Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-08 | Page 23 | Independent Voters, Read This!

I INDEPENDENT VOTERS READ THIS I II t I I is the duty of a true and Independent newspaper to give its readers BOTH SIDES of ev every ry big argument so they can do their own thinking and draw their conclusions after knowing tJ the facts in the the case ase TH THE E TELEGRAM here pr presents sent two great essays on the presidential election Two of the brainiest m men men n nI in I America are represented In these articles Col George Harvey has been rec recognized for many many years as 0 one ne of the naton's nations nation's greatest editors 1 He made Harpers Harper's Weekly famous th the e country over by his brilliant briliant comme comments on events events' of world wide I tance He was the first to propose Woodrow Wilson for president In 1906 and strove unceasingly In his behalf until requested by the candid candidate ate in 1913 to stop for fear of offending Ing the Now Colonel Harvey Harvey Harvey Har Har- I I vey comes out In his well wel known magazine the North American Review with an appeal for the election of Hughes He sets forth many reasons why he thinks the former forme object of his Idolatry should be defeated I I Dr Charles W W. Eliot Elot president emeritus of Harvard university ranks among the worlds world's greatest tors As a thinker he is r recognized cognized as a leader among Americans He has studied the Wilson presidential residential situation carefully and in the Atlantic Monthly gives his reasons for wishing to see President Wilson Wison re elected We would like to have all al independent dent free thinking voters read both these articles The election electon In November November November No No- I I vember will be more important than any this country has haG had since the days of f Lincoln There Is need of ofa a lot of clear wil and free thinking this year Logic not prejudice should determine voters voters' action acton I made and the only question queston now now is who can utilize th the resources in hand to the greatest advantage of the country coun coun- country try tr in obtaining the quickest and most effectual The Republicans results who are sincere In their advocacy of preparedness or the Democrats who are not The question queston seems seems to answer I itself While some some not not including ourselves may may agree with the president that I Imay we weare are not interested in the the causes of or the great conflict now being waged for human liberty and personal freedom freedom freedom free free- dom none nono can h have ve the the to deny that tal we are most deeply concerned concerned concerned con con- In the industrial warfare that thatis is bound to follow Already following the Paris conference initiated by England England Eng Eng- land land the al allies s are formulating pl plans ns not merely for mutual trade intercourse intercourse intercourse inter inter- course but to possess the mark markets ts of the wor world d. d Ostensibly the far reaching scheme being formulated is In the succinct words of the London chamber of commerce commerce for regulating by tariff and otherwise trade relations with all al enemy co countries so as to render Impossible impossible sible a return to prewar conditions and for stimulating the development of home manufactures and consequent in increased employment of native labor but while only enemy c countries are referred to it i is an open secret that neutral nations are to be placed In n the tho same category No hint of reciprocity except between the allied aled powers th themselves themselves them them- m- m selves appears in hi the proposals and no doubt exists of their intent to abrogate abrogate ab abrogate ab- ab rogate all al favor nation naton treaties which conflict with wih their purpose to bind their material interests together with hooks looks of steel Competition especially American competition is to be barred to the te limit of possibility by the allies ales and no less surely in mere self d defense by the central powers to the end that the United nied States shall be isolated as completely as the president himsel himself himself him him- himI I self sel when an International problem presses f for r solution I In a word the world proposes to pay its is debts t to to America at t the end en end of the war rot not in ir money but ih products manufactured at low cost of labor with vl l' l the greater re ter efficiency developed by ing Workers and Farmers What What this may mean to American American manufacturers manufactures to American American- n. n workingmen working workingmen men and even to American farmers is isso isso isso so patent patent that explication Is quite un un- un- un necessary The Democratic pa parity t recognized the imminence of of the menace when flatly flaty abrogating its established policy it created a tariff commission to stud study every economic fact that may throw light on changIng changing changing chang chang- ing conditions with a view of in increasing increasing increasing in- in creasing the duties dutes now prevailing under the best tariff law ever enacted and constructing schedules based not upon revenue needs needs but upon conditions of production and competition competition com com- petition petton at home and abroad aId and w when en the president completely reversing his