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Show An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. T. Goodwin :: EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN Mr. Roberts' Speech W R. 'ROBERTS always says something when he talks. In that respect he Is different from some of his fellow Democrats. But like less distinguished speakers, he talks best on themes which he has given most study to. Ilenoo there is a great deal more meat in one of Brother Roberts' sermons than in one of his political speeches. Indeed, politics is merely a by-product with him and should be rated as about 2 per cent. i copper in a gold mine is. It is a little too valu- I able to throw away, even though it costs about, all it is worth to extract it. Mr. Roberts electrified his party friends by s delivering a political speech. It lis said that the ( elder Booth could repeat the Lord's prayer in a f way to bring tears to the eyes of listeners. When some other men repeat that prayer, as a rule the ordinary layman, unless most devout, is not especially stirred by it. Then there are men who, when they deliver a political speech, make their party friends cry for joy, while, when others oth-ers talk on the same theme they make those who listen, and cannot get out of the house, just cry. Brother Roberts is of the former class. However, How-ever, he was not at his happiest when he spoke here last week. The truth is it requires some nerve for an orator to face the wool men, the sugar producers and the miners of Utah and deliver de-liver panegyrics on Democratic party principles. ' j True, he did refer to sugar, but forgot to men- - f tion that the war in Europe threatens to cut oft ' more than half the world's supply and that as a v. consequence the American sugar producers were able again this year to raise the price during the canning season to a disgraceful figure. Mr. Roberts referred to the fact that free trade legislation did not lower the price of wool, but forgot to mention that this year's clip was j, sold before the legislation was passed and took effect. iBut Mr. Roberts made no mention of the J reduced cost for clothing for the poor man. The truth is the European war supplies the Democracy with a blanket to cover up for this year the effects of Democratic legislation on wool and sugar. It is a reminder of how once before the calamity of free trade legislation was postponed. post-poned. The country was already for a panic in 1849 when the finding of gold in California set every factory humming and every ship yard ringing ring-ing and the catastrophe was postponed until 1837. Mr. Roberts referred to the tyranny and oppression op-pression of certain eastern manufacturers. 4w The Democracy once elected a president on the cry of tyranny and oppression on the part of the owners of the Homestead steel mills. So soon ns the Democratic congress met a committee was appointed to go up to those mills, take evidence and report. Mr. Crisp was chairman of the com mittee, and he reported that nowhere on earth were wages so genrous'.y paid for the same work. In some cases those laborers went to their work in their own carriages and at night their wives went after them in the same carriages. Mr. Roberts intimated that; in many foreign factories better wages are paid than in our own. Has he heard of any American laborers going abroad looking for work? He did not refer to the condition of our merchant mer-chant marine in the present crisis or the legislation legisla-tion to compel American shipping, plying between be-tween American ports, being compelled to pay toll through an exclusively American canal. Mr. -Roberts wants Senator Smoot to apologize for calling President Wilson a schoolmaster. Was he not a schoolmaster, and is not his handling hand-ling of Mexican affairs much more like a schoolmaster school-master than a statesman? Mr. Roberts complains that Senator Smoot did not give the president a vote of confidence when the president sent warships to Vera Cruz. Is Mr. Roberts ignorant of the facts in that case, or was he but practicing on the supposed ignorance of his audience? Senator Smoot did not vote for the namby-pamby namby-pamby house resolution, but he did vote for a measure to enable President Wilson to go ahead and settle affairs in distracted Mexico; to stop the pillaging of American property there, to make safe American lives, and by doing so to restore to the American flag the prestige it has lost in that unhappy country. The truth is President Pres-ident Wilson was in a hole on Mexican affairs, and did not know which way to turn when the South American embassadors interposed to help him out. We heartily sympathize with any Democratic orator who this year is called upon to defend the policy of President Wilson and the party behind be-hind him before any intelligent audience in any northern or western state. The President TO be president oL the United States is to hold the highest political office that the genius of man has yet created. All reverence is due that great office, and the holder of the office, bqing the highest representative of a great people, is entitled en-titled to every courtesy and the Tull and warm support of all the people in every legitimate thing. . At the same time, in order to be enduring, this government of ours must be of the people, by the people and for the people. Hence, after all, the very majesty of the oftice comes from the people and the government is but their instrument, in-strument, the oificer is their representative. The president in his office is not there to rule over the people, but to do their will. When Mr. Lin-cln