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Show COMMISSIONER WILLIAM SPRY I REPUBLICAN RALLY SPEAKER Former Utah Governor Tells How Reclamation Will Increase Values in State; Urges Election of G. O. P. Ticket William Spry, United States land ( i .m m Issloner and former governor Of ij'tah, was the principal speaker at h H Republican rally held in the Ogden tabernacle Wednesday night. H - There were 171 persons In attend- ancc including the local ItD'.bl). in candidates for office ChuHo; It. Hnlllngworth wn.s the chair. nan H a as Introduced by Joseph H. Kvans, county cmalrmen. Commissioner Spry dwelt upon the posslhdlty of reclamation in ' tab from i he Provo-Weber rivers beside; going into the political issues of the day. In part ho "Wo have heard very much with relation to (lie various problems that ore confronting the American people. b Perhaps one of 'he principal subjects that has been discussed for tlx- last b few years has been the burdens that have been placed upon the American people through the war and through iaH the extravagance of the Democratic I party. HARDING is QUOTED, "when President Ha riling took his oath of office and made his address tb the American people, on the day of inauguration, one of his statements state-ments that greatly impressed me, waa the statement that from then on. under un-der tho new administration there would be, among other things, from that day on more business in government govern-ment and less government In business busi-ness "If you will hark back, you will remcmbei and I do not think any one Is denying if there had been, as as matter of fact, very little business In the government of the I'nlted States Appropriations were made re gardless of the necessity for them. Purchases were made through those appt opriations that were altogether needless and unn essary. Today the I'nlted States government has stored in Washington arid elsewhere many millions of dollars worth of, property that it Is trying to use up before any new property of that character Is bought . it is scattered from one end of the I'nlted States to the t i r Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of trucks and other vehicles have been distributed throughout the i'nlted States, but the government still haa millions of dollars worth, of property stored in warehouses and elsewhere, waiting for the time toi come when the demand will bo suf-; flclent so that that ma bo used up before the purchase of new materia) "While there was approximately six billion dollars appropriated after the armistice was signed not for the purchase pur-chase of war material, but for the ample needs of the government, aa the heads of departments felt that i j' those needs evistro mw fr.r ii-, f,. Icai year of 1922. there was appropriated, appropri-ated, in round numbers, three and one-half billion dollars, or nearly one hundred per cent less than had" been appropriated by congress Immediately following the war. EXPECTING Too MUCH. "I do not ever expect to see, and I do not think you good people will ever see. the appropriations . u- down to where they were before the war ' We have not forgotten the crv of our friends, the Democrats, when they ".-honied tb'ir heads off because of the fact thai , Republican rongi es bud appropriated a billion dollars d thing unheard of befori . and they went around the country trying to defeat de-feat th( Republican party because of its billion dollar congn.ss You remember re-member it very well Hut what is the situation toda " 'here has been appropriated ap-propriated for the coming fiscal year approximately $3,600,000, Bui when I call JTOUr attention to th fad that approximately one billion dollars j of that entire amount will be, used i to puy the lnter $ on the public deb! I of the United states, you can readily J see that there are certain expenses I that yOU cannot possibly economize on, when you take Into account ihe, fact that the I'nlted States is Indebted approximately S2f.oon.fioo.ooo regardless regard-less of what we may have loaned to lour European friends, And Just incidentally. in-cidentally. I want to say that I hope la Republican congress will never con- ent to forgive Europe that debt, that It will collect every possible farth- I ing. COITON ASKS si PPORT. ; 'Congressman Colton Is asking for j your support, as he did two years ago. I want to say for Mr. Colton and I say this advisedly, and I am telling you the truth that there Is no man in congress who is more diligent dil-igent or more faithful in his service i to the people of bis congressional district dis-trict than is Congressman Colton of the first congressional district of the State of I tah . lie Is on the Job , all the tiny?. N'o one in all these counties comprising the I-list congressional con-gressional district has ever