The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-25

out pilot. Its great mission" has de-
| generated into
STRUGGLE TO RETAIN POLITICAL POWER.
10 accomplish this purpose it is willing to
sell itself to the enrichment of a compare
lively small band of eastern manufacturers
who blindly think that their interests lie
In the maintenance of war tariffs. Ii stands
ready to pervert the character of our gov
eminent in its relation to the sovereign
states by the enactment of force bill
which would enable the party in power TO
Ignore and set aside the expressed will of
the majority of the people IL lends its aid
to the imposition of exorbitant taxes in
order that the prodigal expenditures of its
own Billion Congress may be concealed,
IT 1t Is to-, toe hardened in political iniquity
10 blush at the scandals which
have tainted the atmosphere of
It's federal administration, or to
rebuke the participators by RELOCATING
them to private life. 1t tightens it's hands
upon the government sand restricts the
rights OF the states and the liberties of the
citizens by its movement towards central
lzatlon. And frightened by the protests of
the people last November against high tar
III and subsidies and force bills and extrav-
agant appropriations, and desiring new
Issue IL 1892, it is vainly seeking to divide
the eastern Democracy from the western
by
FALSE AND HYPoCRITICAL PROFESSIONS
in behalf of an "honest" currency, blindly
trusting that it can deceive by its profess
sions while by its acts it continues to per-
NIT the debasement of large part of our
currency and refuses to take the manly
stand in favor of the only honest currency
the currency of our fathers and of the
constitution.
The rule OF such party is not of the
kind which offers the best opportunities
and lnsures the greatest prosperity and
fullest liberty to the masses of the people
particularly to the people whose energies
are so wakeful and whose ambitions are
80 high as are those of the citizens of the
northwest For such people. and for the
great majority of people in every section of
our land the principles of Jefferson and
Iilden are best. The establishment of
those principles in the federal government
aud in our state governments means
no taxation except for public
purposes, no legislative benefac-
tons to individuals or class interests,
no de5asement or contraction of our money,
no unreasonable sumptuary laws but an
honest, pure, simple and economical fad
ministration, jealous regard for the welfare
OF the whole people, and strictest obsery-
auce of the liberties of the individual citi-
zen Such conditions are conditions of
freedom in its broadcast senses, and those
general prosperity and happiness. To
realize them is the hope and purpose of the
Democr attic party.
ISAAC P. eRAY.
In his letter of regret to the governor of
| Indiana saws:
| Surely the people of Washin gton do not
desire to endorse BY their ballots party
that has within the short space of two and
one-half years so reckiessly managed the
administration of national affairs that it
has not only squandered the great surplus
which was on hand when it came into
| power, but also presents TO the country the
| humiliating spectacle of a coming deficit in
the face of annual receipts amounting to
nearly S500,000.000 and a prospective
expenditure during the coming fiscal
iyear of more than 100000 000-a
l party that for partisan purposes
adopted rules in the popular branch
of congress which clothed the speaker with
an arbitrary power which was used to pre-
vent fair and proper consideration of
measures OF great i'm 1ortance to the peo-
pie and in the exercise of which to obtain
party advantage every rule of right and
justice was overridden. This same arbi-
trary power was used to pass the Mckin-
ley bill to increase the cruel burdens of the
war tariff-a system of taxation enacted
and maintained solely for the benefit of a
ment for the special privileges thereby
granted, and expected to furnish the Re
lpuOlica1 campaign managers with money
to defray election expenses, system Of
TAXATION THAT HAS DESTROYED OUR COM
MERGE,
Expresses the laboring classes by increas-
ng the cost of living and is impoverishiug
our farmers by forcing the great com
mercial nations of the world TO discrimi-
nate against US in the purchase of farm
products.
Well may Mr.. Blaine say that the Nc
Kinley bill does not contain section or a
line that will open a market for another
bushel of wheat or barrel of pork" and
MIR. Blaine could as truly have said and
with equal force that the tariff as it now
stands and as it has stood since the war a
tariff which Mr.. Blaine supported during
the whole time that he was in Congress-
and which he so eloqueutly champoned
during many presidential campaigns, in
Guiding the last one, never did, and does
not now, contain section or lire that
secures or facilitates the sale of single
barrel OF American pork OF bushel of
wheat
Mr.. Blaine in talking thus, is simply
running to cover for protection from the
coming storm. The Republican party, as q
party, cannot adpot that mode of escape.
and rapidly growing sentiment among
the farmers and laboring classes that they
have been the victims of q system of taxa.
tion that has robbed them for the bene of
trusts on the other side, leaves the Rel Lb-
lican party without hope of being continued
in control of the government unless it can
throttle the ballot box. To accomplish that
end the party fruitlessly endeavored to
enact law establishing federal super
vision and bayonet rule at Congressional
: elections, hoping to be able to stamp out
the right of local self-g Jvernment which
the people have exercised in electing their
Representatives in Congress since the
J formation Of the government.
SENATOR WILLIAM F. Villas,
of Wisconsin, writes: "In the Democratic
party of to-day those who understand orr
system of liberty and believe in the doc
trine of equal rights for al men, find the
true political confederation for the promo
, ton of the high offsets of our government,
the independence and happiness of its citi
zens; and especially they rejoice In its pres
emit concentration of effort to deliver the
people from the wrongs of class legislation
and reckless extravaganza. 1t will be
strange indeed if the state of Washington
shall long continue bound by these bonds
of party association which are everywhere
J falling off in the stirring Northwest
GoGERNoR TooLE, OF MONTANA
Livery day added to the test of time
every proposition submitted to the force OF
facts, and every result determined by logic
of events, demonstrates that the interests
of the whole people are best conserved by
Democratic supremacy. The reckless ex-
travagance of the "Billion Dollar Con
gress," it's utter disregard of the rights OF
the minority, its determined effort to foster
fraud, force and absoluteism in politics