Lin-cln was elected he said: "My being elected was but an accident," aud called upon the people to uphold up-hold him. Mr. Wilson holds that the incumbent has a right to direct the policies of his party. Moreover, the incumbent is but a man of like passions with other men, and being but a man he is not infallible fl He is liable to error and when he makes what 11 a multitude of the people believe to be a mistake H it is not only a night but a manifest duty to hon- estly and respectfully criticize him. H The present incumbent of the office is a pro- found scholar, his mental equipment is superb, the honesty of his purposes and his devotion to H duty may be accepted without debate. H Yet his election was an accident; we say in H our country the majority must rule, but he failed M by 2,000,000 of receiving a majority of the votes M cast. ThiB is not stated to cast any doubt upon ! the perfect legality of his election, but to show , that the principles ho advocated did not appeal to the best judgment of a vast majority of his M countrymen. It is practically two years since his M election, nearly twenty months since his ilnaug- uration. In that time congress has been his will- H ing instrument to do his will and in that time M he has been able to give official emphasis to his fl beliefs and desires. H He has demonstrated that he does rot believe ,M it is good policy to protect any industry or enter- lM prise of the people, even for the purpose of rais- in? revenue to meet the government's legitimate M evrnses. H That where any industry cannot without pro- M tection successfully compete with foreigners, it M is better to let it go to the wall and send Amerl- M can gold away to purchase the foreign product. And with him, it does not matter if this pro- M duct comes from the work of the miserably poor M workers of the over-crowded civilized peoples be- 'jl yond the sea, or from the naked toilers of semi- M barbarous lands. m When he had successfully carried through the M needed legislation to secure this result, he and H his near party friends rejoiced exceedingly that H at last "industrial freedom" had been given our ' nconle. 1 Again, he seems to have no conception of M what a necessity it is for a commercial nation to H control and carry on its own ocean commerce, for M in words he and his' party declare that if American H ship-owners cannot, unassisted, compete with the iM heavily subsidized ships of Great Britain and Ger- jH many, it is better to pay American gold to for- H cigners for the service, though that gold is lost H to us forever. H In that way we are paying $300,000,000 per jH airium to foreign ship-owners for carrying Amer- l ican passengers and freight; our ship yards are H silent, our flag is so seldom seen in foreign ports ,H that the masses of the people in those ports do JH not know it when it appears, and when our RH country is referred to as a world power, for in- jH telllgent foreigners it is to laugh. So extreme are the views of the president on this subject IB that his chiefest reason for urging the levying of jH tolls upon such of our coast shipping as pass 1H through the Panama canal was that to eliminate ! the tolls would be giving such ships an indirect ifl subsidy. M These ideas are inborn with our president; jfl they may be looked upon as birth marks, for with ,1 him the results which were over and over seen ;H in the past under similar legislation, count for . ;H nothing; the plain mathematics that have over H m 'I Hf "an'd"'over demonstrated the fallacy of tii'e belief Hj count for nothing with him the b ih ma'rkwHich Hrf came of the selfishness whlqh fo wed the mak- V lng of fortunes by unpaid labor, Is still In evl- Hi I dence ., i Hh ' Now the men who toll, tho men who desire ito 1 seQ their country prosperous everywhere, are asked to give the president a vote of confidence, i a letter of credit to continue to slash American H) - industries by electing Democratic senators and K't representatives. What do tho true men and H'f women of Utah think of the proposition? H The Cabinet on the Stump H Y B are told tllat consress is to adjourn In a H few days now and that the president's entire political family are to take tho rostrum in dlf- 1 ferent states to picture to eager audiences the HJh blessings of Democracy true and undeflled. It K ls a sood idea. It ought to draw better than any Hri other movie in the country. Hit With the president to write the new dlspensa- H tion and his cabinet to preach it, with Colonel PH Roosevelt as the chief trick pony, the air LH should be filled with political melody and the H deep rhythm of profound political wisdom set to H appropriate airs. A diapason should sound all B along tho line and fill the air with harmony. Some H' of the strains will be strident, others will only H be chanted when the soft pedal is on. For In- m stance, when a great crowd of the unemployed H confronts one of these chief musicians demand- H' ing work they will be softly told that the one of- Hj fense that sends up to heaven a more offensive H odor than any other is monopoly; that if a few H factories have to be torn down or a few railroads H smashed to kill it, the working men must bear f the temporary affliction bravely; that they must H be willing to suffer a little tha't the land may be Hi purified and its moral status improved. H: If another crowd fills the air with clamors by H beating their empty dinner pails, they must be H told that after all eating is merely a habit and Hj that there is nearly as much nutriment in an H Irish stew as In a thick and juicy and not over- Hb done porterhouse steak. When a threadbare