previous position a as defined in his letter to ex Cox of Ohio andin andin and andin in his sarcastic boasting at Indianapolis Indianapolis Indian Indian- apolis of having put one over on the Republicans supplemented in his speech of acceptance the declaration of his own platform with the sage ob observation observation ob- ob that that we can no longer in indulge indulge indulge in- in our traditional provincialism Mr Hughes meanwhile is really realy convincing convincing convincing con con- in his insistence that the only way to meet protection is with pro pro- The pressing question queston is which of the two parties partes is the better beter equipped to meet the situation And we fear there can be but one answer Seven I of ot the fourteen Democratic members of the present committee on ways and means han hall from North Carolina Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- Teas TeJ s Georgia Georgia Missouri I Arkansas and Mississippi former I Chairman Underwood a revenue tariff i man of moderate views has been succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- I b by Claude Kitchin a free 1 trader and the manufacturing states I of New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Pennsyl I vania vanla vania Connecticut and Massachusetts have in a Mr Conr Conry of Tammany Hall Hal I their sole spokesman and tive It is no disparagement of these southern gentlemen to say that their unfamiliarity with the might industrial affaire affair of this great manufacturing region which few If any of them have even visited disqualifies them for in intelligent intelligent in- in handling upon broad and eft ef- ef fI f- f I lines of the critical situation t I which is being thrust upon us Moreover Moreover Moreover More More- over the traditions and prejudices of f fal all al save a very few of Democratic senators senators sen senators sen- sen and congressmen are so strongly opposed to protection as robbery of the many for the benefit of a few that it was with the greatest reluctance that they passed even a ridiculously ineffectual antidumping law While I tacitly concealing the need of protective protective tive measures they have only pecked at the problem for political purposes without attempting in any serious erious wa way to effect a solution Ag Agin Again in we are driven to the practical conclusion that true Industrial preparedness in common common common com com- mon with true military preparedness can be attained only through its sincere advocates and consistent friends Government for and by the People Since Fort Jort Sumter was fired upon there has been no such assault upon the right of ot the American people to rule themselves as that of the four brotherhoods at Washington in August Augustof of the present year ear Then as in 61 government by a a. majority for the whole people was openly threatened by bya a self constituted oligarchy And the cases are not dissimilar five Fifty years ago the union was confronted by the grim spectres of secession and segregation Last month it i was the union backed to the wall wal but hut with this difference in result Anderson resisted resisted re resisted re- re to tho tiro limit of ot endurance Wilson VI Wil- Wil son yielded without a struggle The wa way was paved for tor the blackmailing blackmailing black- black mailing maing of the nation naton by the president himself himsel at the Instigation of Mr Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel G Gompers at the very beginning of his administration when he approved what he himself pronounced an unjustifiable unjustifiable un justifiable provision forbidding the use of certain specific funds in the prosecution of of labor organizations for breaking the law And the exemption was made direct and complete by the presidents president's own own Clayton act ct Which ex expressly expressly ex- ex pressly provided that no such organizations organizations tons should be held or or construed to tobe tobe tobe be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade under the antitrust antitrust anti anti- ant ant- trust laws But for the existence of this Invidiously discriminatory act the ac brotherhoods would not have dared to invite invie the criminal prosecution provided provided provided pro pro- vided for all al other offenders Sheltered by it they only bided their time Until the eve of a presidential election and then held the gun of calamity at the head of the nation naton They did not so seriously menace the railway y c companies com companies com com- m- m which had hd only revenues to lose and pr properties pertes to damage they threatened the p people ople all al of the helpless helpless help help- less and ard unoffending people in every helP I city and hamlet in the tle land with wih 1 hunger hung r or starvation unless within a a. al fortnight the government should should- impose impose impose im im- imi im- i pose upon their employers under the specious and false guise of an eight hour day which they themselves would not accept an increase of twenty five twenty per cent in wages The president having intervened un- un recounted the proceedings in his address to congress Although the matter mater had been agitated for more than a year there had arisen a sudden sudden sudden sud den crisis and ald the country had been caught with any practical means of enforcing arbitration