Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-01

war, and makes great big demand that
Justice shall be done to them and theirs.
II is pity that the platform neglected to
point out the injustice which had been
done the soldiers and sailors of the war,
for then the country would know to what
they are entitled. This cry about justice
being done to the soldiers and sailors OF
the war is the cryof the demagogue. JUS
tice has been done them, and honor and
gratitude are give them by all. The
families OF those soldiers and sailors who
died on the field or upon the water have
been provided for by grateful people;
while those soldiers and sailors who were
MANNED in battle are likewise provided
for SO are those who are debilitated from
exposure and hardships suffered during
the war. They did their duty in
the hour OF peril, and the country
has done its duty towards them in the
hour of peace. What do the Mas
sachusetts Republicans desire further?
They desire to catch their vote with
false and Turing cry about justice to
the soldiers and sailors; that is all. The
demand which they make for national
bankrupt law is a good one, and one that
we trust will meet with the appreciation
OF Congress. SO also is the demand for
the extension OF the principles of the
Civil Service Act, and one to be approved
by all parties. These are things
which the majority OF the people, no
matter of what political creed, desire to
see accomplished, for they are things
which, when accomplished, will be boon
TO the whole country. The platform goes
in heavy for the protection OF the Ameri-
can workingman, that subject of such
constant solcitude on the part of the
Republicans, and incidentally for the
poor manufacturers and the needy
monoplists. This is right, for protection
has always meant higher wages for the
workingman and diminished profits for
the wealthy employer and the soulless
corporation. The platform urges vigor-
our enforcement OF the Edmunds law
and the passage of such amendments as
will give it incfeased efficacy. 1t also
encourages the "Kansas plan" for settling
Utah with law-abiding people. This is a
good plan, but absolutely impracticable.
How are the new colonists to obtain
farms, when most OF the farming land is
already in the hands of the Mormons,
and theirs because they have Govern
ment titles thereto? OF course the Gov
ernment might reserve all unsold lands
for the sole use and benefit of the colo
nists, but hardly will. If the Kansas
plan is tried by Congress, we do hope
and pray that the colonists won't be
those who have been "deprivcd Of their
means by the ravages OF the grasshop-
pers." The Kansas grasshopper sufferer
is the most insufferable bore on earth.
Senator Hoar was president OF the con-
vention, and in the speech which he de-
livered he ridiculed those who charged
the Republican party with waving the
"bloody shirt" He defended John Sher-
man against such charges, notwithstand-
ing Sherman's Mt. Gilead speech. 1t was
right and proper for him to do so, for had
he done otherwise, it would have been
the calling OF the pot black by the kettle.
From the meagre report of his speech,
we should say that it was an apprehen-
sion of everything and comprehension
OF nothing. The country will live if the
Republicans do not live, even in Demo
cratic hands.