The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-01
The Coming Issue.

Inc coming issue.
1t is now all but certain that the De-
mocracy will have clear majority of the
next United States Senate, thus giving
| them both branches, and, with the execu-
tive, full control OF the law-making
power. This is q condition which has
not existed since 1861, and it is one which
imposes immense responsibility upon the
dominant party.
In the midst of the natural gossip rela-
tive to manning the ship of state, there
has been comparatively little discussion
Of the issues upon which the great politi
cal change was wrought. Manifestly this
important subject will very soon after Mr..
CLEVELAND Inauguration press for
ward for consideration. 1t is already
having weighty attention in the selection
OF Mr.. G. IS const itutional advisers. The
secretary of the treasury will have much
to do with the tariff, and the secretary of
state will necessarily be in touch with the
Presidents policy relative to reciprocal
trade relations.
The reconstruction of the tariff will be
the chief coucern of the new administra-
ton, and the people, particularly the
people of the west and south, are eager
for it. We do not mean that they insist
on an extra session of Congress to take up
this topic Immediately, but that they ex-
pect the machinery of reform to be put in
motion as soon as it can be done decently
and in order. Two of the peoples cham
pions in the Senate whose voices were
heard in times past laundering against
the iniquities of the MCKINLEY bill-we
mean PLUMB and GIBsoN-havs been
called to their fathers, and there have
been changes in the House, but the
Democracy as represented in the Fifty
third Congress will be well equipped for
the battle royal when it opens. There
will be VEST, MILLS, PALMER, vooR-
HE'S, TURPIE, HILL, MCPHERSON,
VANCE, FAULKNER and Villas among the
debators in the Senate, and scores of
Representatives in the House like the
BREcKINRIDGEs, CRISP, SPRINGER, Nc
MILAN. BYNUM, COCHRAN, FELLOWS,
HARTER, ALLEN, DocKERY and BLAND.
1t viii be privilege of the Democrats
in Congress to show that their party does
not demand or desire free trade, but a
substantial reduction of the exorbitant
taxes the country is now compelled to
pay to build up monopolies in one section
of the land, and which are enormously
profitable, at the cost of all other sec
tions. Instead of the partial reciprocity
inaugurated under the MCKINLEY bill,
the Democracy will provide general one
by which whatever is advantageous in
the system applied to Central and South
America may be applied to Canada and
Great Britain, to Germany and France.
If unfettered Intercourse with the semi
civilized people on this continent is
profitable, there is no reason why the
same kind of intercourse with the en-
lightened nations of the old world should
not be more profitable.
The Republican policy has been to not
allow our people to have full reciprocity
with England, France and Germany be-
cause they are manufacturing countries,
and to permit the citizens of the United
States to buy cheap English, French and
German goods would, in the opinion of
the protectionists, injure the manufac-
turing interests of the Northwestern
States. But if reciprocity in the interest
of these manufacturers is a good thing,
why not have little of it in the interest
of western farmers? Why not extend it
to those countries of Europe that take SO
much of our farm products and would
take a great deal more if they had the
chance? In fact lowering of our duties
on European goods would be worth five
times as much to the west as the
boosted reciprocity with South America
and the West Indies.
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