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Show THE CITIZEN SIDE LIGHTS ON REPUBLICANISM. The present Republican congress has been and is working at a speed and with an efficiency which has never been excelled by any previous con- gress in American history. Only ten months have elapsed since congress convened in special session and listened to the first message of President Harding calling upon it for certain legislative action. A study of that message and a listing of accomplishments of the congress set forth the indisputable and irrefutable fact that every request for legislation,, which President Harding made in his first message, has been acted upon favorably by the House of Representatives, with one exception. That exception is the creation of a Department of Public Welfare. Congress is delaying action upon this pending a decision by the President and his cabinet regarding the proposed plan of reorganizing all of the executive agencies. In addition to carrying out the presidents requests for legislation the congress has enacted a great many laws which were demanded by public interest to facilitate the process of reconstruction and rehabilitation. Those who charge that congress has been dilatory, that it has not been hard at work, that it has paid no attention to the Presidents recommendations, speak either out of utter ignorance or with a purpose to misrepresent wilfully and deliberately. The balance sheet shows that no of congress, in history, has ever enacted into law such a high percentage Presidential legislative recommendations as this congress has in the short time allotted it. The legislation enacted at the request of the President, plus the other has all been constructive and most of it has been of momen- legislation, n tons character. Let those who are disposed to criticise ask themselves what individual, or what business, or what corporation industrial, financial or commercial composed of men who are leaders in their respective fields of activity, can show, within ten months, a record of constructive work of so high a character as that which is to the credit of the present Republican Congress. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, is the latest economist and authority on international trade to give emphasis to the apparent fact that the hope of America for renewal of prosperity and a return to profitable prices for all commodities, lies in a stable home market, rather than in fluctuating and uncretain foreign markets. Secretary Hoover voiced this sentiment very clearly and most emphatically in a statement which he recently made before the Interstate Commerce" Commission relative to a general policy of rehabilitating the transportation systems of the United States. Secretary Hoover showed the need of such rehabilitation from the standpoint of private enterprises as well as that of public welfare. In speaking, however, to the point of how such a policy would affect America and productive prices Secretary Hoover said : A real program of construction would in its various ramifications give relief to five or six hundred thousand of bur unemployed. It would enable even added numbers to increase their standard of living, and thus give increased market to the produce of our fanners. Our farmers who look to foreign markets for their surplus should stop to consider that our home consumption of meat decreased nearly 7 pounds per capita in 1921, mostly owing to unemployment and that if this decrease could be overcome it would be worth more than a 35 per cent increase in exports. We talk glibly of giving billions of credits to foreign countries, to increase our farm exports. I wish to say with all responsibility for the statement, that a billion dollars spent upon American railways will give more employment to our people, more advance to our industry, more assistance to our farmers, than twice that sum expended outside the fron-- . tiers of the United States, and there will be greater security for the investor. In short, the problem confronting the American people, farmer and city consumer alike, is not what shall be done with European markets, but what shall be done with American markets, and what domestic policies must be put into effect to stop the influx of cheaply-mad- e foreign goods that are now driving American industries out of business and throwing thousands of American working people out of employment. Thus it appears that while the present congress has made an enviable record in the matter of enacting legislation of momentous and world . constructive character, it has yet to pass a sane tariff law that, to American farmers and business men their home market, baneful and discouraging element of increasing importation foreign goods. The nightmare of profitable foreign exports pelled only when the American producer and laboring man are, quate protection so that they can go ahead and build struct future. Until that time industrial stagnation is bound to obt less of the status of foreign export trade. th MEETING FOREIGN SUGAR COMPETITION k cu of Cuban ft are American The sugar producers exerting influence to prevent increasing the tariff on foreign sugar fromt a hundred pounds. They argue that this is a subsidy accorded uc erican beet sugar industry and call it a tax on the people. The other side of the story is that the Cuban sugar prodn his raw sugar in a country where the cheapest kind of commijjj obtainable. He asks that he be allowed this cheap labor subfile can ship his raw sugar or finished product into the Unite-ocompetition with American beet sugar produced by American American wages and outsell our home product in such a maniqt force our beet sugar factories out of business. It takes no argument to show that the subsidy of cheap larn by the Cuban sugar producer must be met by a tariff on a prd duced under such conditions, as will allow American manutar beet sugar to at least have an even break on a minimum pric r sugar can be sold in thjs country. Instead of allowing the Cuban sugar producers to outsell: can producer, put him out of business and the government get: thi for the privilege enjoyed by foreigners of trading in this count selling our own people, the moderate tariff proposed simply gn11 erican manufacturer an equal chance at the business and bric; ne government a revenue which offsets other tax bills by the amot from foreign sugar producers. There is no intention on the part of the United States tor 'JOT the advantageous and desirable relations which have existed k ess United States and Cuba in regard to sugar traffic. We are si: to protect and encourage the growth of a very important indt t our own borders. il . LINCOLN DAY CELEBRATION. Never before in Salt Lake has the consanguineous cliarac pirations of republicans been more vividly or more strikingly than on last Monday night, when they assembled, by the th.s t honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the father of their pore It was Abraham Lincoln who first gave force and effect tef g doctrine. Since his time the good work has been carried on bine men and women of the nation, and today it rests safely in the t. bun forward looking president and a generation of that fine American spirit typified by Washington and made cor str Lincoln. America first was the slogan in the days of Abraham Ltooi no less the slogan and the guiding star of the present day mcii' of the republican party; and only to hold to this ideal and toU vote in unity for the advancement of the nation along sane tr lines, leaving foreign nations to the foreign born, tending strwnpl ness at home and lending every assistance to the downlrodiUr tressed of all nationalities, in her own municificcnt and gciicrocjou is to insure! not at the dictation or mandate of a super-stat- e - wa America for many years to come. The affair which marked the opening of the American ft sante, given under the auspices of the Young Mens Republic in all ways, a revelation. It brought out the rank and file in rousing number; it inticed the debutante and demure mauler cious housewife ; it divorced the club habitue from his cosy j there nonce and the staid, tried and true party worker was pse gaily caparisoned with a glowing republican smile. 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