The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-01

for fear of being censured as immodest,
for it is not
POLITICAL NOTES.
the tariff has come at last and it has come
to stay.-Atlanta Journal. Oem.)
This is the stubborn fact that worries
the protectionists So 1t is a step forward
and will never be retracted.
The Democratic masses will be encour-
aged now as they often have been before
by the manly and explicit words of the
president.-Sioux City Tribune.
The presidents words were remarkably
conservative in tone and will be generally
commended.
The American people will accept the
challenge, and when it has a chance to de-
clare its will through the ballot box it
will put the Democratic party where it
can do 70 farther mischief.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press Q9ep0
This is said concerning Cleveland's let
ter to Catchings. The Democrats ask
nothing better than to have the Republic
cans take up McKinleyism as an issue.
The board general proposition that not
the most accomplished pettifogger on the
Democratic side of the House will be able
TO avoid, much less to meet is that the
party as a whole has exhibited an utter
inability to deal with the affairs of the
natlon from an economic point OF view
New York Commercial Advertiser (Rep)
To the Republican the only economical
point of view is the protectionist one and
that is the reverse of economical.
The presidents Catchings letter is an
argument in favor of free trade addressed
to a man who is already a free-trader.-
San Francisco Call (Rep.)
1t is the letter of an ardent tariff re-
former on the question uppermost in the
minds of the people, the question on which
they voted two years ago and elected Mr..
Cleveland.
The country will not lose sight of the
bearing Of Mr.. .Cleveland's letter upon the
present Pre- fd ,c cam nIs He has again forced
behooves Republicans. the friends of the
national policy of protection, to organize
for an effective and triumphant, struggle
against Cleveland, Democracy and English
free trade.-San Francisco Chronicle
Rep)
The country will not lose sight of the
tariff issue, and it will take care that
there is no return to MciKnleyisn.
McKinleyism is dead. and Mckinley
The tariff that expired yesterday has
brought unnumbered disasters upon the
country but with it's departure we al
ready feel the thrill of coming prosperity.
San Francisco Examiner Dem)
McIlinleyism is dead and dead beyond
the power of redemption.
He could easily have preserved his own
integrity without giving the opponents of
reform an opportunity to say as they are
already saying, that the Democrats passed
bill so bad that even their own president
would not sign it.. 1t was not necessary
to place his party friends under the disad
vantage of having to explain that letting
the bill become a law was practically as
good as signing it.-Chicago Herald Qnd.)
To the opponents of tariff reform it is
matter of indifference what they say,
and one thing will serve them as well as
another, and have about the same weight.
McKinleyism made the sugar trust. Mr..
Reed and his party are responsible for
the creation of this modern Frankensteln
which has sliced and throttled the Senate
of the United States.-Boston Post
Oem).
1t was one of those infant industries
fathered by the Republican party.
The separation of municipal from other
elections will do more than anything else
to improve city politics and government,
and hence nothing should be done to
jeopardiZe the success of the REFORM
N. Y. Herald Qnd).
This is matter worthy of serious
thought by all who are interested in the
best municipal government.
The president would have been wiser,
both on his own and his party's account,
not to have written to Mr.. Catehings.-
Omaha Bee Rep.).
This is very much the same class of
criticism made upon the famous tariff
message of 1857.
The tariff question will be all the more
carefully studied and fully. understood
because of the long struggle IN Congress.
The people have been gong t q .3 gf an
of which Will be realized in future cleo
tions.-Minneapolis Times Dem.).
The manner in which the House tariff
bill was treated by the Senate was vex-
atious, but it helped to greatly empha-
size the struggle for the peoples rights.
1t will serve educational purposes.
The Mckinley tariff advent was fol.
lowed by an unprecedented volume OF
trade, by an unprecedently prosperous
condition of all classes, and by strikes
so far as strikes were waged-for IN
crease of wages by men who were earn
ing from $50 to $l4 per day The threats
of repeal of that tariff have been fol
lowed by reduction of wages, by restric..
ton, almost amounting, to cessation, OF
trade, and by general adyersity-Chlcago
Inter-Ocean (Rep.).
The Mckinley bill was also followed by
one of the greatest panics and periods
of depression the country has ever
known. There was marked improve
ment in business when that law ceased
to be operative and the new tariff bill
went into effect.
From practical standpoint it made
no difference whether the president al
lowed the bill to become law without
his signature or signed it. Fan = a party sdt;g
standpoint, however it would have been
better had he signed the bill and thus
Joined with the tariff refprmeSTis s,s Of Con- on
clared to be "a vast Improvement to ex-
listing conditions. Omaha World-Herald.
The main thing is that the new tariff bill
has replaced the ubiquitous MCKINLEY
law.
PEOPLE or PROMINENCE.