The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-30
No Hedging About 1t.


THE HERALD is hedging on its tariff
talk. 1t devoted ito time last week to
showing that hard times and falling
prices were due simply to Republican leg
islation; that really the country was 60
ing on under the laws left it by the Re-
publicans, which is altogether q gratu
lions deception. 1t now says that it
mere prospect of free trade or free any
thing else would bring prosperity or work
changes.'
That is from our morning contempt
rary. THE HERALD is not hedging; it is
the Tribune that is ibbing. Careful read
ers of this paper know that we have not
accused the Republican party of causing
the prevalent troubles, but have estab-
lished the fact that if they are the conse-
quence of political action it must be the
Republican party that is responsible, be-
cause the legislation and the policy IN
der which they have arisen are entirely
Republican. That is incontroyertible and
is not denied.
1t is the Republican papers that have
tried to trace these disasters to political
causes, and to fasten them upon the
Democratic party which has not yet been
able to change law or conduct affairs
outside of the policy established under
Republican management. Whatever of
politics, then, figures as a source of the
present current of calamity is Republican
politics, beyond doubt. But that is
not asserting or even admitting that any
party or its policy is the actual cause Of
the evils.
There is no deception, sgratuitous'' or
otherwise, in this statement. On the
contrary the facts are patent that the pro-
tective tariff and the policy established
generally by Republican legislation are
now in force.
What deception is there in that? Are
not the duties on imports exactly the
same as they were before the November
election? Is not McKinleyism in full
operation? Are we not under the bust
ness and Industrial Influences of a high
tariff? Is not the silver policy of the Re-
publicans still in vogue? What nonsense
to call an assertion of these ineontestibIe
facts ''deceptionI''
1t is correct that we now say we have
never pretended or promised that the
mere prospect of anything, would bring
prosperity to the country. If we have
ever made any such promise or pretense
it will be easy to quote our language. 1t
is to the reality, not the mere prospect Of
tariff reform, that we look for redemption
from many evils that have cursed the
country. Our Republican opponents, un-
able to controvert the truth that the ma
ton is laboring now under the effects of
Republican legislation and policy, point
to something prospective as the promot-
ing cause of existing difficulties. We
repeat our statement that whatever in
fiuence that may have upon present con-
dltions Is the result of Republican agita-
ton and manufacture of terrors over
something yet in future.
Not until Democratic Congress makes
needed reforms and Democratic admin
istration has put them into effect can any
disastrous effects be chargeable to the
Democratic party. Every hope The HER
AID has breathed for the encouragement
OF the masses burdened with the loads
heaped upon them by several decades OF
Republican protection still reigns
triumphant in The HERALD's breast.
But mere prospects OF something not vet
created, as an active force to produce
needed results, are something too theo-
retical and imaginary for basis on which
to predict prosperity. The Tribune has
been as faulty in its quotation of THE
HERALD as in its logic when attempting
to answer the irrefutable facts presented.