The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-12
PROVO CITY. JUNE l
UTAH'S HAPPY FAMILY.

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publicans is very edifying. 1t is piled
up in immense masses and there is
enough and to spare. Now for fear
the Ogden Standard will again mistake
we append the label, This is q
Joak." The Tribune has been con-
sistent only upon one proposition and
that is free coinage. 1t has been in
slant in season and out in the cause of
free silver. Indeed it has fought a
noble battle for the white money of
the poor. 1t has all along insisted
that our present hard times has been
caused mainly by the sin of demoneti.
Zation, which bit of national throat
cutting was cOnsumated in '73 under
the auspices of John sherman and the
republican party. The Ogden Stand
ard is not quite sure whether demone-
tization is the work of the republican
or the democratic party, but it is fully
convinced that the Ohio platform is
bad bit of business for the g. 0. p. in
Utah. The Enquirer mounts the
judges seat and declares both of its
confreres out of order and reads the
riot act to them sharply. The latter
doesn't believe it, knows, that demone-
tization has had nothing to do with
hard times or wealer distress, but that
sin is to be laid at the door of tariff re-
form only. The profundity of its
knowledge of financial science is the
wonder of the thinking world. Its
light is not to be hid under bushel
nor even a bottom up Dutch mud scow
in the Scheld. Now, of the three lead
ing republican papers, unquestionably
the Standard occupies the best posi-
tion. Its frankness, at least, is COM
mendable while the other two hold
entirely untenable positions.
The Standard, while rejecting the
Ohio platform, displays the red flag of
anarchy and this fact will serve to
keep it in line with the party in Utah.
The TribuRe, when it charges that de-
monetiZation is the cause of our pres
ent deplorsble situation as nation, by
implication, at least, places the odium
upon the shoulders of the same repub-
lican party which demonetized silver
in '73. Now the Enquirer disputes
both positions and digs up the cause
from the depths Of tariff reform, or
free trade, when it knows that we are
living today under the same tariff laws
which were in force when Harrison
went out, the period, it claims, of our
highest national prosperity. Now here
is reason, sense and truth for you in
almost unlimited supply.
We care nothing for this condition
of hostility among the discovered ele-
ments of the hypocritical republican
party, only that it indicates the fate Of
the house which is divided, which
Holy Writ declares must fall. Only
wee bit since all these great journals
of republican progress were twitting
the democracy of Utah for writing no
platforms. A platform written by
these three leading republican inteIli-
gences would go far beyond that Ohio
effort in Inconsistency. 1t would in
deed be queer platform. Wealer-
wisdom, silver devotion, anarchy, Nc
Kinleyism and the Lord only knows
what else besides, with red flags struck
all over it.
Now we promise our friends the
enemy bit of platform soon upon
which every democrat in Utah will
plant himself with enthusiasm, and |
the most internal drubbiDg the repub
licsns of the territory have had since |
liberalism and republicanism were
married for enduring the war" as the
negroes used to say during the
ate unpleasantness. Aye, indeed.
while the happy family remains in it's
present happy frame of mind, it will
need no trick to lick 'em in good
3hepe.