The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-10
Under the Old Conditions.

Our contemporaries in and out of Utah
who are laying the blame of every disas-
ter on the Democratic administration,
ought to take into consideration the fact
that very few people in these advanced
times take everything for granted that
they read in the Republican newspapers.
sit must be so because it is in print, -
doesn't go down nowadays.
The depression in the wool market is no
greater than that in the wheat market.
What dealers are said to anticipate about
sfree woor' does not operate as to low
wheat. There must be causes at work
that do not spring from the question
about the tariff, and the disingenuous
efforts of our Republican friends to con-
meet all the woes they can point to and
imagine with the changes in policy that
have not yet been made will be looked
upon by thinking people as SO much
deception and folly.
Readers of Republican alarms and dia-
tribes should keep always in mind that
the country is still under the laws, and
policy, and workings of Republican adj
ministratlon. If any of the present
troubles in the financial, Industrial and
commercial world are traceable to the
tariff or the doings of any party, it must
be to the protective tariff and the Repub-
lican party, because though there has
been a change of administration it is only
possible at present to administer such
laws as were framed under the preced-
ing administration.
We do not make the charge that
the bank failures, the fall in wheat,
the lameuess of the wool trade, the
dizziness of the times in any particular are
the direct result of McKinleyism. But
we do say that they cannot be traced to
any changes from Republican legislation
because none have yet been made. And
everybody ought to see through the thin
subterfuges adopted by the papers that
tell dreadful stories of disaster, present
and to come, and add: ''This is under a
Democratic administration. We told you
how it would be, and now you see the
| consequences OF the election of CLEvE-
LAND"
Some of those high minded sheets are
berating the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Democratic party because treas
ury notes are redeemed in gold. They
point to this as proof of the hostility OF
the administration to the white metal
How do they expect to cover up from
the rejecting public the fact that
this has been the policy of the
Republican administration, and that
if the Secretary was to change it, under
present circumstances, he would bring
down upon himself broadside of anath-
emas from the financial world and upset
the very system which it is said he is en-
dangering?
1t was the Republican party that de-
monetized silver; it was the Republican
party that passed the. SHERMAN law; ii
was the Republican party that fixed the
policy, now difficult to change, to pay
out gold when the law says that certain
certificates are payable in coin
| We are not attacking the Republican
party, remember, for what it has done in
these particulars, we are but reminding
those papers that assail the Democratic
party for what exists, that it is all conse.
quent upon and traceable to Republican
legislation and Republican policy, if any
party is to blame for it. We do not ex-
pect them to be fair, but they might al