The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-28
The Source of the Evil.

Those Republican papers that have la
bored so hard to make the Democratic
party responsible for the hard times, the
financial depression, the drop in wool.
the fall in lead, the depreciation of silver
and other current evils, do not like THE
HERALD's exposure OF their sophistry
and folly. They cannot deny the fact
that there has been no change from Re-
publican legislation and the policy which
it renders necessary, but they cling to the
notion of the effects of a prospective pol
icy on the affairs OF the country.
They still claim that it is the fear of
what may be done and what is expected
to be done by the Democratic party,
which is now in control of national
affairs. that is causing all the mischief.
This is done, OF course. to divert
attention from the iDdisputable fact
that wherein political influences and
measures are the moving causes
of present troubles they must OF
necessity be chargeable to the Republic
can party, because no others are at pres
ent in operation.
But there is another point which
must also be kept in view, and
which it is necessary to draw at
tention to because OF the attempts
OF Republican papers to deceive. 1t is
this: If there is anything prospective that
can act as disturbing element in social,
industrial, commercial and financial af-
fairs today, it is wholly the work of Re-
publicans that makes it so. They are
causing the agitation. They are pre-
dieting what the Democrats are going to
do. They are inflaming the public mind
about intended revolutions in legislation
and overturnipgs in policy.
Whatever OF politics there is in
the causes of present troubles is Re-
publican politics, whether of the past
or of the present. The country is
under the burden OF the high tariff
policy, the financial legislation. the
effects OF Republican protectionist
rule. And what fears are entertained and
what dread OF the future that acts unfa-
vorably on the public mind are the results
of Republican agitation and exaggeration.
The politicians who are seeking to
| spread alarms, to destroy confidence, to
anticipate evils that may never arise, to
paralyze trade, to cripple industries, to
bring about panics and spread ruin and
disaster, by inYenting prospective dis
turbances, to come from Democratic
sources, are enemies to their race as we'll
as their country, and exhibit the intense
malice that comes to malignant heart
from disappointed ambition and that is
truly satanic in all its characteristics.
! Let this not be forgotten or misunder-
stood: If party politics is in any way
the cause OF existing troubles it is Repub-
lican politics, which originated the laws
and policy under which the country
labors, and which holds up in terror those
prospective causes which Republicans say
will occasion disaster when they are
born, and the anticipation OF which they
declare is the reason for present evils.
The alarms are theirs IS the ruling
policy is theirs. If dread causes trouble
they cause the dread. For past legisla-
ton and for fears of what is to come, the
country is indebted to Republican policy
and influences. When Democratic laws
and their administration have had time
to take effect we may look for relief and
beneficial change on all the affairs of
the United States and of the people.