| Show GOVERNMENT T OR on TIE THE R RAILROADS Thomas C. C Shotwell The Republicans Republican's New York correspondent ent on tho the stock market shrew shrewdly lY says Ute the trouble with Wall street has been an uncertainty as to whether the United States government go or the railroad 1 combine was was' the tho stronger It Is the opinion of or people here hero In Utah that the gov gOY government Is stronger stronger and and lIkel likely to remain so If H the 1 I big companies have precipitated the Wall aU street battle batUe in order to frighten tho the country into putting a l. l stop slop to the prosecution of railroad officials who have been defying defying defy defy- ing tho the law then there is but one possible course for the loyal loal citizen He must align himself on the side sillo of or his I government No one wants a war between beL the mone money magnates a i. i of ot the tho country on the one ono side and the administration on the tho other But If Ir the tile railroads make mako the Issue IEsue the they must abl abide o the consequences consequences And tho those e consequences will hurt tho the companies a great deal more than they will t the the people T This ls Is one more Illustration of or the shortsightedness o of th tJ advisers They seem to think they can punish the country through the Wall raIl street speculators They 1 ey cant can't do It Wall street Is not the tho nation All the gamblers l in that canyon canon of ot craft and greed STeed are less than tItan an appreciable quantity in tho the productive productive- forces o of the republic The Themen men who have llave made malle an and kept the tho country are not ot trading in Wall raU street Those people no more represent the tho nation than tho the Donaldsons an and the O'Briens represent the city of or Salt Lake in which tho they are playing when they robbed tho the Mc They m may y operate a mighty might fa fascinating game Jame and it may re require re- re quire quire- much money to get Inand in and play But Dut whether the pl players win or lose the city will go right on Mr Shotwell says ays ol old observers believe there can beno beno be beno no permanent peace pe for the street until either the railroads rail rail- r- r roads acis or r the fie government makes abject surrender and openly publicly proclaims it IL Then let the fight light go onU on U till tho companies are arc dead ead willing to quit The republic of ot tho the United States does not surrender Tho laws must be obeyed The people must be prot protected ted J J And there thero Is no interest in tho the nation so 80 great or s so r strong or so necessary that It can cnn successfully crush th the Union If Ie this is to bo ho a light of corporations against again t tho the nation then tho the corporations will have ha to go n to th the wall oval 1 i And sla stay there |
