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JJ" 'tillered at the Postorrice at Salt Lake
w City . spcnnd-rlami matter.
l " TojQcouieir
Wednesday, May 28, 1913.
MMm '
mm Te report that. Col. Roosevelt -was
:going to Arizona to search for a, lost
tribe of Indians -wns a self-evident fake;
and yet lie takes the trouble to deny fcjic
VJToport. ire is going 6n a hunting trip,
nothing more.
1 It is stated that the administration
cds making specific inquiries into the
,currcuoy question, with a view of find
iujr a remedy for the defects' existing
fain it. (oorl! It's a pity this wasn't
jloiio a: to the tariff. .
; Colonel Roosevelt surrounds himself
y with the same old gang in his case that
$3$ on before the court at Marquette,
Michigan. It is a species of inthnida-
lion altogether characteristic, and it is
f evidently having its effect. "But its
A 'fairness is quite another matter.
Report is that a Filipino baseba.ll
H, t cam is coming to this country for a
three months' tour of games. Possibly
as a test of American vigor and skill.
Jt, will certainly be America's fault if'
it those Japanese players Aon'f. go home
tjwith a highly pessimistic report.
It is stated that important conces
sions go with the British subscriptions
to the Chinese loan. Of course; and by
tho time tho five powers have got ail
thoy want in this lino China will have
nothing left to paj' her debts with, and
will have, to be foreclosed on and sold
"'out.
Governor Johnson sa.ys that he is
HH v shocked and horrified at those in Cali
HH forma who would propose raoro drastic
HH legislation against the Japanese or a
referendum on that alreadj- approved
-b3' him. Well, the East is shocked and
horrified by what he has done on this
HH question; so the honors arc easy.
Mr. Carnegie pertinently expresses
, surprise that the Japanese should ask
HI from tho United States privileges that.
Kfl arc not accorded to them by their allies,
HH 'Mio British. And he might add another
surprise that they should resent restric
tions in this country that they t.hem
selves impose upon all foreigners in
--.Japan.
Representative 7-Tobson has resigned
HI from the House committee on Naval Af
Hjl Claris, presumably because it refuses to
' make recommendations for the building
of battleships so as to keep us in sufli
.cient sea-fighting strength as to be se
ciirc against all likely assault. Tn this
viJIr. Hobson shows himself wiser than
the other members of that committee.
- Dr. Joseph O 'Connell, health officer of
-the port of New York, condemns the
fM turtle scrum of Dr. IMedmann in sc
tM .-verc terms; and a noticeable skepticism
as to its value is prevalent among
medical men, who say with .-justice that
tM if there were virtue in that serum there
jShonld be definite case of its benefits
fM ii'iong so many eases of its administra
tion. So another hope of tuberculosis
humanity has failed.
And now Porto Rico comes forward
nvith a vigorous protest against the Wil-son-Underwood
tariff bill. Under pro
lection. Porto Rico has many advau
;t;igcs, as a dependency of the United
'H States, with her trade on the same basis
as that between the States in the Union.
Under the proposed revision, the Porto
Ricans would lose this standing. No
H wonder they protest, for the change
would bo vital to them.
Wm 'r People of the warm regions do things
with more fervor than we. Thus, when
President Mcnocal appeared on. the bal
tony of tho palace in Havana after tak
RB J"g flic oath of oftice, ho was greeted
H with mighty applause. Then ho om
SH9 braced and kissed, Gomez, tho out
gt'iug President. Wilder applause. Then
9H rs- Icnocal and Mrs. Gomez kissed.
HH Moro tremendous yells of applause
EHH than ever. How tame our exercises on
I9H a like transfer must appear to tho Cu
11 buns'.
H St, Louis Globe-Democrat: "If the
j two parties that votod for protection
mfm last year had been -united, their ma-
9H .iority over Wilson would have been
IH ,3 11,544. The figures show what
jH harmony signifies to the Republican
X'altir.,, They also show that the
fl voters of this country are emphatically
U opposed to tho Democratic ideas of
tariir revision. But the Republican Sen-
11 ate in 1909 refused to revise down-
M ward as President Taft declared would
P be done on protection lines; and iu 1010
the people administered a tremendous
X robukor to the standpatters, and that
ave tie chief demagouo of the time
his opportunity to stab the party which
had so greatly honored him.
