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Show TO VOTERS 1 jl By C. C. Goodwin. , f H I vxfcHE election, national and state, is but three days distant. What are the records of the two great parties from which voters L rt Cj should choose between the " Hl If Si, The country had been - r Republican direction from the time the last previous Democratic administration left.it strand- Hl ed and helpless in 1897 until 1913. RH In that time it advanced in wealth, in prosperity, in prestige an d power, as no other country ever did in the same length of time : since civilization on earth began. " 11 It had the admiration and respect of all the world; it was the one land the poor and oppressed turned to in confidence and hope. iH In those years it had received one million immigrants annual ly, mostly poor people, had assimitated them and given them employ- JJ ment at generous wages. H The two chiefest reasons to accomplish that result were that it had demonstrated that while the American nation loves peace, il Inl must be peace with perfect honor, and, second, that as a nation it had determined that her royal army of toilers should never be placed HI in direct competition with the pauper workers of outside civilized nations, or semi-servile, unschooled and unclothed workers of "semi- IH savage lands. HI There was a three-fold reason for this. One was that all, poor and rich alike, might be educated; second, that our country might be HI able, in a stress, to produce any needed thing, in peace or war, with in itself, and, that as the volume of money in circulation in any U country regulates the price of products, every dollar possible should be kept at home. HI r Nations like stars have aberations in their orbits, and four years ago the party in power was dismembered and the rule of the land HI passed to a minority party. HI ; Despite its promises that minority party proceeded at once to tear down every protection that had been drawn around our toilers; l and to comfort them, told them that they now had "industrial freedom," which meant they might compete on even terms with the l breech-clouted ex-slaves of Cuba or starve. II The party in power had done the same thing more than once when in power, and always with the same result, namely, to, paralyze IH the nation's industries, destroy its home market and drain the land of money. IH Its effort was at once apparent, in excessive imports, decreased exports, sending of money abroad for what should have been produced IH at home, and a swift increase in the number who could not find employment. IH ; An unexpected, unparalleled, mighty war with its wholly artificial and unexpected demands, restored work to the enforced idle men, HI and brought to us a feverish, unnatural prosperity and now the party in power points to that unnatural prosperity and claims the credit llH of it, though the fact is manifest that except for the self-supporting policies of their predecessors, our people could not have met at all IH this artificial demand. IH When the Republican party was in power, in a port belonging to Spain, an American ship of war was blown up and sunk with most IH I of her crew. IH For that our people never rested until the arm of Spain was broken and all hen colonial possessions taken from her. HI i, When the certain truth was carried to the present president of our country, that more than two hundred Americans had been as- HH sassinated in Mexico and their property confiscated, his only response was a message to Americans in that country, to leave what they HH had and get out of that country if they could and later he added that he was "too proud to fight." HH i i We arc told that he has kept us out of war, but the result of his policy is that not one nation on earth either respects or fears the II United States. HH ' We need not rehearse the history of his official performances; his bluffing; his craw-fishing; his bombastic exordiums, the pitiful fiat- IH tcning out of his perorations; his insidious appeals to the cowardice of his countrymen; the prostituting of his high office and the sover- Rffl 'cignty of the great republic of which he is chief magistrate, to gain votes for himself, and his grandstand plays which events have demon- MM ' strated were merely to minister to his egotism, vanity and ambition. HI The people will judge and will keep in mind that all the signs point to manifold dangers to the nation when the war in Europe shall HH . close; whe- the hordes of poor will be turned this way; when to begin to make up the war's losses a trade war will be organized against Kfl r our country. Then no grandstand plays will count, no shuffling, no dramatic performances will be in order then; then the steadiest IH kind of brains, the most resolute of hearts will be needed. fl Turning to our own state of Utah, what do we see? It does not require a very old person to remember how Utah was when it came H ' under Republican rule and to mark the changes since. J There have been some school houses built, have there not? Some temples to religion; to