appealed , t.i Don Colton for support or attention atten-tion or service who has not received thai support, attention or service. That Is the kind of a congressman he is. With the additional experience he i Obtaining month afte:- month, there is no reason at af why he cannot do even better service during the next two years than he has rendered during dur-ing the past two years. He Is sincere sin-cere falthfu anil honesl it la a good thing, when we get ;i man of that character, to keep him, because of the Influence he can wield t'ongress-man t'ongress-man t'oiton Is wielding influence with his colli agues Of the house . . rte was fortunate In forming the friendship of the leaders of the house! of representatives such men as Mr. Mi.ud -' and Mr Mann ,md the . hulr-j man of the appropriations committee Mr Martin Madden They all 11 ke Colton. because they believe in his sincerity; and they believe th.it he will' newt- take a proposition to them unless un-less It has merits, and they are willing will-ing to listen to it. He s making a v ry splendid servant and he ought ! Mr. Ieatherwood Is of the same caliber. He is not running in thLs district but I can say the same for him as 1 have said for Mr. Colton. ( ne thing, both these gentlemen I are vitally interested m is the reclamation recla-mation of the public lands of the west. After all, let me say to you. i ladiPs and gentlemen, that. In my bumble Judgment, Is the overshadowing overshadow-ing question relating to the development develop-ment of the western states. I am told by engineers that under the Oregon Short Line bridge be-! tween here and Salt Lake, from measurements that have been made year after year, for the last twenty years. It Is demonstrated that there is flowing under that bridge ulone Into Great Solt lake, more than a quarter, of a million acre 'fett of water an-1 nually. . . . There Is enough wa-1 tci flowing under that one bridpe to jlirlgutc more ihan 10n.00u.000 acres of land. It will take 8 largo sum of I money to husband the water, to take i aie of it to build dams and reservoirs reser-voirs so that It can be preserved for use at the proper tune. 1 do not know I that there is money enough among the i people of Utah to build those dams and reservoirs This one project would probably take (12,000,000 l I doubt If yon could form a syndi-Icatc syndi-Icatc among the rponey men of Utah i big enough unci comprehensive en-J en-J ough to handle a situation of that sort So you must go to the govcrn-I govcrn-I ment of the I'nlted States and obtain ob-tain that money through the reclamation reclam-ation service, whose business it is to construct those reservoirs and dams ns i R to OBJECTIONS 'Let the 'ell you what has been I done on salt river project In Ar- i Isona. 1 re has been h t re mend -lOUB dam and reservoir built down In jthat country; probably 112,000,000 i has been expended upon that pro-1 Ject. And whit has happened? There has been : ..' i l into that one project pro-ject in southern Arizona 7.96-1 carloads car-loads of manufactured goods from I juuuc, irom r loriua. irom Michigan. troni Utah In fact, from 45 states I of the union Those people had produced pro-duced enough wealth on their project to purchase from thse other states 7.964 carloads of freight. Docs It pay? The value of those shipments Mono would pay for the project. 1 have told the eastern congressmen who havo ruthcr objeed to the de-Vftlopment de-Vftlopment of the west that the profits upon the goods wlu. h thej sell In the west to the various reclamation pro-Je,s pro-Je,s would more than pay the appropriation ap-propriation that the west ' Is asking the government to make for the development de-velopment of those projects; and I jam right on that. If one project will bring 7.964 carloads of freight in one year, what will thirty projects do? Will U.i OOo acres within a radius of 50 miles of Ogden help Weber county, help Ogden city? Vou can answer that. ne hundred and twen- I ty-flve thousand acres added to the 'assessment roll besides improvements, cattle and sheep and hops and personal per-sonal property thai will attat h to the cultivation and the prosperity of 125,000 acres of land will that help you? Will it provide another avenue Of r'-venue'.' 1 think so. Will it help' i lighten the burdens? V7ell, oou can : flKnre on the revenue you are receiving receiv-ing today; you can get the figures I from your assessoi or your treasure!. I Take 125.000 Seres within a radius of 50 miles of Ogden and figure out jut nrum mose acres arc worm as a revenue producer; and when you have floured that out. that Is the amount that one more project In Ktah would mean to the people In th state. It means much to your schools. It j moans much to your roads, it means I much to everything because it light-, I ens the burden. DISCI SSES TAIUFI "Some people tay. "We believe in a tariff, but for revenue only." Let ' ine tell you a tariff is needed for something else than revenue The I i halrman of the evening, as T re- I member him, said that the paramount Issue after all, was the tariff. 