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Show -SDUTDR WALSH MAKES HUES! PLEA FOR KING . , i Speech , of Massachusetts! Solon Is Often Applauded ; - by Big Crowd; Arraigns, ,' Present Administration j "Send Senator King back to Washington." Wash-ington." was th earnest plea of Sen- I ator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts! last night at th Democratic rally In I th Salt Lake theatre. Senator Walsh , declared thst the Republican admlnle-l t ration, with the greatest opportunity In th history' of th country to be of 1 service,- to the people, had mad th , greatest fallur of all times. He asserted thst th tariff was . forms 4lMevh tke eTerte - - trust and at th xpens of 'the people; peo-ple; that the secretary of th treasury was himself on of th richest men In th world and a leader In big business desplt existing law which forbade a man to hold that office who wae also engaged In business. He declared that th plan to refund the debts of Europe to the United States was a plot of the International bankers at the expense of the common peopl. - - ' Following an addreea to the women voter of th Stat by Mrs. Weaten ' Vernon. Democratic national committeeman commit-teeman from Utah, In which h paid high tribute to the qualities of Senator King, James H. Moyl Introduced Senator Sen-ator Walsh. Mr. Moyl stated that Senator Walsh was th first Democratic governor of Massachusetts and the flrat U. B. senator sen-ator elected by the Democrat of that state In seventy-five yeara. H declared de-clared that he was an arch enemy of monopoly. PLEADS FOR KINQ. After commenting on Ms cordial reception re-ception which he declared he did not consider personal. Senator Walsh said: "I have come 2000 mile at my own expense and no corporation or Individual In-dividual haa contributed a fund. I hav com all thl dlstanc to bring a meag to th people of this state from that brave minority in the senate thirty-five brave men against nlne-ty-slx, to plesd with you to send Senator Sen-ator King of Utah back to the fight. "Money cannot repay a faithful publlo pub-llo servant. Nothing can repay him only when election day cornea and tn lh .lleni peclr.clT of lh vollna- booth when men and women ar alone with their conscience the marks made then will record their approval of his record. iThe most Important branch of the government is the ' legislative branch because here laws are made; law which bring sunshine or gloom, misery or hardship or untold burdens." bur-dens." ' Senator Walsh then told of how th Republican party rod into power on avalanche of vote at th laat election when the people believed that a change wa necessary, that a change ahould come In our relation wttn foreign governments. gov-ernments. He related how President Wilson, whom he compared to a soldier sol-dier disabled In the war, had asked th Republican congress lo place the country coun-try back on a peace time basis. He declared that the president's plea had been received with acorn and Insult, and that eondltlona had changed from bad to won. SERIOUS OEPRESSION. II declared thst with eighteen month of an overwhelming Republican Republic-an majority In congress that th administration ad-ministration had caused the most serious se-rious depression In history. He quoted prominent Republican leaders who, he said, had declared congress bad never been at a lower ebb before and read extracta and edltortala from several leading Republican papers which uttered ut-tered a despairing cry over the recent acts of congresa. He told of th fight Senator King had mad against th seating of Newberry New-berry and said that the senator had cried: "My, God. you can never lessen the dignity nf the senate after today." Senator Walsh asserted that Sec-retry Sec-retry of the Treasury Mellsn of Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Pa. waa a director In sixty-eight sixty-eight large banking Institution and trust. j He is th chief owner In th aluminum alum-inum trust, perhsps th greatest trust In th world." hs said. "And this Is th man selected to revise our tax system to take away from our people the burden bur-den of war taxes." He than declared that th tariff on aluminum had been raised to such an silent that all competition could be crowded out by th trust. Hs told bow th excess profit tax had been removed re-moved and declared that the big Interests In-terests had received everything for which they had a eked. Hs asserted thst th trust and monopolies had no mor right to hav their taxes reduced than the common people of America. "WHAT OO YOU WANTf 11 declare tbat for months the committee on finance had held conference confer-ence behind closed doors with the representatives rep-resentatives of the big Interests and that the query was. "Wast do you want?" ''What I tariff protection?" asked th spekaer. "It la license to certain cer-tain group or Industries to make big profile out of th peopl. Th j tariff bill mean th Increase In prices of everything you eat or wear. Ev-1 ery single thing that goes into the! making of ahoe or clothing ha an ; Increased duty. The seventy-seven products that go Into ths making ofi oandy carry Increased duties. "Hut congress wsnt too far. The; bill I top heavy. The industries themselves are against It. The bill ha closed th business of th world , to th American people. Business, ha overgrown Its markets In thla country by twenty per cent." i In regard to the wool schedule. Senator Walsh declared that he had been accused of voting agalnat the, Interest of Utah. He said that he ! had had the courage of hla cenvlc- I tlons; that he had voted agalnat the' great Increase in the duty on woolen goods, of which hla stats la th larg- i est manufacturer. He said that he had stood for a. duty of It cents, although ths Rspub- I (Continued on pag T.) MTHAISH fOonUmiad from paa-e 1.) ItaSvB Ibousa had fixed ths duty at 27 taamtav Ha sal) ha believed It waa for ths baa f Intareats nf thn iicnpln 7 who too had a rtrht to ba considered aa wail aa any other class; who too had suffered from dspresslon In business. busi-ness. Hs told how ths- shares In the . American Woolen company Increased w from 14 cents to M0. He snld that the duty on woolen cloth ensbled producers to chars; e S3 for cloth that could be hnuyht In Knirland for $1.50. Hs ssld he hsd fought a gal nut the duty on woolen blankets, which he asserted ths poor must have to keep them warm In winter snd ths duty on the schoolboy's Httls woolen sweater and cap. Senator Walsh related how Senator Kins; hsd hsd the courage to stand wllh the progressive Republicans and vote against, the measure. He declared that the senior senator from Utah hsd bossted how murh less It cost to run the government In J 922 than In 1920. Senator Walsh said that any child could realise that It would coat more to run a government govern-ment during a war than In timo of peace. He said that the cost of maintaining a standing army snd war employes had leen great. He said that thousands of young girls in Washington had been discharged dis-charged without a moment's notice In order to save a few dollars at the expeni-e of humanity. He said that no man had a right to fight for the peoph' unless he had a heart that beat in sympathy with the people and was one of them. He declared that Senator King was such a man: that he was for a government of all the people with ape rial privileges for none. Senator Walsh was often Interrupt-'d Interrupt-'d by bursts of applause and when Via had flniahed hs WSS Sjtven A TOUS- Ing ovation. Mr. Moyle then related re-lated how, when the Democratic secretary sec-retary of the treasury had come into office that he had found a private ' wire leadin.r from (he desk of a cer-tain cer-tain representative In that office to the National City bank In Wall street. lie said the man hsd been quickly ejected from office and the wire severed. sev-ered. Mr. Moyle asked that Senator King he sent back to Washington. "Send him back Instead of another friend of wealth, who will make the menace more powerful." he said. He declared that :.oth!ng of the principles of the opposing candidate were known other than the statements of his ; friends. He said that the only thing required by the Republican party of their man was that he support thej party principles and that not a word had been uttered shout his quslift-cations quslift-cations nor had his voire ever been heard on ny of the Issues of the day, . |