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I HON. i. 0. CAS 01
I THE REPUBLICAN PITY
M Illinois Statesman and Ex-Speaker
H Writes Interesting Article on
B The 0. O. P. A Masterly
B Review Which Every
B Citizen Should
B
H Hon. Joseph 0. Cannon of hi., Kx-
B Speaker or tlio Houso of ReiweBeHtu-
H ttvcej has contributed the following
B nrtlclo to the Saturday Evening l'ont.
H It Inter appeared in tho congressional
B record, from which wo herewith ft
H produco
B Followers After Strange Godi
H Crusades for political rcgcncratloi
M como periodically, like other eplclcm-
H ics. They nro na different as nra the
B raea&leB, tho whooping cough, nn U e
H chicken pox. Tho L'rusadcrs nro aeith-
H cr conBtnnt nor consistent. Knch ngi-
B thtlon Is for n new Idcn, with now dls
H coverles of shortcomings In the gov-
H eminent nnd new remedies.
B I speak of thoso things with tho lit-
H most respect because I huv been a
B victim; and In my youth I sometimes
H despaired of tlio Republic nnd imcs-
B tloncd tho wisdom of tho men who
M projected it. Wo had, back in tho
B enrly fifties, tho American or Know-
H Nothing party movement, so called
H becnuso nnno of those engaged in it
B professed to know nnythtng about it.
They were franker than most of their
H successors In tho reform movement
we have had since that time, for these
H gentlemen (u-ofess to know all about
H everything.
H Tho Civil War absorbed tho kt-
H tentlon of the citizenship; but even
H then wo had men and newspapers in
H tho North who thought thnt Lincoln
B was "To Slow nnd Unprogresfjlvo" or
H "To rash and Impulsive" nnd so much
H did they think nllko on tho central
B Idea of opposition to Lincoln that they
H chslly compromised their differences
H on principles to unlto in their Eman-
1 clpntcr before tho wnr tnlk ended.
H Then wo had the liberal movement
H In 1S72, with opponents of national-
H Ism nnd protection supporting Orccly,
B tho nrch-opponcnt of t(nto rights nnd
H free trnde, with tho assurance thnt
H they were the only men In this
H country governed by principle
B tnther than by prcjudico. Next enmo
Hl the areenbackers reenforced by tho
B flnt money ndvocntes, who liiBlsted
H that tho Federal Government could
B coin pnper money ns welt as gold and
H silver Mid crcnte wealth by tho flat
B law. With them camo tho prohibition-
H lsts, who believed that tltcy could re-
B gulato mnn's appetite by stntue, nnd
B tho Labor party which demanded bpo-
1 clal legislation for a class with tho
V wtitchword of no class legislation.
H The Jonahs Of Politics
A few years Inter wo had tho
H Grnngo nnd ttho Farmers' alliance
u htch went a step further than the
B Green bnckors and Insisted that gov-
H eminent deposits should bu guarttut-
H eed by nonperlshnble agricultural
H' products which must have meant fcrt-
B illzcr, ns thnt is tho only nonpcrlsh-
H able product of agricultural nn.l tho
B'; ' ono Into which all other agricultural
BVB products sooner or Inter rcsolvo thm
V Then enmo tho Populist Tnrty -I',
Hi reform everything; and a little later
j tho Kreo Silver l'any, vhlch wns to
1 tho Democratic Party n tho Whale
B) was to Jonah until the Lord released
B him. Now, wo have the Progressiva
B Party, which seems to have almost
BBB played whale to a Republican Jonah
B for tho tlmo being. These reform
B movements hnvo nil been earnest and
Bflfll perhaps honest though misguided in '
BH dcmundlng leglslntlvo reforms that '
BH , could not bo realized nnd after each
BB effort tho people behind them found '
BB a place In ono or tho other of tho old
BBB j
BB Tho Inst impulsive movement of .
