The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-24
REPUBLICAN FATUITY.

If, as some of the more irreverent claim,
the devil is an admirer of cheek, gall and
Outright cussedness, he must be head over
ears in love with such papers as the st.
Louis Globe Democrat and the Omaha Re
publican For years those papers have out
Heroded HRRoD in their efforts to make
Republicanism the standard political Cos
pei of the country, and to effect their unholy
purpose have scrupled at nothing which
promised any kind of advantage, however
slight. In common with their brethren in
deception, they are loud in their clamors
for American markets for American pro-
ducts" and, of course, the converse.
There is an attractive and delightful sound
in the word home, and the party in power
and its swashbucklers hypocritically make
the most of it, while, as a matter of fact,
they not only care less for home and home
influences as a rule than any other kind of
people, but have in too many instances
notably at the sOuth-shown disposition
to make home intolerable and reduce those
who love it to the condition of aliens or
serfs
The states in which those papers are pub
lshed are both great grain producers. Par
ticularly in the matter of corn does their
showing amount to considerable. The
Republican puts the yield of Nebraska at
10000, 900 bushels, and sagely remarks
that the people of that state cannot feed it
all to cattle and hogs, that good deal of it
is consumed in the distillery at Omaha,
and that the price of it is about twenty
: I, 80, ~ Il IL
show that in other parts of the country
where they have no distilleries but work
up the corn in othe- ways, the price
does not go much above that
quoted, and in some cases it
must of necessity be much less. 1t will
hardly be contended that the surplus in
corn is an evil to the country or that there
is sufficient legitimate demand for it at
home; hardly, when one state like
Nebraska produces at the rate of about two
hundred bushels per capita without greatly
taxing its resources. Where is the home
market, then, to come from And when we
consider that every state produces
all the corn it requires for local
purposes, the question achieves some
additional emphasis. The Republican,
foundering around for a reason for its
extraordinary doctrine of home markets
for home products, learns that corn can be
made into starch and herein thinks it has
struck oil. Eureka! The surplus maize of
Nebraska can be utilized in that way. Can
it: To Republican paper all things that
have tendency toward an excuse seem
possible, and this brilliant thought seems
to be somewhat in the nature of such a
tendency.
What deceiver the average Republican,
either as relates to the individual or the
press, is inclined to be! They all know
that the people are not fools in the puddle
but hope to befog them so much that they. |
or enough of them for present purposes.
will approximate near enough to that con- |
dition to believe in the figures and compu- |
tations offered and then make it unneces- |
sary to engage in any figuring otherwise |
Why can it not be properly put at once, |
and the result shown to be 10000. 900 |
bushels of corn in Nebraska more then |
the people of that state require |
10 eat, and that deducting even