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Show H WHY TAFT IS H GAINING. H One of tho most Importnnt factors In the wave H' ' of Tnft sciit'imcnt which Is now sweeping over the H country 1b tho tardy rcnllzntlon on the pnrt of mnn- 1 ufacturcra and business men generally that but for the toui'ugeouu vetoes by tho president of Demo- H cratlc tariff bills passed during the late session of 1 congress the country would light now bo In the H grip of Industrial depression, If not of nctual panic, H Instead of being in the Hood of prosperity. i The aiUi ysls of these tariff bills and of the In- V dustrles which would have been affected by them shows that If they had become laws fourteen till- H lion dollars' worth of our manufactured products H out of a total output of twenty billion dollars, would havo been exposed to an utterly ruinous competl- tlon, and four million out of our six million factory 1 employes would have confronted the necessity of either submitting to a reduction in their wnijes or losing their Jobs cnUrely. And that docs not take H Into account the injury whlcn would have 1'coti H inflicted upon tho wool growers nnd upon the beet H sugar farmers If the bills putting sugar uio:' the B . freo thade list and reducing the duty on wool to B'J a revenue basis had been signed by tho president. H(B Freo sugar would absolutely have closed every beet sugar factory In tho United Stativs and there- HH by have given the sugar trust a complete raonop- Hfl oly of tho market, while approximately free wool, Kv If tho past may bo a guide to the future, would H" have decimated the Hocks and seriously embnnass- H f ed, if It did not completely ruin, tho men whoso H fortunes are Invested 'in tho wool industry. With H tho realization of tho danger they have escaped, H and escaped only because a Ilepubllcan piejli'cut H was In tho White House, has come the reflection H that with n Democratic congress there would oe H no escape, but that tho blow which the wisdom and H courage, of President Tnft diverted would fall with H certainty and perhaps even with ndded weight. H A party,, which should come into power upon H n platform declaring protection to bo unconstltu- H tlonal, with a congress dominated by men who had H already committed themselves to strictly revenue- H only measures and with n president who Is on rcc- H. ord as expic-Fbing the opinion that every vestige o H protection should be eliminated from our tariff law, , could do nothing less than revise tho tariff along H Hues which would Inevitably result In enormous H Importations of foreign goods, taking away to the HK cxtentof such 'importations tho homo market and R compelling the homo manufacturers correspondingly H to reduce their output. Tho logic Is so obvious and R so Irrestiblo that no man can fall to recognlzo tit. Bt It is because It Is being recognized all over the H country, It Is becauso the Issue has becomo so (lis- H tlnctly narrowed down to tho ono question ns to H whether we want to keep on doing business or not, K that what appeared six weeks ago to be only n flj mero possibility of Ilepubllcan success has brjight H encd to a probability with every prospect of bejoia- Ilng a certainty beforo tho campaign is over. H PREXY WILSON'S Hi When Governor Wilson's campaign managers H' asked J. W. Park ot Los Angeles, a graduate of H Princeton, to contribute to tho Democratic cam- H. palgn fund, Park demurred. Ho didn't exactly re- H fuse without giving a reason. Ho said he could H not support Wilson for tho Presidency becauso ot - certain views expressed to him by the candidate 1 Those views expressed to Park by Wilson are: H 1 do not bellovo In Democracy tho rule of H J the many. I believe In aristocracy tho rule ot the few; but I wish an artlstocracy ot brains, I disapprove of tho Chautauqua Idea, the nt- 8 tempt to glvo a smattering of culture to every- body, which results in securing conceit without H I am opposed to the higher education for tho fl common people; somebody must do tho dirty H work of the world; why shouldn't tho children B; of the wnrking'classeB bo brought up to do the '1 work their parents aro now doing? I j Governor Wilson has doveloped mightily as tho H I l years havo rolled on and his views havo changed rf on many matters. A great many people have been Bm7 I reluctant to believe that ho actually said what I Park attributed to him, this reluctance being Hl I strengthened by a Hat denial by Wilson himself. KJ 5 I Tll Democratic candidate went further In his de- B 'I nlal by saying ot Park: H I did not at llrst recollect Park at all, but H ' I have looked him up In tho records of tho unl- H versity nnd recall him now very clearly. I ro- VE member having been obliged to reject a certain HHk work which he submitted for a degree becauso En of the utter confusion of thought. H; It showed that ho could nolthor think nor HL comprehend. His mind was ono of tho sort that H gets nothing correctly. BmbSJI I should not like to bellovo the man dcllb- BSbSj erately false. It Is only, I daro say, another In- stance of bis entlro Inability, either to under- B I stand or Interpret anything. Hb . All of which scorned to knock Into a cocked BBV'' IW"1 WW P. ..1MMM.MMMIMMMWM BflBBRi i Hj iv LHHBH't BLvSSMcHBBVSSSfeHWMMZiLIiiMiiiitt!9BHHRLVB9JB hnt tho Par charges until tho following letter was unearthed- j Princeton, New Jersey, May 18, 1897. . President Thomas E. Will, J Kansas State Agricultural College. t Mj- Dear Sir: I understand that Mr. Joseph W. Park Is a candidate for a position In your faculty and I tnkc pleasure In testifying to his ability and promise as a scholar. He won distinction dis-tinction 'here as h : student, nnd has held our fellowship In social science during the present year. I think him a man of unusual gifts and cordlnlly commend him 'to ybiir favorable notice. Very sincerely yours, ' , WOODnOWs WILSON, That ought to bo enough 'to convince ayjo'ne of the sincerity of the DemocratIo-chndfdnlj for ' President. Expediency seems to behrif-(ongrsult. Goodwin's Weekly. '-'.., J. 4. 