Show OUR STAND ON NATIONAL Has Aroused the Hostility of Certain Local have been taken to task by several of the of Utah for the offense of standing by President Taft and his and as we for the better element of the Republican in advocating reciprocity with Canada It is especially stated to us that Utah's senators and representative are really against the proposed and willing to defeat it if can do so in any indirect as by amending the bill and the bill for the election of senators so that they will not We do not know that do know that if any senators are this is but we amendment which will willing bv introducing an arouse prejudice and apprehension and becloud the merits and mission of that o measure which gives the people the that great to elect their they are going beyond their duty to their constituents or their duty to the No local prejudices and no merely captious objections should be used to overthrow a great popular measure whose spirit and results will be beneficent to the people and to the No senators who have merely locality objections to the Canadian reciprocity pact have a right to permit those local prejudices or interests to defeat a measure of great national import and of the largest and most helpful economic Every senator and every representative is entitled to the integrity of his has a perfect and constitutional right to exhaust every effort to persuade other representatives who have votes to accept his He has a right by speech and vote to seek to defeat measures in which he does riot or to adopt measures in which he does When he done he has done all that his conscience requires and all that his representative character honestly He has no in any high conception of representative to thwart the majority or to defeat the people's Representative government is founded upon the will of the The whether in senates or before the is The senator or the congressman who defeats the people's measure by simply preventing the people from voting upon is just as guilty of injustice to the government as any body of representatives or senators who if they prevent the holding of a presidential election at all because they believed that a president whom they do not approve would be elected by the The American people have a right to demand a and that as soon as reasonably upon these great We have infinitely more respect for senators and representatives who vote bravely and freely against these measures than for those senators Who simply prevent the senate from voting upon them at These are the things which public opinion in this country should take hold of now and impress upon those who represent the people in the senate of the United There is not a body of men on from the highest in the senate to the lowest in minor who are not influenced by intelligent public and therefore the intelligent public opinion of x this country which desires the passage of the Canadian reciprocity and of popular elections should rally now without delay and empty upon their waiting and amending senate its popular protest against the unworthy and unnecessary subterfuges which are being used to defeat reciprocity with Canada and to deny the people the right to elect their The of the United States is made up of representatives of This is a government of and a majority of representatives standing for a majority of the people have as much right to decide what measures shall be passed as they have to determine what president shall be elected or what parties shall be put in Those senators who recall distinctly the tremendous majority of the popular branch of the national which in behalf of the great majority of American people favors these and who also as they must that the majority of the representatives of the states in the body to which they belong desire Canadian reciprocity and popular and in the face of this knowledge deprive the majority of the people of their right to the full beneficence of these laws by tactics of delay and of are violating the spirit of our institutions and doing injustice to the rights of the people and discredit to When a public measure of great import comes before the representatives of the it may well be given the fairest and freest and fullest Every man in either branch of the general assembly should be entitled to give his views upon these and his reasons for and against their But when this debate is over and this consideration with fairness to all the opinions it is it is it is American and it is absolutely just that the majority should rule and that the measures favored by a majority should become And if any local office-holders can twist this stand of ours into let them make the most of If they can argue that it is treason to the Republican party to stand by the national Republican administration as against the clique that controlled last legislature in let them so But what will the people do about Will they sustain or will they sustain the local |