The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-08
A CRY of Despair.

Scarcely anything could be more indica-
tive Of the despair of the National Republic
can committee than the character of their
address to the country, sent out yesterday
morning. Instead OF the boastful and brag-
CART bulletin of coming victory to which
the people have become accustomed from
such sources, we have pitiful and beg
ging appeal for votes. based on a most
shameful misrepresentation of the aims of
the Democracy. The victory is promised
only on the condition of every Republican
vote being cast in the presence and face OF
the greatest exodus from the Republican
party that has been known in the history
of American politics since the Democratic
emeute In DOUGLAS time.
The false and misleading address starts
out with the proposition that the voters
are TO say
Whether or not the tariff schedules are to be
so adjusted as to furnish protection to the labor
and production OF the country while raising
revenue TO sustain the Government or whether
such adjustment is jnadmissible because of its
unconstitutionality. Yon are to decide between
policy of protection and policy of free trade.
No Democrat claims that IL is unconsti-
tutional 20 adjust the tariff so as to protect
labor while raising revenue, and no Demo-
crat advocates a policy of absolute free
trade. Some Democrats say it is unconsti-
tutional to make tariff schedules to raise
revenue beyond the needs of the govern
ment economically administered, aud some
Republican iurists agree with them. Al
Democrats say that Whether such a system
be unconstitutional or not, it is unjust and
ruinous. But the Republican party has SO
adjusted the tariff as TO lose sight OF the
revenue feature entirely, and to maintain
only the protection feature, and it is this
which the Democratic party is fighting
the protection feature meaning monopoly,
in which labor does not share.
Again, says the address:
They would nave the country believe through
their candidate they can procure tariff reforms,
while the party in convention assembled de-
clared itself absolutely in favor Of free trade.
This covers conspicuous falsehood.
There is no such declaration in the Chicago
platform, nor anything like it. And the
furthest the Democracy have gone in the
direction OF free trade has been TO advocate
the extension of reciprocal trade, as prac-
ticed by the administration, to countries
where we could exchange our food surplus
for manufactured articles OF tie greotest
necessity to our people.
II, as may be assumed from this cleo
pioneering document, the Republican policy
does not call for friendliness with the great
commercial nations of the world, and in
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lean citizens in their business transactions
should not have as much regard for the
English, German and French as for the
Glf-civilized and turbulent natives OF Cen
tral and South America. The demagoguery
which would play upon an ancient war be-
tween Great Britain and the American col
onies TO win few sentimental votes, must
be in desperate strait. indeed.
Lastly, the address speaks of the inca
gre contributions given to it by the people
to fairly and honorably present the is
Sues" thus seeking to meet the charge of
open and notorious corruption that has
been more apparent than in any other of
the Republican party's shamelessly venal
With 81 advisory committee
numbering eleven of the richest men in the
United States. whose combined fortunes
are estimated at more than one hundred
millions of dollars, and backed by the great
monopolies of the country,
whose contributions have flowed in by the
tens and hundreds of thousands, to pirate
about meagreness of funds and honesty Of
expenditure. is the very apex of audacity.
But SO much the better for the people in
heir grand and magnificent victory which
hey will surely win today. 1t is certainly
/ most humiliating spectacle to see
rational political organization making an
auction Of the SURFACES Of the voters, ana /