gen- Efl tleman in the audience wants to know where the Hj cheap suits of clothes, all wool and no shoddy, H are, it will be convenient to inform him that the H first installment must have been blown up by a H submarine on the way over from Europe. H When some financier asks them about the de- Hl ficit in the revenue which was swelling danger- H ously oven before the war came on In Europe, H, they will tell him triumphantly that the purpose H is to make that up by 'increasing the income tax, jfl' that the burden may fall upon the rich and not H the poor. H When asked why American coast ships trad-H trad-H ing solely between American ports have been H forced to pay tolls if they pass through an Amer-H Amer-H lean built and owned canal, they will be told that H American honor must be maintained, if every H American ship on the sea is sunk or forced to H rust to pieces in American harbors. D When asited about the Mexican situation they H will bo told that while it was true that our presi-H presi-H dent saw American property in Mexico devastates devastat-es ed, Americans insulted, robbed and murdered, he M thought it proper to continue a "watchful wait-Hi wait-Hi ing" policy, but when a row boat carrying a small H American flag at the fore went off from an Amer-H Amer-H lean warship in Tampico harbor to get the Bhlp's IB mails, and the men In the boat were insulted H ' by a petty bandit in stolen uniform, the president HSi decided that the flag was Insulted and that was H too much, so he ordered our Atlantic fleet to H rendezvous at "Vera Cruz In order to compel K what? Only to make a usurper off in Mexico HI City salute the lag. K This will p duce the first laugh in the meet- I ing H But where they will grow strident will be when they ipllvoE -pur 'gijeat'iPsident and how he, backed by congress,' has ' at last given our land a new industrial "freedom a freedom to, to, to starve. ' ,i ",i xt, ( .The f Situation Dpes, Not Jmproe TTHe' situation does ,riot improve in thej old world. So far the Germans have made, no progress in the west; rather they have been baffled baf-fled and at this writing are barely holding their own on the line which they established as they fell back from their attempt to capture Paris. But in the west they have been able to do their fighting on foreign soil. If they are finally compelled com-pelled to fall back to their own defenses on the western frontier of Germany, what then? The allies will be forced to take the offensive, and what that will cost we may estimate by what it required from Germany to capture the fortresses of Belgium. In the east the Russians have occupied a small portion of German territory and have outfought out-fought the Austrlans. But we do not believe those Russian peasants can stand before the perfectly per-fectly disciplined Germans when the center of interest turns from the west to the east. We thought when the war opened it must necessarily nec-essarily be a brief one, because of the tremendous forces employed and the unparalleled task of keeping the hosts supplied with food and ammunition. am-munition. But with the German armies driven back upon their own soil, they can fight on indefinitely. Then there is another factor. A two-line cable the other morning said that German officers of-ficers were training the Turkish army. Suppose Turkey should finally decide "to espouse the cause of Germany? Of course the allied fleets could quickly batter down Constantinople, and their armies could swiftly drive the Turks out of Europe. 'But there are 70,000,000 Mohammedans in India, In-dia, and there are millions more in that country who are impatient under British rule. Suppose a holy war should be proclaimed in that country. Nothing in the world could save British rule there except Japan. She could send an army there that could compel peace, and we suspect that her promise to do so if necessary was obtained ob-tained before the army of Indian troops were sent from Bombay to France. It is clear that as the war progresses its possible pos-sible magnitude and probable duration cannot yet be estimated. Then another possible fearful feature lis the disposition of the fleets of Great Britain and Germany. Ger-many. The situation is much as it was prior to the battle of the Nile. Napoleon was having his way on land, but Nelson was scouring the seas to find the French fleet. It does not look now as though the temple of Janus was liable to be closed down, or any whispers whis-pers of peace be heard for a good long time to come. Endorsement or Protest, Which? THE election of Democratic congressmen and a Democratic legislature in Utah this year would be an endorsement by Utah of President Wilson's official acts and the acts of the majority major-ity in congress, which, as a rule, have been but putty in the hands of the president since March 4th, 1913. It would accentuate the president's belief that he has been right on all the Important questions ques-tions that directly concern the people of the republic. re-public. This includes the almost annihilation of the principle of protection; tbn handling of Mexican affairs; the determination 10 keep the ocean car rying trade of our country in the hands of foreign for-eign shipowners; the imposing of tolls - upSn -American coasting vessels1' that may desiro'''to pass through the' tfan&l; tho taking of the enterprise enter-prise of ''building a railroad in Alaska from private pri-vate enterprise arid doing the work on riloney raised by taxing' the people; tho forcing of tho i j Iidbple b'f Alaska to buy cOal'from foreign countries coun-tries when it Is lying in .abundance at their own