The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-31


lOf Utah into the Union as state
where we shall have a voice upon
these financial questions. and place
her where she shall have a chance
to debate in the halls of Congress and
vote upon the question of the tariff
| have no use for the sophistries that
are advanced by our Republican
friends, because from my reading
can not understand the tariff in any
other light except that it is q tax. and
I don't know how Peter can be made
the richer by taxing him for the bene-
int Of John. 1 cannot understand how
they have the temerity although they
ARE brave mem to stand before
Ian audience and urge that the times
which are now hard which affect the
world from one end of its circumfer-
|ence to the other were caused simply
by the fear of the people in this
country that there might be a change
in that great and benetcent tariff
The person that Will succeed me here
tonight, through the columns of his
great newspaper I have learned, that
the troubles that have come upon us,
came because both Republicans and
Americans and advocated the Euro
pean idea of q. gold standard. 1t was not
until my friend Varian had succeeded
lin purchasing his jack-knife through
the benef1cent operation of the tariff
law that the thought ever entered the
lhead of any Republican in this city
that the times which now bear so
heavily upon every one of us, and all
lof us, were created other than by the
financial legislation of this government,
and neither one party nor the other
can call the kettle black so far as that
is concerned
When men divide on party lines they
should stop and think as to the fun
Elemental principle They should stop
and consider that from the very time
that the Republican party was organ
lied that it has been a party favoring
the accumulation of capital in the
hands of the few. (Applause) Build
ing up vast trusts and large CONNER
cial interests that men might produce
ljack-kniveS such as my brother
Varian has. and pulling the wool over
the eyes of the producer that the en-
actment by Congress of statute has
the power to increase the weight of
the fleece or the number of eggs
that will be found in the nest
1t was a Frenchman who said that
there ought to be law against sun
light because it interfered with the
candle makers l have no doubt but
what my friends who have franchises
IN this city for the lighting of the town
with gas or electricity would be glad
if you could blot out that great orb of
day and enable them to charge double
the rate for the purpose of lighting
the streets of Salt Lake city. If any
people on the face of the earth ought
to have prosperity, it is the people liv-
ing in this intermountain country. You
ought to have been because you have
not only had the benefit of a protec-
advantages of that legislative guano
that increased the crops of the land
but you have been so far from the east
and so far from the west that there
was tariff imposed by nature, and
that nowhere on the face of the earth
you could or should expect to see build
ed great factories than here. In addi-
ton to paying the tariff and taxes on
your factories for the benefit of the
manufacturers in the east you were also
gwen the privilege of paying a tax to
the railroad that imported the goods
here to you. They say that cheap
goods make cheap men. NV brother
Varian says that he bought jack
knife for $3.50 and | don't wish to he
understood as saying that he is a cheap
man In the least degree. You who are
his clients know better l do wish to
say that no man was ever injured by
securing a little more of the property
Of the world. I do wish to be under
stood as saying that if man
have two suits of clothes where
now he has one. he can wear
one for Sunday and the rest of them
through the week. I do wish to saw
II want to buy a, suit of clothes that
ought not to be compelled to pay SIS
on that suit of clothes in order that
the government may be supported, or
in order that some favored industry
may be built up. 1 do wish to say that
the government exists for the benefit
of the individual the Individual don't
exist for the benefit of the government.
do wish to say that whenever a gov
eminent places its hands in your pocket
and takes one single dollar more than
is necessary for the administration of
the government honestly administered.
that it filches from your pocket that
which belongs to you, and / say that
the tariff does that Let me say to
my friend who is the standard bearer
of the Republican party that we will
not be afraid of the issue We shall
not run away from the issue with him
here tonight. tomorrow or every day
upon the proposition that America ex-
lists here for the people. (Applause)
We will meet him upon the proposition
that we do not propose that the labor
| ing man, the lawyer. or the mechanic
d
bloated manufacturers may grow
richer than they are today, and enable
them to contribute more to the Reprb-
! lican campaign fund. We stand upon
the platform which Jefferson laid down.
We stand upon the platform as incor-
porated in the declaration of indepen-
dence, that all men are created free
and equal, and there ought not to be
(applause) given any privileges to
the few to the disadvantage of the
many. We are standing today with
poverty upon every side. We are
standing today in a position brought
about by the Republican rule and Re
publican legislation Many and many
families tonight do not know where they
the breakfast in the morning. That
they say is the result Of the election
| of a Democratic president. And my
friend has said that not one Democrat
in ten endorses Grover Cleveland, the
Democratic president 1 say to him
that though we may disagree with him
upon minor points we know that he is
as honest, as square. as straight for
ward and as courageous as Jefferson.
We are not ashamed of our party and
we are not ashamed of our standard
bearer. If a man cast any obluquy
upon us because Grover Cleveland has
carried out his wish of the leading
Republicans of the east, who control
the Republican Ilardy. all right. 1
know. l believe. feel that it is more
to this territory and to its people that
William G. Hall shall be elected to the
Legislature, than it is that some man
through sophistry and representing the
principles of my Brother Varian shall
go, or with his idea concerning the tar
iff. 1 have two moments longer, and in
those two moments l simply desire to
say to you my friends that we are peo-