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Show COMMUNICATIONS Senator Sutherland Uses Obsolete Methods In Speech Editor of the Progress: While visiting in your city last week and attending your splendid county fair, I took occasion to listen to Senator Sen-ator Geo. Sutherland. I was surprised sur-prised and disappointed with Mr. Sutherland because I believe that he made a speech in Castledale that he would not dare to make in Salt Lake City, Ogden, or Provo. Many of the people of your county agreed with me that such a speech was not becoming the senator from Utah nor would it make votes for him. I sincerely believe be-lieve that he thought he was talking to a bunch of backwoods farmers and that most any old thing would be taken and swallowed regardless of the truth of the statements. I believe that the people who listened list-ened to Mr. Sutherland deserved the best that his intellect could muster and the issues which he presented are Certainly Cer-tainly not the live, uptodate issues in the present campaign. For example, he dwelt at Itngth on the tariff and passed the income tax. He emphasized empha-sized the fact that President Wilson had made mistakes in dealing with Mexico but he failed to give proper credit to the stern reality that the President had followed the example of former President Lincoln and dealt with Mexico in a manner that would prevent war with our southern neighbor. neigh-bor. He spoke at length on the assertion as-sertion that the president had demanded de-manded a salute from Huerta but he minimized the fact that the latter had resigned and quit Mexico. Mr. Sutherland Suth-erland criticized the President and the Democratic party for not placing a plank in their platform in favor of na- tional suffrage, but the fact remains that the national Democratic platform is stronger than the Republican platform plat-form on this issue. The Democratic party of Utah recommended this plank pl-ank to the national convention, but Chas. E. Hughes, if elected, will not secure the passage and adoption of a national womans suffrage law because he cannot do this without the ratification ratifi-cation of three-fourths of the states, and thus the whole question must be settled by the individual states after all. This is Wilson's plan of settling the question. The talk that Mr. Hughes and the other Republicans are making on this subject is all bluff to catch votes. Senator Sutherland tried to make his hearers believe that the Democratic Demo-cratic party was the cause, a few-years few-years ago, of a business depression, but we hope that the senator from Utah realizes that business depressions depres-sions and panics are not caused by political parties. If they were, then what was the cause of the panic of 1 907 when the Republican president, Mr. Roosevelt, was in the White House? Mr. Sutherland tried to show that the Democratic party was reviving reviv-ing the sectional strife of the Civil war period by retaining the tariff on peanuts and rice and removing it from other products, but his audience had little sympathy on this sectional strife and his whole speech was received rather coldly. It would seem that the senator does not know that peanuts are grown In Utah. I would like to suggest to Senator Sutherland that he say something a-bout a-bout the eight-hour law, the federal reserve act, and the farm loan act. Also the public utilities hill proposed by the Utah state Democratic platform. plat-form. Which was the first party to advocate statewide prohibition in Utah and did the Republican party want this issue forced on them? Respectfully, I. 11. MASTERS (Adv.) "The Provo Herald" |