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Show hli " i mm ...I,.. A SURVEY OF THE-FIELD. The voters of Utah are placed In a terrible dilemma this year, thft is if they go to hear all the Democratic speakers. They are told almost in the same breath that a cold shudder is felt every few days lest fee impetuous man who is now president of the United States, will suddenly sudden-ly have this country involved in a great war, and that the reason he dgalt with Panama and Colombia Col-ombia as he did wattcause he was a cowardly bully, and would ndf have dared to do any such business with Great Britain or Germany. Next that he has Imperialistic designs, that he ajready has congress subdued to his will And that we are not fifteennninufces removed from what old Rome was on that fatal Ides of March except that we have no Brutus or Cassius to save us. Next, that the Imperial policy is already in full blast in the Philippines, that thp only difference in the rule therb now, and whjn the Spaniards were in control, is that Americans are by nature a little more generous and kind than Spaniards. Again, that the government is run regardless of expense, that it really Is more an orgie than a government and that the President spends his leisure hours in tearing the Constitution Into little lit-tle threads forhis children to spin top Gtrings out of. On the other hand Judge Parker spends nearly near-ly all his waking hours holding the Constitution over his head, the same as a sun umbrella, while under his feet he has corraled the sword of war so firmly that it is bOtt to the point of breaking. When men leave one of these meetings, they are astonished that there Is no blood upon the moon and they wonder if the sun will have the hardihood hardi-hood tp come up next morning. They go home too excited to sleep, so to calm their nerves they pick up a daily paper and read one of Mr. Bryan's speeches. Where he weeps through columns of sorrow. The hard fortunes of the Filipino is his theme and he pictures him a new Prometheus chained to a rock out in the southern Pacific, chained there and the administration in the form of a vulture Is pioking his eyes out, and reading this the sympathetic Salt Laker cries himself to sleep. And now are not Utah people a little tired of all this, tired and ashamed? They look out and see their country standing in the very foremost of nations, in the forefront, hot of the fear, but of the respeot of the nations. Thy try to see where the constitution has been violated and cannot find the place. They read where Democratic Governor of Idaho called for federal help to put down a reign of anarchy, incendiarism and assassination, and note how the President was damned for interfering. interfer-ing. They read whera the Governor of Colorado made JtfraSfw help, and note how the Presi- L dent is jjlL Vr not interfering. They h gfc tkQy have heard of the un- J speakable c feieing practiced in the Philip- ;i pines, and tu f jd the words of the Roman H Catholic Bishop nila, praying for the re-- '1 election of Roosft, an earnest that the work $ of mercy and enl .t going on there may M be continued. They turn to the Isthmus of Panama and note M that the canal for fifty years agitated, is really jhH under construction, an American canal under American control, with not one foreign string 'sH upon it, and no man and no nation wronged in M starting It With their ears filled with the cries of fl how the poor are suffering in our country, they H 3 sH look and behold the spectacle of 5,300,000 wage M earners at work at bettor wages than wage-Barn- H ers have ever received in any other country back M through the centuries to where history recordgd 11 its first ypage. - M They hear what a despot the President is, M and turning they see him, the soldier the states- ?iH man, the fun-loving man, the man of affairs, the H patriot whose loftiest ambition is to serve his na- 'H tive land in a way that will secure most blessings to all her people, and give new splendors to her flag H And they wonder how such a President and. M how such a Government can be so abused, lied. M about and held up to the scorn, the Idicule and, lM the fears of a majestic people of freo men, num- M boring 80 000,000 of souls, and all thinking, lib- H erty-loving, brave and generous people. And no H answer comes until they have turned to see who M the people are, what the party is, that makes H these accusations. Then they are enlightened. yM And what do they see? First they see a party H that for forty years has been simply a party of H obstruction, that has been a perpetual brake on H the wheels of the Chariot of Progress; that they( M fought every measure intended to give homes to lM the oor and a market for the products of tho .M poor; which fought the homestead law; fought H the pushing of railroads into the wilderness; jH fought at every turn the efforts of the Republican 'H party to draw its