BH this kind Is more ttmbltious nnd in '
B my Judgment is moro mislead than
B nil tho others becnuso it docs not stop
BB at legislative reform, but goes direct- j
B ly to fundamental principles and seek I
H S to rewrlto or destroy tho primary law
H of the country ns luld down in tho I
BBPJ Constitution. In all other efforts tho
BBB peoplo hnvo been handlrapped by Ira-
BB dltlon or sentiment or veneration mis
BBB' stayed tho hands of tho latest cru-
V saders of reform, for they would un-
BBB hesitatingly rowrlto tho constitution
BBB cr do nwny with It ontlrcly us tho
BB fundamental law nnd convert this
BB government Into a puro democracy, to
H, be swnyed liko an old timo camp
B. meeting by tho fervor of tho cxhortcr
B; rather than by the logic of the or-
BB; dalned minister.
Hi I have had patience with all former
BBB reform campaigns for in my youngor
Hl daVB I bad some of the samo impulses
Hl and moreover, had any ono of thttou
B ! campaigns succeeded tho experiment
BBB'.'I could have been undone ns quickly
Ha
Bk
'X'
and ns easily oB It whs done, when tho
experiment proved that It was not
tho panacea for nil our political Ills.
I have Httlo patience with these lat-
tcr-day reformers who would upset
all tho dovclopementft) of moro thin h
century of government by law and re
turn to the old rulo of tho mob, led by
men endowed with superior ability or
rather plaslbillty. Had the Progress
Ivo movement of last year succeeded
In carrying with it a majority of tho
pcoplo and had it been lasting enough
to have abrogated tho constitution
titly country would havo been com
mitted to revolution ns completely aa
was Franco to thnt which placed that
country under the rulo of nn unre
strained majority and a reign of terr
or. It would havo required years of
sanity to undo that worK oi wrec
er8 nnd patiently build up again a
foundation of fundamental law.
To a man who hns passed li century
In public llfo In thb most strenuous
nnd progressive period or clvlllzntlon
who has for forty years had a
part In the clash of opposing Ideas,
sentiment, and prcjudico in the houso
of lleprcsentatlves which Is tho clehr
Ing house of Amerlcnn policies, there
has nover been a moro dangerous)
movement in American politics or
on moro reactionary than this which
has caught tho eyo of many people
with tho alluring label of Progressive
Party.
The Changes of a Generation
I have, as a boy, watched tho old
weather vano on tho barn box tho
compass In nn hour on a gusty April
day, and wished I could bo ns free In
my movements nnd not controlled by
tho hand of necepplty in driving n
straight furrow to tho end of tho field.
Hut after some years of experience 1
havo no desire to see n government
of 91,000,000 pcoplo modeled after tho
weather vane, and swing to atl po'nts
of tho compass In responso to tno
zephyrs of Impulso and tho gusto "f
sentiment or whirlwind ot passion;
to lynch a man In an hour and bu M
a monument to him tho next hour of
n hero and !t mnrtyr to rumor aju
prejudice.
No; tho Constitution may linve been
the work of ordinary nnd oven mcli
ecru men, rattier than of the great
genius's they nro pictured by tradi
tion; but thht work is the foundation
upon which lias been built tho great
est superstructure of legislative en
actment, executive administration
and Judical decision that has .ever
been known In civilization. I am not
willing to seo without protest govern
ment by dynamite either by mistake
eu labor lenders or by other mistaken
enthusiasts, who would apply tho dyn
nmlto theory and blow up tho founda
tion of a government by tho people.
I object to such methods even though
th6 wreckers may bo ns wlso ns Solo
mon, ns dovoted to tho peoplo as Ilru
Urn professed to be or ns pltcurcd In
their own prospectuses.
I hnvo seen this country developo
under thnt constitution so lis to mako
th0 United Sates tho marvel of the
world and tho model of free govern
ment everywhere, oven In tho Orient.
