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Show H, EXPERIENCE WITH ONE PROFES- H : SOR WILSON SUFFICIENT L j FOR THE AMERICAN H' i j PEOPLE. H' Herald Republican? Tho peoplo of H j the United States, without respect to LH ! creed or avocation havo a bitter mem- Iory of tho last collego president, rejoicing re-joicing In tho name of Wilson, who ijjjjU , was given power and authority as a H member of tho government. Tho pros- H! Ident of tho University of Virginia, .William Lyno Wilson, as chairman H j of tho ways and means commttce of H a Democratic Congress under Presl- Hl J dent Drover Cleveland framed and B secured the passage of a tariff men- Bl ' , sure known as tho Wilson bill. Tho H legislation was so bad that President H Cleveland denominated It an example Hj of "party perfidy and dishonor" and HV refused to approvo It, permitting It B to become a law without his slgna- V! . ture. But tho public remembers It Hj I more clearly as the direct agency that L j I j j bent thousands of worklngmen and I women Into bread lines and soup H i I houses to ward off starvation; that LB closed mills and factories; that par- H nlyied Industry and brought our en- H tire commercial structure to ruin with Hj a crash that echoed nnd re-echoed B for H Professor William Lyno Wilson H was a theorist of tho same calibre as H i Professor Woodrow Wilson, who has H been put forward by Murphy, Delmont H nd Taggart as their candidate for Hj I President. Tho earlier Wilson was a ' professor of ancient languages until Hj elected to Congress through tho In- H fluence of his Btudents and tho alum- Hj nl of his university; his Ideas as to H legislation had been gleaned from ' bookB rathor than experience. Tho finely spun theories which ho ovolved In the cloistered seclusion of his study B were written Into tho Wilson bill. m ;Jj Like every other Idealist who can M prove with mathematical precision H V the Inevitable success of untried prln- M A clples, he insisted upon free wool as fV a test of tho wisdom of free raw ma- H terial and compelled marked reduc- M - tlons In tho schcdulo Imposed upon H manufacturers of wool as well as Iron and tepl products. KM Immediately following the Initial M operation of this measuro tho country B became Involved In moBt desporato H .j financial strolls. Foctorles and work H . y shops closed and employees were H thrown ldlo ;tho unprotected mining M' it Industry languished; tho farmer with- H A out markot for his wool and his other 1(1 products plastered his farm with mort- H ij gages; business was prostrate, banks M j failed from ono end of tho country B , j to tho other; money fled to strong Hji boxes for protection, and tho whole H I Industrial fabric of tho United States M was crushed. So much for tho col- H lege president who thought ho could M ' revise tho tariff along theoretical VA Tho burden of this unfortunate ex- H' ' perlment by Professor Wilson feli V upon tho laborer, tho wago carnor and ft tho salaried man. Tho privations of l tho wealthy wore only those of ah- sent dividends, and Idle money that P f Bhould have been working day nnd tp night; their comforts nnd conversion- M ces were not lessened, tholr children H were well nourished and well clothed. M I Unfortunately for those whom tho H t Professor Wilson of this present day H , regards as "unprofitable servants," M when their savings disappeared thoy MMM ' became objects of charity. H ; Tho Professor Wilson who flourish- H , ed In 1892-93 was an oxponslvo luxury H tor he peoplo of the United States, H and tho similarity between his onvl- H ronment, his training, his acadomlc H li theories nnd his lack of oxporlcnce H fV and that of tho Professor Wilson who H h erroneously supposes himself to bo 1 I flourishing now Is bo remarkable that m tho lesson which ho would teach can Hj I not bo disregarded. Exeprlenco Is tho m only lnmp which tho Atnorlcnn peo- mM pie may employ to illmulnato the B pathway of tho futuro that thoy may BJ not stumble and fall In tho dark nesB, Tho only possible test of the HJ future Is tho past, and by that gauge BH I the professor falls to qualify. R f The tariff Ideas of tho present day Hl i Professor Wilson aro amalngly llko K J. , those of his well meaning but Intenao WHnBBVfe& y mistaken professorial brother of the snmo mi mo who struck the Industries Indus-tries of the United States an almost fatal blow In order to provo himself right "or wrong, succeeding In demonstrating demon-strating Uio latter beyond the per-adventure per-adventure of a doubt. The present professor is equally ns Inexperienced, equally as theoretical, equally ns uninformed un-informed upon practical nfTalrs. With his predilection for experimentation wo can feel tho utmost sympathy If ho will risk only his personal possessions. posses-sions. But tho utter foolishness of delivering to him the reins of power over 100,000,000 persons of placing their commercial and Industrial future fu-ture In his untrained bands, should be painfully patent, even without the record of tho former