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Show Second News Section AUTOMOBILES UMBET 3ITP7HV uSAInrTTTSTT CO - 7"T REAL ESTATE Second Hews Section MINES. MARKETS. CLASSIFIED ADS LJiL SALT LAKE CITS', UTAH, SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1916. AN APPRECIATION OF ENATOR SUTHERLAND 4 felG MAN IN BIG PLACE, HIS STATUS IN SENATE Frequent Plaint in East That Utah Gets Far More Than Her Share of Public Improvements, Accepted as Proof of His Influence t , . v ; Big Man in Big Place Between the line of thesa contrary views one get a glimpse of the real George Sutherland. He has secured Recognition of the biggest kind for our state, and unquestionably his position on the public building committee has been responsible for many government buildings over the state. The fact, too. that he has an attractive personality, makes him personal friends among political opponents in the Senate. lie is to everyone the gentleman, thereby securing for Utah kindly help in appropriations. Just this far and no farther the hue and cry of eastern magazines against Sutherland's influence has real foundation. Utah has had a lot of good things and will get more in the same way. But George Sutherland is no lie does not hang around departments and fawn on bureau chiefs and play and swap vote on great measures, in order to get ft lot of petty positions for friend. He is a big man in a big place; but a more approachable, kindly and willing servant the of all people than George Sutherland does not occupy a place on the nato floor. time-serve- r. lick-spitt- le good-nature- d, A Self Maclc Man Statistics arc dull reading. The almanac is full of facts, but is not an entertaining piece of literature. To tell, even briefly, of the things Sutherland has done, of the measures he lias espoused, of the causes he has lead, seems stilted reading. The tale cf a runaway marriage or an over i , - -- i " - C ..Xl-L For many years unsuccessful efforts had been made to open up this great section of the state. The claim had always been made that the reservation could not be opened without the consent of the Indians, and this consent was withheld. Senator Sutherland advanced the proposition that inasmuch as Utah had come to the United States from Mexico and that the Spanish law, unlike the law of the English colonies, did not recognize any right of the Indians to the soil, that the Utah Indians, therefore, had not title and the reservation could be opened without iheir consent. The argument by which he persuaded Congress to pass his bill opening the reservation is stated concisely in the following extracts from a lengthy and vigorous speech which he delivered on the floor of the House on February 18, 1902: Prior to the Mexican cession Utah was Mexican territory. The Mexican government recognized no tltl whatever In the Indians, except those Indians who were gathered In pueMos, who had together settled on definite tracts actually of land. The Mexican government recognized no title whatever In the wandering tribe of Indians, the "blanket'' Indian., who roamed to and fro In this vast Now the rule Is well settled no-call- ter-Itor- ed y. thts" ' ' ,1 , i t if '- " - ? - -- v ' 1 '- ' 4 - - - - - : - V ! . that 'where one country acquired from another, either by territory or by purchase. It takes conquest exactly tho titleSo which the latter has. the that whenMexicountry States United this acquired can territory by the treaty of (Juadalupe-Hldalg-they, acquired exactly the title which Mexico had, and the Kovernment of Mexico recthe Indians, and ognized no title in no the Indians had title to the lands. This reservation Is subject to the absolute power of Congress. We may dispose of it as we have of other land ocalready disposed by the Indians in Utah, with cupied or without their consent, as ,we please: This bill groes beyond exact It Rives the Indians every . justice. which dollar may be realized from a sale of the lands. In the Interest of the development of the Indians themselves, it should be enacted Into law In my Judgment it is time we Inaugurated a new policy. Open the reservations. In doinj? so, deal justly with the Indians if you please but Srenerously, open the reservations to settlement, in order that labor may take the o, place of Idleness, that civilization may replace barbarism. that the ground may elve way to hunting the farm and that the desert silence may bo broKcn by the voice of In- dustry. Protects Whites9 Rights After a hard fight against the opposition of President lioosevelt and Mr. Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, he secured legislation to protect the right of the white settlers to the waters of the Uintah reservation. They insisted on reserving all these waters for the Indians and compelling the white settlers to make appropriations subject to these reserved rights and under regulations of the secretary of the interior. He made the fight for days before tho Indian committee on the power of the state to control the waters and finally had his amendment adopted providing that the Indians should jmake their appropriations under the laws of Utah and that the white settlers should have the right to use the canals under the provisions of the state law. He thus prevented the exclusive use of these waters for all time to come in the hands of the Indians, who might never use them. Sutherland's contention became law and is of incalculable value to the settlers on the Uintah reservation. For one of a gifted pen, the romance of this northeastern Utah, with its hydrocarbons, its magnificent water supply, its great grazing areas, intermingled with the story of highwaymen, train robbers and Indian outbreaks, would furnish material for a I book like "The Virginian." At the edge of this great basin, on the south, lies the Strawberry valley, from which, through a great tunnel over a mile long, comes the water that serves labors. At the same time he has guarded the interest of Utah in