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Vol- 27 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 18, 1916 N619 I Entirely Justified ' 'X'HB Democrats are celebrating their victory f with a good deal of noise. They ought to if i noise will drown their own thoughts. Let us see. t To help win his re-election the Democratic i president went back on his own formally ex- i pressed ideas; prostituted his own dignity; de- based the sovereignty of the Great Republic, and r assessed the people $60,000,000 per annum to E : -' gain the votes of the members of some labor i unions. 7 It involved, moreover, the most corrupt bar- y gain ever entered into by a president of the I' United States. For more than three score years the one fixed ' principle of the Democratic party has been oppo- sition to a protective tariff. This year it bartered away this principle to the sugar trust, the con I sideration being from nine to twelve electoral I votes. It went into control endorsing free tolls on the Panama canal for American coast shippers. At the beck of the overland railroads it reversed that profession and rushed a measure through I congress levying the tolls. It went into office promising a merchant ma rine which should be worthy of the country, and was to run and prosper without subsidies or boun ties. The sudden breaking out of a great foreign war made clear how much this country had suf fered and was still suffering for want of such marine, but the party in power watched and wait ed two years, and then passed a bill providing I for such marine to be run on the private account of the government. I The party went into power promising not to disturb any legitimate enterprise, and never rested until it placed this country on a free trade basis. That is, all except the sugar trust and rice that grows luxuriantly all the way from the swamps of Georgia and Florida to the Pacific ocean. It went into power promising absolute economy and though it passed an income tax law which it claims has gathered through taxation from the men of property $250,000,000 and has spent the last cent of it in the ordinary expenses of the government. It promised the people cheaper food and cloth ing. It permitted the brigands of Mexico to rob and murder American citizens at will, then went into the late campaign claiming the people's gratitude and confidence because it had kept the country out of war. And the result justified Villa's re mark that Americans are white Chinamen and the world's conclusion that the men of the United States are "too proud to fight," and that the way to win in the United States is to appeal to the yellow streak in the people. The party is justi fied in making noisy clamors over its victory. Great Britain Glad f 'T'HE states where the great manufacturing plants are situated and the millions of em ployees find places to work, all went for Mr. Hughes except Ohio. The trouble with Ohio for fifteen years past has been a surplus of states men. Since the big war Ohio has had five native sons for presidents and now when the "Republi can party gives the nomination to anyone from some other state, Ohio feels it a duty to resent what she holds as an obvious wrong. Then she has her local factions within the party, and they are so bitter that they cannot forget the welfare of the country is at stake. This year their quar rels have been most contemptible. But no mat ter; we merely wanted to call attention to the fact that the states on which labor most de pends for wages, all but one went for Mr. Hughes. Even New Jersey with its Princeton prestige could not stand the economic policies of the De mocracy. Her voters realized what conditions would now have been had not the war in Europe come, what they will be when that war stops. No wonder the London press is rejoiced over the result of our election. Since the great war began and the German merchant ships have been forced to cover, Great Britain's merchant marine has been doing an immense business and Great Britain has recovered her old prestige on the sea, and in the estimation of foreign countries, especially those of Spanish America. All she lacked was the full swing of the United States; her carrying trade on the sea and practically free trade on land. Hence she feared greatly the election of Mr. Hughes and rejoices correspond ingly over the re-election of one who has proven that he favors all her ideas. But the great manu facturing states, all save Ohio, showed by their votes that under an extended Democratic rule was their especial fear when Europe shall cease fighting and begins to recuperate by the foreign trade that will be resumed, chief of these will be Great Britain and hence her present satisfaction over the result of our election, which is a guar antee of practically free tradeijmd the continued trade rule of the 3eas. .1 ' The Republicans of (5jgft,$t least a mighty contingent of them sho(l!ff b sent to a reform school. '" " Why The Grouch CAYS a good Democratic friend: "O, do not belly ache! A good American should accept -cheerfully the verdict of the people at the polls even If personally disappointed with the result." That is eminently true, but it hurts a little when fifteen men, none of whom are known as great statesmen, virtually cast the votes of sev eral hundred thousands of supposedly free men. Shortly after the war of the Rebellion, a. gentle man from Alabama went to New York City to try to raise money for a really promising enterprise. He was told that his enterprise really seemed a promising one, (but there would be grave doubts about his obtaining the money. "When he asked why, he was told that it was because of social con ditions in Alabama, to which he responded: "Now the North ought to get over those prejudices. I assure you, sah, we in the South have. On my honor, sah, the nigger is just as free to vote in the South as any white man. Of course we do not count the nigger's vote but we do not inter- M fere with his voting, sah." M The trouble hero is that the majority here vote on proxies and too many of these are issued to M satisfy the peope who believe that the freedom M of this country rests on an untrammeled foallot. In the late election those who held and voted M those proxies not only voted against their own fl convictions of right but against the convictions of the chief working Hosts of this republic, and H their ballots record a crime against free Institu- H tions. Our Nation's Financial Position )H lWj R. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, In a M AVA long article in the New York Times, do- clares that the United States leads in financial , power, and that to say our prosperity rests on ' war orders is indefensible. If he means to say that just now the United M States has more money than any other power, M that is doubtless correct. M But if he means to say that the vast sums f did not come from war orders, or that, without iM any war in Europe we should now have the tre- mendous surplus, any boy of sixteen can Bee that M he is talking through his hat. M And when he says that the United States .,M leads in financial power, does ho mean that this M lead is permanent or due entirely to the present 1 war and will swiftly pass when peace is restored, ' or that we shall continue to hold that position? iM Let us consider for a moment the real situa- M tlon. When the war broke out both Great Brit- ain and Germany were installed strongly in coun- J tries all around the world. They had lines of fast steamers running to all important ports. M They had mercantile houses .established in all M important ports; they had banks in very many M foreign ports, and their citizens were interested in M T railroads, lands, mines, cities and multifold other .;H forms of properties in all countries of promise. -: Now what will prevent their resuming all the l business that the war stopped, in all those coun- H tries when peace is restored? M And how has the United States been prepar- H ing to compete with those countries in foreign H lands when the war stops? H Has she or have her citizens established any H banks or trading stations in any of them? Have jl the eyes of the people of those countries become accustomed to the sight of the American flag IH on American ships in their ports? What have ;H wo done to win either the respect, confidence or B affection of the people of those lands? How many Q people in say South America, who live back one -H hundred miles from the coast, know that there jH is such country as the United States, or aught H of the wealth and power of the Great Republic? V A boor may find a treasure-trove, but if he '9 keeps it locked up what does it avail him, or H how does it increase the respect for or trust in him? H Mr. McAdoo is a sanguine gentlemen, but he H has long been in the public eye and up to date has never established a reputation for superior H genius or profound statesmanship.