The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-02
DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION.

One of the good things done by the
Democrats at the extra session is the
massage of a bill to relieve miners of
the necessity of performing one hum
dred dollars worth of assessment work
on mining claims for the year 1898.
This will relieve great many pros
pectors and persons who have not the
means to continue their work on claims
that have been opened and give them
breathing spell.
1t is necessary under the new law of
Congress that claimants shall file, in
the recorders office where the location
notice is filed, a certificate that they
intend in good faith to hold and work
their claims. This must be done be
fore December 81, 1893, or they viii not
be exempt from the old requirement.
Miners should take notice of this and
not neglect to file their certificates.
We notice that Utah Republican
sheets are still mfsrepresenting the sill
yer question from a party standpoint,
and endeavoring to make the Demo-
Gratis responsible for the silver Gepres-
sion. It ought to be needless to point
out the facts when they have been ex-
planned so many times. 1t is a false
hood to state that 'silver has been
slaughtered by the repeal of the Sher-
man provision. What slaughter oc-
CURED was accomplished by the Re-
publican legislation of 1878. The re-
peal of the -'cowardly makeshift
known as the Sherman law has not eff
fected any slaughter, except the killing
of that obnoxious measure condemned
by all parties alike.
Silver went down under the opera
ton of that law. Do not forget that,
miners, and silver men generally. 1t is
true that as yet nothing has been done
to remedy the evils brought on the
country by the Republican law of 1873.
The Sherman law has not bettered con-
ditions, but apparently made them
worse. Silver reached it's lowest figures
under the full workings of the Repub-
lican Sherman law That is now re-
moved and the way made clear for
something to be done to remedy the
wrong effected by the earlier Republi-
can blunder.
Do not be deceived. 1t has wrought
all the trouble in finance and business
brought about by the so-called de-
monetization or slaughter of silver
The needed relief will come as the
small measure of relief to miners has
come, from a Democratic Congress anc
a Democratic administration. There
has been a great deal of passion and
much Misrepresentation during the
fight for free coinage But now thai
this preliminary skirmish is past, i
will be wise to cool down, view the
field as it is with the smoke cleared
away, and get ready for the real bat
tie which will be favorable to tn,
cause Of silver, though perhaps not t
the extent of it's unlimited coinage
The statement that 1.-The Congress O.
the United States has declared so fa1
as possible that it will never make sill
yer money of ultimate redemption" i.
utterly false and without fc,,rdo +i,,,
The abuse of President Cleveland fo
carrying out the will of the majorit,
of the people, expressed at the poll,
last November, may crafty the spleel
Of his enemies, but it does not affec
+; the situation nor will it help the cause
That it was right to repeal the Sher
man mal1eshift, no sane person dis
putes. That the repeal was effected
!; without some better provision doe,
not argue that silver is Slaughtered,
nor that an adequate law will not b
! passed as soon as Congress can full.
conider what ought to be done.
President Cleveland has signed tn
bill, the purchase provision is repeal
ed, the alleged cause of financial dis
turbances is removed. and that canno
hereafter be pointed out as the caus
of trouble and disaster. And we ar
! confident that it will not be long be