such measures as the homestead bills, national forest bills and public land water this reservoir turns into Utah valley, in turn supplying Salt Lake county through the medium of the Utah lake and Jordan river canals, the permanent benefits of this great accomplishment can hardly be estimated. Just now, of course, military activities are in the ascendant and attention is focused on the project to make Fort Douglas a brigade post. Where, however, would our chances for such a post be if the preliminary improvements had been neglected? Senator Sutherland brought about the building of the new hospital at Fort Douglas and the expenditure of several hundred thousand dollars for new barracks, which improvements had been withheld year after year theretofore. The building of these improvements did more to make Fort Douglas permanent than anj'thing else that has ever been done. As said before, fome of our eastern friends have been disposed to cavil at the public improvements Utah has received because of Senator Sutherland's influential position on the public buildings committee. Of this committee he was chairman during the last Republican administration and now he is the ranking Republican member. Eastern critics declare Utah has had more, proportionately, than any state in the Union. The Ogden postoffice building was secured by him; the $300,000 addition to the Salt Lake postoffice, and a dozen less expensive but no less important buildings in other Utah towns have been secured by his efforts. The Salt. Lake assay office, the watersheds donated to Salt Lake, the lands given to the state university and to Mount Olivet cemetery, the right of way for Salt Lake's water supply across Fort Douglas were all the result of his careers. bills. To recite all these in detail, howUtah county. ever, is far from my purpose. To The Strawberry Project enumerate the pension bills, for which Senator Sutherland put through the so many deserving Utah soldiers owe bill which gave to the Strawberry Senator Sutherland their unending reservoir project 50,000 acres of land, gratitude, would be as uninteresting to the rentals of which will alone pay the average reader as an almanac, the maintenance charges of the proj- 3et how much they mean to these old ect. With the immense volume of veterans in the last days of their A Friend of Labor Not long since a rather eonspicu-oand by no meaiw unpicturesque spokesman of the Democratic home party, and apparently ignorant of national affairs, asked what Senator Sutherland had done for social service or for laboring men's interests while in the United .States Senate. .'Well, for his edification, here is a list of measures Sutherland supported with might and main on the floor of the Senate: Safety appliance act; regulation of railroad employees' hours of labor, establishment of department of commerce and labor, pure food and drugs act, federal meat inspection, ut arbitration treaties, tax income amendment, currency reform (he vigorously opposed some provisions, of the Democratic currency bill, and experience under the new law would justify his opposition), parcels post, postal savings banks (he made one of the most important speeches made in behalf of this legislation,, a constitutional argument), creation of the children's bureau (he took a leading part in the establishment of this bureau, which is accomplishing so much in its investigation of child life, and is destined to do much good), direct election of United States senators (spoke in favor of and voted for it), publicity of campaign contributions, rural free delivery, pensions for superannuated employees. Indeed, Samuel the American of Gompers, president Federation of Labor, with headquarters at Washington, and in close touch with the situation, declares that Senator Sutherland is a sympathetic friend of labor in Congress and is one of the members, of the Senate whom he always, feels free to ap- . 1 dren's bureau, the purpose of whichf is to investigate matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life and especially the question of ia fant mortality, orphanage, juve-nilcourts, diseases, employment, eto. In these matters his attitude, harmonizes with the views ofi such men as Hughes and Roosewith the advanced! velt, and views expressed in the last Republican platform. To such men as these, th country owes the real practical re form which is taking place in social conditions. Outside of the Senate, aa well as in it, his addresses are corn sidered masterpieces of pure and pun gent English, gathering strength from the manner of expression no less thaa from their force of thought and a d gument. It is hard to single out from hundreds of addresses, many of which His Principles Adopted hare been copied in full by influenThen a series of hearings were held tial papers, those most worthy of to discuss the general practical ques- note. The women regard him as theii tions involved. As a result of those champion of woman's suffrage; the vBriftiw nAMTnnsrsi a tentative bill was disciples of "preparedness" consider finally completed, and submitted to his speech upon American rights upon the President, who transmitted it to the high seas the best word uttered with his aoDroval. This bill. upon the subject ; the sailors claim his Cnnorrpss O in its general features, was approved speech on the "Seamen's Bill" inby the leaders ol iue unions over iue sured its passage. But while always whole country. Senator Sutherland the friend of the weak, the oppressed is gradually overcoming the opposi- and the toiler, he is no demogogne, no tion which was at first manifested dealer in cant, no believer in political against workingmen's compensation. panaceas. His derisive exposure of The principles he enunciated are be- "initiative and referendum" was a A state legislatures. by a adopted ing classic, puncture of humbuggery commission authorized by our last rarely" equalled on any occasion. Utah legislature is formulating a bill XT V 1 Senator