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Show FAILURES OF THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION. Congressman Joseph Howell, who returned from Washington on Sunday, points out the mistakes of the Democrats. Demo-crats. He says- "Presldent Wilson's administration Is strongly adverse to the interests of the intermountain states and of the west generally 'If any of the western states should send Democratic representatives representa-tives to Washington, the present administration ad-ministration there will laugh in its sleeve at the foolishness of the people peo-ple In doing zo "President Wilson poses as the 'champion trust buster,' while in fact the trust legislation Just pushed through Congress really weakens and almost emasculates the Sherman antitrust anti-trust law in the interests of great monopolies. "In the revenue measure just passed the tax bears heavily upon all the west, while for the south it is applied so as to be scarcely felt. "Congressman James R. Mann writes 'no state in the union is better bet-ter represented than the State of Utah.' With Senators Smoot and Sutherland in the Senate and with yourself and Mr. Johnson In the House you each have done a work here of which any state and constituency con-stituency might well be proud. "The prosperity ol two years ago has been swept aside by the Democratic Demo-cratic policies The great. European war has helped to revive American industry to a limited extent, but thi Democratic administration to hide its own defects from national policy Is blaming that war. In progress less than three months, for the financial and Industrial depression forced upon the country by the Underwood tariff bill, and nbown in it effects long before the European wax began. "This Democratic CongreBf has been the most wasteful, extravagant and dilatory Congress thai ever sat in Washington. Tts abject submission submis-sion lo execute control, to the Ironclad Iron-clad rule of caucus action, has been pitiable. "The much vaunted currency law nr. 8 been enacted about a year, but is not yet put into effect because of Democratic procrastination Fortuu ately for the country the Republican Aldrlch'Vreelond currency law, excov1-nted excov1-nted and denounced by the Democrats, was in force and it has proved the prop by which Secretary McAdoo has thus far been able to steady our trembling trem-bling financial structure "The war revenue bill just pasBed ia not because of the European war. but is the direct result of a mos. rruel war on American industry and prosperity by the Wilson administration." administra-tion." on-r |