1 know some people .say oh, that has prown threadbare; we have talked now of the tariff ever since the Ke-! publican party was organized, and we are still talking of it.' 'As a matter of fact. It was because of a tariff that wi were able to loan those billions of" dollars to Europe, Do you mean to say that under a system of free trade you could havo ever loaned a billion dollars to anyone any-one of those European countries" On the contrary, if you could have found anybody to lend yu would havi iu en forced to borrow money your-81 your-81 If when the war came on. There Is no mysterious idea about this tar-j Iff proposition Vou simply make thclj other fellow pay for doing buaini U in your countrv that is all there ui to it "Tho man from Canada brings his wheat down Into Chicago In order that he might sell it on the 'hicniro!' market You say to him. All right, Krothcr Canadian, we do not object to your bringing your wheat in here. Iul you must pay 3o (eiils a bushel tariff, or license, before you bring it In for the purpose of selling it.' Now, you do not mean to tell me that there are any buyers of wheat In the i'nlted states who are going r.vp tho Canadian 3o cuts a bushel bush-el more for his wheat than thev WOUld give tho wheat producer in the United states, and particularly so on the same market0 The Canadian must I of necessity enter Into competition with the man in the United States, and he h penalised from the start by a tariff of 30 cents n bushel Docs i that help the farmer? Well, I think I so. It heipH him Just 30 cents. If he is foing Into competition with the 1 nadlan on the Chicago market it hi Us him Just 30 cents oh ever) bushel bush-el of wheat that he puts on tiali tticr-. Does the tariff that has been put on sugar help the people of the Unit-en Unit-en States? It ought to You know what they did to sugar when there was no tariff on 1 1 Hut now the Cuban Cu-ban and the other sugar producers must pay $174 for everv hundred pounds of sugar that is brought into the I'nlted states yet thev Ret no more thin the market price that is paid for the American product "It Is the same with wool. Has the I tarnf on wool, since the emergen, j- tariff went, into rffect. benefitted the peoplQ of tho west of this state, of , tills county '.' Go to your sheep men I and aik them w hether they have re'-I re'-I ceiyed any benefit from tin.- tarltf ih-it lins hppn placed on wool, and they will tell you yt' "Your sugar companies, as they ; receive this henefit. will be able to pay a dividend to the stockholders -'iinihlnn they have not been doing , f,r three or tour years in some in-) in-) stances, two or three years, In oth-ers. oth-ers. It may take them nonu- time to I lift themselves out of debt, but the I tariff will help them do It They are going to he able to pay to the j widow, t,, the old folks who have invested in-vested their small savings In sugar stocks, n return on the money that they have'lnvested In theso stocks 'i want to say to tho Republicans of Weber county and t,, the. Kepul-jlcans Kepul-jlcans of the city, that tho Republican I party has placed, as usual, a ticket I In tho field. They have been In the ; habit of doing thit ever since wc or-!ginl.cil or-!ginl.cil on party lines And let me say here and now that I never remember remem-ber a complete ticket b ing placed In the field Dy Republican party that gave entire satisfaction to everybody; ev-erybody; and perhaps you people reel the same about it as I do When I was on the ticket, a great manv People were not satisfied because I was on it. Hut 1 thought whin I waa on it that 1 was entitled to the sup-'v sup-'v . ?Vh'" RPubllcan parts- of Utah. nd have taken that position In regard re-gard to all of the tickets that have oeen made before and since reci i - 1 uiy nomination. It Is a fair projection proje-ction i nm :ln organization man. Hj; is FOR AMj, aovv 1 say. 1 am for the th kel -not for Lion v'olton and for vour legislative ticket here and for vour county clerk and sonic other county officers I nm not that sort of a Re-Publican Re-Publican Whep 1 say I am for the . J "Uan 1 am for "IS ticket from the senator down to the smallest small-est officer in the farthermost pre-elnct. pre-elnct. And 1 want to see hem elected. I want to see Mr .amberger eleected. I wan; to ee Ui county ticket elected ,in&Auyou bay a ',urlv thai has 11 , ,LS ,rornl", hen you have has made the fiphf whenever II has een necessary, that party Is .- .titled y every rule of nxbt to vour support, n.d to your confidence. That Is an-i |