protecting arms around the fM products of American industry, which has kepfc :'H the flag of our merchant marine from lighting the seas; which while perpetually advertising itself M as the friend of labor, has never yet prepared one 'H measure to lighten the burdens of labor or to pro- 'M tect the products of labor from competition with M the pauper labor of Europe on the one hand and M China on the other. yH The same party that on specific promises to ,1 crush the trusts, was given the Presidency and ifl both Houses of Congress, and not only utterly H failed to proceed against any trust, but in twelve months after given power had berott 2,000,000 M i j a.tifflw 1 111 ...i ' - l of wage-earner3 of any place wherein they could I ?' earn bread for thefr anxiottt wives and hungry .j children: "Whidh filled the land wlSh marching H ' 1 1 I armies of 'irjtinps and ruined a million homes, I j I darketffcl ttfe hearta of two millions of Wage- I ' I I earners, their wives and children; which multl- H ' J plied crimes until the land was in fear, and which H M comes forward again this year offefing precisely H 1 the same cup to the lips of the American people, ! trying to divert their attention from the real i t fact, 4by hobgoblin stories of what they may ex-j ex-j pect if they do not drink. fj And Who are the sponsors for this party? h , First we will name the political trickster who for H I doubtful work was given a judgship by Governor H 1 Hill of New York. "We say trickster, because he, H '', "v nineteon years ago, managed Hill's gubernatorial B ji , campaign in New York in which from the next H precinct from where he lived, there was certi- H fled Up a Democratic majority as correct, which H !l ' exceeded In number all the men, women and chil- H i dren; horses and dogs in that precinct That is H , how his judgeship wag earned. What ho is now H wo give the testimony of the New York Sun to H establish. "He comes and goes in gum shoes H with a linger on his lips? he is a myth in the H great West, an empty name in the South, and un- H , recognizable as he walks the streets of New Hj Yortt?11 What Tie is may be judged from the fact Hj that he has in a public speech put out shamefully B false statistics to discredit Ills opponent and the Hi , opposition party, and when shown the utter fal- B sity of liis figures by one who is vastly more HB '' Hi eminent as a Judge, and vastly greater as a man, B than 'himself, has not only refused to make a re- B traction but repeated it Moreover, while de- t nounclng trusts and peimitting his party friends K to denounce them, he knows he holds his candi- H dacy at the instance of the combined capital of H the East. And who are his defenders in Utah? "We will name SCIhator Tom Patterson first Ha is the pald attorney of the dynamiters tintl assassins of Gdloratlo, and comes tor Utah to gpeak 4n the guise of the honest 'laborer's frlonfl, 0f course it was natural for him to call the President of the United States "a cowardly bully" and to praise the Judge of New York. We name next "William Jennings Bryan, who while not in Utah, sends his paper here. He gives up all the principles he ever advocated to support Judge Parker, because his heart is brdken over the sufferings of the Filipinos. He tearfully cries out, that "a government witlfout the consent of the governed Is tyranny," and points to the mongrel, mon-grel, naked, cruel, semi-savage of the Philippines in proof of his words; though he knows how oruel, treacherous and savage they are, and knows that every possible human exei tion is being made to redeem thorn. At the same time he has been looking on where millions of native-born Americans are denied de-nied the ballot, "no matter how well educated or how well behaved they may be, because they are black and do not vote the Democratic ticket For them he has no tears, even if the government over them is without the consent of the governed. We name next Mr. Cobb of Texas. We are glad he came "here. It must broaden his horizon immensely. Before coming, he never knew that there was any real country north of the Ohio river. He thought the South Was like Broe's cat, "tho hull thing." Of course, with him, "the niggers nig-gers of Texas don't count, but the niggers of Panama are a sorely imposed upon race " We are glad he came. Of course he did not teach the people peo-ple of Utah anything, but he learned something himself, and he needed to. In this connection the Hon. B. H. Roberts must not be omitted. He came down from his HBHnna m nBB templd duties to enlighten the people on how little lit-tle he knows of the principles of tho two great parties', WaH he has succeeded admirably. Anon now What will the voters do on Tuesday next? Will they vote to keep Roosevelt and Hay in Washington or to send Parker and Hill there in their place? Will they vote for their homes and continued prosperity or for a return of 1893-'94? It is tip to them. |