The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-22
Relates the History of the Repub-
lican Party
DURING THE PRESENT CONGRESS
Its Attempt to Reyolutionize the Government
The Manipulation Of the Census
The Mckinley Bill.


ant political campaign is that upon which
the country has entered. The question
presented to our voters is not whether the
next House of Representatives shall be he
publican or Democratic, but whether the
nature of our federal government is to be
radically modified, and the integrity of our
institutions successfully threatened. The
great issue is the record of the Republican
party in its brief control of Congress. n
party has more recklessly defied prece
dents; more fiagrantly disregarded pr1nc1-
pies; more boastfully overturned trad1-
tionS; more seriously invaded private
rights; more arbitrarily encroached upon
prerogatives of the states, or more tyran-
nically used the power of a partisan ma
iority. The animating motive OF
its acts seems to have been only
The party has increased its majority
in the House of Representatives by arbit-
rarily ejecting Democrats from their seats;
it has stolen the representation OF one state
in the Senate admitted to the union states
whose only claim to admission is that they
will swell the Republican maiorities denied
representation to Democratic territories
much better qualified for statehood in point
of population and resources; ignored the
rights of the majority by the tyrannical
methods and rulings OF the speaker of the
House; squandered the treasury surplus
by extravagant appropriations to conciliate
particular interests; enacted a tariff
bill which will supply corruption
funds for elections; conducted the
census, denounced everywhere as
utterly worthless, and manipulated for
counting Republican populations up and
Democratic populations down, and has
threatened the enactment of force bill
which will put an end to state authority in
the certifcation of federal elections and
make Congress not the representative OF
the people but the creature of whatever
men the federal officials may choose to
count1n.
| ''This is the record that confronts the peo-
| pie. Long practice in hypocrisy has en-
abled the Republican leaders to diguise
partisanship under patriotic language, but
their appeal after all is one to cupid
| ity and selfishness. Frightened by
| the disapproval which their headstrong
and revolutionary course has aroused
in their own party, they are endeavoring to
bolster up their shaky position by appeals
| to sectionalism and party pride. If our
institutions are to be preserved pure and
intact every patriotic citizen must do his
duty in rebuling this grasping and tyran-
| nical political oligarchy.n
After discussing the tariff so far as it
relates to the interest of the farmers the
governor continued:
"But not only has the Republican
| Congress stopped to sharper tricks to hood
wink the American farmer IN the matter of
tariffs on his products but it has made his
living even more expensive than it hitherto
has been. His woolenS pay 80 per cent.
more duty, while the rich mans broadcloth
pays a duty of % per cent. more. The
duty on sealskin sacques is reduced 10 per
cent, while that on silk plush sacques,
which the poor woman wears, is increased
,1af ont % d11tu on nd @ n lie
which the farmers wife wears, is raised
from 62 to so per cent, and on wooden
shawls the increase varies from IL per
cent. to 30. On women's and children 6
cheap dress goods the increase is much
less. For his hannels the consumer must
pay an increase of at least 80 per cent. In
the duty on ready made clothing the in
crease of taxation is from "a per cent. tC
ST." The governor mentioned severa
other articles and added: ION milk pans
tin pals, tin cans, coffee pots, kettles
cups and other articles of tinware, the
people are to be taxed $50, 100000 for three
years in order that few manufacturer!
may experiment with the tin plate indus
try.
eff you think this is partisan state
ment, read what member of Harrison
= cabinet says about it in a recent adver
tiseflent: .Tinware is advancing in cos
and very soon the manufacturers will have
their way and you and | will have to pa,
: uery much more. In view of this state o
things we made some time since larg
purchase of kitchen tinware at what was
low price then, and would be far lowe
now, in the face of two advances in tn
: makers price lists.
, (Signed) JOHN WANAMAKER.
: Cali over the country the effect of sue
legislation has been to increase the price
. of dry goods and other household necessi
ties. Not all of this increase is perhap
g iustifiable, but sharp merchants hav
been quick to take advantage of th
= opportunity which Mckinley offered then
n and the poor consumer is the victim wbethe
lust or not. The Mckinley bill has define
t sharply the issue upon which the two par
K ties divided. In its enactment the Republ
S can party has demonstrated more clearl
Q than ever that the sympathies of its leader
r are not with the great mass OF the people
v but with certain favored classes. Th
: Roman doctrine which the party now SUI
b ports is one it would have repudiated tie
: years ago and which some of its great me
v like Blaine are evidently desiring TO repr
s date now. AT time wnen our industrie
n are languishing and our agricultural pr,
# ducts are finding competition in foreig
g markets, we shrink within ourselves an
" declare policy of non-intercours
l. with other nations. The time has com
If when the demands of manufacturers an
\ producers are for wider markets, market
10 not limited to the borders of our ow
# country or our own continent, but wide 6
the world. Our foreign trade last yes
was valued at 81, $780, o 900. Can we atfol
to ieopardze that immense source of n
tional wealth by erecting legislative ba
ai riers to commerce.! | want to see tx
s. American people busy supplying I'll
Y. markets of the world with food an
,s clothing; l want to see Anne
10 lean ships carrying our product ov,
~ every sea; l want to see the wealth of E
10 rope and Asia and Canada and Sou
ne America come into this country to increa
to the wages of every laborer and enrit
De every citizen. But l do not expect to
o. hold such results with the poesent r.
b. mantle system. We have commando
tn position in the contest for information
D. trade. Shall we take advantage of it
of with other nations or shall we discourse
of it! Shall we strive for an unhealthy al
I'd improbable expansion of home markets
ST seek an outlet for our surplus produc
IS in foreign markets! One paray, al
II. unfortunately that party is in powe
ne saws the home market is good enough. Il
r. other party holds that the home market
he already over supplied, that high protect
90 duties have produced unhealthy competic
in resulting in over reproduction, closing
A. mills and reduction IN wages. 1t fin
o. great industries languishing because
be highly taxed raw materials and limit
is markets. 1t perceives an organization
rd great trusts and combines to reduce conn
en- petition and extort higher prices; it fin
agriculture depressed by reason