Professor Wilson Wil-son from which ono may derive knowledge. knowl-edge. The necessity for chnnge In governmental govern-mental policies Is not apparent; prosperity pros-perity Is returning, men are employed employ-ed at living wages and business Is on tho mend. But If there were need for experiment with new Ideas and suggestions tho folly of placing them under the control of an academic the orist without practical experience Is so obvious as to render argument useless. use-less. Professor Wilson, tho Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for President, Is well meaning. So was his pedagogical confrere con-frere of twenty years ago. i" -h AND THE OTHER OX WAS SORED. Ogden Examiner: There Is ono beautiful thing about Mr. Roosevelt. Ho can fling logic and consistency and reason and precedent to the winds with tho most perfect abandon cf any man who has lived since MIra-Ll-nu. Speaking of tho matn thing which now embarrasses him, the matter mat-ter of campaign contributions at his Hist election to the presidency, Mr. Roosevelt protests against contributes contribu-tes by rich men to any party oppos-ng oppos-ng the progressives, but ueo3 every reason In virtue and patriotism for rich men to contribute to his own war Chest. Here Is a sample of lila reasoning: reas-oning: , jrll We who fight for tho cause of tho people aa a whole, have only a few Bupportcrs among the very rich. These fow supporters aro from the naturo of tho case, Idealists, men of the kind who, when their interests aro nroused, glvo genorously and without thought of personal return. I welcome tholr contributions, when-made In such a spirit; I am 1 onored by their support, nnd receive re-ceive it as freely nnd glndly ns It Is given. Wo confess wo do not see why a rich man should not ho interested from purely unselfish reasons In tho success of tho Republican party, if ho can be so in the success of any other p.i.ty And wo fall to understand under-stand why n rich man Is more Unci as a principle, to bo personally disinterested disin-terested and unselfish In tho now party par-ty than In ono of tho old. Tho truth probably Is that men who contrlbuto to tho success of nny rolltical party do so becauso thoy believe be-lieve Its success will bo of benefit to them. Even It thoy havo no ofTicov nothing to Bell to government, no monopoly, mo-nopoly, which they hope to have protected pro-tected still thoy may feel that tho success of tholr party will bo hotter for tho peoplo generally; and for that season will try so far as thoy can to help sccuro that success at tho polls. It is poppycock, ranging about tho border of foolishness to pretend that tho only party to which contributions enn bo virtuously mado Is tho Bull Mooso party. Thore aro Democrats who would glvo their last dollar to tho support of tho Democratic candidate, candi-date, and never nsk nor expect no, nor rccept anything from the party, nor from tho government, aside from their confident belief that their wholo nation was bottered by the election of tho Democratic candidate And thcro aio Republicans willing to give for tho success of tholr Presidential cholco from the very same motives. And ono thing more: Tho man who "Ives whethor he be rich or poor to tho Roosevelt party fund Just ns micli expects benefits If thnt party shnll succeed as does tho man In any other party. No more, perhaps, but I'ust exactly as much. I ! J lOOSEVELT'S OGDEN OPEECH. Ogden -Examiner: That was-a royal roy-al welcome the people of UUh extended ex-tended Theodore Ttooscvclt on'JilD vis-.t vis-.t to Ogden and tho Colonel takes very kindly to things royal. ,'It was tho welcome of a wholcsouled,. generous gen-erous peoplo to a man who has twice been President of tho United States by the will of the people. Men and women of every creed nnd every political po-litical belief took part In the ovation ova-tion that would havo been nccorded any other man under tho same circumstances. cir-cumstances. But ho came with the old cry that has been sent up by defeated candidates candi-dates ever since wo havo had political poli-tical parties In America. Roosovclt must furnish nn excuBo for the slump In h's political power ho must explain his defeat. So ho raises tho cry of a Btolen nomination nnd follows fol-lows It up with his usual charges of treason, liar, rnscol'ty and other terms that are a part of tho Bull Moose vocabulary when he meets op-pos'tlon. op-pos'tlon. Such appelatlons coming from Roosevelt no longer bear weight They do not ring true for ho has hurled hurl-ed his Invectives ngalnst the character charac-ter of overy man who has not ng'eed with him. In his Ogden speech Roosevelt put every man and woman who supports President Taft In n class with thieves and says they aro party to a crime because he, Theodore, was not nominated nomi-nated by the Republican party. Any man who took part In the theft of that convention, In tho seating of the fraudulent delegates and the carrying of the convention by means of those fraudulent delegates dele-gates any mnn who benefitted