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Show yoke that has been forced upon you by a political machine dominated domi-nated absolutely by these grinding monopolists. EDITORIAL COMMENT. v V v Within a week the people of '' VJ Manti have had an opportunity to listen to campaign speeches on both sides of public questions. King -s and Young 'spoke for the Demo- " crats, and Howell,; Kearns and ' -:.V' Clark of Wyoming, for the Repub- licans. Senator Clark is no doubt "NT the ablest speaker on the stump in -V this campaign, from the Republi- can standpoint. The arguments pie. To add to the fortunes of the millionaires of the country cannot bring relief. It will only add to our distress. On. the Trust question, the Republican Re-publican conventions of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Idaho have said that Trusts are a great evil, and that the only effectual way to treat with them is the Democratic idea of taking off the tariff which protects the Trusts. Other Republican Repub-lican statesmen insist that Trusts are much the same as formerly, ex- cept a shifting on the tariff and J ,J Trust issues, the Republicans mak- ing the plea to "let well enough ) alone." But the people are hardly satisfied to take them at their word that things are well enough. For "N. six years the people have been wait-ing wait-ing for a Republican congress to V.., take action against the grinding '--v- monopolies, but each month sees a "'"" new Trust added to the list, and C"'Suavl the fear is growing tnat the present - feint is only intended for campaign purposes ; not an unreasonable view to take, in the light of past experience. expe-rience. The perplexing question with the Republican party to-day is, how to fight the Trusts in pub-lie pub-lie without really hurting them in fact. In his discussion of the tariff, Senator Clark told of the blessings of the sugar factories to our State, and said the cause of their progress was due to the policy of protection. Further on he said, "If you don't support the Republican party and elect a Senator and Congressman who will uphold the hands of President Pres-ident Roosevelt, it will beihe means of closing up the sugar industry of are good things, (we have one of this latter class of Republican orators ora-tors in Sanpete county), and that tariff revision will not remedy the evil. Senator Clark on Monday night admitted that there were some bad Trusts which were grinding grind-ing to powder the common classes, but offered no remedy to crush them except an appeal to the people peo-ple to trust the Republican party to take care of the Trusts. The record of the party on this question reminds one of the story of the boy and the bull pup. As the story runs, a boy bought the pup with the view of training him for a fighter. In the course of his train - c" ing, the boy prevailed upon his father to help him out, by getting the parent to go down on his hands and knees and growling at the pup. The boy held fast to the pup while the old man growled, until the pup was good and angry, when the boy turned him loose. The pup sprang at the old man and caught him by the nose, and the boy, patting the pup on the back, said: "Father, grin and bear it, it will be the making of the pup." Through their training with the Republican party the 1 rusts to-day have the people by the nose. If the people can be induced to again follow the advice of the spell-binders now stumping the country, "grin and bear it" a while longer, it will be the making of more good Trusts, and incidentally save the Republican Republi-can party for a few years more. In handling the Trust problem it is not the purpose of the Democratic Demo-cratic party to disturb or attack legitimate industries, or take away from them anything which belongs to them. As the platform of the Democratic party of California aptly states it: "But we do propose pro-pose to withhold the aid of this great government from them. We propose to make them standalone; we propose to take away the unnecessary un-necessary protection now afforded them by the government, and let the commercial batteries of the world be trained upon them with the shot and shell of competition, until they are driven from their entrenchment of protection out into the open field of honest trade." It does not matter by what party name you call it, these principles must appeal strongly to every patriotic man and woman. Shake off the Ltah. The inconsistency of these "' two statements must be apparent to all. Congressman Sutherland contends that the Cuban reciprocity measure will destroy the Utah beet sugar industry, and for his vote on this bill he has been cast aside by the Administration followers in Utah. Yet Senator Clark would invite snch disaster by asking this people to vote for men who will support the President in his policy of free Cuban sugar. In one place these Republican spell-binders talk high protective tariff, and at an-other an-other place they talk tariff revision, and if you happen to mention the inconsistency of it, they actually get angry. Against this is the clear argument argu-ment of Judge Ring, the Democrat, Demo-crat, who advocates a tariff for revenue rev-enue with incidental protection, a tariff on life's luxuries while leaving leav-ing the necessities which the poor must have, a tariff that will not violate the good old doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges priv-ileges to none; that is the sort of tariff revision the Democrats stand for. No prosperity can be endured that does not spring up among the great industrial masses of the peo- |