The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-07


will learn better, as we believe they
will, ana they will blame themselves
much more severely than any censure
that may come from others. Following
is the letter:
To the Editor of The Herald.
Now that the smoke of battle has
cleared away, when combatants and
observers alike can look over the Held,
would it not be well for us all TO reason
together a. little?
The Republicans have secured an
other member of the legislature 1t is
Self-evident that nearly all of the old
Liberal party are Republican in poll
tics or that many former Democrats
stayed away from the polls, or II they
did vote lent their support to the other
side If the first suggestion be cor
rect, then Democratic managers can
not find any fault If the second
thought be the right of it, then all
good citizens can justly condemn
person, who, holding the elective fran
chise fails to exercise it at the proper
time and place. 1t is an evidence he
does not appreciate the privilege, and
a further evidence that he is so ignor-
ant of the powers and policy of govern
ment, that he cannot trust his
own judgment. and does not re-
ally consider himself one of the
sovereign rulers of our republic,
and willingly submits to a con-
dition Of governmental rule, which,
| if not satisfactory TO him, he is I'm
willing to try and understand, or help
to change. If the thought that he has
changed his mind is the correct one,
we must say that is a human privilege.
| Conceding that however, it is proper
to ask ourselves on what reasons the
change is based?
The Republican party is great on
charges especially for services never
lperformed) These recent party con-
ventions all have the regulation phrase.
I'VE charge the Democratic party with
being the cause of the hard times. -
Business of all kinds has truly de-
clined, fact SO patent that all can see
1t. Notwithstanding the fact that all
business men of experience have fore
seen the crash coming and for pru-
dental reasons did not wish to publ
cally proclaim it on house tops, yet our
Republican Statesmen (so-called) and
their entire press, seize on to the oc-
caslon as God-send to their party,
as rallying cry to bring back to
them, those who have tired awaiting
the relief that never came When the
true cause that moved these men to so
dastardly an act. it will be said that
love of party supremacy, and not the
love OF peace, home and country was
the all prevailing thought And in sup
port OF such charge what evidence
my friends have they presented to
you! 1t certainly does not lie in the
fact that times are hard in the United
states, because they are hard all over
the world
Poor people are getting poorer else
Where as we'll as with u.s. They have
10 spend less for food and clothing
which lessons the volume of business
30 1t is that no amount of discrimina-
ton against foreign trade. will brina
relief. We are already able to pro
duce more than we eat, and in many
articles to manufacture more than we
need, we make more plows, carriages
pltch forks, hoes, boots and shoes
mowers, reapers, cutlery, ETC.. etc
lheSe manufacturers have had orr
market exclusively to themselves and
have been exporting their goods in
large quantities. yet the universal de-
preston has reached them They have
mad to suspend. or reduce their out
put, notwithstanding the fact they are
able and do charge us more for tbeir
GOODS than they charge the foreigner.
therefore when Democrats vote to
Keep IN power or to place in power a
party who have made us suffer these
hardships because we are Americans
and interested in American industries
and believe in administering a rebuke
TO their own party in that way, and al
the same time, claim to abhor class
Legislation, they are fooling themselves.
ana extending the lease those parties
l, nave on the life blood of our nation.
Think it over, Democrats. and see if #
| is not so. 81 OBSERVER =