industry; to justice; to mercy in the form JOM I of hospitals; to educational institutions; to charity: the conditions in cities has been improved, streets paved, sewers constructed, trans- ffll 1 portation improved ani wonderfully increased in the products carried; irrigation much extended and new lands brought under cultiva- IH1 B tion ; protection against fires quadrupled ; good roads constructed through farming regions ; banks multiplied and interest reduced ; un- B I numbered new places of innocent amusement and instruction for the people opened, which could not have been except for the general B prosperity, and a new capitol erected, at a cost within the estimates, and which is so magnificent that it is the pride of every citizen, B the admiration' of every visitor. B And the state officers have proved their worthiness. B- Last year a brutal murderer was convicted and sentenced to death. A sinister organization of men threatened the lives of our gov- B ernor and our supreme judges if the sentence should be carried out. At the behest of this organization the President of the United B States and a man who is now a justice of the supreme court interposed to defeat the law and in such terms as were an impeachment of B the ability and sense of justice of our courts and people, and an insult to our executive. Why this was done can only be estimated from B the fact that a few days later the president named this unsavory justice to be one of those of the highest court on earth, and a court Hi Hvhich has heretofore been the palladium of our country. It may be added that despite the interference the law was sustained, and vindi- B cated and strict justice satisfied. B Through all these years, too, Utah has been represented in the senate and house by men who have always stood for the right and have li at the same time earned enviable names for ability, integrity and the desire toadvance the whole republic. H ' Two years ago this county of Salt Lake was turned over to a fusion crowd in which Democrats predominated. It has supplied the Hi people with a useful if sad lesson, Hjij It has been two years of misrule. No cohesion, no fixed and enlightened policy, the lowering of big taxes, the raising of small taxes B J a government run by guesswork and guided by whims and puerile experiments. m Finally we ask the voters to consider a few practical facts which they can all understand at a glance. H ' Last year the farmers of this state were paid in gold for one product $3,419,400. This year they will receive more than that amount B for the same product. H That industry was made possible by a Republican tariff. M It gave last year more than 5,000 laboring men employment. H ' It enabled the people of this state to keep at home quite $250,000 which they otherwise would have been obliged to send away. SThe president whom all our Democratic friends endorse and are clamoring to have retained in office, signed a bill and made it a law, which still is the law, only that its operation is temporarily suspended, that is intended to kill that industry in the interest of foreign pau-per pau-per labor. Suppose that $3,419,400 had last year been withheld and the $250,000 had been sent away, and a larger amount had been withheld and sent away this year, what would the effect have been on Utah? Voters can certainly understand those figures. They directly affect every business in the state, every man, woman and child in the state. And that law is not reported, it is merely suspended and the so-called principles of the party now in power make it imperative that the suspension should cease and the law be enforced. It simply means that $4,000,000 now saved annually and kept in circulation shall be stopped; the labor of five thousand farmers be Hj taken from them, and thousands of dollars now saved at home, shall be sent away and forever lost. Hr Has a Utah voter any doubt how to vote? HI 2 That Democratic Record MR. BRYAN is not as frank and fair as he was twenty years ago. If he is no greater states- H man than he then was, he is a much more cun- H ning politician. H In his last "Commoner" he claims that the m record of Wilson and the Democracy deserves M the endorsement of the American people, and M ; then proceeds to give his version of that record. H He calls the Republican party the party of Hl "reactionists," and cites as proof that four years H l ago four millions of voters of that party supported H Colonel Roosevelt. Suppose it had not been the H colonel, but some other man, how many former H' Republicans would have supported the candidate? H i, He calls Cannon and Depew the chief reaction- iii ists of the Republican party, because Cannon for- H mulated a system of rules which the Democrats Hj have since abolished and Depew fought the sub H mission of the election of senators directly to the H people. Well, it is not strange that a Democratic H congress should revise Mr. Cannon's ideas and H , when a few more elections shall have been passed H : the view of Mr. Depew will be endorsed. Now a B cunning politician has