EDMUNDS'S GREAT PAPER.
The Century Mngaziuc is engaged in
tho publication of an "After tho 'War"
series of contributions by those who
have taken part in tho loading events
since the close of the War of tho Re
bellion. Among other things up for
discussion in that scries is 'The Hayes
Tildeu Contest.' Tho May number of
tho Century had an- article by Colonel
Henry Watterson of the Louisville
Courier Journal, giving tho Democratic
partisan view of that, contest. Mr,
Watterson exprossed himself as firmly
of the opinion that the installation of
Mr. Hayes was a fraud upon the Amer
cau people, and that Mr. Tildon should
have had the Presidential office by
virtue of the election of 1S76. But his
article was in fact a rambling, partisan
claim, chiefly distinguished for its lack
of authorities, of documents, and of the
records of the- time.
The Juno Contury has a rejoinder by
former Senator- Edmunds, who is the
solo survivor of the Electoral Commis
sion which passod upon the disputed
returns of tho election of 1S7G by
virtue of a law passed by Congress (a
law, by the way, which was supported
with practical -unanimity, by tho Demo
crats, the Republicans affording "such
opposition to it as was recorded in- the
votes.) Senator Edmunds makes the,
whole case crystal clear. Ho shows that"
tho points involved were .not first dis
cussed at that time. He shows that
both parties uuiled in pood faith in
passing tho Electoral .Commission bill,
and that both parties' acted candidly in
the presentation of' tho membership
of each upon the Electoral Commission.
He shows that whenever a disputed re
turn was referred to ths Commission
for settlement, the matter was con
sidered faithfully and honestly by that
body. He shows further that Senator
Thunnau", a member of that 'Commis
sion, had. on a previous occasion taken
exactly the opposito ground from tho
Democratic contention in this Hayes
Tilden case. On being confronted with
this former declaration of his, there
was nothing for Mr. Thnrman to do
except to say, as he did say, "1 have
changed my mind." Senator Bayard
also being confronted with a similar
contrary opinion expressed by Jiimsclf
in February, 1375, made no reply. In
all this, howevor, Mr. Edmunds testifies
to his full belief in tbo honesty, in
tegrity, and good faith of Messrs. Thur
mau and Bayard, and, indeed of all the
members of the Commission.
Tho pith of the central question in
the wholo controversy was tho power
of Congress to no behind tho returns,
duly certified y the States, as to the
result of the election and the choice of
the electors in any State. - Mr. Ed
munds shows that . tho Constitution
gives to the. States the completo power
of certifying tbo result of the election
for President by the voters of tho
Siate. Senators Thurniau and Bayard
had emphatically' stated their agree
ment with this Constitutional provision,
that Congress had no power whatever
to go back of tho certified returns of
the States as to the electors chosen.
In all this matter, Senator Edmunds
presents the records fully and without
the possibility of dispute. It is a paper
that has been much needed in the dis
cussion of this controversy, and Sena
tor Edmunds, in contributing it,
prefaces his paper by the statement
that he thinks the time has fully come
to give the .facts and tho record. 3n
this the American people will be em
phatically with him, and will welcome
his exposition as not only clarifying a
number of points that have not been
known, but as illuminating the wholo
subject under discussion, and showing
clearly the right of the caso establish
ing tho Hayes claim.
In this same June, number of tho
Century Colonel Watterson has what is
called a rejoinder. But it. is noticeable
that this rejoinder is absolutely lack
ing in support from any document, let
ters, telograms, or records of any kind.
It is' merely a rambling attempt at
reply, without any substance at all to
it. Mr. Watterson evidently sees that
his case is lost; and he replies merely
from force of obligation to say some
thing, and from more habit of gar
rulity. We do not imagine that any one will
ever have tho nerve to reopen tho
Hayes-Tilden controversy ou the record,
on the 1tw, and on the facts, after tho
publication of this illuminating paper
of Senator Edmunds. Those who may
hereafter question the title of Presi'
dent Hayes will have to do so on
Hayes's own admissions with respect to"
the governorships in tho disputed
States. Governor Nichols of Louisiana
and Governor Chamberlain of South
Carolina were ousted from the gpv
crnorships to which they had been
elected in. each case, they receiving a
larger vote and a larger majority, each
in his respective State, than Hayes re
ceived. Presidont Hayes consented to
the deposing of those Governors. In so
consenting ho gavo away his own. case.
