The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-19

for doing what the people required
them to pledge themselves to do if
elected?
But they haven't done it, the Nc
Kinley law stands just as it did, they
have had no opportunity to do it.
/ To be sure the Constitution provides
THAT on extraordinary occasions the
President may convene both houses or
either of them The people had been
living thirty-two years under a sys-
/ tenn of tariff similar to the present.
VIII our Republican friends claim that
/ it was so bad that an extraordinary oc-
casion demanded it's repeal. forthwith.
and say the President was rebuked be-
cause he delayed the repeal till the
regular session?
Could the committees of the new
Congress have been appointed last De
cenber, I admit there would have
been some force in the rebuke It is
the work of several months to formu-
late tariff bill Had Congress been
called together in April the earliest
time at which it could have convened.
and the committees then appointed, a
bill might have been prepared by Au-
gust or September by diligent work
Now it will be ready by December
1st. But the fact is the change has
been brought about by panic for
which the party in power must always
suffer.
When Horace Greeley ran for the
Presidency in 1872, the Republicans
predicted the direst financial disaster,
and that a perfect Pandora's box of
ills would be poured out upon this
land in case of his election, predic-
tons before which their predictions of
1892 are but pale shadows Grant
was triumphantIy elected and
in less than a year the most
severe financial crisis the United
States has ever known was upon US.
Think you, if Greeley had been elected
and the panic of 1878 had come on. the
Republican press and speakers would
not have gloated over it as the fulfill
ment of their predictions of the year
before? The 81 told you sos would
have been more numerous than the
leaves of the forest
That the panic was not due to any
great extent to fears of a revision of
the tariff. is proven by two facts: first,
that it did not begin with manufac-
turers; second, that manufactures are
reviving more rapidly than they were
ever known to before after a panic, in
the face of the fact that we are likely
to have a tariff reform bill passed by
April, 1894.
That the prospect of tariff reform
may be somewhat disturbing to some
branches of manufactures there is no
doubt. No great vested wrong was
ever broken up without some disturb
ance to somebody. Yet you do not see
a good physician hesitate to remove a
fungus growth which is undermining
the health and sapping the life of the
patient because the patient must suf-
fer pain and some loss Of blood, and
even that the operation may take the
patient away from his business for a
few days.
4 No such healthy general prosperity
reaching all classes of people alike
has ever existed in this country as the
ten years following the enactment of
the Walker revente tariff of 1916. and
yet ruin was prophesied on every hand
by its opponents before its passage, as
anyone who can get hold of a. file OF
newspapers of that date can see for
himself. And so well pleased were the
people of this country in 1860 with its
results that though it had been low
cred, the Republican platform of that
year did not call for its modification
and but for the war of the rebellion
the probabilities are that there would
have been a constant reduction of it tc
this day" E. L.