merely to fix the prom- B -ses t ue elected and we believe that the cunning H candidates have already discovered that to fix a H primary is cheaper than to manipulate a legisla- Hfl. ture. Mr. Bryan says "it was of Depewi3m and Hi . Cannonism that the Republican party died four l ' years ago." He knows better. He knows that Hi so many of the party went out to celebrate Roose- H velt day that the Democracy, seeing the house H. unpopulated, went in and stole the spoons. H He says, "The reactionists of the Republican H3t party are in full control." Reactionists against HEr what? Lot him look over the situation and ex- Ho Bkj plain what has made our country progress more during the past fifty years than any other country coun-try in any age ever did in the same time since the beginning of time, except the policies and achievements of those same reactionists! Mr. Bryan says: "The first question is whether wheth-er the American people want to turn this government gov-ernment back to the unrepentant reactionists who for sixteen years spread a Belshazzar's feast before be-fore the predatory interests. That needs a little discussion. Did the feast given those "predatory classes" cause the advance in price of any single article to the people? Did they not at the same time give a great many millions mil-lions of men and women employment at generous wages? Has the big drive upon them by the Democracy Democ-racy caused any useful article that they made to fall in price to the consumer? And when the Democracy Avas in power and the Republicans tried to make some needed revisions re-visions of the tariff, did they receive the support of the Democrats in congress? Mr. Bryan is extravagant in his praise of the new tariff. Two questions will be a sufficient reply to all that. Is the new law essentially different from those laws passed by former Democratic administrations adminis-trations which never failed to absolutely drain the country of money, stuff it with foreign goods, and send skilled artisans to a diet on free soup? And was not the present "tariff" doing its perfect per-fect work along the same lines, when the breaking out of the European war stopped temporarily its destructiveness? Mr. Bryan says of the income tax: The Democratic Demo-cratic party has taken $150,000,000 from the backs of the struggling poor and put it on the incomes of the rich. That i3 all right except it Is not true. Not an ounce of the burden has been taken from the backs of the poor, but the party of "economy" "econ-omy" has spent the last cent of the money in ministering to its own extravagance. The income tax would have been tried years ago, but the foremost Democratic lawyers in the nation always held and do yet that the levying of that tax was one of the things that the states never surrendered to the general government, and that it should be a state and not a federal tax. Mr. Bryan praises extravagantly the currency reform measure, and deduces that "the nation's business is no longer dominated by a few men In New York." May be not, but we notice that when foreign countries want a loan they go to that I same old crowd in New York to obtain it. In like manner he praises the rural credits law. We believe that is a good law. It has been tried in Germany for two hundred years; a German Ger-man came over and explained it to a congressional congression-al committee and a Democratic congress passed it. Give them full credit, but what were it to avail if by another law they take from the farmers farm-ers more in a single year than the farmers could realize from this law in a thousand years? Mr. Bryan praises the Democratic anti-trust law, and says it was ' founded on the ground "that a private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable." in-tolerable." In another article in this edition the workings of a private monopoly in Utah is given. The people peo-ple will judge. Mr. Bryan is bold enough to praise Mr. Wilson's Wil-son's shipping bill. He admits that because of the want of ship3 it costs seven times as much to carry a bale of cotton across the sea as It did before the war and nine times as much to carry a bushel of wheat, and the president proposes to relieve the situation by a government-owned merchant marine. ma-rine. Exactly. Ignoring the expense and methods of nations which possess ships, the proposition is to have the government run a few ships, paying the expense by a sneak on the government treasury until England and Germany can resume their old monopoly. But why did the party wait for two years after the war broke out before moving? Was it because this is a presidential election year? The law will not meet one requirement, and was not intended intend-ed to. Mr. Bryan praises the Adamson bill. That needs no comment save to call attention to the size of the dose a Democrat can swallow for his party's sake. In the same list comes praise for the broken trust due the Philippines, praise for the handling of Mexican affairs and the dipping and dodging and bluffing and vacillation over the European war. Mr. Bryan