The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-16
Where the Blame Lies.


some particulars of the increase of
wealth in the United States, which it
seems to think great calamity, and
quotes from another paper to show that
with this increase there has been the
greatest depreciation in agricultural
values. land and products, and the great
est increase in mortgage debts and the
sales of American homes. We Will not
reproduce the figures because we do not
dispute the facts that underlie them.
But it will be asked what has all that
to do with President CLEVELAND? Wait
a moment and the profundity of the Re-
publican mind when hunting for anti
Democratic powder will be perceived.
1t is claimed that one per cent of the
families of the republic own as much of
its wealth as the remaining 80 per cent.
possess. This is exhibited as frightful
state OF affairs, leading to socialism and
anarchy and to the statement that Presi-
dent CLEVELAND, just after his election,
sat down to dinner in New York with q
great lot of millionaires. This is twisted
into union OF Democracy and plutocra-
cy, and the conclusion OF it all is that,
1.-THE party will not be able TO give the
relief which Republicans secured the
masses, and dire disaster VIII be the in
evitable result
How is that for Republican impudence
aud faulty? ''The relief which Republi
cans secured the masses!;' What relief?
When did it come? Was not the verdict
of '.the masses' in '92 an indignant pro-
test against the conditions forced upon
them under the Republican policy? 1t
was an uprising against the system that
brought about the disparity between the
wealth OF the plutocrats and the poverty
of the multitude.
SO President CLEVELAND dined with
some millionaires What a horrible
crime! Did HAYES and GRANT and HAIR
RIsoN ever dine with 'plutocrats'? Are
not the billionaires OF the nation chiefly
Republicans? Are there no WANAMAKERs
and CARNEGIEs and STANFoRDs and
GoULDs in the Republican ranks today?
1t was the protection policy of the Re-
publican party that enabled most of that
small band OF plutccrats that possess the
great mass of the wealth of the country,
to accumulate it out of the necessities of
the rest of the population. The high
tariffs of later years were imposed for
their benefit aud at their dictation, and
they in return poured out some of the
gold thus gained to keep in power the
party that enriched them.
Monopolies and trusts, great corpora
tons, moneyed associations, protected
institutions have sacked up the money OF
the country under thirty five years of
Republican influence. And now when
the nation is groaning under the burdens
it has borne and struggling to free itself
from some of its membranes, Repub-
lican papers seek to lay the blame of the
trouble upon the party which the people
have chosen to work for their deliverance.
Ii any party is chargeable with the
disasters and wrecks, depressions III
trade, lack OF currency and general dis
trust, it is the party responsible for the
legislation which has brought about
these conditions or under which they
have arisen. We do not accuse the
Republican party with directly causing all
this. Butin answering the stupid and I'm :
polite accusations of Democrat haters,
it is necessary to repeatedly draw atten-
ton to the indisputable fact that it is
under Republican rule that ali these evils
have sprung up, and that whatever may
today be charged to improper legislation
and policy must be laid to Republican
doors, because there has been no time YET
to make changes in the laws, and we are
yet smarting from the results and exist
ence of Republican measures and admin
istrations.