by It, nny mnn who upholds It, all alike nro guilty of treason. In that statement he nssalled the characters of Senator SmootrQover-nor SmootrQover-nor Spry, Senator Sutherland, 'Congressman 'Con-gressman Howell and other members of tho Utah delegation to the Chicago Chica-go convention that nominated President Pres-ident Tnft. And these are not men who would uphold crooked work. They nre men who need make no apologies for tho Important parts they havo played In public life. Their records for duties well performed are open and above board. They have the respect and confidence of the peoplo of Utah and tho profound respect re-spect of their colleagues and coworkers. co-workers. These men hnve figured prominently In tho political llfo of tho nation and havo stood by the Interests of tho people. We do not bellove thnt tho Bull Moose gained by his vitriolic attack upon these men of Utah. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, was, a Progressive long beforo Roosevelt sought it as a point of vnntngo. But Senator Cummins did not t'nftd'up tho cry of a stolen nomination nnd Is supporting tho Republican ticket, Bob La Follette, of Wisconsin, was a strong Progressive when Roosovclt was In Africa slaughtering wild game La Follette docs not say tho nomination nomina-tion was stolen. When tho representatives of President Pres-ident Taft and tho Roosovclt men got together In Chicago to discuss a compromise, President Taft was willing will-ing that a compromlso candidate should bo named. Ho was willing to do what tho mnjorlty thought best. But Roosovolt, with his rulo or ruin policy, absolutely refused to consider consid-er a compromlso. Ho snld: "Tnko me, or nobody." Ho Is the King of Bosses. lie sold In his Friday's speech: "I do not mind tho bosses If thoy will quit boing bosses." That is tho key-noto key-noto of tho Roosovelt cnmpalgn. He must bo boss or he will not play and ovoryone olso must stnnd nslde. His greed for power must override the Judgment of nil men. His must be a one-mnn party. Ho bossed tho convention thnt nonilnnted him from beginning to end. It was a ono-mnn convention nnd ho would stnnd no opposition. op-position. It Is his way. Wo bellovo his speech In Ogden did not help his cause with tho votors of Utah. fj t PULLING THE RECORD ON WILSON. Pocatollo Trlbuno: Sonntor Williams of Mississippi says thnt tho Republican Republi-can nntlonnl committee have collated many of Prof. Wilson's tnlks about Immigrants and ngalnst workers, nnd thnt theso nro to bo printed In tho Republican campaign toxtbook and flpread nmong tho voters of tho country. coun-try. Probnbly he Ib correct In this statement. In tho days boforo anybody any-body over thought of him ns n pos-ilblo pos-ilblo presidential candidate, nnd, horoforo, Prof. Wilson said many hlngs which aro now giving troublo o blm and his campaign managers. They will keep him explaining and amending through t. large part of the canvass. But how Is the Mississippi senator going to make things any easier for I rot. Wilson by quoting some of tho stK'tije expressions of Col. Roosovelt? T'io colonel Is not u member of tbn Republican party. Ho has formally withdrawn from tho party and has formed a sect of his own. Nothing which ho says or does hereafter can Injure tho Republicans. As ho Is no longer In the party nothing that ho over Bald or did can harm It now. By nttacklng tho colonel the Mississippi man may Imaglnothat ho Is retaliating retaliat-ing on tho Republicans for calling attention at-tention to some of Prof Wilson's re-attonary re-attonary talk In the past, but this Is merely ono of tho Mlsslsslpplan's many and variegated aberrations. The Republicans nro no longer accountable for him, and they cannot bo harmed by any attacks which aro mado upon him. Prof. Wilson will hnvo some difll-culty difll-culty in defending himself from tho Qs?aults which Eomo of tho naturalized natural-ized Amcrlcnns aro preparing to mako upon him, and ho will not bo able to quote Col. Roosevelt in extenuation of whnt ho said. Wilson will bo n weaker weak-er candidate In October nnd November Novem-ber than ho Is In August. When tho forces of tho opposition begin to as-f:.11 as-f:.11 him ho will find that politics has a long memory. Williams defends tho professor by calling his accusations accusa-tions "early and Immature expressions expres-sions of opinion." When ho wroto his history of tho American peoplo In 1902 ho was 4G years of ago, and could hardly bo called Immature. Ho had been writing for over a deendo and n half at that time. Whon he In-tlmatcd In-tlmatcd In that history that tho Italians, Ital-ians, Hungarians nnd Poles wero moro undcslrnblo than tho Chlneso ns residents resi-dents of tho United States ho was old enough to know what his words meant, and presumably ho was awaro thnt tho structures would bo displeasing displeas-ing to tho persons whom ho nssalled. Neither by tho Mississippi senator nor by anybody olso can tho baby act bo pleaded successfully In dofonso of tho Democratic candidate's slanders. |