The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-11

it is Indispensable for the
practical appl cStion and enforce
ment of these fundamental
principles, that the government
should not always be controlled Oy
one political party. Frequent change
of administration is as necessary
as constant recurrence to the popular
will, otherwise abuses grow and the
government fundamentally for
imposing heavy burdens on
the many who are governed
for the benefit OF the few
who govern; public servants thus
became arbitrary. rulers. This is
now the conditicn OF the country,
hence change is demanded. The
Republican party so far as principle
is concerned is a reminiscence, in
practice, it is an organization for
enriching those who con-
troll it's machinery; the frauds
and jobbery which have been
brought to light in every depart
ment of the government, are suffi-
cient to have called for reform
within the Republican party; yet
those in authority made reckless by
the long possession OF power, have
auccu % bed to the CORFU ting infu.
ence and have placed in nomination
ticket against which the indie
pendent portion Of the party are in
open revolt; therefore a change is
demanded; such a change was alike
neces airy in 1876, but the
viii of the people was then defeated
by q fraud which can never be for
gotten nor condoned. Again in 1880
the change demanded by the people
was defeated by the lavish use of
money contributed by uuscrupulOus
contractors and shameless j bbers
who had bargsined for unlawful
profits or for high Office; the Repub-
lican party during its illegal its sto-
len and IFS bought tenures of power.
has steadily decayed in moral char
acter and political capacity. Its
platform promises are now list OF
its past failures. 1t demands
the restoration of our navy;
it has squanderej hundreds
of millions to create a navy that
does not exist. 1t calls on Congress
to remove the burdens under which
American shipping has been de-
pressed; it imposed and has con-
tinued those burdens; 1t processes q
preference for free institutions; it
organized and tried to legaliZe a
control of state elections by federal
troops; it processes desire to elevate
labor; it has subjected American
workingmen to the competition of
convict and imported contract lobor.
1t processes gratitude to all who
were disabled or died in the war
leaving widows and orphans. 1t left
to a Democratic House OF Iepresen>
tstives the first effort to equalizs
both bountIes and pensions. 1t prof.
fered pledge to correct the irregu-
larities of our tariff, it created and
has continued them; its own tariff
commission confessed the need of
more than 20 per cent. reduction
Congress gave a reduction of less
than 4 per cent. It processes
the protection Of American manu-
facturers. 1t has subj gcted them to
an increasing Il )od OF manufactured
goods and hopeless competition
with manu- 'ac5uEirg nations, not
one of watch raises raw materials
1t processes to protect All indus
tries. Il has impoverished the
many to subsidies few.
1t processes the protection
of American labor: it hes depleted
the returns Of American agriculture
and industry followed 10y half our
people. 1t processes the equality o.
all cltjz rs bef1re the law, attemtt-
ing to fix the a.us of colored cit;.
zens, the &C s of is Congress were
oveTset by the decisions of Its courts.
1t accepts anew the 0niy of leading
in the work OF progress and reform.
Its caught criminals are permitted
to escape through contrived delays
or actual connivaRce in the prose
cution. Honey combed with cor
ruption, outbresking exposures no
longer shock it4 moral sense. Its
independent journals mainta n
a successful contest for au>
thority in its counsels, or
a veto on bad nominations.
That change ia nece sary is proved
BY an existing surplus of more than
500, 600, GOO. which has yearly been
collected from a suffering people
taxation is unjust Iax
alton. We denounce the Republi.
can party for having failed to relieve
The people from the crushing war |
taxes which have paralyzed brsi, |
ness, crippled industry, and deprived |
'abor Of employment, and of Just re-. |
ward. The Democracy pledges itself
to purify the administration from
corruption, TO restore economy,
% revive respect for law, and to
Reduce taxation to the lowest limit
consistent with regard to the cree
'ervation Of the faith Of the nation
10 the creditors and pensioners
moving full we'll, however, thai
egislation affecting the eruptions
# the people should be cautious
md conservative in method, not in
ADVANCE of public opinion, but re-
ponsible to it's demands. The De-
no-ratic party is pledged to revise
he tar # IN q sphiS of fairness to
IL interests, bit by making redu G,
ion in taxes it is not proposed 10
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