The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-21
THE PAST AND COMING MAN.

The echoes of Citizen GROVER CLEvE
LANDS Boston speech are still resounding
throughout the country, and unlike the or
binary echoes they gather volume instead
of decreasing as they go. He is credited,
and so far as the report of his remarks
may be taken as criterion, justly so, with
having risen to higher plane than is
usual. even with him. He is said to have
treated boldly and unequivocally those
vital questions Of reform now before the
country, and even at this distance, know
ing the man as we do, this may readily
be conceded.
He is credited with having only limited
at the question of taxation reform, but
then hint from him is much better than
broad suggestion from most of the alleged
statesmen of the day. He called the atten
ton ofathe merchants of Boston, before
whose club he was speaking, that their
predecessors in business sailed around the
world in quest of trade, and that it. was IN
necessary to remind his hearers that they
do not do so, and then he skillfully refrained
from informing them that vicious shipping
laws and unequal taxation were re spon
sible for the later condition-the listeners
could grasp this without further effort on
his part.
1t is claimed, however, that his most i'm
portant utterance was that on the issue of
ballot reform, which has so suddenly be-
come prominent. SIT was to be expected
says contemporary, ''that he would array
himself with the thoughtful and conscien-
tious men of the time in favor of this re-
form; but he has gone beyond them all in
picturing the evils to be remedied, and in
emphasizing the fact that there is no time
for delay in effecting a cure He has
raised the issue high above party clamor
or contention, or personal ambitions and
placed it upon the plane of the Hottest po-
ltical morality. 1t would not be sufficient
to say that his announced or emphatic ad-
hesiCn to the ranks of the friends of this
cause makes him recruit to be welcomed.
1t does more 1t makes him leader to be
followed. More than the holder of any
public office, Mr.. CLEVELAND is the recog-
nized head of the Democratic party in the
United States, and his utterance of that
night will not have less influence in solidi-
flying that organization in advocacy of this
reform than his message of 1887 had in ar
raging it in aggressive opposition to the
evils of the TARIFF
The issue which Mr.. CLEVELAND gave
to the country last year, and through an
education regarding which he
was defeated for the presidency, has not
in the smallest degree been departed from
by him. On the contrary he reasserts all
that he said before and adds to it all the in
formation Of practicable and substantial
character since acquired. He is not the
kind of man to forego deeply settled prin-
ciple, because if he were not convinced at
the beginning that it was correct, it would
not be permitted to become deeply settled |
The ex-President recognized the fact
that the country is afflicted with evils |
which will not cure themselves, but he be- |
lieves they can be cured. Relying as usual |
on the innate virtue of the people and the
ultimate good results of anything they may
do in public way, he is willing, like the !
great and good man that he is, to leave all |
things in their hands
And he will be the next President