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Show Vote For Hughes, Electors VOTERS, the election of president this year overshadows all other political consideration. considera-tion. Some of the reasons why you should vote for Hughes electors, are the following: Mr. Hughes represents the policies that during the past fifty years have caused this nation to advance ad-vance more than any other nation has in the same length of time advanced, since civilization came to the world. In doing this more millions of men have found employment than were ever seen in any other nation na-tion of all the earth. The wages paid those employers have been more generous than a like number of employes have ever received since tho beginning of time. Those policies enabled this country to receive in twenty years twenty millions of foreigners upon up-on our shores, mostly wage earners, to employ and assimilate the host. They made possible the construction of six transcontinental railroads, and the settlement and to devote to happy homes, a wilderness equal in area to all continental Europe outside of Russia. From a weak nation without credit they advanced ad-vanced our country to a world power of the first rank with the best credit in the world. From the first the faith has been kept with all the people of our own land, and with all outside out-side nations, weak or strong. All the time they held the honor of the flag inviolable and won the profound respect of all the nations of the earth. Today our country is the hope of the world's oppressed and poor, in every land of distressed Europe. When the great war across the sea closes, momentous and most complicated questions will arise for settlement that will require the utmost ability, firmness, judgment and statesmanship to meet successfully and Mr. Hughes is the only candidate in the field that in his person and because be-cause of the policies that will govern him, gives any assurance of being able to successfully meet them. The reason that the Democratic party is formidable for-midable in this campaign is due solely to a prosperity pros-perity unnatural, and unexpected, brought to us by the great war abroad and which were that war to close tomorrow, would disappear next day. When the Democracy attained power four years ago, in violation of their pledge to disturb no legitimate business, they lost no time in passing pass-ing a measure which whenever tried has been swiftly followed by filling the land with foreign goods, idle and suffering men by thousands and tens of thousands, and this last time of millions, and draining the land of money. This law was again doing its perfect work, when the exigencies of the great war brought us a demand for material that set the wheels of industry in-dustry once more in accelerated motion. And the Democracy passed that law, while professing pro-fessing a simulated love for the people who toil with their hands, knowing full well that it would place our artisans in direct composition with the cheap skilled labor of overcrowded Europe, and our farmers in direct competition with the unclothed, un-clothed, half servile laborers of the Orient and the Islands of the sea. Had conditions remained as expected, it would have robbed our farmers here in Utah of $3,500,000 in gold per annum. And this infirmity of the party in power is a chronic fetish, it was originated in brains that from childhood had eaten the bread supplied by unpaid labor, and it is as cureless as leopracy. The same infirmity on their part has kept us from having a merchant marine for half a, century cen-tury while Great Britain and Germany made immense im-mense fortunes doing for us the work which wo should have done ourselves. These two failures to comprehend the nation's needs are enough to cause, the nation to repudiate the party in power, and turn to the only party that has ever comprehended the nation's essential needs and, so far as it had the power, to supply them. The response next Tuesday at the polls should be overwhelming for the Hughes electors. Once in seventeen years is as often as our nation, great as it is, can bear the misfortune of a four years' Democratic rule. Keep In Mind WHEN you go to the polls next Tuesday keep in mind a few little things. One is that when a notorious ruffian was convicted con-victed of murder and sentenced to death, and members of a sinister organization to which he belonged were sending threatening messages to our governor, President Wilson interposed in a despatch which was worded in a way to impeach the intelligence of our courts, the sense of justice of our executive, courts and people. That the same week a judge of not too savory reputation did the same thing; that a few days later the president nominated that same judge for the supreme court of the United States; that the senate committee held up the nomination for weeks and months, but the president insisted and finally the committee endorsed the nomination by a vote of eight to seven. Was there ever such an appeal to the yellow streak in the people? In the next four years there will be in the course of nature four oter supreme court justices to name. With Mr. Wilson to name them what kind of a supreme court will it be? Keep in mind that could Mr. Wilson have had his way he would have taken from our farmers in Utah 3,500,000 this year, and made it necessary neces-sary for Utah people to send to foreign countries all the money needed to purchase the sugar used by our people. He would also have taken employment em-ployment from six thousand working men, and turned back more than 10,000 acres of land to compete with our other farmers in their products, which all shows how much he and his party really love the farmers. Keep in mind that while during his term more railroads have gone into the hands of receivers than in all the years since the last Democratic president before him; at the demand, accompanied with a threat of some railroad unions, President Wilson rushed a bill through congress giving the best paid railroad men in the world an addition of $00,000,000 per annum of the people's money. Keep in mind that not many years ago an English subject was insulted by a tawny king in Central Abyssinia; that England at once sent an army under her then foremost captain, through the jungle and the hill's passes to that capitol to punish the king. When President Wilson learned that Mexican HI B bandits were killing Americans iintl looting their H possessions, ho had no response to make except B to advise Americans to get out of Mexico if they B could. B! But when a congressional election was pend- B ing, that same president simulated a fearful an- B ger over a reported insult to our flag by a wharf B rat greaser, and sent our fleet