The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-24

surface even during the present canvass.
The republicans in Ohio latterly dropped
their InfsnmatorY and foolish appeals
against the south, and took up the tariff;
the democrats might do wisely even now
igthey would get boldly upon their plat
form Of revenue reform, free ships and
So tariff for revenue only" 1t is per-
hsps the only chance left them to save
themselves from overwhelming disaster
in November.
Both these paragraphs sre replete
with more than ordinary common
sense-The FIRST shows clearly the
causeof democratic defeat in Indi-
ane. and the last points at the only
p0asible way in which the dis
aster may be redeemed. Mo:e-
over. it will be a happy day
for the country when the
bloody shirt is forever taken
down from the line, and in its place
are hung up two pesceaols flags, one
bearing the motto Of Free Trsde"
and the other that CT Protection to
Home Industry" Farmers and me-
chsnics live eide by side all over the
land, northern farmers and southern
farmers, northern mechanics and
southern mechanics, black and white
farmers, black and white mechanics
too, and although come states may
have greater majority occupied 10
either Of these industries than others
they are 10 generally decided that
neither free trade nor protection can
be considered 'locsl." as General
Hancock Absurdly assumed that one
OF them might be. These vast inter
ests are scattered everywhere from
north to south, and from east to
west. and they ara every day coming
In closer contact, each croWding upon
the other and seeking for the mastery.
1t is not to be supposed that the men
who framed the democratic platform
did not rsalizs this condition OF things,
and that theysdid not mean what
they said when they clearly enunci-
ated their declarations in favor OF .
itarifi for revenue only-free ships
no subsidies and public money for
public purposes Alone" This plat
form, a, the Herald justly observes.
was Sc good one 10 stand on-far too
good q one to spit upon" Instead of
standing upon it the party has been
ashamed of it from the beginning and
at last has fatty repudiaied it. At
the outset it should have scattered
documents broadcast TO prove that
the farmers, the. great producers OF
the land; were made to pay for the
manufacturing monopolists;
that owing to cur absurd navigation
laws which were made to protect
those dogs in the msnger, the Amer
lean shipbuilders, but in effect give
the most slalFart protection to for
eigu ship owners; that our farmers are
made to pay exorbi!snt freight in
which their own countrymen are not
allowed to participate. on their pro-
luce, and that subsidies, whether on
yea or land, were for the benef! of in
at the cost of the nation.
The democratic party is fond OF talk
ng of "deAd issues being ruled out of
he Canvass" and rightly 50. and yet
While it escheWs dead issues it refuses
o adopt the live Issues called into |
being by itself. We have before US
NO pamphlets, one By Mr.. Loring,
stely representative from Massa-
ihusetts, in which he endeGTors to
the American farmer that
is q beuefi! TO him, that
he more taxes he pays to the manu-
acturers the richer he becomes, and
hat if his hand is upon the Oar st all
must be pleasure for him to pull
t. The other is by Mr.. Graham
the secretary OF the New
York free trade club, in which if
words, figures and facts can prove
at all, they all go to show
hat the farmer is the galley slave
Fho has rot only to pull himself
long, but to pull everybody else who
ire carried at his expense. We have
10 space to-day to make exit acts from
mis- admirable work, but shall take
n early opportunity to recur to 1t,
md to commend ils genuine,
i've, startling issues to our
population. We have no
rotes now, but We shall have them
ON, and when We do have them We
ughi to vote intelligently, looking at
be great interests Of majority Of the
eople. In the meantime We venture
} affirm that if The democratic party
ad stood squarely on the platform it
sd built, and had circulated this
act of Mr. McAdams and others Of
ike character over the grain-pro.
ucing states of the west, following
p this practice by crying aloud the
Octrine of revenue reform from the
imp, and manfullY advocating itin
ie newspapers, it would not to day
ave bad occasion to sit in sackcloth
I'd ashes mourning over its deieA! in
bio and Indiana.
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