The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-28

be repealed. AS soon as reform
measure can be enacted and put in
operation its good effects will be felt
in every department of trade and in
dustry. The change cannot come be-
fore then. Every rational person must
understand that 1t is unreasonable
to expect the good results of tariff
reform until new tariff law has had
time to show it's workings.
OF course the Republican sophissry of
disaster as the effect of a cause not
yet existing, counts for nothing with
people who think But it should be
exploded in the presence of those who
may have entertained it without think
ing. The wrongs of thirty years of
Republican legislation on false basis
have been accommodating as the years
rolled on, were so oppressive last year
that the country rose in revolt against
them and overturned the party re-
sponsibIe for them. and received their
elimination in the calamities OF the
past summer.
Let it be repeated until the fact is
so plain that even Republican stump
speaker will scarcely dare to deny it,
that all the troubles complained of,
whether through silver or tariff dis
turbances, fell en- the country under
Republican legislation not yet repealed.
Low prices in cotton, wool, wheat,
pork, lead, silver, everything that has
declined, has gone down under the
full operation of laws framed and piled
upon the country by the Republican
party. All the shifting dishonesty in
dulged in by those who seek to deceive
the public cannot cover out of sight
these palpable and incontestible facts.
Leading Republicans in arguing for
McKinleyism boosted that the effects
of high tariff We're to bring down
domestic prices. That was their slo-
gan in the east in regard to wool as
well as other products. In the west
they sang another tune. But the
figures demonstrate the facts and wool
and lead have deprecated in price
under the full blast of a Republican
protective tariff.
The Democratic party is interested in
the promotion of home industries on
a substantial basis. 1t is opposed to
the appropriation of public money for
private uses, without the direct au-
thority of the people who pay the
taxes. All the special pleading in the
world will not turn aside the force of
a principle. Governments are not in
stituted to foster private corporations,
but to carry on the public business.
It should have no pets and confer no
special favors. 1t is for the whole peo-
pie.
Democratic government is the gov
eminent of the people and is not car
ried on in the interest of any class.
1t protects the individual in the exer-
else of his rights aid maintains local
governments in the exercise of their
full powers within their proper sphere
It does not seek to centralize in the
national authority powers that belong
to the several states and their local
subdivisions. 1t is constitutional gov
eminent in its fullest sense, and it's
preservation means the perpetuity of
the institutions established by the
fathers of the nation and the liberties
bought with their blood
''Exalt the standard of Democracy
Carry it forward to victory. Do not
defend, but proclaim it's doctrines, ex-
pound its purposes, explain it's policy,
expdse the fallacies and fIkuds Oh
the party which it has ousted from
power and which is seeking by surrep-
titious and unworthy means to crawl
back into the place which it desc
Grated. Be active, bold, determined,
united and the Democratic party will
triumph again, this year, in Utah.