to Vera Cruz, took B, the city at the cost of some eighteen or twenty B American lives, and then, when the election was B over called the ships home. B' Mr. Wilson's administration is filled with ln- B stances alike, in principle, to the foregoing. H When a sport plays faro and coppers a bet, he H v wagers that it will not win. H Voters should read the foregoing on Tuesday B morning next, and work that copper to the limit. B M The ''Predatory Classes" B IWfri. BRYAN delights in calling the Republican B party, "The party of the predatory olasses." B I Well, we have a contingent of those which Mr. B Bryan and his party bring under that class. Mr. B ( Thomas Cutler and his business associates belong B ' to that class. All our people know most of them. B Let us see how they have wronged their fellow B' citizens in Utah. B For one single product they paid our work- K ing people last year $3,419,400. H They gave six thousand men generous wages, B who otherwise would have been obliged to hunt H other jobs. Br They took from competition with our farmers Bl who raise grain, vegetables and fruit quite 60,000 Hl acres of land and caused it to be devoted to an- B i other purpose. B They, added to the circulating medium of the B -state, which except for them would have been B lost, more than $3,419,400. Have the farmers suf- B fered because of them? B Have the wage earners? Have the merchants? B Have the men who sell automobiles? B Have the real estate men? Have the school, B hospital and charity funds? 1 Have the comforts in the homes of the poor been lessened because of them? What have they done to merit the appellation of birds of prey? And what foundation have the enemies of the Bj party, who made their work passible, for standing B on the Btreet corners and thanking God that they B are more righteous than the men who make such B results as those depicted above passible? Hi The voters will, we are sure, keep all this in HI mind when they go to the polls next Tuesday. Hjj Steam Navigation History K't HP HE carrying trade of the ocean began to Ml - change from sailships to steamships in the M forties of the last century. The Cunards put on B a line of steamships to ply between Liverpool and B' New York. The British government backed the Bi line by a subsidy. Bji The Collins' line of American steamers, backed B by a small subsidy, was established in opposition. Bi Its steamers were finer and fleeter than the Cun- B arders. Mr. Vanderbilt put on a line between BE New York, Havre and Bremen. In 1855 the Brit- BL ish government increased the subsidy to the BS Cunarders. Jefferson Davis in Mr. Pierce's cab- B inet, withdrew all subsidies to American ships B which killed both American lines. Since then H Great Britain has paid more than $500,000,000 in Bi subsidies to her ships and has drawn uncounted Bj millions from her foreign trade. In the past forty B t years Germany has learned how to build ships B and up to the breaking out of the great war had B become the richest country on the continent, B I through her foreign trade, backing her ships with fl bounties. B I The great r came on more than two years 1 i ago. Our help.ussness to export what we had to ! sell or bring in what we needed from foreign f countries was made vividly apparent in a single day. The parly in power remained entirely passive until upon the evo of a presidential election, then passed a government shipping law, to make the government a common carrier and to make up the necessary losses by a dip into the treasury. Mr. Wilson says now that he waited for private pri-vate enterprise to undertake the work. No one knows better than he that no private company unaided, can run ships in competition with English Eng-lish subsidized and German bounty-backed ships. A careful reading of the new Wilson law will convince any candid man that it is only intended to serve first the political interests of the party in power, and then when the war closes to turn the business back to Great Britain and Germany that is, it is a fraud in inception and fact. T N rehearsing the blessing to farmers that the Rural Credit law is bringing them, they are told that they can borrow money at low interest for forty years. The little tariff on sugar enables the Utah farmer to get out of debt and to cease paying interest in one-tenth of forty years. Is it not a sorry joke on the farmers to repeal re-peal the tariff law and then pass the credit law and then tell the farmers what blessings the all-benevolent all-benevolent Democratic party has brought to them? C" OUR years ago the Democratic platform in- dorsed free tolls on the Panama canal for American coast shipping. Mr. Wilson drove through congress a bill to levy tolls on those ships, giving as a reason that foreign nations objected to the free tolls, as though it was any of their business. To reporters he said his reason was that free tolls would be an indirect subsidy to American ships. The truth is no one was benefited bene-fited but the great transcontinental railroads. Did the railroads bargain the measure through? HP HE news that our people were being robbed and murdered in Mexico did not greatly distress dis-tress our president. But when a congressional campaign began to look doubtful for the president's presi-dent's party, he conceived that the honor of our flag had been wounded by a greaser wharf-rat in Tampico, and with much spectacular and dramatic dra-matic effect ordered the whole Atlantic fleet to Vera Cruz. When the election was over, he ordered or-dered the fleet home. Hence the paraphrase: "King Woodrow, with thirty ships and thirty thousand men, Sailed down the sea, and then sailed home again." TT IS friends say the president, under fearful complications, has kept the country out of war. Exactly. He has done it in Mexico at the expense of having some hundreds of Americans killed and some thousands robbed by bandits, and has fastened the belief on all the bandits from the northern border to Yukatan, that the Americans Ameri-cans are afraid to fight. As to Europe it is most strange that by the president's skill, neither Germany Ger-many nor Great Britain in a death-lock now for more than two years have been kept from springing spring-ing at the throats of a nation of one hundred millions of people, 4;000 miles away, just as a pastime? Vive la humbug! AN enthusiastic miner was the other day do-scribing do-scribing his mine to a friend. Said he: "The ore is high grade and it goes down plumb to hell." "That muat be great," replied the friend," "you can work it in both worlds." "What do you mean?" asked the miner. "Why," said the friend, "you can sink, crosscut and drift on it here, and make an upraise when you get down below where smelting ought to be cheap." |