It was the cxtremo of unwisdom for
him to do this, for ho ought to havo
known that the caso of his election as
determined by Congress, and as decided
by the Electoral Commission as to the
votes in tho disputed States, was im
pregnable. No giving way on his part
was reqtiired, and it is most unfortu
nate that he yielded to the impoH
tunitics of the Southern Senators, put
ting himself in accord with thoir views,
and so affordiug tho oujy possible op
portunity lo his opponents to attack
tho validity of his election.
A Missouri paper, giving a send-off
to a minister who is going elsewhere,
Bays that "His is one of those lucid
intellects competent to soar above the
chill formalities of shop religion and
able to grasp the meaning of :hris
tianity in contradistinction to arbi
trary, dull, and formal churchianitj."
The attention of the elders of the First
Presbyterian church in this city is re
spectfully called to this" intellect.
THE MOFFAT RAILROAD -TUNNEL.'
The. people of Donvor voted tho other",
day in favor of tho organization of a
commission' t'0'juako plans' for and in1
vestigato the question of -boring the
groat tunnel through tho main divide in
co-operation with the Moffat railroad.
This tunnel will bo six milos iu length,
and its estimated cost is $4,500,000. It
will cut down the distance by rail be
tween Denver and Salt Lake City about
soventy miles, and will givo Teady
transportation to the products from
large bodies of fine lands in western
Colorado and eastern Utah that are
now so remoto from market, as to prac
tically destroy the value of the agricul
tural products. It is certain, also, that
there are valuable coal, asphaltum, and
other deposits that will bo of immenso
value not only lo the owners of the
ground containing those deposits, but
also lo the whole country.
The voters of Denver, in putting
themselves on record as willing to take
tho preliminary stops for tho commis
sion and bond issuo will hold another
election when tho project is formulated
and ready for their approval. Judging
from tho willingness of the Denver1
voters to take tho preliminary step in
dicated, their approval of the final plan
to be reported may fairly be expected.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat refers
approvingly to this action of tho Den
ver pcoplo, and gives a frioudly word
to Denver, showing that the city,
founded in 1S5S, reached a population'
iu 1030 of 213,oSl, and has a public
debt of less than $1,000,000 and a valu
ation of $134,000,000.
' It is estimated that Ihe tunnel can
be built in three years from, the time
that it is begun. There is no question
of tho value of tho tunnel to the city
of Denver and to the State of Colorado,
as well as to northeastern Utah and to
Salt Lake City. Tho people here will
view with much satisfaction the ap
proval of tho Globe-Democrat of this
plan and will hope that the people of
Denver may hold fast to thoir faith in
the profit to them from the building o
the tunnel; for it is expected that the
plan to be submitted will provide for
taking care of the bonds to be issued
without ultimate cost to the city, the
railroads interested guaranteeing both
interest and principal at the maturity
of the bonds
NOT DECREASE, BUT INCREASE.
Tho statement is constantly made in
tho East, under claim of official au
thority for it, that tho number of
Japauesc in the mountain and coast
rogious is constantly decreasing. We
judge, however, that a wish to incul
cate this idea in the minds of the pub
lis is the real basis for the alleged de
crease in the numbers of Japanese.
Under the treaty of 1011 there was
what is aptly described as a "gentle
men's agreement," that though the
number of Japanese coming into this
country should not be limited, the
Japanese government, would nso its best
efforts not only to decrease that num
ber, but to call home as rapidly as
possible tho J'apaueso already in this
country. The Japanese government has
utterly failed in this so far as common
observation goes, but our official re
ports allege that tho Japanese govern
ment is doing what it agreed to do, and
that in fact the number of Japanese
in this country is decreasing all the
time. Wo do not. believe this latter
claim. On the contrary, we are sure,
both from observation and from reports
from California, that the Japanese are
increasing very rapidly iu numbers in
this country.