Sutherland is considered by many men of prominence to be the leading authority on workmen 's compensation in the United States. lie is certainly the champion of compulsory workmen's compensation in the halls of Congress. His work in connection with this subject has extended over a long period of years. The workmen's compensation commission, which was authorized under the administration of President Taft, was directed to make a thorough investigation of the subject. Senator Sutherland was appointed chairman. Hearings were begun on May 10, 1911, and all parties interested in the subject were heard through their representatives, including employers, the labor unions and the general public. The first series of hearings were called to consider the constitutionality of any proposed legislation dealing with the subject, because it was felt by the commission that it was necessary first of all to determine within what field legislation of this character could be enacted. After hearing Senator Sutherland the commission decided that they had full power to enact legislation of this character, being satisfied of its constitutionality. t 1 i W orkmen's Compensation self-mad- Oppening Up the Uintah act conditions which prrratl tn ' Massachusetts and some of tha other states, I am very thoroughly in favor of the general principle of the eight-hou- r We cannot ' make such a law day. that will be ef- - ' effective unless It is compulsory: we cannot very well leave it to an ' between the arrangement and the employee, because employer In con- test of that kind I think thea em- ployee would usually be at a disadvantage as compared with the employer. The senator is at the present tirrwi doing all he can to bring about thta enactment of a federal child labot law. He was one of the most influx ential members in Congress in bringing about the creation of the chiL proach and to solicit assistance on matters proposed that will redound to the welfare of all the people. turned automobile or a burglary has more thrill than the story of a project like the opening of Uintah reservation, which added millions to Utah's wealth. Nevertheless, at the expense of seeming mighty prosaic, an attempt will be made to epitomize a few of these. The story of Senator Sutherland's life, which abounds with the e romanco of every career, would itself be entertaining. Few boys in their youth have seen the real springs of life like George Sutherland. The fellow with the pick, the drill and the fuse; the man at the windlass; the boarding house woman at the oven; the farmer standing all night in the water while his "turn" at the irrigation stream is made to do ite fullest duty; the pickers in the berry patches; the threshers hidden in the cloud of dust and chaff; the graders on the railway dumps; the coal miners with lamp in cap and faces blackened; the boys and girls helping the meagre living of their parents; the turns and makeshifts and rude expedients of small life on the frontier; the first crude efforts to givp better schools; a groping for higher education; the strange mixture of simplicity, which necessity enforces, with craving for conveniences of civilization; in fact, all tho elements which unite in that composite known as "the frontier state" are as familiar to George Sutherland as the clothes which he wears. To tell of his early life here in Utah, of the way he got his education, of his days with Dr. Karl Maeser at B. Y. college, of his law training under Cooley at the University of Michigan, of his success down at Provo in practice of law, of his work in the first Utah senate all this would be as romantic a3 any story of Drake or Raleigh or other heroic figure of history. But on the eve of a campaign which is filled with such import to Utah, the fascinating must give way to the more practical. Only as the legislation which he has initiated or espoused for injured workmen, wearied factory women and children, impressed sailors, or superannuated employees, reflects the days he spent among this class of toilers, does the story of early life fit into present day problems. . The man who fought for hi3 opportunities appreciates the hardships of those who struggle. Few have run the whole gamut of life in its sad and bright phases, or understand the lesions better, than George Sutherland. Probably the biggest and yet the least understood of the services Senator Sutherland has rendered his state was in opening up the Uintah reservation. Even our commercial clubs, which have suddenly awakened to the tremendous importance of that section known as the "Uintah basin" little sense the secret of its "opening." Record Shows That He Has Secured Biggest Kind of Recognition for His State, Among Them the Uintah Reservation Opening f X.'i ... BY GLEN MILLER. TROM one who has followed George Sutherland's career with admira tion, who has at various times been associated with him in state service, in business and other intimate relations, a few words of appreciation at this time seems appropriate. Voters of Utah this fall will be called upon to express their approval or disap- -' proval of the work he has done for them. A review, in & brief way, of this public service falls to the privilege of the writer. Of scores, yes, hundred, of valuable but less general efforts in behalf of the state or its yitizens, not erven passing mention can be made. Through eastern magazines and newspapers there has come a frequent complaint that Utah has secured an altogether excessive proportion of favors by reason of the influence of Senator Sutherland on the big committees. More recently, some of these criticisms have been exceedingly bitter; and the charge is made direet that & state with such a sparse population as Utah should not receive such liberal recognition in the way of public buildings, reclamation appropriations, cessions of public land and improvements for army posts as Senator Sutherland's efforts have obtained. A halt is nrged. Other sen ators and