The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-21
PUBLIC OPINION.
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Edited by Sam. a. King.
ON THE RECORD.

editorial column of the ] ogan Nation,
Of Aug. 26th, 1892, and we here give il
for the benefit of our republican
friends, who attempt to charge that the
/ haru times have only been upon lis
since MIR. Cleveland's Inauguration in
1898, and that strikes are the result OF
the actions of the present aGministra-
tioH. The Logan republican organ was
honest enough in 1892 to collect and
present in editorial form sort of his
tory of the country covering period of
80 days, during the so-called palmy
days of Benjamin" the grandson Of
his GRANDPA her." Read it and then
ask yourself, if in honesty and truth
fulness, the republicans can claim that
the democracy is responsible for the
condition of the nation at the present
time:
America is at war. When every
ISSUE of the daily press for weeks and
months TEEN with reports of deadly
DCGWGCu ldOOI SOGlbi1S0 anu
militia or national troops, when the
regulars are ordered out almost daily.
when even heavy cannons are brought
into lively acricn every little while,
when fierce and deadly engagements
occur about every week, when entire
companies are captured by a coup de-
etc or pitched battle, and MADE prison
ecs and required to lay down their
arms, when 10000 armed men are in
rebellion against the authorities OF
Tennessee, when 5000 national troops
are sleeping On their arms in Buffalo,
when l 900 armed men in Pennsylvania
captured boat load of the attacking
enemy AID blood flowed like the river
on which the battle was fought, when
the governor of Kentucky is called
upon for troops to crush a race conflict
which 800 negroes are up in arms
against 1000 whites, when the gov
ernor of Wyoming calls for nationa!
troops to suppress raging local rebel
lion, when Idaho calls for the nations
soldiers to put down bloody conflict,
when, we say, all these things occur
within sixty days and every issue Of the
dalies brings startling news from the
bloody scenes of strife and battle. We
say the country is in state of war;
Though war is not declared yet We
have it in all its hideous and rough
vsaged form. Peace mas fed from her
borders. Many sixty days went by
in the late rebellion without half The
carnage that has been reported in the
past two months.
Labor for the first time in 5000 years
has discovered the mighty power of
combination. For example, what can
II men sitting as the board of directors
of the q, P. BY. Co., in Boston do
with 10000 employees who hold physi-
cal possession of the U. 2. line and
property? Harmonious combination is
all that is necessary to enable labor to
plant its foot on the neck of its ancient
despot. And 1t will be planted there.
The days for making brick without
straw" are numbered. Capital shall
no longer sit in princely power while
labor like the dog beneath it's masters
table feeds on crumbs. The day for
equality or anarchy has come. Capital
can make its choice.-Logan Nation,
Aug. Goth, 1892.
From the truths here quoted, We
feel assured that the peoples opinions
can not be moved by the generaities,
mis-statements, sophistries OF would be
republican leaders. That death ard
destruction was tabroad in the land
during the year of 1892 can not be
denied, but during the days of pro-
gression' of the GLORIOUS republican
party" we find other instances where
death, devastation, bankruptcy and
sorrow filed our land, and we need
but consult history to find the events
tell in eloquent but forcible language,
a good illustration was the panic of
1873, and we have pleasure in present
ing a picture or that terrible time,
from the brilliant, eloquent and much
admired republican Robert G.. Inger
sol, as delivered in speech in 1882:
mo man can imagine, all the Ian
guages of the world Cannot express
what the people OF the United States
8 lfered from 1873 to 1879. Men who
considered themselves millionaires
found that they were beggars; men
living III palaces, supposing they had |
enough to give sunshine to the winter |
of their age, supposing they had
enough to have all they loved in afflu-
ence and comfort, suddenly found that
they were mendicants with bonds.
stocks, mortgages, all turned to ashes
in their aged, trembling hands. Tie |
chimneys grew cold, the fires ia fur
naces went out, the poor families were |
turned adrift, and the highways of The
United States were crowded with
tramps. Into the home of the poor
crept the serpent OF temptation, and
whispered into the ear of poverty the |
terrible word Republication.
Il want to tell you that you cannot
conceive of what the American people
suffered as they staggered over the
desert of bankruptcy from 1873 to 1879.
We are too near now to know how
grand we were. The poor mechanics
said NO. the ruined manufacturer
said Mo- the once millionaire said
NO, we will settle fair; We will agree
to pay whether we ever pay or not, AMI