The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-25
PROVO CITY. AUG. 25.
POLITICAL YAGAR les.

The great Tribune deals only in
vagaries these days simply because 1t
has nothing in the shop, save and eX-
cept that sort of thing. 1t is true its
readers may be a little tired of the
pabulum but they must gulp it down
whether or no. 1t seems that fool
named Stanley in Indiana, heard Con-
gressman Bynum declare that by vot-
ing the democratic ticket the farmers
would receive Sl.25 for their whea in
stead of 80 cents they were getting at
the time and the 40 cents they have
been getting this year, so far. Now
the Tribune doesn't just say explicitly
that Stanley will be able to recover
the difference if he sues Bynum, but
what it does say is tauntamount to this.
OF course its object is to teach that the
slump in wheat represented by the
then price and the present, is due to
the policy of the democratic national
party. The ignorant and the unthink-
ing are caught by just such chaff, and
the Tribune would win votes by the
dishonest method if it could. Wheat
has followed silver up and down with
great regularity and entire certainty.
There is no need telling the Tribune
that neither Mr.. Bynum nor the demo-
cratic national administration are re-
sponsible for the fell act of reducing
silver from money relation, to a COM
modify relation to commerce. 1t knows
that well, but am9ny its readers are
those who will see in lis sta;emsnt
solemn truth and predicate vote upon
il. This is what the Tribune in
tended. This is what we denominate
dishonest methods. 1t is true it is but
a low order of intelligence which is
controlled by this sort of argument,
however the uncomplimentary fact re-
mains that there are American voters
who are SO controlled and it is to these
the Tribune is catering.
1t lie glad that the news is brought to
Utah. From its estimate of the intel
llgence of the people of Utah made
years and years since, it imagines that
this sort of argument will win republi-
can votes among the farmers here.
These modes are unworthy any man
IaIIDooS Or uecency
of any kind. The Tribune has eX-
hausted argument and drops off easy
into misrepresentation and ndicule.
No American political party has ever
INDUCED in misrepresentation to the
extent the republican party has. Its
whole existence is based upon pre-
tense. 1t tells the negros that it made
war upon the south simply to free
them, to bring to them the blessings Of
freedom and all others which come in
the train of that, when its real object
was only to destroy the extraordinary
prosperity of that section, of which it |
had become insanely jealous and their |
freedom was only mere incident to
that object, Its pretense that by de-
stroying one half of an already too
mSdRI0 Supply VI uIOuof III lGS WlCk0u
demonetization of silver, thus giving
the poor better chance of acquiring
it, is scarcely less wicked and false
than its raid upon the negro property
of the south. Its false claim that in
the fabulous subsidies granted the
Union Pacific railway system, it was
only serving the highest interests of
the nation, when really its leaders and
pampered favorites were to be made
rich by taxing the masses
is only another baseless pretense. We
should say that party with such a
record as this behind it would think
twice ere it attempted to array the
speakers on the question
of Yenial pretense such as this of
Bynum's or the local democrats in Utah.
Neither Mr.. Stanley nor a simple
farmer In Utah are any worse off with
wheat to sell even at the lowest price
than they would have been with no
wheat at all to sell