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Show I , l Aft g 1. These men are saying that 1 tele- graphed to Washington my disapproval a of the Adamson eight-hour law. It is w not true. I am in favor of the law. 3 On the -Ust of August, H)lu I receive. 1 9 a wire from President f liarles 1 j. Hen- 13 ry of the American Electric Railway association, as follows: fj ''Wire vour senators ami conrress- rfj men immediately to exclude electric "l rai Iways from any hours ' service bill introduced pursuant to president 's rec- ommendation. ' ' i 2. I refused to send any such wire. , c "Xo one in my employ or connected with fi me in the management of my roarl ever i sent a telegram or letter or other com- 'r munical ion to any congressman or otli- er official, or to any'noriy, protesting :! acainst any law regulatinrr hours of service or askine that electric roads be I excluded from the provision of such a I offer .4 10011 for the production of nn v evidence to the contrary which P ivav serve even as a foundation for the i falsehood beine disseminated by Mr. p Morris and his escort of speakers. Tins f& should furnish an opportunity for these Q gentlemen to retract or to make more P th:wi tliey have e-er been able to ac- b? cu-unlate in private hnines. t Thev are saving that T nm not a M sipepre temneraace nian: that am for M nrrih i hition in dry territory aiul against M it mi w-'t territory. That is not only n falsehood, but it H i made out of whole elnrh. 7 am not a sentimentalist on this or any que- I have refrained from personal attacks, criticism, scolding and misrepresentation of opponents in this cam- j paign. ' The remonstrances aroused by Mr. Hughes everywhere ev-erywhere he goes would be a warning against such tac- tics, even if it were not repugnant to my own sense of I honor and decency. The people don't want that kind j of a campaign. They resent it and will rebuke it at the polls. ! But 1 am compelled to defend myself from that . j style of attack. Mr. Morris and his corps of speakers in j their tour of the state have wilfully misrepresented me, . J and I propose to answer them, not in kind, but with a. . plain statement of facts, the truth of which may be easily ascertained. ! Hon. T am for prohibition state-wide and nation-wide as an economic necessity. neces-sity. It never made much headway when it was only a topic for lecturWg and playing on people 's emotions. Tt became ' a formidable movement only when business men took it up in the interest of economy and efficiency and enforced it on their premises and with their employees. J stand sfpiareiy and firmly upon' my party's jdatrorm, in letter let-ter and in spirit. But Mr. .Morris may be excused for doubting ny sincerity when it is recalled re-called that "for years "lie has questioned the sincerity of "every Kepublican leader in the state. On the 1 1 h of February, lt);ii, he publicly arreigned all the leading lead-ing lights of his party in the Salt. Lake theater and later seemed to doubt the sincerity even of his own church leaders lead-ers with, reference to prohibition. He seems to doubt everybody but himself and the two smooth politicians in the New house building who planned his campaign, secured his nomination, collected col-lected the necessary expense money from where they cnuld and probably hope to have considerable to say in running run-ning the state a little later. A. Thev are saying that 1. announced my opposition to President WiNon on the sugar tariff. Ln-t winter 1 was in Cuba and saw how inexpensively cane sugar could be raise, 1. 1 decided that beet sugar would have to be protected. It is a leading industry in-dustry of mv state. I am for my slate, h. r industries and her people before everything else. I took up the matter g with tiio administration directly and j through influential friends, I learned t That uirther reduction of the sugar tariff was not contemplated and that the 5- whole matter was to be given over to a J non-partisan tariff commission. This I? was what I wanted. In mv interview. as printed in the JJeseret News at that V time, 1 said: g A fter visiting f'nba a rid i uvesti- gating the sugar industry there, Senator Bamberger say that he is convinced that the beet sugar indus- ? trv of this country needs ronie pro- u te'etive tariff. He declared himself j- in favor of a tariff commission, as c advocated bt 1'resident Wilson. J n my interview iu The Tribune I said: h Sen n tor Bamberger r-aid his oh- (p seivations in Cubn convinced him F of the wisdom of tiie tariff on mi- 1 gar. So aie tariff on siig:ir is ncc b e-".rv for the sugar industry in the 1 "Tinted States. We need al o to have an exuert tariff com mi.-- urn, S Fuch as has been proposed by Bits- ident Wilson. j i have been explicit and emphatic in L mv denials of ti misrepresentations of mv opponents, berau-c they have enn- EE vineed me that no mere contradiction U will change the con rse of fa !sif i. ;it ion B thev tWe apparently marked out for p themselves. 1. therefore, uive the fads L aid challenge contrado tbui. K .siMON' bami:i-:k(;kr. |