The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-14

mine and correctly decide political ques-
ions concerning their rights and their well
1are. They have numerically resented
every attack upon true American
manhood and have taught party
leaders that though slow to anger.
Iney take terrible revenge when
betrayed. They permit us to forgive our
IGNORED guest for all the cheap coats he
mas ever worn for they have declared them
10 be in fashion. They have also decreed
tnat the Decologue.has place in our poll
t tl: Tor they have enforced command
Ihou shalt not steal and have rendered
an emphatic verdict against those who
nave borne faithiessness. Who can now
uouot our countrymenis appreciation of
Ihat trust so well illustrated in the char
acter OF Allen G.. Thurman. which
prompted him throughout his long
career, at all times, in all circum-
stances and without regard to partisan
consequences to do the things which his
conscience and Judgment approved and
Wnlch seemed to him to be to the interests
OF MS country and in accordance with his
democratic faith Our rejoicing and his
are increased as we also celebrate tonight
Inc triumph OF those Democratic princi-
pies for which he fought and fell but two
snort years ago, and TO complete our Joy
ana ms, we are permitted to indulge in
True Democratic enthusiasm over the
stead1astness and devotion to its creed ex-
niDlted by our party, which, knowing no
encouragement, has foughtgto victory the
peoples cause.
we shall fail in our obligation to our
1elloW countrymen if we sUifle conscience
and duty by ignoble partisanship, but
snail meet every patriotic expectation if
we follow the guidance of true and honest
democracy illumined by the light of genu-
Inc American citizenship"
General Thomas Ewing responded to
line Democratic Party in Relation TO
Future Public Economy"
In the course of his speech he said
since the war the great industries of the
country have been becoming concentrated
IN the hands OF few great corporations
created by the people, and subject to their
conLrol. These vast powers are rapidly
multiplying millionaires and DESTROYING
the industrial independence of the masses |
AS Democrats in the broadcast sense we
must check this growing evil, so far as the |
means lie within the legitimate power of |
the government. Taxation, local and |
national, aggregates over eight hundred per |
year. 10 put an enormous tax burden |
on the wealth, instead of on the labor of |
tne country, will tend strongly to whole
some and just distribution of the animal |
net increase which labor and capital pro
duce. We must go back to a rational tariff |
policy. Inc 6epuDEcan party has enacted
a tariff for protection only, leaving scarcely
three millions of consumers to be plum
oered by protected manufacturers
General Ewing further said federal in
come and inheritance taxes should be, and
ne believes will be, restored by the democ-
racy. They should be imposed by both
state and federal governments in raising
revenues. Small incomes and inheritances
should be wholly exempt, and the tax
should be graduated so as to increase with
me amount of the inheritance or income
Religious and municipal corporations. he
SAID, should be regulated by the states so
IS TO rescue the masses from undue ex-
action.
Tx Senator Mcdonald responded to "The
Senate; Congressman Breckenridge, of
kentucky. to Democracy in America;
hon. w. X. Wilson to 1.-THE House of Rep
'esentatives" Hon. Don M. Dickinfon, of l.
Michigan, 1.-The Democracy of the Future.
md Governor Campbell to 'sThe State of
ohlo." Several other addresses were
made The messages and letters of con-
graduation received by Judge Thurman
IRE almost innumerable; many of them are
rom prominent Republicans. Among some
If the senders are ex-Presdent HAYES
Governor Hill, Senator Evarts, ex-Secre
AIRY Bayard, Chief Justice Fuller, Justices
Bradley and Brewer, Editor Childs, ex
Attorney General Garland, ex- Commander
Reagan, q. A. R., General Butler, Carl
'churz, t'itz-Hugh Lee, Governor elect
'attIson and Senator Carlisle