representatives are asked to checkmate him along these lines. All this clamor against Utah's success in securing the development of her resource by national aid would probably help Senator Sutherland hero at Imme, were it not that some of his zealous antagonists in Utah have been trying to impart a different color to hit work. Here, political opponents admit that he has become a big national figure, that he is potent in foreign relations, the leader of the Senate in constitutional interpretation, and a speaker to whom the Senate listens with profound respect. "But," they say, "Utah don't want a John J. Ingalls in the Senate a man who merely holds audiences and fixes national policies. We want a man who hustles in the departments, gets jobs for his constituents and lands good things for the hoys. That's the sort of a Senator Utah needs." POLITICAL OPPONENTS HIS PERSONAL FRIENDS SENATOR GEORGE SUTHERLAND X along the lines of the Sutherland measure. If returned by Utah voters to the Senate, as it is safe to predict he will be, there is no question that Senator Sutherland will have his bill enacted into a national law before the close of another two years. While certain opponents of Senator Sutherland in Utah have proclaimed him the "friend of capital," he is; because of his stand on the workingmen's bills, termed "socialistic" by organs of industrial concerns. Could anything be more ludicrous than these contrasting criticisms; and could heanyocthing more clearly prove that cupies safe ground t with Talking of the man who workswhich his hands, and the protection he needs, where has there been a stronger appeal than these trenchant remarks of Senator Sutherland on the "eight-hou- r bill": "I would make thlB line of division It Is not a very accurate line; not a line that could probably be laid down to exact words in legis- I lation; but, roughly speaking-would make this line of division wherever a man is engaged in me- chanlcal work or in manual work which required the use of the same same muscles, or substantially the would I hour. hour after muscles, make the eight-hou- r day compulwhen a man has sory, because worked at one task calling Into the same muscles and strainplay his attention for eight hours, ing he has done as much as the averbe called upon age man ought to to to do. I would not apply that the farm, because upon the farm the man Is engaged in the open air: or he is enpaged in a multitude lie tasks. One portion of the time is raking hay; another part of the time he is doing something else; dif-- his w'ork is diversified, eo that into brought ferent muscles are is no need In an play, and there kind of enforof that employment day. But In the eight-hou- r cing I Relieve thormechanical pursuits day in that the eight-hou- r oughly the the end will be better for both and employee, because employer might do while I think aten man hours than he more work in or daywill could do in eighta for one for two days, inand year a man better work if do more work each day he is working eight hours than if he is working nine hours each day. I know the men employed in, mines and smelters in myto state wouldeight-houvery much prefer now take prothe bv rour lawdayfor aseach in vided day the week than to be compelled to work nine hoursy upon some days on Saturand have a end day. I think the hour at the of the day gained by the man in is far better for him than each a day gained at the end of a halfday the week. A man who is enabled to work at 4 o'clock instead of at quit 5. making that hour each day, at would the end of the year, I think be far better off than the man who is compelled to work nine hours each day exqept on Saturday. Therefore, while I do not know the ex , , - - half-holida- , His Personal Appeal One of the charms of George d is his frankness, his openness, his freedom on every question. Ha has the rare gift of being able tc differ with people and to express thai Btith-erlan- difference plainly without arousing bitterness. About the only criticism one hears from those nearest to him is that "he thinks everyone hi friend." Genial, kindly, fond of a good story and himself a rare storyteller, trustful, a model of courtesy he has those personal qualities which make him delightfully "human." Ha is known through the length and breadth of Utah not more for his ex position of public questions and great abilities, than for his good fellowship and homely sociability. It is hard to realize that this affable companion is the same George Sutherland who has in recent days arrested the attention of the whole country by his stern de-mand for American protection of Americans. Read his address to the Senate on the Lusitania, It was tho Cromwellian principle that every Englishman should be protected, if it took every other Englishman to do it. Sutherland measures American duties by the same standard. His speech upon our rights on the high seas is the boldest and most cogent word on the doctrine of American responsibilities yet uttered. Neither Roosevelt, nor Lodge or Hughes has stated the principle half so well. The former president of the American Bar association says it is the general belief that he is the ablest lawyer in the United States Senate; v while Root, himself dean of the profession, acclaims Sutherland the greatest constitutional lawyer in Congress. Such tributes should mean to us more than an encomium of the individual. Certainly it is an equal tribute to the state whose voters keep him as their highest representative in the nation. During the last national convention Senator Sutherland was called to the chair on several important occasions, and it is no secret that the platform is largely his handiwork. But the feeling voters have for George Sutherland comes not from his national honors, nor yet from his great accomplishments: as the people of Maine felt toward Blaine and Ohio folk toward McKinley, so those of Utah will ever feel toward Sutherland a feeling expressed in two words, "Oui George." |