4. ' - MANY DEMOCRAT8 WILL SUPPORT TAFT. ' There never was a campaign In which party lines were worn as loosely as In tho present presidential presi-dential contest. This is especially true concerning Democrats who have announced their determination to support President Taft. These Democrats are convinced that the election elec-tion of Woodrow Wilson means a savage assault by the Democratic party upon tho protective system sys-tem under which tho United States has developed unequalled prosperity. Judging the future by tho past they anticipate that If President Taft is defeated de-feated there will bo a long period of business uncertainty, un-certainty, that factories will be closed down and millions of ivcrklngmen bo forced Into Idleness, with the Inevitable permanent closing down of man-ufacturlcs man-ufacturlcs If foreign goods flood' this country through tho open doorB of free trade. They know, too, that t'4:s condition will mean money stringency n llnanclal crisis, and thp destruction of tho business busi-ness which has been built up under many years of Republican administration. With theso men It is not a matter of politics hut a matter of self preservation that leads them to support President Taft, whoso re-election assures a continuance of prosperity. There can be no doubt ot tho correctness of their view. The ue-pressing ue-pressing and distressful period of tho last Democratic Demo-cratic administration is a matter of history and It Is certain that the same causes will bring about tho same results. aoy regard self preservaton more Important thnn devotion to party. .J. .j. .j. PARLEY GUNNELL. Genial, wholesouled, good Parley Gunnell Is dend. Wo know Parley Gunnell. He was our friend nnd tho friend of humanity. Wo would gladly glad-ly havo had him with us, for his prosenco nmong men, his exnmplo to his fellowmen, was such that it mado them feel better for his presence, and act and do better on account of his good example. It would havo been better for us to have hlb with us. It may bo better for him to go, hence washould not complnln. Ho has been n sufferer for years, but haB borno his troubles with manly fortitude. When suffering almost beyond control he has reflected re-flected tho silver lining that has driven, away the clouds, and thus physically handicapped ho has borne his shnre of life's responsibilities without complnlnt. Tho many beautiful tir.butes paid to hla memory at tho services Tuesday were not overdrawn. over-drawn. They were Blmply plain, untarnished truth, testifying to the worth of a soul of pure gold, where In there was no alloy. Peaco to his memory, and may humanity continue to bo blessed with such characters of truo worth as Parley Gunnell. J. .J. $. BRYAN DOES NOT SAY NOMINATION WAS STOLEN. The Journal In Its Inst Issue prints a long ccreed, under a paid advertisement, reiterating that dd chestnut thnt tho Taft nomination was stolen. Everybody dismissed that old charge when Mr. Hryan delivered his address at Logan. If anyono was capablo of determining whether or not tho . Tnft nomination was stolen it was Mr. Bryan. Ho I was nt tho convention nt Chicago, and took account of tho entlro proceedings, and ho has never once uttered such n charge. On the other hand he has given it out that Mr. Roosevelt wos, and has been tho beneficiary ot Just cuch kind of nominations, ns Mr. Taft received, and In tho self same way. Out upon such rubbish, and give us something with n shadow of truth. h TOES STEPPED ON, EH? Tho Journal speaks thusl'y of tho Herald-Hepub-llcnn:: "A chnrncterlcss sheet that stands nB a rti r-ror r-ror of nothing more than tho utter lack of principle prin-ciple of Its editor In chief and his Imme'jf'nte staff," etc. And Reed Smoot, Joseph Howell, William Spry, E II. Calllster, and others of the best men tho stato haB over produced aro on tho d'lrectornto. No men, or set of men could possibly bo better to tho Interests of Cache County than these men havo been. Muckrnklng with a vongcanco Is It not? "Whom tho gods would destroy, they first ranko mad." Somebody's toes must have been stepped on. , .j. j. .J. , THEY MUST ENJOY IT. In one column Tho Journnl lnmbasts Colonol Roosovelt, gives William Jennings Tlryan's characterization charac-terization ot his utter failure to "bring forth ono message in bohnlf of tho pcoplo's cause In Bevon . and ono-half years," In another, turns Wilson loose on him In another, and then In another pours forth Its twnddlo 'In behalf of tho local Bull Moosors. Tho caso Is plain. Tho Hull Moosers aro running for tho Democratic ticket. A vote for the Bull Mooso ticket Is a. hnlf voto for tho Democratic party. par-ty. V "Ir After all honesty Is the best policy. It Is hotter hot-ter to be truthful In all thingo. |