The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
A Republican Appeal.

torial committee has put his name to an
other campaign circular. He distributed
several last fall, which added nothing to
his reputation for accuracy nor to the
success of his party. His figures were as
faulty as his arguments, and he sue
ceeded, especially on the sheep question
the only one about which he knew any,
thing-in proving the exact reverse of his
proposition.
This time he discourses on the cause of
the financial depression. aud his exhorta-
tion to Republicans is announced as ga
clarion call.'' 1t is more like the blast
of penny trumpet and is mere echo of
the hackneyed cry that threatened Demo
cratic legislation is the cause OF all the
financial and industrial troubles that are
now pinching the country. There is not
a new idea or original thought in the en-
tire address.
First, the promises alleged to have been
MADE by the Democratic party during the
last campaign ara detailed, with the dis
tortion with which Republican papers
have colored them, and next exaggerated
pictures are drawn of present conditions.
These are made to appear as cause and
effect, the selfshness of the people of
Utah is appealed to and they are urged to
free themselves from Democratic misrule.
But with the fatuity common to the
author, the fact is admittedly way of
blame, however-that no change has been
made in the tariff laws, or in the policy
established by Republican legislation and
Republican rule. What follows. as an
inevitable and irrefutable deductio n?
Why if all the evils he has painted were
realities, and they are the result of the
principles and policy of any party, the
entire blame is traceable to the Republic
can party which he wants the people OF
Utah TO be foolish enough to follow.
1t is not true that since the election
s'wages have been lowered in every min
ing camp, mine, mill and s-nelter.'' 1t
is not true that strikes were ''nnheard of
BEFORE But If it were, the cause can
not be due to Democratic agencies as he
asserts, because the forces and policies
against which the country revolted last
fall are still active and the nation is reap
ing the harvest of Republican sowing.
He charges that, ssThe~ Democratic
party have been in power hundred days
and have made no effort to remove the
1aonstrous and iniquitous measures OF
the Republican party. Did he expect
that in hundred days, without any au-
thority in law to effect q change, the new
administration could reform the abuses
which his party have inflicted upon the
nation? Congress is to meet in a month
and those evils will be grappled with in
D,,<f =, o1,o AZ, - ALL
gives away his argument, for it make.
palpable the fact that present condition!
are the result of past, that is Republican,
legislation and administration.
The repeal of the purchasing clause O
the SHERMAN bill, he asserts. is threat
ened by the Democratic party and viii
infiict more widespread disaster. Doe
he not know that the Repu blican party ii
if anything more anxious than the party
he assails, TO repeal that clause? He hat
better ask somebody who knows some
thing of the policy of the party for which
he speaks to explain it, before he snap
his shears right and left; he is cutting
the hide and clipping OF the ears of hi
own flock.
When wool is placed on the free list, an,
manufacturers have had an opportunit,
to demonstrate its benefits, and sheel
men a chance to see its effects on thei
products, it will be in order TO descant o.
the good or evil results of free wool. S
with any other change that may be mad
under a Democratic administration
What we see now are the effects of Repub
lican measures if politics form moyin
cause in their production
The sscallso and harangues and plead
ings OF Republican demagogues just no,
are the cheapest kind of party buncomb
and only the mentally weak or wilful
blind will be influenced by them excep
to smile at their absurdity or feel con