This opinion is strongly reinforcod
by a statement which The Financier
of New York City finds in The Asahi,
the leading daily paper of Japan, which
has a direct bearing upon this ques
tion. That Japanese paper furnishes
tho following figures of tho increase of
Japanese ownership of agricultural
lands in California and of tho land
tilled by Jaaucso tenants:
T-juhI Tilled Linil Tilled
by Japancso by Jupatieso
Owners. Tenunts.
Acres. Acres.
J 905 2,442 59,417
190C S,G7l S5.32C
.1907 1S.S15 11G.S9G
190S 10.11R 142.1G8
1909 1G.449 17fi,634
1910 16.9S0 17S.7G2
1911 17,7Go 201.9G9
1912 26,571 219,182
This shows an increase in acreago
owned by Japanese of more than ten
fold in the eight years covered, and
shows an increase of land tilled by
Japanese tenants of nearly fourfold.
Tho Financier furnishes a table of
the six principal agricultural products
in California, showing tho value raised
by Japanese as compared, with the total
value:
ToUl ValHw Valuo nalged
for California, br Jatmnesn.
Fruit $11,700,000 S 3,8GG,2S0
Cabbago 5,150.000 878.700
Grapes,... 14.730,000 1.GS5.000
Potatoes 3,399.950 1,331.200
Vegetables 21,290.000 9,150,000
Strawberries 1,560,000 1,300,000
If wo agree that these values havo
been reached in the same proportion
that the laud tilled by Japanese owners
and lands tilled by Japanese tenants
have Increased in tho eight years re
ported, and since the valuo raised by
Japanese represents three-eights of the
total valuo of these crops raised in
California, this threc-oights exceeding
$21,000,000 in value, it will be seen that
the Japanese menace is not only 'not
negligible, but is in fact startling.
The sneer which comes from the East
that Califomians ought not to fear
Japanese competition in this lino en
tirely ignores the main factors in the
caso; for white labor in California is
governed by restrictive laws such as
tho eight-hour law, increased pay for
overtime, and tho like, to which laws
Japanese in their colonies pay no at
tention whatever, but all ciirn in and
work without regard to labor laws and
such length of funo as is necessary
to do the work required. Manifestly
tinder these conditions fair competition
is impossible. Tho Japanese have the
better Qf us ajl .through, uud the whites
are placed at such disadvantage as to
be practically helpless in the face of
that- competition. A white fruit-raiser
in Califo'fina has to observe tho eight
hour, law-and other regulations, and pay
full, wages, whether ho makes money
out of his :fruit enterprise in any given
year or not. The Japanese colonists, on
the other hand, work without regard to
the labor or other laws, and share the
profits, if there are any, among them
selves, sa3ring nothing whatovor about
wages or about restrictive legislation.
Japanese colonists may work all the
season and make very little moro than
tho living expenses of the colony. But
iu a series of years thoy are bound not
only to make big mono3, bui to oust all
competition that has to observe the
labor laws and pay American wages to
employees.
The tables given show tho tre
mendous increase, of Japanese owner
ship and leasehold of land and of fruit
and vegetablo production. Unless white
men get down to the Japaneso stand
ards of living and method of coloniz
ing work, it will be impossiblo for them
to compote with tho Japaneso. It is this
fact that has mado tho uprising in Cali
fornia, and it is this fact that tho East
ern people seem determined not to understand.
PRESIDENT VATL'S OPTIMISM.
Presidont Theodore Vail' of the Boll
Telephone Company is an optimist on
tho business situation. True, it. may
be that tho prosperity of the business
of his company may influonco his views;
and yet his doctrine is good for the
general public, and we givo it ex
pression as follows:
People toll me that the money mar
kets are moving unaer close sail, and
that the money pilots have cautioned
against stormy times ahead. That Is the
very best guarantee in the world that
wo shnll not have them. These same
conservatives forget tho fact that we
are today laboring under the strain of
having to assist m the great work of
financing Europe through its war trou
bles, and that business expansion has
been held In cheek In tills country as
by an Iron Icaslu
Every bit or development work, every
new enterprise which It has been phys
ically possible to hold back has been
stopped or not initiated. Business is
simply normal what. Is barely neces
sary to keep the country In operation
as a going concern und no more. We
have slowed down so far that when
activity starts in again, say in another
year or two years, in a big way, we
shall probably be so cramped for rail
road and industrial facilities, that the
problem of handling the volume of busi
ness pressing for transaction will choke
our arteries of commerce and flood our
mills and factories to a point making
economy of operation exceedingly diffi
cult. That Is one of the most serious
troubles today, and not the Balkan War,
Uic tariff, or tight money. Wc have
slowed down too far and too fast and
wo shall have to pay an excessive price
for expansion when revival starts.