I am old enough to havo seen the rail
roads cross, th0 Alleghany mountains
nnd spread llko a spider web over
tho wholo continent to carry the
products of the west to tho seaboard
moro economically for the people
than they could bo" exchanged In New
England before this aren of steam.
I havo seen the reaper nnd mower
tho gang plow, and tho whole revo
lution In agriculture by lhbor saving
machinery I have seen tho tele
graph and tho telephone wnen '.hey
woro looked upon ns experiments:
tho electric railroad and tho electric
power plant development; nnd I was
ridiculed as n reckless spendthrift
legislator when I helped make con
siderable appropriations to aid Prof.
Lnngley In his experiments: with th
Hying machine
I havo seen great discoveries In
science and mediclno thht benefited
tho wholo peoplo In the yehrs slnco
I loft North Carolina with my par
onta nnd heard my mother cry out,
"Goodby, civilization," becnuso wo
were emigrating to the West. And I
havo Been greater development, not
only of enterprise, but also of educa
tion, charity nnd benevolence, by tho
Peoplo as a whole, through tho agon
cy of the ato and also Uy tho of
forts of the Individual than had de
veloped before In hll the yenm from
MoBoa to tho time when I -was born.
I may be n Httlo old fashioned, n
llttlo wedded to tho past, but I like
to ride ln nn nutomobllo; nnd when
I engage a chauffeur I look to his
fimlllarlty with tho machine and ho
lt Is made, rather than to his ability
to toot n horn and turn on all the
THE LOGAN REPUBLICAN
power to surprise and scatter the
..oad with his nerve nnd speed. And
In government I prefer a. chniOur
who can turn n corner without skid
ding against tho curb and wrecking
the machine. The auto Is a progres
sive machine nnd a promoter of busi
ness or funerals It depends on the
chauffeur.
In n government of the peoplo and
uy the people there must of necessity
he political parties to express the
will of tho peoplo touching national
pollclfs. It has been bo from the
beginning nnd will bo so to tho end.
There have been two great parties,
under varying names, since the gov
ernment was founded, nnd for more
tlinn 60 years these parties havo been
under tho names Republican and
Democratic. The Democratic power
Is now In full power nnu uat juii i
sponslblllty for legislation. That
party represents the will of tho peo
ple by a constitutional majority, and
the change' hhs como without any
manifestation of passion or revolu
tionary protest. We nil accept Pres
ident Wilson at our President nnd
tho Democratic congress ns our con
gresB to make tho laws and adminis
ter them. No better evidence could
bo presented that tho American peo
plo hre capablo of self government.
No ono wishes tho present adminis
tration success more than I do, lor
tho success of tho government rep
resents tho success of tho people.
That Is what we are all striving for;
and we shall all wait with potlenco
to seo whether ttho Democratic party
In carrying out its policies, can give
greater prosperity more diversified
hmong tho people, greater peace and
happiness, than followed the enact
ment of Republican policies. If they
can succeed In doing this they- will
havo long life and deserve It. There
is, however, wise caution In King
Ahab's advice to the King of Syria:
"Let not him that gtodeth on his
harness boast himself as he that put
teth It off."
There havo been two great ques
tions on which tho American people
hnvo divided, and these two questions
naturally created two great political
parties. Theso questions were the
extension of qlavery Into tho national
territory and tho revenue policy
Both were fundamental. Other ques
tions were secondary.
Ono of these questions nhs been
settled at great cost, It Is true, but
In a way that no one now would have
changed. The wholo country has
doveloped and prospered under the
now freedom of mon that could not
havo been under tho old system of
slavery. No ono has moro happily
expressed the advantages of this
chnngo than did president Harrison
In his Inaugural address, when ho
said: "Mill fires were lighted at the
funeral pllo of sjavery. Tho emanci
pation proclamation was heard In the
depths of tho earth ns well as in the
Bky; men were made free and ma
terial things became our better ser
vants." An Era of Swift Expansion
My honored friend, tho leader of
tho majority ln tho House, Mr. Un
derwood, can testify to tho force of
this expression. I underhand that
tho great Industrial city where he
has his home is the best Illustration
of mill fires lighted at tho funeral
pllo of slhvery that can bo found In
tho country; for the iron ore, coal,
and limestone which g'vo life to that
city had lain for a hundred years
under a cotton plantation, and that
wealth was not brought to the sur
face until tho emancipation proclam
ation was heard In the depths ot the
earth to make thesa factors better
servants than had been slavery.
