Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 36 | Reversion to Nature

REVERSION TO NATURES NATURE S EXA TOn JOhN SHARP WILLIAMS IS was once LI one of tho the most original and forceful thinkers in u either cither house of Congress lie He followed no blazed trail lail of thought but plunged bol boldly lj into the untried fields ields of jt judgment without guide or compass He lie owed bowed the knee to no leader wore the tho yoke of no exclusive c school either cither of idea or its expression Itis It Itis Its is s therefore the more mora surprising to observe that in inthe in inthe the hc ripe jears years of his statesmanship he not only borrows ideas from from- another but invests that thought with a crudity of expression for which his previous brilliancy had totally totany unprepared his ad admirers Sentor Senator Sen Sen- ator tor Williams is not only yielding political and legislative leg- leg subservience to the White House but so tamed amed is ho he that he permits th the President to to control l leven even even ven the senatorial thoughts When the tho Mississippi statesman declared on the floor loor of the thc Senate that the Uthe Democrats had bad found it difficult to deal logically with the ille tariff because the industrial condition had been placed on high stilts by y years of Republican protection he ho borrowed from irom his lis party chief Mr Wilson Vilson expressed the thc same mistaken mistaken mis- mis mis- mis taken aken thought in more elegant language when he lie declare de- de dared clare that the tho prosperity engendered by protection i is artificial an and that it must be removed romo in harmony with the new freedom President Wilson Vilson and the captive of his mental bow ow fin and spear Senator Williams arc are merely testifying testifying testify- testify ing ng ing b by their attitude to the tho justice of the ican Hean position The party of protection cheerfully I admits that the prosperity its policies achieve is artificial artificial ar- ar arI I that the higher standard of living to which it has las brought the American workingman man is not the tho oJ of natural conditions The Tho protectionists have lave succeeded in ill preventing preventing- the entirely natural conditions that prevail throughout the world to affect the lie industries of the tha United States Stat and they arc are proud roud of their accomplishment Wilson Tilson and Williams plan to remove 0 this artificial condition to kick away tho the stilts upon which Amer- Amer icon can industry and the tha American workingman have elevated ele The They propose to restore natural conditions con- con conditions which means meana an ine inevitable lowering of the standard And so thoroughly alarmed are fire the investors investors tors ors of the nation that stocks s have o shrunk many billion billion bilion bil- bil lion ion of dollars since Mr Wilson Tilson began his work ork of f restoring natural conditions