reminds one of the reply of the . Irish recruit to the question: ''For how long do you want to enlist?" "Till the end of the war un-, un-, less it lasts longer." What He Would Not Have Done DEMOCRATIC orators and newspapers are fond of asking what Mr. Hughes would have done, had he been in Mr. Wilson's place. We do not know, but we do know some things that he would not have done. When the certain proof came to him that Americans in Mexico were being murdered and robbed, ho never would have sent the Americans there word that the best thing they could possibly do would be to abandon what property they had there and get out of the country coun-try if they could. Mr. Hughes would not have refused to recognize recog-nize a president of Mexico and then a few days prior 'to a congressional election, have sent a demand de-mand to him that he publicly salute the American flag, for a supposed slight of it by a petty wharf officer three hundred miles away. And when the old bandit declined he would not have sent the whole Atlantic war fleet to Vera Cruz to capture the city and then gone be fore congress and in a dramatic speech asked that he be sustained. And had Mr. Hughes sent two or three ships down there for patrol duty, he would not have recalled them home so soon as the home election was over. When an American town was looted and a number of its people killed by bandits, had Mr. Hughes sent a military force to kill or capture the bandits he would not have halted that force on the demand of a brother bandit. Mr. Hughes would never have ordered the militia force of the United States to tho border of Mexico a force five times as great as took the capital of Mexico in 1847, and then had all his flunkies from Maine to California proclaiming that he had kept the country from war. Had Mr. Hughes been elected on a platform guaranteeing free tolls to American coast ships passing the Panama canal, he would never have insisted to congress that the free tolls law must be repealed, because foreign nations did not approve ap-prove of it. Had Mr. Hughes been president when the European Eu-ropean war broke out and our own commerce was suddenly stranded, he would not have waited two years, and then on the eve of a presidential election pushed through congress a high sounding sound-ing law to establish an American merchant marine, ma-rine, which every business man knows will utterly utter-ly fail under actual trial. Had Mr. Hughes been president and a delegation delega-tion representing some thousands of high-paid laborers, come to him and said: "You will push a law through congress, within five days granting grant-ing a demand for vu change of hours in our day's work; and do it on our simple demand and with; out any investigation, though it will cost the country $60,000,000 per annum, or we will order a strike," it is hardly necessary to say that the whole bunch would have been summarily fired from the White House. But why specify? It is safe to say that if Mr. Hughes had been president there would have been no gallery plays, no bluffing; no intriguing for votes; no declarations of exalted Americanism; American-ism; no failure in demanding justice, or in resenting re-senting national wrongs, no failure in furthering the business interests of tho country along on-lightened on-lightened lines; no doubt in the minds of foreign nations or governments of just how the "United States would respond to any call. To those who judge tho present chief magis- 1 1 trate by his acts and words and by them reason from cause to effect; and then look forward to II what may be in 'the next four years, tho thought 1 H of the possibility of the re-election of Mr. Wil- 1 fl son fills them with apprehensions that are almost IH dismaying. H Those "Privileged Classes" M A PART of the ritual of the Democratic creed fl for sixty years past has been the charging of H the opposition with being the party of the "priv- H ileged classes," the intention of course being to intensify the dislike of those who are not rich U against those who have property. How much sense there is in the charge can bo HI made plain to the voters of Utah by a single Illus- MM tration. II Thirty-five years ago tho United States was Mm paying $280,000,000 annually for foreign sugar. II The money was absolutely lost to the United II States. II Finally a small tariff was placed upon Im- Mm ported sugar. MM Then a few men in Utah, none of them very II rich, clubbed together and undertook to make II beet sugar. It was a hard game, but they perse- II vered and finally made a triumphal success. They, IB I under the Democratic arraignment belong to the IU "privileged classes." MM They have prospered and have spent immenso S sums in extending their enterprise. I But last year they paid the beet raisers of this H state $3,419,400 for beets. We have not the fig- fl ures, but they made several millions of dollars K worth of sugar, which money has all been saved I and kept in general circulation in this country. gg Has this "privileged class" been of any ex- M pense to the