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Show UTAH PRESS ON SIDE OF PRESIDENT. Papers of all political parties are getting back of the President in his defense of American rights on the high seas. The press of Utah upholds the President. The Tribune of Salt Lake says: "President Wilson fulfilling a high duty toward the American people which, unfortunately, many of them fall to appreciate. His demand that congress shall uphold his foreign pol icy and thereby give him a vote oi confidence is warranted by every con slderatlon of the country's honor ant security. Partisanship, In the houi of the country's trial and peril, shoulc scorn to obscure the issue by special pleading or the cunning devices ol prejudice. If Bryan and Champ Clarfc and Chairman Kitchin are to betraj the president and the country with the kiss of Judas it should be known at once It is inconceivable that Re publicans should lend themselves tc the betrayal. It is their duty to stand by the president no matter what the partisan loss, for party Is always less than country. It would be a foolish Republican who would make such n sorry spectacle of himself as the insurgent in-surgent Democrats have become. Clark and his clique went to the White House to assure the president that if the resolutions were brought to a vote they would pass three to one But as friends of tho president they would not let them be brought to a vote, they would see that the resolutions reso-lutions were kept In committee and that the president was not humiliated. They would sacrifice themselves on the party altar to help a president who was going wrong. The president presi-dent saw through their shallow hy pocrisy, and when they had proclaimed proclaim-ed to all the world that the resolutions resolu-tions would pass and when they had become convinced that the president was thoroughly Intimidated by their petty devices, the president suddenly , called their bluff by 'demanding that the resolutions be brought out of committee com-mittee and voted upon. Instantly the little Americans began to buzz about like horseflies unexpectedly driven from a comfortable mass of carrion. They saw that Instoad of heaping humiliation upon the president they had covered themselves with odium." The Telegram of Salt Lake says: "The hour has come for loyal Americans Amer-icans to call a halt to the plotting of the little men in congress who have been harassing the president until they goaded him into showing them up and putting them on record in the blazing light of publicity by demanding demand-ing the vote of confidence. The times rre too dangerous for the people of this country to put any further confidence, con-fidence, any trust whatsoever In those blundering and scheming "statesmen" who have entered into a gigantic conspiracy con-spiracy In Washington to sell their country's honor for the mean advantage advan-tage of ward politics and gold. Head and front of this conspiracy are many Democratic members from the South, best known as cotton congressmen The South today Is full of speculators and money sharks who have bought up large quantities of the last cotton crop at low price and hope to sell their holdings to Germany at 300 to 400 per cent profit They want Wilson Wil-son to end the quarrel with Germany and begin a quarrel with tho allies, which shall be serious enough to compel com-pel the lifting of the blockade just a little just enough to let in cotton at triple the price they paid for it. For the sake of the fortunes of such ac these, some of the cotton congressmen congress-men have dragged the Democratic party In Washington into a conspiracy conspir-acy to fling the fortunes and the honor hon-or of their country into the spittoon." The Salt Lake Herald-Republican says : "It is worth while to note that the Representatives and Senators who have palsied tho President's arm by questioning American solidarity in the controversy with Germany are members of his own party. It is to them he must address his demand for a vote of confidence They have given giv-en nld and comfort to the enemy by opposing American rights as they have by opposing American preparedness. prepared-ness. No less accurate, frank and Democratic an authority than the New York World declares 'the revolt against the President in congress was engineered by Bryan Democrats and Hearst Democrats working under pro-German pro-German auspices.' It is these whom the World, the foremost Democratic journal in the United States, denounces de-nounces for having pictured the American Amer-ican people as 'cravenly pacific today and soddenly indifferent to the assertion asser-tion of their rights.' No more bitter Indictment of a political party was ever formulated by a friendly or an opposition newspapers since the birth of the republic Thomas B. Reed of lamented memory once told the Democrats Demo-crats in official positions at Washington Wash-ington that they could not govern the country because they could not govern gov-ern themselves." The Deseret News says: "The President is clearly right in asking that Congress come promptly to his support at least abandon any equivocal attitude, and cease its meddling med-dling In concerns which belong to the executive department. It would be ruinous to our status as a moral force among the nations for the administration administra-tion to be advocating a certain policy and Congress to be attacking that policy. It would discredit Us in every foreign capital Is, In fact, already doing do-ing so and would be the surest means of Involving us In complications complica-tions which every sane American hopes to escape. The resolutions in congress in regard to travel on armed arm-ed merchantmen may not in themselves them-selves and in their spirit be in opposition oppo-sition to widespread American sentiment. senti-ment. But that is not the question. The real issue is that as they stand they reflect against tho position our state department has taken the only position it could take with honor." |