While I rejoice in the new devel
opment and prosperity of the South
and also of the East, let mo briefly
cnll attention to tho development
which came, with a force never be
foro witnessed anywhere, by reason
of the abolition of sk-rvlle labor, by
the granting of homesteads for tho
pcoplo on tho national domain and
under tho Republican policy of pro
tection. We have some peoplo now
who fear tho government has been
too llboral hnd has wasted Its pub
lic land; but I can remember when
tho government practically could not
glvo away lands that nro now worth
$200 an acre. Wo havo given nway
millions of acres ot tho public lands;
hut wo hhve by so doing built up an
emplro in Httlo moro than half a
century that could not have been de
veloped in a thousand years under
tho old regln)0, and wo havo made
men a better asset than were land.
The map of tho United States todhy
as compared with tho map In tho
geographies when I was a ooy tolls
tho story moro graphically, and so
do the reports of the census office .
When I left North Carolina to find
a home In tho West my map of the
United States had llttlo but Ohio,
Indiana, nnd Illinois as the West,
and beyond the Mississippi River wsb
marked as tho "Oreat Amerlcnn Dos
ert," the "Staked Plains," and the
"Rocky Mountains" a country of
which few men know nnythlng. Tho
United States was then practically
eai of the Mississippi Rlvor. Thcro
were but two states west of tho Mis
sissippi River Missouri and Arkan
sas. Our total population was 17,
000,000, with loss than 4,000,000 west
of the Allegeheny mountains. Uut
today wo have 91,000,000 peoplo in
tho United States, and 45,000,000 of
them are ln thht territory which was
then called tho West and the unex
plored country beyond.
Why ln I860 we had but 31,000,000
people in this country, and only 11,
000,000 west of tho Allegchenles.
We encouraged nnd, protected manu
facture and agriculture; e passed
homestead laws; gave public lands
to tho people and to hid In the con
struction of the Faclflc railroads.
This legislation covered tho wholo
country nnd gave an Impetus to ev
ery kind of industrial development;
and with tho settlement of tho old
question of checking .tho extension
of slavery, It made tho East a center
of manufacture and the Great Ameri
can Desert and tho Staked Plains tho
granary of tho world. Even tho
mountain fastnesses havo been con
verted Into gardens, and millions of
enterprising peoplo thero are still
unable to estimate their wehlth nnd
npporturlty.
I have no regret for the liberality
of the government In giving away
public lands, for this liberality
brought such results as would not
have been recorded In many genera
tions) under the old policy of having
the government hoard Its public lands
and wait for purchasers. The loss
es to the government were relative.
Tho railroads and the homestsada
were tremendous factors) ln the build
ing of a nation; and todhy nearly one
half of our western people are there,
making two-thirds of all tho wealth
taken from the soll'nnd two-fifths of
all the manufactured products of this
country. Yes; tho government has
bein liberal nnd liberally has It been
rewarded.
