Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-07
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.

Governor Hoadly has opened the ONO
campaign in a speech at Hamilton on
Saturday. The tone of moderation which
marks it throughout is in pleasant con-
trast with John Sherman's Mt. Gilead
speech. That speech was bid for pop
ularity through passion, but the popular
ity will not come and the passion is
almost dead. John Sherman and his
speech belong to a time that is past, a time
when demagogues traded in sorrow and
the love for the departed to advance their
own selfish ends. Yes, there is sorrow
at the North for loved ones who died in
the South that their country might live,
but the North recognizes that the South
also has its sorrow, and that while they
deem the Southern cause wrong they re-
spect the Southern man and do not wish
to probe his wounds; and it was owing to
this feeling that the speech of John Sher-
man fell upon the ears of the nation with
harsh and grating sound. In late ante
bellum days it was declared on the stump
that no man who wrote the word negro
with two g's would ever be President of
| the United States, and so it proved; but
now it may be said that no man who in
there days faunts the bloody shirt Or says
that the rebel soldier has two votes while
the Union soldier has but one, will ever be
President of the United States.
Governor Hoadly asked the voters to
endorse the Administration and it is to
be hoped that they will. Governor
Hoadly's administration as Governor of
Ohio has been commendable on the
whole, and he is worthy of the endorse
ment of the voters of Ohio. But we are
unable to quite agree with Governor
Hoadly when he attributes the slow re-
vival of business to the advent to power
| of the Democratic party, believing that
such things are dependent on laws over
which governments have no control
! The Democratic party will have it in its
power to aid business very much if it will
but pursue an enlightened policy as to trade
and commerce, and reduce the tariff to
something less than absolute prohibition.
The Democratic party can likewise do
much to aid American commerce upon
the high seas if it will but repeal the abb
surd legislation which forbids foreign
bottoms to fly the American flag. The
carrying trade is the important thing,
while the building of the ships with
which to carry it on is but matter of
secondary importance. 1t is the freight
that vessel or a railway car carries that
is the thing of first Importance, and not
where or by whom such vessel or car
shall be built If protection is a good
thing for the nation it should also be a
good thing for the States individually,
but still the trainers of the Constitution
introduced clause into that instrument
giving to Congress the power to regulate
interstate commerce, realizing, no doubt,
that each State would protect itself
against the competition of all the other
States, thus practically closing the aven-
ues of trade and commerce, the same as
Congress has closed the avenues Of for
eign trade and commerce. Seclusion in
trade is as unwise as seclusion in every
day life, for that which keeps the world
alive and advances civilization is COM
merce and commingling among men.