The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-04

of the peoples representatives, but ne
will introduce bills that will be In
tended to and will benefit the people
Under this showing, l want to say te
the ladies that they should work fol
our candidate as he represents the
party that is looking after the homes
Every young lady who has a sweet
: heart should tell him to go to the
polls and work for the Democratic
party or never come around to see heI
ANY more Every mother should see
that her son goes to the polls from
early in the morning until they close
and work for the success of the Demo
crats or disown any ties of kindred
We want the aid of sisters, cousins and
aunts and no doubt will triumph
Do not let Utah enter the union as a
state tied to the wheels of monopoly.
Do not let Utah go into the union
pledged to the party of darkness. But
join yourself with the party that rep
reSentS progress, that party which
came into existence when God said,
Let there be light" Vote for the
party that represents those principles
of liberty which actuated men to
leave the old country of kings and
to come here to live as free men, What
is the difference whether you are ruled
by crowned king or fuled through
the influences of money, given to ia
ivored few by vicious system of class
Legislation?
HON. P. L. WILLIAMS.
This election is to me in one respect
the most interesting that ever occur
red in this city, for 1 have been here
for twenty years and have seen cleo
tions under curious conditions. Even
before the last election is was appar-
ent to all that the two national par
ties would soon occupy here all the
political field. Since then we have
seen the third party disband and have
had a bill for statehood introduced by
our delegate, and he has met with sig
nal success Now we are first met with
the question, how shall Salt Lake go in
an election? This election is very inn
portant as it will show how the ter
ritory will stand. Now there is some
doubt as to how the election will go, as
there is a great body of people here
who have never cast vote for either
of the national parties.
The Democratic party is lineal de-
iscendants of those patriots who declar-
ed the rights of man in the Declaration
of Independence. The founder of the
Democratic party was the writer MIN.
self of that Declaration. The idea of
the Democratic party is that the gov
eminent is one which has no powers
but those which are given by a strict
construction of the Constitution. They
believe all the powers not given in that
instrument were reserved to the states
and to the people. 1t has always been
the policy of the Democratic party 10
Insist that when a territory became
strong enough it should be made into a
Estate as there has always been a, prac-
teal belief in the principle of local
self government. Now we have in this
territory more population than there
lis in Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming and
oJr-1 t,,to ocIIr1
lis Therefore we have a right to take
part in the consideration of the ques-
lions that are coming now before Con-
gress.
| There is one question now before the
nation. That is, how far shall taxa
ton go? The Democratic party be-
lieves that the only excuse for taxa
ton is to carry on the government
economically Until ten years ago all
parties agreed on this, as the heavy
duties before that time had been laid
only for the purpose of carrying on
the war. During the war heavy taxes
were laid and these were kept on with
out remark, until the great war debt
was being wiped out in a manner I'M
precidented in the history of national
debts. But when the debt was almost
paid and the taxes began to accumll-
late in the treasury it was seen that
the influx of money, Then it was as
serted that the only excuse for taxa
ton was to pay the expenses of gov
eminent economically administered.
But by the time this effort to lower
taxation was made, the manufacturers
had found that they were benefited by
gaining bonuses. They saw that a
lowering of the duties would take away
their incomes to a, great extent and
they set about to prevent such a con-
summation, and furnished money tc
corrupt the votes of the people. They
ISent men to Congress and filed the
halls with lobbyists to look after then
interests. In order to hoodwink the
people they said that the tariff was
laid in order to make the difference
between the American and foreign
wages while they knew they were
drawing more money from the country
than the total they paid in wages
Now these manufacturers are saying
they will have to close down if the
duties are taken off. Governor Thomas
has taken the trouble to bring together
a great many letters which are intend
ed to alarm the people by threatening
that there will be a general closing
down. This shows how much protec-
ton is likely to do for the country
when, after thirty years of protection
the industries 1t has fostered are un.
able to stand alone. The Mckinley
bill was complete surrender to the
manufacturing interests. Mckinley
himself has admitted that they wer,
allowed to make their own schedules
The system they pursued was a sys-
tenn of inviting a set of unprincipled
men to walk up and take what
they wanted from the public treas.
nry Now when these special
privileges are threatened to be
taken away a big corruption funo
is being raised by these government
pets to corrupt congressman, if posi-.
bic, into doing their bidding and al
lowing them to still steal from the
people.
To show you that these hard times
are not due to Democracy I refer you
back to the Homestead riots of 1890
and the dozens of kindred happenings
and remind you that because of the Their
beginning evils of the Mckinley bill
the Republican party was swept from
power in 1890 and again in 1892.
The local phase of this question is q
proposition for the people to let the tax
collector come to them and take from
their pockets cents a pound for every
pound of sugar produced by the fac.
tory down here. The sugar people say
they want this in order to give the
farmers more for their beets. But
would it not be better to give the
money to the farmers directly? We
are proud of that sugar factory, be
cause it is a good thing, and we would
like, all of US, to buy Utah sugar, but
do not believe I would be true to m,
oath before my God if I were so un
true to the people as to give away
their money to private individuals.
Chairman 10 Cohen closed the meet
ing with a speech in which he assured
the Democrats that q can1rare of a.