doors; the forcing of American naval ships to buy coal from foreign countries when it is lying In abundance at their own doors; the forcing of American coast snips to buy foreign coal, or coal sent around Cape Horn from favored coal mine owners In Pennsylvania; the breaking of direct pledges In tho Democratic platform of 1912 regarding re-garding the Panama tolls and the American merchant mer-chant marine; the deception practiced on the people In relation to tariff revision; the prosecution prosecu-tion which In many cases has been more a persecution per-secution than prosecution of great corporations on which tens of thousands of poor men depend t for employment these are some of the things which Utab would directly endorse were It to elect Democratic congressmen and a legislature which would In turn confirm the election of a Democratic senator. It Is not to be like an ordinary election where party principles and the fitness of candidates are mostly considered, but It involves either an endorsement en-dorsement of the president and his subservient majority in congress, or it to carry a mute protest pro-test against their legislation, which, so far as they were able, has been a solar plqxus blow against the three most important industries of the state, and which in other respects shows, when analyzed, a want of comprehension of some of tho country's most pressing needs, and a failure to realize the duty of a government toward to-ward Its own citizens in foreign lands. The personnel of the 'Republican ticket is fully equal and In many candidates vastly superior su-perior to that of the opposition; moreover the state needs a Republican administration of its affairs, af-fairs, but the paramount question this year is, shall the state of Utah give the president and his sycophants in congress a vote of confidence and a further letter of credit to go on and continue smashing its industries, or shall it file its silent protest against the legislation of tho past twenty months, and with the protest a warning against further spoliation? Brace Up! THE mines of Utah are yielding nobly and new ones are being found. All reports confirm the statement that the harvest from field and orchard and range exceeds this year all precedents: there 1 Is little sickness in the state; the crop of healthy babies exceeds all previous returns; the returns from manufactories are far greater than from the mines; were Utah lifted from its base and planted and anchored far out in the sea, it would be self-supporting. Why should there be ' ' doubt and apprehension and fear amonfe business men. Why should not business assume normal conditions? con-ditions? True the daily news from Europe is startling and keeps stunned the hearts of men, but there is no threat to us In the news. Why not go on with the enterprises already started and start new ones? The sun still shines in heaven, the earth be- ' neath us is filled with promise, the air above and around us is full of peace. Why not brace up? ' A Faithful Traitor THEODORE is still 'in evidence. He is talking tariff nowadays. Strange, is It not, that during dur-ing the seven years he was president he never thought to make a suggestion on that subject? i i He Is exceedingly solicitous fabput jfqmalBuf-nfyage. jfqmalBuf-nfyage. Queer, is it, ,npt, that tdyrjjigjfll;he fjevqn i(yearaho ,was president, ho wafl, never tqqsjod, texcept tp oppose .that tvital righ( due wpmenCCU km He is solicitous a.bput the welfare of jtholfpflor vYorking classes. How late innhiSiJllje. irwaB,fh,e-r& irwaB,fh,e-r& fr?re he began tprbo anxiousijon (thelr acpount , c m He is savage om the Demoqraoy and their, nian-agement nian-agement of public affairs. What does ther good book say about a "thankless child" being sharper than a "serpent's tooth"? I s But Theodore knows that when Democrats 1 are on top they never scratch a ticket and that all he can draw to Mmself will bo Republicans; then why should he not denounce the Democrats? Demo-crats? j Moreover, he knows that every one sp drawn gives the Democrats half a vote. Theodore continues to earn a large reward from the Democratic party. - A Threatening Outlook A CABLE from Amsterdam on Wednesday last gae a report from a newspaper correspondent correspond-ent from Berlin, that the Krupps are running night and day in manufacturing some enormous cannons, destined as was believed for some port in England which the Germans hoped to captur.e, and the further statement that these guns will have a range of about twenty-five miles. Further Fur-ther that the Zeppelin factories are being rushed to add to the airship fleet. This is a reminder that a German officer who was recently here in disguise, hurrying back to Germany,, told a countryman coun-tryman that the new great guns were Intended for the fleet and not the shore, that when the fleet was fitted out with them that fleet would be heard from; that the guns haye a range .three miles beyond any gun on any British ship; .that they fir.e a shot so terrible that they will crush any ironclad like an egg shell; that with ships thus equipped, with the submarines beneath the sea and the Zeppelins in the air, the purpose was to invade England. Should all this prove true, it would but con firm Admiral Farragut's opinion that eventually ironclads ould prove to be merely coffins, for a gun would smely be made that would ciush them. This same German officer said that the campaign on the eastern border of Prussia would close in about a month because of the winter and then the Germans would concentrate for the Avar on France and England. The prospects pros-pects for peace aro not good. t |