The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-01

which is being waged in the state of
New York for pure, clean, decent NUM-
Iclpal government as a local issue. The
whole country watches that great
struggle. 1t has read with amazement
and disgust the revelations of munich
lpal corruption and debauchery, which
have been laid before the public; it
watches with anxious solicitude the de-
cision of the question whether there is
power in the body polite of this great
city TO cleanse itself from these impu-
rites and reassert decent government.
1t is coming to be recognized by all stu
| dents of public government that the
question of municipal control and man
lagement brings these institutions and
principles to their severest test and we
watch from all our cities, great and
small, throughout the country this
igreat contest which is now being
waged in the city of New York / sin
lcereiy hope we shall have another IL
luStration to be added to those which
we nave had in the past. When things
have become utterly bad men without
reference to party rally to the defense
ief their institutions and their homes,
and set things right once more.
Ihere are national questions involv-
ed IN this contest in New York A con-
gress is to be chosen and those constit-
uencleS IN the great city of New York
are TO exercise important influence in
deciding the question whether the con-
troll OF the House of Representatives
snail be wrested from the Democratic
party. Our government at Washington
mas a more important relation to the
business of the country than ever be-
lore. In the olden days, when our
money was nourished by state banking
institutions, and when our Interstate
commerce was left to regulate itself or
without regulations, we did not as
much appreciate the important touch
which the national government has up
on the business affairs of the country.
Now all our money is issued from
Washington.
"An Incoherent Party"
before. that the question of the tariff
touches strongly every mans interests,
whether he be rich or poor, throughout
the Whole country.
in 1892, the gentlemen who had been
platform makers for thirty years were
called 10 the unaccustomed duty of max
1.-The trouble with the Democratic party
now is, that it is an incoherent party.
who could tell what 1t was going to do,
what its position on the tariff was? Why
position historically, it was proposed that
the revenues of the government should be
IdiSCd ny CuSlOIilS uuIleS anu CndI our
manufacturers and workingmen should
have the benefit of such measure of pro-
lection as came from laying duties upon
foreign imports adequate to the support
of the general government.
This incidental protection was talked
of by everyone as a thing conceded, but
as they came to frame their platform of
1892 this doctrine was overthrown and
the party went into the campaign upon
the proposition that protection, all protec- |
ion, protection incidental and of a pur
pose, were unconstitutional. This declar-
alton, in spite of the court decisions, n !
spite of the opinions of the most eminent |
principle upon which the. DEMOCRATIC |
party was pledged to revise the tariff and |
administer the government 1 think per- |
haps of all the insects the grasshopper is |
the one most without an objective point |
No one can tell, nor does he know himself |
when he jumps where he is going to |
flower or may be in a horse pond. A
lack of purpose pervaded the party and |
was largely instrumental in producing
that disastrous depression under which |
the country has been laboring for two
years"
Mr.. Harrison dwelt at some length upon
the dissensions that have marked the his
tory of the Democratic party in the last
two years, and particularly in its deal
ings with. the tariff question. After de-
Scribing the manner in which each sena-
tor or Congressman had contended for pro-
lection for the particular industry of his
district or state. General Harrison touched
Upon TIE dlltSEu dLltlHplS VI ISpISStilld-
tives of the sugar trust to influence legis-
lation on the tariff.
There has been some attempts to fix
the responsibility of the evil times which
came upon the country upon Republican
legislation. L can well understand how a.
man can be free trader or tariff re
mental or moral standing. But 1 can
not understand how any man Of sound
mind could have supposed that we could
pass from the Mckinley bill to bill |
framed upon the line of the Chicago plat
form without a business convulsion that
would shake the country to its center.
panic. Mr.. Cleveland himself in his let
ter to Mr.. Wilson described the country
as idly awaiting this experiment of leg
tempt to picture the sad state in which
our country has been during the last
two years-call it a panic-ft is hardly. a
and that was death ~ The
character Of the condition was this: There
was shrinkage, a drying up. Every man
who had securities found them shrink
ing. Every man who had real estate
found it shrinking in value and hard of
sale. Every man who worked for his ;
wages reduced. Whoever is responsible,
whatever policy is responsible for bring
ing this condition upon the country car
lies a very heavy burden. Y
Tariff and Markets. (
Mr. Harrison ridiculed the theory that
I
kets. {
1T might just as we'll be admitted t
he said, that this chasing after the mar ,
lets of the world involves scaling down
n the wages of our working people, for
low can one compete who pays for his I
abor 50 a day with another making the
anne product who pays 50 cents foi,a a; day.
vent only a week ago through busy +
eetio Of my own state where industrie7
.as as fuel had sprung up in the last
tx years with ma, marvelous oI rl2pdityf ror5
ONE of those shops bearing on their hats t
his legend, Wages % per cent off, So I
t is, down, down down. My country
men. let us stop this war on American n
and American homes. Let the =
Ireatest of the manufacturing states by
Ter people in this election speak so their +
-oices shall be heard from ocean to ocean e
n condemnation of those who have f
brought the disaster upon the country"
DOMESTIC DOTS. r