The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-02

creased suffering throughout ali the
land
"The wages OF common laborers, farm
laborers, which constitute the greatest
number of laborers, are reduced to the
level OF 1S49, when they were lower than
ever before in the United States.
But, out in the country, where the
millions work, there has been a steady
decline, just exactly corresponding with
/ the seeming decline in the price of
silver. June /.
The cause of all.this was not the tariff
but the characterization of silver, SO it
said. And now for the remedy. On the
same date it gave this:
1.-The way to restore values, to stop the
accursed declining in prices and the aw-
ful depression that is on the business OF
the country, is to give full recognition to
silver. -
On the 23d of June it said:
"Our own Judgment is that the main
trouble has come through the demoneti-
cation of silver. and not the least of those
troubles is that the great mass of the
people. ignorant OF the real cause OF
those sorrows, are willing to believe the
talk OF demagogues that it is all due to
the MCKINLEY law
On the same date, speaking Of the
panic and unrest of the American people,
it remarked, in proof that the SHERMAN
law is not the cause of the trouble:
''Of course it is all villainous lie. II
was at just such a time as this that the
SHERMAN law was passed. +"
Still harping on the effects of the silver
decline it said, July II:
ssIn point of fact, our nation has been
acting simply idiotic on this whole
representatives., its presidents have
stood still while its values have beer
falling 2 per cent. per annum; have
stood still for twenty years and have seer
the country practically go to the wall. =
Commenting on the decline Of prices il
products through the act of 1873, it asked
the people of the east to get the statistics
OF the number of people in each state II
that year and now; the average value O.
land then and now; the wages then and
now; the number of prisoners in thu
penitentiarles, the number of felonies
the number of the insane then and now
and declared they would learn that:
"When the money of country is Gu
in two and half thrown away, the effec
extends beyond business. Not only d.
property interests fall one-half, bu
crimes double and so do all the weak
nesseso of poor human nature"
Now in view of all the troubles and dis
asters that have afflicted the country, in
creasing for twenty years, how about tn,
s'unexampled prosperity up to tn
change of administration? If the depres
sion now existing was caused by tina
event, what about the same state of thing
when the SHERMAN law was passed.
silver characterization is the cause of j
all, how can it be caused by an allege,
fear OF something that has not yet takel
place?
Is it not more reasonable, when we ge
out of the fog of these Tribune vagarie
and contradictions, to decide that vari
ETY. of pre-existing causes have contribu
ted to the present condition of affairs
and that if they are due to any unwis
legislation, the act OF 1873. the SHERMAl
law, the MCKINLEY laval Republican
measures, are partly responsible, ant
that prospective and imaginary acts O.
the Democratic party, cannot be charge
with any portion of it, but that uutruth
full Republicans are simply seeking to de
ceive the unreflecting and turn away tn
public gaze from the fruits of Republican
folly, and the effects of that party's ruin
GUS and disastrous policy?