The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-25
IMMEDIArE ACTION NEEDED.


IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED.
The condition of this country is such
just now that it needs 9, stimulant.
Not an intoxicant or anything that
will unduIy excite, resulting in a de-
pressing reaction, but a healthy i'm
petus that shall revive the body pol
itic and bring about steady progress
and permanent improvement
That stimulus will be afforded by a
prudent but vigorous tariff measure,
by which an abundance of raw ma
terial shall be supplied to manufacture
ers at such prices as to warrant their
engaging in a larger employment of
labor AT the same time they will
be able to furnish goods at a cheaper
rate and of better quality, and thus
business will be stirred up, and this
will quicken the demand for all kinds
of products. Thus the agricultural
classes will receive a double benefit,
in cheaper goods for their use and a
wider market for what they have to
sell.
The demand for tariff reform is such,
Ioutside of Republican circles, that there
must be no hesitation in proceeding
with the work according to the terms
of the tariff plank of the platform of
1892 Following are few press opin-
ions on this subject:
1.-The passage of a tariff reform bill
lis as inevitable as was a reform of
silver purchases" says the st. Louis
Republic Dem) The country has
ordered it and expects it, The sooner
the last vote is taken the better for
business and the party
The Democratic Congress- says
the Buffalo Courier Oem)., "has been
specially commissioned to reform the
tariff, and the most violent opposition
from the specially protected and sub
sidized interests cannot turn it aside.
McKinleyism must go,'
ION this issue 6he tariff Grover
Cleveland was elected President says
the Kansas City Star Qnd) There
must be no dalliance, no subterfuge by
the dominant party. It has Numbered
enough already. Stand by the platform
and act quickly or fall from very in
capacity and unworthiness
HThe only thing remaining for the
Democrats" says the Wilmington, n.
c., Messenger Oem.), is to make the
most Of the opportunities of the ap-
preaching session, unite in a sincere
ry out in letter and spirit the law of
the party as set forth at Chicago in
1892, and redeem to the fullest extent
every pledge made
when the Democrats bring forward
a revenue-tariff bill based strictly up
on old principles by which Democrat
tic tariffs have heretofore been formed,
we believe that it will be such law
as will stand upon the statute book for
many years, and be the source of such
an era of prosperity to the whole coun-
try as few persons now living have
ever seen" observes the Cleveland
Plain Dealer DEM.
The Washington Post Qnd). sees
very little evidence in the elections of
a reaction from the demand for tariff
reform. Had the people desired to do
something practical towards exhibit
ing their disapproval of the tariff meas
ure which they have not yet inspec-
ted" it says, they would have sent
a high-tariff Republican to Congress
from the Michigan district
The New York Press, which is a
rabid protectionist organ, as reckless
in its statements as it is illogical in it's
deductions, raves over the subject in
this way:
Fight the proposed free~trade bill
step by step, section by section. De-
lay its passage Minimize it's destruc-
tiveness. Bring every pressure to
bear
We are pleased to see that even Re
publican papers do not respond favor
ably to this rash and ridiculous mar
angue. What has to be done should
be done quickly, and if the uncertain
ty of what is to be has unsettled af-
fairs to the extent claimed by the
Press and other Republican sheets, the
sooner they are settled by certainty
the better it must be for all parties
and the whole nation.