The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-24
"LOGIC AND TRUTH

For at least ten years, to be moder-
ate as to time, a Republican paper kept
up a continual stream of assertion that
all the calamities of the times, labor
troubles, trade disputes, panics, depres-
sions, strikes, the tramp nuisance
crime, suicide, insanity, pauperism and
the decrease of marriages, were the
direct results of the characterization OF
silver in 1878 Also that this financial
wrong was done by the Republican
party, which would be thrown out OF
power unless it repaired it's own error.
And that the tariff had nothing to dc
with the terrible prostration of the
agricultural interests of the country
and other evils, but that it was all due
to the throwing away of half the
money of the nation
The people of the United States, suf-
fering all the ills described as the eff
ects of bad silver legislation, some OF
them perceiving the evil results of anti
silver laws but most of them believing
that they were caused by the ruinous
effects of a high protective tariff, by
which certain classes were fostered
and fattened at the expense of the
masses and the impoverishment of the
working people, arose in wrath and
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ed the wrong by increasing the tariff.
Before TIE party elected to correct the
abuses complained of could possibly
take any active steps in that direction,
the troubles which had been increasing
for two decades burst forth in the full
ness of their fury. Immediately the
Repub lican party which had sown the
seeds Of these sorrows. commenced to
charge them upon their victorious op-
ponents. They exaggerated everything.
They increased the panic which had
set in, by their representations of evil
and their magnifying through the press
of every financial failure and business
disaster
Then the Republican sheet which had
traced their calamities to the ode
monetization" of silver, hundreds of
times which had prophesied general
ruin as its consequence, which had de-
clared over and over again that tariff
or no tariff the restoration OF silver
would in a month revive trade, set
money flowing freely, open every clos
ed mill and forge and workshop and
brighten up the country as with a
TRANSPORTATION, suddenly turned
round and echoed the cowardly and
ridiculous clamor of its party, that the
Democrats who had not yet fairly laid
hold of the reins of government were
the authors of all these fruits of Re
publican malalministration.
When confronted with the proofs of
it's perffdy in the shape of few of it's
own utterances of the most recent
publication, branding it's own party as
the cause of the troubles, showing that
they had been increasing for twenty
one years and started with the Republi-
can silver swindle of S73, it rears up,
shows it's species and ITS breeding, by
braying out that the writer who makes
the quotations is "a wise ass and this
sort of argument it speaks of as truth
and logic
1t is said there are two kinds of the
animal which our refined contemporary
is SO fond of mentioning and for which
it evidently has family affection, and
we are inclined to think it has the
qualities of both. But neither of them
is described as wise or Sorry the
favorite adjectives used by our neigh
Dor in this connection.
The truth is, the Republican party
deposed silver as a money metal If
all the troubles of the times are due to
that act the logical deduction is con-
elusive that the Republican party is
responsible for these troubles. Our
very unwise contemporary has contend
ed for ten years that silver demoneti-
cation was the real original cause. .
Now let it take the logical consequence
or announce that it was wrong, or fold
up its ears and cease braying against
the Democrats, or the public will catch
on to the fact that it is calling rational
people by its own name.