We were liberal ln our Immigration
policy, and millions of men nnd wo
men from every civilized country un
der the sun took advantage of thht
liberal policy to come here and be
como Amorlcnn citizens. Who enn
look over this Amerlcnn common
wealth and tell from whence camo
the blood of the great body ot the
American citizenship? Wo nave de
veloped men from those who hero
first learned tho meaning ot tho word
manhood, and we havo developed In
dustry, skill, cnteprlso and Intelli
gence In keeping with American citi
zenship. It Is In this new West that
wo havo the lowest percentage of
illiteracy to bo found ln the United
States. When I am Inclined to grow
pessimistic nftcr reading somo of the
waitings nnd criticisms of latter-day
economists hnd reformers, I tako
down tho map ot tho United States
and a volume of tho census reports
and find there tho realization of tho
wildest dreams ot the greatest opti
mists who over lived; and I am sat
isfied that tho mistakes of tho past
were, after all, rnther fortunato mis
takes. This marvelous development of tho
West, however, demoralized agricul
tural conditions in tho East and in
tho older countries across the sen.
It demoralized tho 'western people,
too, tor a tlmo, because they could
not mensuro their own opportunities
with older conditions that provallcd
elsewhere. The opening ot the new
prhlrI6 lands ot the West made com
petition ln the East embarrassing and
sent millions ot acres ln Now Eng
land, the North Atlantic, the South
Atlantic States back to the wild
lands and abandoned farms.
Tho Houso of Representatives,
where the membership Is bhsed on
population, tells tho story of our de
velopment as a nation. In 1840, when
I went to the West, the old South
had 98 representatives; Now England
New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania had 112 and all tho country
west ot the Allegheny mountains hnd
only 32. Today, In tho same grouping
tho old South hns; 109 representatives
tho East 124, and tho West 202; nnd
nnd thoro nr6 115 members now In
the Houso who como from statos
that were unknown in 1840.
Tho statesmen In the Washington
of that day whtl0 talking about "fifty-four-forty
or fight," hnd not yet deter
mined that tho Oregon country was
worth keeping. Notwithstanding tho
explorations of Lewie and Clark, In
the early part of tho nineteenth cen
tury thero were men In Congress In
1840 who insisted that tho Ilccky
Mountains marked our western boun
dary and that a statuo of mo fabled
god Terminus should be planted there
to warn our people ngalnst tempting
fato by trying to go farther.
Oen. Fremont hhd not then sot out
on his exploration of the West nnd
tho old mlsqlonary, Marcus Whitman
had not made that memorable rldo
from Walla Walla down across Utah
and Colorado through-Missourl In the
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j ARRIVAL AnIIePAW
I Following is the New Mail Schedule at Logan, Utah, !
I Post Office on account of new time card of the Oregon !
j Short Line, effective Sunday, December 22, 1912 ! I
J , CL08INQ OF MAILS " 1
f-.ast, West, North and South, 7.30 m ,. ! i
;res,o Branch, north .' ao7 J J 8
I Irauch Loop south. Hyrum, WellsvIIIe, etc 2-00 d m I i
k 1'rovitlonco and Mlllvlllo, via R. P. D. 1 9'.30 ' ' ! I
f Uenion and King, (eacopt Sunday) '.'.'." VoO p' m' f J
R. l D. l Collcgo Ward, (except Sunday) '.'.O'SO ami tl?
i R. !'. D. 2, North Logan (oxcept Sunday) g.'sn am!
J ARRIVAL OF MAILS I 1
I East, West North and South ....8:20 a. m. 11:30 a. m. 8:30 p. m. I 1
I reslon Branch 8.20 a m- , w J I I
I Uranch Loop. Wellsville, Hyrum, etc 11-80 a m I P
l-rovldcnco and Mlllvllle .'"" 4-30 p' m' I 1
I IJemon and King (except Sunday) '.'.'.'.' '. , .' I
I H. V. D. 1, Collego Ward JJ ' j I
n. P. D. 2 Qroenvllle, North Logan ...'.'." l'-OO p m . f
j All windows at post otnee are closed on Sundays the entlra day. ' I I
I Qoaoiul pelhrery, Stamp, and Carrier windows open on holidays from i f
9 to 10 o'clock a. m. If
J Only two dispatches aro made on Sundays: South, 7:80 a. m. and I I
North at 7:15 p -n. ' I
I Very Respectfully, I
J JOSEPH ODELL. Postmaster. I
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