the love In his heart for Pcna tor Rawllns That shows what a forgiving for-giving disposition he has because Senator Sen-ator Rawlina used all his Influence nl long ago to have Judge King beaten for Senator and to have I gentleman elected elec-ted who was shipping so much lead ore from Brill h Columbia that the Democratic Demo-cratic Legislaturecould not oven pass a friendly resolution In favor of lead and the protection of It In this country I coun-try But we do not wonder that the Judge rolled air Rawllns under his I tongue us the sweet morsel because Mr Rawllns happens loLo the only I I I I representative that Utah has in I Washington although the Democracy I hae had full control In this State for three years 1 would not elect a Senator I I Sen-ator and made a frightful mess out of it In decline JL Congressman And that I i reminds us what was the matter with the three Judges that they could not discuss the last plank In their platform before a Salt Lake audience Do Lole they nt deplore with their party that by the unanimous voice of Congress their lust Democratic Congressman was not Icr i mlttcd to take L seat in the House They arc great sticklers for the Constitution Con-stitution couldnt they say that the Constitution had been violated In keep Ing that gentleman out What wis the matter that that last plank could not I be discussed What was the mal r with Judge Powers and Judge Header son especially that they could not discuss dis-cuss it We could forgive Judge King because he Is a candidate but with JudJc I Pow rs nrwl lur l rm T IH1 sn n C VI both those gentlemen who insist thai the Democratic parly is a party of principle why could they not discuss the principle involved In that last plank We fear that both talked because be-cause they thought it a duty and not as a pleasure We arc aa sorry for them ag we can be under the circumstances stances but they are In the position of the man that there Is a slight reference refer-ence to in the Holy Book the one that could not touch pitch without being de lllcd fed I |