government, or have they worked I any hardship on the poor? I If the price of sugar is high, it is still much I less than it ever was when we depended upon I foreign importation of sugar. I And this is true of every article ever protected R by the tariff. It has decreased the cost of the M article; it has given from a few to a host em- IjM ployment and saved tho money that otherwise M would have gone abroad and been lost, and kept II it in circulation at home. U Well, four years ago the Democracy was given II power, they went into office on tho pledge that II no legitimate industry need fear them. So soon H as they could they proceeded to annihilate the H protective tariff. With the rest the tariff on sugar U H1. was taken off, but the time when the part of the H I m schedule relating to sugar was to take effect, Hi ' was postponed for nearly two years. When that H time was about to expire, the need of more H, money to support the awful extravagance of the H party of "economy" and the near approach of a H presidential election, caused those in power to H, continue the suspension a few months longer. H. There was no repeal, merely a suspension, and H' if in the providence of God some special af fiction H is destined to come upon our country and Mr. H Wilson is re-elected, there will be no more sus- H1 v pension and tho sugar beat industry will cease H to exist. H To raise the 095,000 tons last year required B 51,300 acres of land. That amount of land was Bj taken from competition with farmers who raise Bj other things, giving those farmers just that much B better price for their products. Because of the B beet crop more than 3,000 extra men found occu- B ) pation on the farms, and the $3,419,400 paid for B ' beets would have been sent to foreign countries. B Imagine the difference it would have made in B i this community, had that money been sent away B- instead of being held in circulation here! B Democratic orators and newspapers delight in B telling of the love their great party holds for B ' "the farmers and the toiling masses," and in tell- Bj ing them of the laws their party has, under Mr. ! Wilson, passed for their benefit. On the eve of election, we hope the farmers and other toilers of Utah, and every farmer's ft wife, will give the Democracy full credit for all B they have ever done for them in Utah, and then Bj will get their slates and pencils and try to fig- B uro out how long would be the time required for B 'all those blessings to make good to the farmers B of Utah, the $3,419,000 paid them for beets last B year by "the priviledged class." Bj Before they finish wo opine they will throw B away their slates and be ready to get up early B next morning and hurry to cast their votes for S the Hughes electors. Hi B Always A False Claim Bi Q INGE the days of Jefferson the Democracy Bj has claimed to be the party of the common B people. Jefferson himself, while scrupulous in his B habits at home, appearing always at dinner in fl full evening dress, wore shabby clothing when he - B reached the White House and did many other B things to show that he did not approve of the B , ways of Washington and Hamilton. Bj- In his defense of the president and his party, it Mr. Bryan brings in his claim that Democracy !i believes "society is built from the bottom, while the aristocracy believe society is suspended from the top, and assumes that his party is the only B' party of the people. !It has been a fraudulent claim from the begin- ning. The proof is easily supplied. Fifty-five years ago four hundred thousand slave owners in the South carried their section out of the Union for the purpose of erecting on tho ruins of the repub- Mi Mp a slave empire, in which the officers were to jj be held by the white aristocrat who was to live 1 n the unpaid labor of the slave. That on its H face showed tho love which they bore "the poor B laboring man." Their orajtors and press referred Hi to the working men of the North as "mudsills." Sj . They failed in their efforts to destroy, but not H I until their best and bravest had been killed, their M section wrecked and they had met and formulated H a constitution. H After half a century had passed that same m party was restored to full power in the executive m and legislative branches of the government. They M I I 'went into office declaring their love for the poor R i workers of the country. So soon as thoy could, H they "resurrected from the grave of that dead B1" ' K BL confederacy the plank in that constitution which took all protection from American labor in the interest of the aristocrats in foreign lands who employ only pauper labor or naked ex-slave labor. la-bor. Had they carried out their full intention it would have taken from the working men of Utah $3,500,000 in gold this year. That they did not is due solely to its being a presidential year and to the fact that because of their broken promises to the people, the promise that they would give them an economical administration, they needed the money paid in duties to pay their running expenses. ex-penses. We, cite