The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-06
THREE pRoMINENr UTAH PRODUCT

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THREE PROMINENT UTAH PRODUCTS.
Among the products OF Utah from
and wool. There are others without
which we could not exist, bat we men
ton these because they are singled out
by our morning contemporary as the
only money producing products of the
territory. And it informs the public that:
"The Democratic party, as proclaimed in
its platform, is the determined foe to all
three
One Of the infirmities OF our neighbor
is its disposition to willfully misrepre-
sent almost every subject which it touches
on, either by absurd exaggerations in its
favor or gross and willfully false attacks
on those who do not see as it pro-
fesses to see. The Democratic national
platform does not proclaim any such
opposition TO the industries named, nor
is the Democratic party foe to them or
either OF them. Suppose the Republican
protective idea right and the Democratic
revenue tariff theory to be wrong; that
does not prove either TO be declared and
determined foe to any industry.
| First as to silver. Will our bogus Re-
publican contemporary have the hardi-
hood to say that the debased condition of
silver is not due to Republican measures?
| Will it contend that the act of 1873, which
it denounces as crime, was not the act
of the Republican party? viii it deny
that the Sherman act OF 1890 was not con-
cocted, urged and palmed upon the
country as a concession to the silver
| Democrats and to prevent the free coinage
of silver? And will it have the i'm
pudence to say that the Democratic
platform does not declare for s'the COIN
age of both gold and silver without dis
eliminating against either metal OF
charge for mintage, - and that the parity
of the two metals must be maintained?
Not only, then, is the Democratic party
not the foe of silver, but its platform de-
clares in favor of silver as we'll as gold,
and the Tribune statement is simply a
direct, wiiful and glaring falsehood.
Next as to lead. Where does the Demo-
cratic platform declare the party foe to
lead? The only part of the platform that
can be construed by inference as referring
to lead is its endorsement of the Demo-
cratic efforts in Congress to "modify the
most oppressive features of the MCKINLEY
tariff law, in the direction OF free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured
goods that enter into home consump-
tion. Now carry this to the utmost
extreme possible and say that it means
taking the tariff off lead. Does that
make the Democratic party foe to lead?
Is it not fact that under the high pro-
tective tariff the price of lead has declined
in the market? Under the MCKINLEY
act did it not go down lower than ever!
It will not do to spring the dodge that
has been used about the slump in wool.
Lead went to the dogs before the Novem-
Der election, and it was not fear of free
lead" that knocked the bottom out of the
lead market. 1t was the effects of MCKIN-
LEYIsM that did the business. Foe o.
lead, eh? Take the charge home to the
Republican high tariff policy-the pro
lection that only protects class.
Then as to wool. The strongest advo
Gates of high tariff on wool argued II
the east, as one of its chief charms, tha
it would bring down the price of tn,
domestic product. The facts show tina
it has doue this. The price of domesti
wool went down under the high tariff.
went down lower under the McKinle.
law. 1t is down now under the opera
tions of the same law. The nonsens
| olo lo,-
is but theory invented as a political cry
The facts are that the wool men, like tn
lead and silver producers, are sufferin
from the effects of Repu blican legislation
And by just such shabby and shallo'
falsehoods as the Tribune utters, tn
party thrust out of power is endeavorin
to cast the blame for their blunders upo
the party which the people have chose
to rectlfy them, and save the countr
from the evils that have fallen upon it.
sHow can any sensible man in Utah b
Democratic asks our untrathfr
neighbor. How can he be anything else
we might rejoin. But we do not beliey
! man is necessarily knave, or fool, c
foe to industry because he does not IS
through our eyes or strive for the publ
. good by our methods. The best of me
make mistakes. So do the worst of mer
but they also refuse to reform, and the
try to throw the responsibility for the
errors upon somebody else's shoulder
and when proven to be wrong strive 1
make themselves appear in the right b
paltry slurs and mean insipuatior
against those who throw the light upo
their inconsistencies. And of such is OF
vicious morning contemporary.
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