Business In the United States adjusts
Itself to change with wonderful facility.
That Is the history of the past. It will
be the history of the future. 1 am not
worrying over the tariff nor prostration
In industrial New England. What we
want Is more courage, and a disposition
to make tho bc.st of things, remember
ing that in this very human world ex
pediency and a -sense of compromise are
the part of wisdom and discretion.
Further pursuing his theme, Presi
dent Vail gives expression to his op
timistic belief in the following words:
1 believe In the enduring ability of
the people of this great country to tri
umph over all obstacles and all
hindrances to business prosperity. Let
us look away a bit from the ticker tape
and the pessimism of the financial cen
ters. The broad viewpoint gets Its
horizon back in the Western wheat
fields where nature is happily promising
to pour out another wonderful harvest
In tho Fall.
All this is good reading for Ameri
cans, and they will bo glad to sido with
President Vail on this most important
question. Tt sounds a good deal like
Morgan. The hope of the country is
all tho time for prosperity, advance
ment, and activity in business. Every
one will be glad to believe with Presi
dent Vail that these desirable things
are not only in sight, but are practi
cal' certain of continuous achievement.
Eastern newspapers spitefully sug
gest that. San Francisco will have to
"pull- off'' her canal exposition without
tho help of Japan. But Japan gives no
such sign, and will doubt-loss mako a
big showing at tho canal exposition.
Still, if it came to that, no cit' is bet-
MATS
Often heard people say, kJ
"I know of something ra
good I could get into ir IHj
I only had some mon- Ql
ey." You'vo said it UH
yourself, haven't you? Hj
Course you have. Op- H
portunitics have been H
coming tip for good in- E5I
vestments sinco the Wm
. . world began. They'll Kn
koep on coming up. The W
way to be ready for N3
them is to have money. gj
Tho way to HAVE moil- H
cy is to SAVE it in a H
savings account in a HI
savings bank. Com- HT
mencQ this day! Com- KM
mence hero! IH
Utah Savings & Trust
Company
25 years old.
235 Main Street.
Tho Center of the Oity,
A feature ' of our bank CHECKING
ACCOUNTS.
SMm Powder
Absolutely JPurv
ter ablo lo "go it alone" than is tho
big city on tho Bay. '
NEXT CONGRESSIONAL ISSUE.
Tho Congressional campaign of next
3'oar will unquestionably turn upon tho
question of protection or low tariff,
which means in many instances free
trade. A Democratic Senator is quoted
by the Washington Star as stating this
in the most tin phntic form. Uo is rep
resontod as saying with -respect to tho
teat voto in- the Senate by which, with
tho aid of a Progressive Republican, tho
Democrats defeated the effort for open
committeo hearings on the tariff bill.
"That moans goodbye to the Bull Moose
party." In explanation ho said: "Tho
next campaigns, Congressional and Na
tional, will bo fought out-on tho tariff.
If our tariff legislation works out iu its
practical business effect as wo bcliovo it
will, wo will win and remain in power,
aud the Democratic party will be the
exponent of a low revenue tariff. The
old-line Republicans will stand for a
protective tariff, if business goes wrong
under our new law, the old-lino Repub
licans will benefit. Therefore, it. looks
to mo as if tho fight must of nocessity
be betweon tho high andlH
And ho concluded: " miMmUt
the issue, 'the Bull JTooH
case lo offer. On tho IqV
lion they aro neither flbskB
good red herring. Thev WrfB
fng at the sky, filing AtkW
of progressive principles iW
already stand, and fo wK
I long before tho Progreseivifc
while the oounlrj g
u?eMte'o,(ii,artica4m
This is precisely the viftfl
Tribune has horotoforo oxnSM
question, and from tho pr2
thero can bo nn rcasonablo
torccast as made. . ?Mr
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