The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-06
THIS AND THAT.

And when the question is full before
them, and no explanation can be given,
then we take it that the statesmen in
| both parties will be forced to come
down and consider the real situation,
will be forced to admit that the fall in
| prices, the congestion in business and
| the universal trouble is due to the fact
| that the money of the country, the real
money of ultimate redemption, has
| been reduced TO so small a quantity
| that, measured by it, the property of
| the country becomes almost valueless
and the products Of the country do not
pay the expenses of producing them.
That is from the Salt Lake Tribune
of July 9Th. 1t is another confession,
unwittingly made of course, that the
stuff which that paper has been giving
out to the public about the universal
| troubles of the country being due to
Democratic tariff reform. and the
threat of free trade" which, by the by,
was entirely of Republican fabrication,
was only deception and fraud designed
to damage Democracy and resurrect
Republicanism.
The same admission was made by
the Utah delegation in the resolutions
they submitted to the Republican con-
vention at Denver. They said this:
Inasmuch as the great business de-
preston which has already cost the
nations more than all the wars of the
past century, and which has become
intolerable, was caused by the general
demonetization of silver, which, in eff
feet, struck out of existence one-half
of the worlds money of ultimate re-
demption, inasmuch as values follow
ing an inviolable law have shrunken
one-haif; inasmuch as values follow
tween gold and silver was first estab-
lished by legislation and has never
since been changed except by legisla-
ton; inasmuch as the purchasing
power of silver remains unchanged, de-
spite the efforts of the nations to de-
grade it, and inasmuch as it is true
that if the nations could unload upon
our people all the silver which the
world through the ages has gathered
an saved, it would not at 412h
standard grains to the dollar, give us
only the same amount of money per
capita as the people of France use; in
the sense of this convention there will
be no general or permanent return of
the prosperity in our country until the
full status of silver money shall be re-
stored as prior to 1873.
Now after such admissions as this.
think Of the impudence of the Tri-
bune's assertions under the headline
Democracy Alone Responsible" in
trying to fasten all the ills of the times
on the Democratic party, and declar-
ing that prosperity was universal and
unbounded in the country up to the
time when the Democrats came into
official power.
All the strikes and labor troubles, the
depreciation of prices, the distress and
ruin that has come upon the country
since 1892, is to be charged to the Dem
ocratic party, is it? Just as well go
"the whole hog and blame the Demo
Gratis for what occurred before their
election as since For the same cause
has been operating. right along, since
Republican legislation Struck out Of
existence one-half Of the worlds
money of ultimate redemption. and
brought about the troubles of the
| times.
Does the Tribune deny that the Re-
publican partv is responsible for that