The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-25
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
To the People Of Utah. Delivered at Salt
Lake City en- Saturday, June 10th, by
the Territorial Democratic Convention.

10 the People Of Otah. delivered at sal
Lake City en- Saturday, June 10th, by
the Territorial Democratic Convention
Resolved, That as the convention was
not called to make nominations oil
formulate platform OF principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention 10 be presented in
the form Of an address TO the people OF
Utah:
We, the democrats of Utah, in con-
vention assembled, hereby declare our
devotion to the time honOred principles
Of the democratic party as enunciated
iD the national platforms and imbed.
ded in the harts of its members.
We are emphatically in favor of
equal rights to all and special privil-
eyes to none; of the greatest possible
liberty TO every individual compatible
with the pub ic welfare; of the advance
ment anG support of home industries;
of the maintenance Of local self-govern-
ment to the fullest rightful extent;
and of a strict construction of the ma
tional constitution,
We are in favor Of such reform of
the tariff as is consistent with the III
terests of the consumer and the pro-
Queer, and declare that duties upon
foreign imports should be levied upon
the luxurles, so far as possible, and not
upon the necessarieS OF life, for the
purpose of providing revenue for the
necessary expenses of government, and
not for the special benefit of any class
or private enterprise. We sre opposed
to the bounty system, by which the
many are taxed for the enrichment of
few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trTitf reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for an income tax by which those large
property holders who are best able
shall bear their just share of the bur-
den of taxation. And we denOUnce the
obstructive policy of the republicans
in congress, 10y which needed meas
ure to provide public revenue is de
layed, causing uncertainty and doubt
in commercial and manufacturing
circles, and thus paralyZlng industry
and aTresung trade. To the factiOus |
hindrances which are still thrown in |
the way of the Wilson bill by repabli- |
can senators are due to the slow pro-
gress it is making and the disasters |
that are consequent upon the delay.
We demand the restoration of silver |
pied as money previous to the act of |
1873. by which the republican party |
cast down that historic and essential
money metal, and caused the increas- (
ing disasters which, beginning with /
the panic OF 1873 and bursting forth at
intervals with terrible severity, de-
pressing the agricultural Interests of
the country, creating unrest and dis
content among the oppressed laboring
classes and increasing the armies of
tramps which swarmed over the land,
eliminated in the panic of 1923 and
still spreads its blight upon trade and
industry
We call attention to the undeniable
fact that the republican party took the
government from the democratic ad
ADMINISTRATION in 1889, with more than
hundred million dollars in the national
treasury and turned it back to the
democratic party in 1893 with a treasury
practically bankrupt.
We denounce the silver policy of the
republican party as system Of miser-
able makeshifts to palliate the repub-
lican financial crime of 1873, and de-
Glaze that only in and through the
democratic party can the people of the
United States expect the re-establish-
ment of true blmetalism, which in
cludes the free coinage Of silver at the
ratio of Is to with gold. We believe
that this can be done with safety and J
profit to this nation by American ac
ton, independent of European agree
ment if international cooperation can
not be Immediately obtained. !
We denounce the republican policy !
of protection as embodied IN the infa- !
nous Mckinley law and reaffirmed by
that party in its most recent utter
ances. We regard it as an assistant
agency to the prostration Of silver in
producing the poverty and distress and
social calamities of various kinds which :
still affiict our country.
We deny that the high tariffs placed
upon lead and wool and other commod- /
tiles have raised their price or benefit !
ed the producer of such materials !
while they have been oppressive and
detrimental to the consumer and the q
country at large.
We cordially endorse the democratic {
and administration:
In repeating the obnoxious federal
election law and thus promoting the :
freedom of elections. Z
In formulating and endeavOring to :
enact bill to reform the existing ex- '
brilliant system of tariffs.
In revising the pension lists, so that r
while all persons deserving the ala of :
the country for services in Its defense T.
shall be secured in their rights, lmpoSt Z
BIS and fraudulent pension agents d
shall not be permitted TO further bleed
he body polite. r
In the exercise of the federal forces -
% suppress laWlessness where power to - -
10 so is clearly vested in the federal au- q,
hority, and declining to interfere when ~
t would intrude on the rights of local ~
-
In the restoration to the church of =,
esus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop -,
.rty confscated under the provisions of =
law; and we favor the :;
immediate restoration also of the real =
property SO escheated in view of the =,
low indIsputable fact that no pretex: " :"
enains for charging that the majority - ~
f the people of Utah are in opposition ~ ~
0 national authority. -
In the passage through the house - -
md its report in the senate of a liberal -
nd excellent bill for the admission of ~
Utah as a state on an equal footing - -
With the existing states; and we urge e.
Is speedy enactment as a measure of =,
imple justice to the oldest and most ". :"
of the existing territories. ~ ~
In the appointment OF bona tide RESI- ~ ~
ents of the territory to the various =,
fices in the gift of the government in =;
tead of men from other sections of the NJ
Ountrv unfamiliar with our people and ~
be situation Of our affairs as was Ok
he rule under republican administra- u
ions.
And we further endorse ell efforts to
10 IL, +oir tho DIGNITY apd aIf boritv Of