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Show THUHulAij REPLIES TO COLONEL LOOSE (Advertisement ) S. Iv. Thunn;in, chairman of the Democratic st it.; committee, replying ti the statement of Colonel C. E. Loose, Republic m state chairman, published pub-lished in the Herald Republican of Sunday, Oct. -1, said last night: I wa very much interested in Colonel Loose's statement of tiie political situation situ-ation in Utah. Something: stated by him, however, challenges a reply. I am not informed as, to the percentage of loss the Progressives wiil sustain at the ensuing election. Col mel Loose places it at 90 per cent. Where he got his information or what is the basis of his prediction is not stated. I can say, however, that his statement is not borne ut by oar canvass, which I believe be-lieve to b.' conservative Without going into p .rricul irs, I can ti'e that the appear..; ;ces are that to. re will be more Republicans vo;e the Democratic ticket this ye.r in Utah than Progressives who will relurn to the Republican party. He speaks of the administration having hav-ing to it-vy a war tax in times of peace because t ie nation is broke and inti-nia'.ej inti-nia'.ej .h;.ai is a terrible condition of affairs. af-fairs. T;iis position tatien by the colonel under thep irlicular facts of ths cassis a narrow partisan view an ! is only parceled parcel-ed by the conduct of a senator and to.'o congressmen of a sovereign state try ing to obstruct 1 Iv-wise policy of the administration when the dignity and honor of the nation is in peril and when every patriot should be found upholding the policy of the administration. The position taken by Colonel Loose is extremely ex-tremely narrow and partisan for the reason that the nation derives its revenue in the main from duties on imports. im-ports. Practically every civilized na-j na-j tion across the sea which has hereto fore exported products subject to duty I to this country finds itself engaged in deadly conflict with other nations to j such an extent as to greatly decrease ' such exportai ions, thereby decreasing j the revenue to this government, and ' because of this it becomes necessary to resort to extraordinary means of 1 temporarily raising revenue, it should not lay in the mouth of a patriotic American citizen or d irtv to talk ab mt and complain of a "war tax in time of peace." There is no peace when pr ic-ticaily ic-ticaily every county with which we do 'business is engaged in the deadliest conflict known to history, j The colonel's reference to the admin-jistration admin-jistration of Aiv.ire-.v Johnson, president ! of the Unit .l States, and fiat m m y is jane.videa in our political campaigns and we are inclin-'d to think a new dis-i dis-i covery. It is sufficient to say that An-'c.re.v An-'c.re.v Johnson was elected to his position po-sition as vice presi lent by the R.-pab-i liean p irty, and the Deuio'ra.ic p.rly j is not disp i-e 1 to assuaie responsibility j for any l ung that may be done or co i- iceive ib,- . iv ai in elecie 1 r o fi I the Republican party. It was a very unhappy reference. j Again he says: "No one has ever heard of a treasury deficit, a bend issue, j firt money, or a war tax in time of ; peace when the Republican party has been in pover." Put we have heard of men with thousands of dollars on de- ; posit in banks all over this broad land having to use clearing house certificates in the place of money, and also have heard of a Republican administration, at the very close of its term, or nearly ; so, when about to lie succeeded by aj Democratic administration, leaving the ' treasury and the finances of the nation in such a condition that orders were : given by such Republican adininistra-; adininistra-; tion to engrave the dates for the printing of bonds upon which to borrow money to carry on the ordinary business busi-ness of the government. This actually occurred din ing a Republican administration adminis-tration in tha mmth of February, 183:?, three months aftor Grover Cleveland had been elected president of the Unite ! States, and in the month next preceding his inauguration. Secretary Foster managed to stave off the in-evitible in-evitible and cast the necessity of borrowing the money upon a Democratic Demo-cratic administration, by obtaining from a group of New York bankers a temporary tem-porary supply of gold amounting to about $3,0J),0;W. T lis exceedingly unjust and unfair I st it nent ma le by Colonel Loose, by in i ill at least, that the Democratic i: . r iti .i w:n responsible for the f ii t I'M i ; i ' ' ' M ! : r i k ir-)U) N U : : .i )) i h . ; . : , f j tpa K ' (1 n " J ' j-i ri j li ' jdi-TdM'" U : ' A fj Woman's World, 35c yr. Green's Fruit Grower, SOc yr. Farm Life, 25c yr. Home Life, 25c yT; i . 1I1IS Fm for AbaS ffs8 Prise of I: U lS?''S, This is the biggest bargain in the best reading S . U t'r''ISi50 matter ever offered to our subscribers. It in-1 f j j 14 eludes our papei the best weekly published! 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P 1 One of the oldest and most authoritative fruit journals in ' J i America. It has a real message for the general farmer and . every town dweller who has-orchard or garden. ; Home Life Published in Chicago. Montlily. Illus- j 'i trated, 24 to 48 )ages. 25c a year. Publishes several good serials every year and many shoit sitoi'ic-s. Its household N ' departments are practical and interesting. A favorite mag- R y azine in a million homes. '' j f Send os your check today Don't delay condition of the treasury that rendered a loan necessary has been a common campaign canard, unfairly and unjustly used by the Republican party in every political campaign since 189-3, and the fact that it has been refuted and exposed ex-posed by the facts of history a thousand times duria that period of time makes no iiuression on the party. It con-tir con-tir to repeat the. falsehood just the Pa ii". .:" in he says, speaking of the Pro-iivs.