Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-10-19

several departments bearing upon the
Aufcct All these reports tend 10
chow an increase during the year 1891
In wages, In the value OF products, In
depoeits In savings banks or building or
loan associations, and In the value Of
real anu personal property. These
official Democratic relulations OF Dem.
ocfatic denial that the couatry IL not
prosperous are confirmed by personal
experience anu observation Of the poo
pie nj large.
At the close OF the fiscal year Jane
last tho reciprocity policy had been In
operation but a few months aud under
oil the Disadvantages attending the
opening Of new lines OF trades In
foreign counttic~. IL increased IN
foreign countries 90 which n has been
applied 28.iS per cent. Since then
there has been still greater increase
amounting on September Let, 10 .7.US
per cent. The net value of sham reel.
pr0city, therefore, % the United states
Ia the brief period mi during iis In.
fancy was So, b60,2Si. 10 abandon
this syaiem which IA equitable on both
sides, which costs ua nothing and
which 5tings such results would br
madness while 10 denounoe 1t q sham
IL untrue.
on TIE suBIEcr OF THE CURRENCY
the issue between the Republican rarly
aud the opposition ~ almost no hhatply
defined az on the tariff. We demand
that every dollar, either paper, silver
or gold, shall be made anu keptns good
as any other dollar. Our opponente,
while protesting tho same desire, do.
mand tnat the national bank currency
shall be broken down by repeal Of
the 10 per cent tax ON the iseucs OF
state banks. No human being ever
lost u dollar by the note OF national
bank, solvent or otherwise. The
losses by state bnnks can be-
counted by tens Of millions. It
10 true that the gradual pay.
quire some change IN the sVourilius
uemanuod asa guarantee for national
bank notes, but the party which de-
vlsed the system and made 1t amag.
niiicent success may be relied upon
TO meet the emergency when II arises.
There IA good reason 20 hope for
come practical union or the effort for
common solution OF tho silver problem
" Alu Ah luNAtisttA hNt VI hllNNI AlIOukn
the international silver conference, but
In any event the country has learned
TO trust tho financial status and integri-
" OF the Republican party aud dis
trust Ia opponents.
II IL IA statement which no candid
and confident business authority,
whatever It's political tendencies, can
deny that tho adoption OF tho policy
pursued by cur opponents In their
declaration Of principles ~ 10 the re-
peal OF the present tariff; the passage
OF tariff for revenue only, and n
substitution Of state bank for national
currency, would give an immediate
ana disastrous snock to business. But
We nre sometimes told they do not
mean what they eAy. II 20, could pco-
pie wieely ontrust power 20 party
which does not mean 10 keep it, prom.
ises, and appeals for popular support
with an admitted lie on III lips?
AZ other times we are told n good
many things did happen though the
worst could not, because the hands Of
the party are tied up In Congress. But
TIE PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATION
makes It plain that u Democratic vic.
tory In the states which they must
now carry In order 20 elect their Prtsi-
dent would also Insure them enough
senatxrs 10 reverse the present slender
majority IN the Senate. II they elect
the President they viii certainly have
both House anu Senate, and thus will
he placed In absolute control for the
first dino since 1859, with nothing to
prevent the carrying out OF the threats
they have made agaiEst the present
tRrii and currency System. IL " idle,
therefore, as II ~ sandcr0us, to sny
there Is no danger from the triumph Of
our opponents, since their candidate
will not refuse 10 carry out their plans.
1t Ia we'll to say, however, that the
enunolRtion In the Democratic plat.
form OF the principle that the federal
government may supervise the election
Oi federal officers Is grotesquc. Thepfin-
ciple has long been recognized and sus.
tanned 10y the courts a. II now stands un.
disputed on tho statute books aud was
enforced Mt the recent elections by
Grover Cleveland, then president.
! But II Is not 60 10 be disguised that tho
recent clamor against the principle,
II 1t means anything, means the
purpose TO nulliiy the fourteenth
and fifteenth articles Of the Constitu.
ton.
The Republican party has taken
successful steps looking to the revival
OF American shipping, and the reso-
lutions Of its convention confirm Ito De.
votion TO the principle. The Democratic
resolutions say nothing ON the subject,
and II Ia fair TO say that the Democratic
party takes no interest In 1t. Ito only
desire ia that We should buy ships
abroad just AZ though, in the tariff con
test, II wishes us to buy iron, clothes,
cotton goods, glassware, pottery aud
tin abroad.
Tho administration OF President
Harrison Is generally recognized as
honest, able and sale. Considering the
number OF important subjects, both
foreign and domestic II has been com,
PEELED TO deal With and the satisfaction
that attended is results, IL may indeed
he pronounced brilliantly successful.
believe your declaration Of prlnclpl,
and your denomination Of prudent
spotloas and successful President vii
command popular approval at the poll
ana will, under God, insure the benefit
OF our country.
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