The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-30

gravity of truth, that the panic, the de-
preston in trade, the low prices and all
the ills which have followed, were
brought about by the accession of the
Democratic party.
Judge Judd has been pulling on
those deceptive speakers the state
ments of their favorite organ To this
the Tribune seems to object It there
fore opens the Walls of its wrath upon
him, and Judge Judd" occurs so many
times on its editorial page of Tuesday
that we would not undertake to count
them But here is one sentence from
that paper:
We are told that the ancient and ven
cradle Judge Judd has taken some of
these silver editorials and established
to his own satisfaction and to that Of
evesy mossback who listens to him,
that the Tribune admits that the pres
ent troubles upon the country are all
due to the characterization of silver in
1873.
''The ancient and venerable Judge
seems to be UP with the times and suf-
ficiently so to stir up the egotist of the
Tribune into rage. Yes, the so-called
silver articles of the Tribune have been
quoted against the Tribune and the
deceptive demagogues whom that pa
per encourages and defends. And if
Judge Judd has been able to open the
eyes of even the "mossbacks' -down
south e. those people whom the Re-
publicans have beguiled-it is safe to
conclude that he has done good among
more lively and appreciative people.
Hence the anger displayed against him.
Now does the Tribune undertake to
say that it has not, in its columns, adj
mitted that the present troubles upon
the country are all due to the demone-
tization of silver in 1873? 1t merely
lodges that point and leaves the infer
scented it, because in the same article
on Tuesday it says that:
with silver remonetized fully, still
tariff for revenue would drain the
land of all its money and leave it in the
condition it was in 1857 etc.
Without stopping to comment on the
stupidity and absurditity of that SEN
tence, and of the idea of ALI the
money being drained out of the country
by a revenue tariff, we will present
here few of the quotations from the
Tribune which Judge Judd has been
reading to the people, that it may be
seen whether he was justified in the
statement attributed to him:
Why is it possible then for hosts of
men from half a dozen different points
to take up the gloomy march of the
unemployed2 They can all find the
reason by taking up the files of any
newspaper and studying the falling
prices which have been the rule for the
past ten years. The producers as
a rule are always in debt When for
ten years prices continue steadily to
fall, hundreds of thousands of them
reach a point when they can no longer
give employment to other men. This is
what has come upon the country, and
hence the land is filled with idle men.
The cause dates from 1873; the culrnina-
ton was last Ootober..-Tribune, April
9, 1894.
If our country were alone to estab-
fish bimetallism, and if their gravest
fears could be realized. namely. that
gold would go to a premium and van
ish away, they would see three things.
First. that when the gold went away,
Something else would have to come.
Second. that after all there is no
surplus of silver in the world, and
third. that suddenly every factory in
the United States would have plenty of
work and plenty of sales for its ma
terial. and the factories in Great Bril-
tain would one by one close down. We
would not care then for any tariff or
o., -. ~.
else.-Tribune, May s, 1894.
If our government was only bright
enough and wise enough and brave
enough right now to assume the ag
gressive and, following the
experience of 1000 years. and repudiat
ing the experience of the last twenty
years. would henceforth recognize and
use silver as money, all the clouds in
our sky would vanish away within
ninety days.-Tribune, May II. 1894.
When the Congress in 1873 destroyed
half the real money on which trade
transactions were founded. the wheels
of commerce kept revolving, it is true,
but with ever lessening speed. until al
the end of twenty years its process of
slowing down caused a panic and such
distress and Gripping of industries as
this generation had not seen.-Tribune,
May IS. 1894.
The dispatches yesterday morning
were not at all assuring. They showed
that in five states large sections of the
country were given UP to riot and vio-
1ence. The original cause came from
the characterization of silver which
brought on falling prices and a neces-
sity for reduction all round, which has
done more to demora1iZe the American
people than three or four great revolu
hor TriI
s. 1894.
Thinking of those who have been
ruined as silver miners, and beyond,
those who have been ruined as wheat
raisers and stock-raisers and cotton
raisers and merchants and mechanics,
all through the warfare made on sill
yer. and we get a glimpse of the dis
tress which followed that shameful leg
islation of 1873 and the failure on the
part of Congress since to right that in
fanny and world-encircling mighty
wrong.-Tribune. June Z, 1894.
When the Tribune has proved that
Judge Judd was wrong and that the
foregoing quotations are not enough to
set him right we can bring forward
plenty more to the same effect and also
a number to show that the same paper
all these troubles upon the
Democratic victory over the Republi-
cans and prospective tariff changes.
But it will be seen that in the quota
tfons we have made it is clear that the
Tribune admits that its tariff reform
scares were only so much buncombe,
because IF our country were alone to
establish bimetallism we
would not care for any tariff or for
anv free trade or for anything else"
We hope that other Democratic ora
tors beside Judge Judd will adduce
these proofs from the organ of the