-tivL's: "Why should those who followed Theodore Roosevelt and believed be-lieved in the prin'-iples in which he be-1' be-1' -''es vote th-i Democratic ticket?" i ij trouble about the colonel is he a -sjnies that protection was the only principle for which Roosevelt stood, ar.d he assume further that the Roosevelt Roose-velt theory of protection is the same as that for which Chairman Loose and his party stands, whereas, in fact, Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt himself has recently defined de-fined his position to be a middle ground between that held by the Republican and Democratic parties. This is one of the most recent utterances of Mr. Roosevelt to the American people. Upon what theory can Mr. Loose claim that Theodore Roosevelt is in harmony with the party represented by Mr. Loose, when Mr. Roosevelt himself emphatically repudiates the insinuation? So we see that upon the question of protection Roosevelt is not in harmony with the Republican1 party, and upon every other qu :stion within the range of American politics he and the Republican Re-publican party are as wide as the poles asunder. Roosevelt believes in the initiative and referendum; Republicans do not. He believes in the direct primary; pri-mary; Republicans do not. He believes in the direct election of senators by the people, something that has been already al-ready accomplished; Republicans do not and did n't. He believes in a federal income Lax, another thing that has been accomplished; Republicans did not believe in it and do not now. They j have had to take it as a patient takes j . dose of medicine. These are only a parf of the differences between Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Loose and the party he reoiesents. There are marv others of almost equal importance, but these are fundamental. By them it is -.ought to restore to the people the right to rule in this great republic a right of which they have been deprived by the Republican party. And upon ; everyone of these fundamental prin-ip'es prin-ip'es Colonel Roosevelt, his party, the Progressive party, and the Democratic ; oarty of the nation and of Utah are in I hearty accord. Is there any serious in-j in-j consistency, then, in the combination , between Democrats and Progressives i '- in Utah and especially when those two parties see eye to eye in-trying to overthrow over-throw the domination of the Republican Republi-can party in Utah," which, for other reasons than those already named, is peculiarly obnoxious and ought to be deprived of power for the good of the commonwealth. Again Colonel Loose says: "I defy the Democrats of Utah to give one reason why people who believe in protection pro-tection of Utah's industries should vote the Democratic ticket." This has in effect already been answered. I think I have shown that even ff protection was the only political principle involved, the Republicans and Progreesiyes, according ac-cording to Roosevelt, are as wide apart as the Progressives and Democrats. If the pirty represented by Colonel Loose had the power, it would probably to lay reinstate the tariff on wool, notwith- standing the supply is not equal to the demand. The Progressives would draw the line at this point. In fact, one of the orimary differences between the Republican party and the Progressives was this very principle of protection. The Republicans believed in a tariff for tne benefit of special interests. The Progressives believed in a moderate protection without regard to special interests in-terests and privileged classes. It is fair to say if the Repu lican party had limited itself to the laying of a moderate tariff instead of an exhorbi-tiint exhorbi-tiint onefor the special benefit of privileged privi-leged classes it might today be in power in the nation and would not have suffered suffer-ed t'sie humiliation of an ignominious de feat at the hands of the American people as it did in 1912. While the Progressives of Utah are abundantly able to defend their own position and maintain absolute consistency consist-ency in their combination with the D 'in crats in the present campaign, it is likewise the dutv of the Democratic party to stand by its ally and join in tee common defense of both as against .1 party wh'ch seeks by cajolery and smooth words and promises to lead it j back to the acceptance of principles so obnoxious to the people of the United States that in 1912 they were repudiated by every state in the union except Utah and Vermont, and in these states the Republicans had only a minority of the votes cast at the election. Before closing this statement I must not omit reference to one idea suggested suggest-ed by Colonel Loose, which sounds ex ceedingly strange in this advanced age of the politics of thi? country. I supposed, sup-posed, until I read his statement, that the old doctrine advanced by the Republican Re-publican party twenty years ago and prior thereto that the foreigner pays I the tax and not the American consumer had been abandoned by the Republican party itself. This is the first time 1 have heard that idea advanced during the period named by Republican spellbinders spell-binders or anybody else. It is manifest mani-fest that a protective tariir, if it is purely protective, is added by the im-purter im-purter to the price of the product and the consumer i3 compelled to pay the inceased price of the poods or go without with-out them. Salt Lake Tribune. Try our Job Work Reputation II Let us build you an inch J. j ii ad. in this paper; a col- pj f iimn ad., a page ad., or, H j any old size ad. jjjj vi U j f-4 Let it tell in forceful terms: fi H ' i j !1 What you've got to sell H What it's worth t r. 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