the case to prove that their forefathers were always Insincere in their pretended pre-tended love for the working man, and that the present generation of them ha's not changed the rule of the fathers one jot. For The "Voters" To Consider THE world is carried on by work. Some men are far-seeing and point out the 'way; some are natural organizers and set work in order; the great mass take the work out of the realm of mind and complete it by their muscles. These last are, necessarily the great majority. Since the days of Jefferson the Democratic party has claimed to be the special friend of this majority. ma-jority. It has been a false cry from the first as the record well abundantly established. The protective tariff was designed for four purposes. pur-poses. First, for needed revenue to pay government govern-ment expenses; second, to enable this country to produce every needed thing; third, to secure to labor a fair reward, and fourth, to keep at home the money sent away to purchase what should be produced at home. In the late forties the Democrats passed a law very like the Underwood law. In 1849 gold was found in California and to supply that territory terri-tory taxed all the resources of the east and built up a great merchant marine. In return California Cali-fornia gave up her millions in gold. But in 1857 a great panic swept the country and it was found that all the gold from California, except $57,000,-000, $57,000,-000, had been sent abroad. That the country and all the warehouses on the Atlantic coast were stuffed with foreign goods and thousands of laborers, la-borers, skilled and unskilled, were obliged to live on charity. Three years later the Democrats were voted out of power and left the country stranded, with less credit than was extended to Spain and Turkey. Tur-key. When voted out of power the leading men of the Democratic party sought, by a fierce war, to destroy the republic and erect on its ruins a slave empire to be carried on by unpaid labor. Tho war failed, the republic was finally restored re-stored and in a moment of insanity, in 1884, the country restored the Democratic party to full power giving them the presidency and both houses of congress. Then Mr. Wilson, congressman from West Virginia, prepared a bill and pushed it through the lower house of congress, which was almost a duplicate of tho Underwood law. In the senate Mr. Gorman, a Democrat, took the bill as it came from the house and tore it to pieces with several hundred amendments and compelled the house to accept the amendments. All this the president, Mr. Cleveland, was so angry that he refused to sign it but permitted to become a law by limitation, limita-tion, and for Mr. Gorman's work, though he was the foremost Democratic statesman in the nation, his party politically killed him. Four -years ago the country again placed tho Democratic party in power in the executive and legislative branches of the government. True to their native instincts and learning nothing from experience, the managers of that party passed another an-other duplicate of the law which killed business, drained the country of money and sent thousands of worklngmen adrift and stranded in 1857; which they tried to duplicate in 1885, and which, except for a foreign war, would have stranded the country by this time. We tell the toilers that it was the Republican party that made it possible for them and millions more from abroad to obtain fair wages. It was tho Republican party that gave them free schools for their children. It was the Republican party that enabled one class of laborers in Utah last year to draw from . a single product $3,419,400 in gold. To kill this industry the Democrats have already al-ready passed a law, and have only suspended its taking effect until the election shall bo passed. Let the workers remember this, when they go to the polls on election day. Our Surpreme Court IN the heat of the present political campaign, voters ought not to forget, that in the opinion of local and neighboring states' attorneys, our supreme su-preme court is superior to any other supreme court west of tae Rocky mountains. Superior in the exposition of the laws, In industry in-dustry in investigating the cases that come before be-fore them and in applying the laws to them; in the care exercised in preparing their opinions and putting them in form, and in the courage which never falters in dictating their opinions. Those opinions are quoted more in outside states than those of any other state of the west. The court is especially famed for industry, perfect, per-fect, faithfulness and courage. The Chief Justice, Straup, is a candidate for re-election this year. Voters should be especially careful to vote for him. Politics, by rights, should have no influence in the selection of judges. Men of all parties are brought before them and the first essential of a judge's duty should be the utter impartiality which must govern in a just decision. Justice Straup has been long on the bench; he has never been accused of partisanship in performing