by wh whose se fault he would not now stop to inquire The railway companies were not only willing to accept but proposed that the deminds de- de deI demands de de- I minds mands of the men be submitted InI in I their them entirety to arbitration but ut the themen themen men absolutely d declined elined arbitration I and a strike astrike h had d b en o dered for September September September Sep Sep- 4 4 Personally he would yield to no no man manin manin manin in firm adherence alike alke of conviction and of purpose to the principle of arbitration arbitration ar ar- ar- ar but he said no word in criticism of the brotherhoods for re rejecting rejecting re re- re the principle and paradoxically rebuked the companies for declining a settlement which in his judgment they would ultimately be obliged to acc accept pt by concerted action of organized organized organized organ organ- labor backed by the favorable Judgment of society and which would engage all al the forces of Justice public and private on on their side to take care of the events i i. i e. e to increase the freight rates for which o of course the public would pay To this To end he besought the explicit approval b by r the congress of the consideration by the commerce commission of an increase of freight rates and immediate immediate im mediate provision for the enlargement of the commission ostensibly to facilitate fa facilitate fa- fa citate its work but really realy to enable him to pack the court Four Parties Involved Four parties partes to the proposed settlement settlement settlement settle settle- ment were involved the railway way companies companies com com- the labor unions and the shippers shippers ship ship- pers represented by their respective officials and the people represented by their president And it was h Ii the president of the United States who deliberately proposed the mulcting of the great geat body of his own constituency the millions milons of low paid working men farmers professional men teachers clerks saleswomen and toilers in sweat sweatshops sweatshops shops no less than the well wel to do in inthe inthe the interest not even of a class but butof butof butof I of a class cass within a class cass comprising four hundred thousand voters without cost to the companies or to the shippers shippers shippers ship ship- I pers who were to comprise comprise the other parties partes to the conspiracy The public public pub pub- lic sententiously remarked Mr A. A B B. Garretson president of the Brotherhood Brotherhood Brotherhood Brother Brother- hood of Railroad Conductors is the carcass and we all al perhaps are the vultures and Woodrow Wilson Wison president president president pres pres- ident of the United States by his act Indorsed the cynical assertion The terrorized Democratic congress blanched and wavered Wholly aside wrote the trustworthy correspondent of the Evening Post from the veiled accusations ac accusations ac- ac that mat the espousal of the brotherhood side of ot the railroad conI controversy controversy con con- I by the president w was s premeditated premeditated premeditated that the whole conflict was staged to take place on the eve of a 3 presidential election electon that the statement statement statement state state- ment of Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor on Labor day asking labor to support this administration at the coming election electon is corroborative evidence that that congress as a whole was dazed by the political possibilities The fact that only onh two Democrats in each house voted against the bills despite the feeling in their ranks shown by the private expressions of Democratic congressmen congressmen con- con gressmen plainly indicates that the rank and file fe did cUd not relish the tho Job There here was no time for them to canvass the sentiment In their districts districts districts dis dis- except as expressed in telegrams received by them from a small smal part of their constituencies They simply figured figured figured fig fig- out the equation on the basis of votes and concluded that in view of the support of the president they could best take a chance on the silent ma ma- But time was up In the the gallery galery sat the four tour representatives o of four hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred thousand voters holding their watches In his office telephone re receiver receiver receiver re- re at his ear was Mr Ir Gompers eager to keep his compact to urge Mr Wilsons Wilson's election re-election re-electon re at ShadowLawn Shadow ShadowLawn I Lawn the president himself smiling and confident awaited the flash from I W Washington which should enable him to sa say as he ho did say It I Is t the climax J JI I of a very happy happy da day the day the dathe the first day and God grant it be the last on which the stigma of betrayal al of the republic by its is chosen president and congress can b be affixed by history Not Hour Eight r Day It I was not a a. question queston of an eight- eight hour da day as disingenuously suggested by the president and b him himas himas himas as a thing thing decreed by society It I was nothing more mor more a and d nothing less ess as i ithe the courageous I senator from ron Ge Georgia r Ia Thomas W. W 1 Hardwick speaking for for tor himself and for Senator James P. P Clark of Arkansas and Representatives Henry