per-forming his duty, or lack of faithfulness to duty; he, through his industry, has grown immensely on the bench and to fail to re-elect him would bo a reproach to the voters of the state. To give his place to one who by the very nature of his business and surrounding has not been able to advance beyond the narrow limitation limita-tion of a local field, would be a misfortune to the whole state. In the foregoing we are expressing the opinion opin-ion of the ablest lawyers of the state regardless of party. What applies to the supreme court, applies ap-plies only a little less in degree, to the district courts. The courts are the bulwark of the state and nation and to displace an able judge with one untried, is almost -a crime, certainly a great misfortune. mis-fortune. Voters of all parties should be careful to keep in mind the responsibilities that rest on the courts and be careful never to displace a judge that has established beyond dispute his ability, his consciousness of the duties resting upon him, his stainless Integrity and his absolute fairness and courage, for an untried man, and one that has never been conspicuous in his profession, or ever able to explore and compass its higher fields. Vote The Straight Ticket 1 N some respect the election on Tuesday will be the most important national election since 1860. Tho election of a Republican president, and Republican senators and representatives to hold up his hands is essential to the prosperity, if not the peace of our country foi iur years to come. Tho integrity and patriotism of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts have never been questioned. Moreover, his character as a gentleman is of the highest. His statement of the note sent to Germany, and the postscript proposed, after the sinking of. the Lusitania, he never would have put out until ho was convinced of its perfect truthfulness. truthful-ness. The substance of the charge is that even in most grave correspondence with a foreign power, President "Wilson would not refrain from playing politics. Has any one ever understood why Secretary Sec-retary Garrison left the Wilson cabinet or why ho is silent under the Lodge charge? The charge makes clear why the fleet was sent to Vera Cruz, on a trumped up assertion that the flag had been dishonored. It was on the eve of a congressional election. It makes clear why in this presidential election elec-tion year the president suddenly became wild for preparedness. It especially makes clear what the introduction introduc-tion and the crowding through of the Adamson bill with all its shame and dishonor was for. It makes clear, too, why an army big enough to conquer Mexico in three months was sent to the border, when the president had determined, as he later confessed, that there should be no war. It is fair to charge that in every move he has made since he became president he has been playing play-ing politics. Well, in the coming four years, some most momentous and serious questions will have to be settled. The most serious in our estimation will come when the hungry horde from Europe will come to enter into direct competition with our union labor, and when Europe will begin to thrust upon us her cheap products. Should a Republican president and congress be elected their first duty will be the repeal of the Underwood law. Then second, the providing for an American merchant marine on a business basis. Next will be the need of asserting and emphasizing em-phasizing the fact that the American nation wants peace with all the world, but that it must be peace with honor. So every Republican voter should record his vote next Tuesday, and that he make no mistake he should vote the straight Republican ticket. It is dangerous for the voter to scratch his or her ticket. The situation is too serious to take any chance of making mistakes. This means no disrespect to worthy men on the opposition tickets, tick-ets, it means merely the expression of the voter's political principles in this most important year. The ballot is our only safeguard short of war. Let every ballot count. AS a preliminary of the establishment of a great slave empire, to the degradation of free labor, the Democracy sent an army to Mexico, Mex-ico, captured the country and took from her in settlement all the territory now included in California, Cali-fornia, Nevada, Utah, part of Colorado, New Mexico Mex-ico and Arizona. When some thousands of Americans in Mexico; Mex-ico; there by invitation of the president of that country and under his promise of full protection for life and property, sent word to the present Democratic president that they were being killed and their property confiscated by bandits; his only response was to advise them to get out of that country. THERE was a time when our country had a friction with Great Britain over the northwest north-west boundary line. Then a Democratic slogan was "54:40 or fight." When the cry went up from Mexico that our people were being killed and robbed, President Wilson declared that "We are too proud to fight." |