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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATOR'S

For many years there have been adj
vocates Of the election of senators by
direct vote of the people. There are good
arguments both ways on the question.
The demand for the popular election
Of senator's has been accumulated by the
course of the Senate of late. and a.
resolution has been passed by the
House looking to an amendment to the
Constitution. 1t is not probable it will
come to anything
Senators are really the representa-
tives Of the states in the national leg
islature, and their presence there
marks the peculiar form of our govern
ment. There are other bicameral ma
tional legislatures, but they are funda-
mentally different. The Lords in Eng
land represent the hereditary branch
of the legislature, and their right to sit
in the upper house is the survival of
feudal times when there were no Com
mons. AS the barons forced John to
grant them the Great Charter so the
Commons in turn have forced the
Lords to recognize and grant their
rights. 1t is entirely different with the
United States. The Senate represents
the states and is the very sign of the
federal character of the government
For this reason the representatives of
the states in the national legislature
were chosen by the state government.
1t is difficult to say whether the cleo
ton of senators by the people direct is
desirable or not. While it would prob
ably cure some evils it would in all
probability be attended by other evils
The nomination of Wayne Macyeagh
by the Democrats in convention in Hi
nois has set~a precedent that is more
than likely to be followed. If this pre-
cedent shall be more or less adopted,
then the same thing will result as in
the election of president. He is still
nominally elected by the college of cleo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
THE REED-LoDGE "rDEE.,

| Perhaps the leading gold standard pa
per Of the United States is the New
York Evening Post 1t has always been
an anti-silver paper and has never
sought to straddle the question. 1t
sees things clearly and expresses its
views frankly and without equivoca-
| ton. In its issue Of the 18th inst. is an
| editorial on 1.-The Waning of a Great
'Idee,'" in which it discusses the Reed
Lodge 'idee" of Republican free silver.
All are familiar with that abortion, and
how it was intended to force England
to consent to an enlarged use of silver
by system of tariff discrimination. In
discussing the "idee" and how it has
waned, the Post comments on the Hi
nois, Iowa, and Wisconsin platforms.
and their position regarding silver. 1t
says:
With its very father thus disowning
| it, it is not surprising that this free
silver bantling was looked upon very
much aSkance in the state conventions
of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The
Iowa platform is, of course, anxious TO
say a good word for all kinds of finan-
| cial isms, but has the root of the matter
| in 1t When 1T declares that there must
be no use of silver Inconsistent with
the permanent maintenance of eouaI
values of ali dollars in circulation.
| The Illinois platform is not greatly diff
lferent, favoring gold and silver fsupon
a parity of values with complete infer
lcontervertibility," and giving no coun-
tenance at all to the Reed invention.
But it was left for the Wisconsin Re.
lpublicanS to be true to their record for
sound money, and to put forth the fol-
lowing outspoken and encouraging de-
lclaration: I'VE are opposed to any
lscheme that will give the country de-
lpreciated and debased currency We
favor the use of silver as a currency to
the extent only that it can be circulated
on parity with gold" This is little
Ishort of direct condemnation of the
lReed-Lodge scheme" and probably
marks its permanent retirement.
There never was a more absurd
idea than this Reed-Lodge 'idee." The
honest advocates of free silver desire it
because there is scarcity of money,
and that owing to this scarcity trade is
more or less hampered and restricted.
The Rsed-Lodge 'idee" was to still fur
Their restrict trade with the one nation
that buys by far the most Of our sur
plus products of all kinds. To further
restrict this trade was really to enlarge
the volume Of currency and make less
necessary the enlarged use of silver as
money Then how puerile it was to en-
terrain for single moment the thought
that by cutting off our own noses we
Icould spite England's face Great ma
tons are not bulldozed into the adop-
ton of this or that monetary standard
by threats of tariff discrimination; and
great nations do not employ such meth
|ods to accomplish their aims
The Reed-Lodge scheme was a snare
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

land delusion from beginning to end.
Under pretext of fayoring silver it was
Thought the West would come unani-
Imously to the support of the Republican
party. But the West was not to. be
icaught so easily. Like all Republican
schemes it was sailing under false col
.ors; someone else's fingers were to be
burned to get the chestnuts out of the
fire. The particular chestnut in this
lease was more protection. To suppose
that two such astute and practiced pol
Iiticians as Reed and Lodge did not
know that to even suggest the coercion
Iof John Bull would rouse all his ire and
and make him as intract-
ible as mule in a mud hole is to sup
pose them as innocent and inoxperi-
fenced as the Babes in the Woods. The
truth is they really expected to find the
people Of the West Babes in the Woods.
But the babes of the West are not to be
deceived into taking sterilized chalk
and water for milk. England refusing
to be coerced was to be Disseminated
against. The scheme seemed plausible
and was apparently prompted by pure
NSAAObASAAiJ anu q QSSII9 " llttIJ
the silver cause. All this was mere
seeming. The real object was to get
more protection that the people might
be plundered while their attention was
diverted to something else. 1t was
amuse the people that you may plumber
the people.
The Reed-Lodge 'idee" has not found
favor, and this is well. Had it, the mi
quitous system of protection would have
been given renewed life and a longer
lease, while to the friends of silver it
would have been said: I'VE have done
all that was possible to give silver a
show. 1t is England that is the enemy
of silver and not the Republican party
The salvation of silver is in American.
not in English hands
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The Tribune is just a little put out
at the big boom some of the eastern
papers are giving Colonel Isaac Trum-
DO. There can be nothing personal in
this on the part of the gentleman who
penned the article for we are informed
on the best of Republican authority
that he has declared he would accept
no office within the gift of the people.
Now, we do not care what Colonel
Trumbo's expectations are nor whether
he has any understanding with the
Mormon or any other church. But the
gentleman is too prominent and in
huential in Republican circles to be
ignored. Is not the Tribune little be-
hind the times in talking about Demo-
cratic church papers? II we desired
to retort il kind we might say the Tri-
bune was still as it always has been. a
Republican anti-Mormon church paper.
Don't let Trumbo's ambitions worry
you. Take dish of his celebrated ice
cream and cool off. 1t only costs five
cents a package.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
SUPPOSE.

Suppose, my dear, that you were 1,
= And by your side your sweetheart safe
The distress 'twiXt you were too graet
Now tell me. dead, what would you do?
l know-and SO do you!
And then $50 comfortably placed),
Suppose you only grew aware
That that dear, dainty little waist
OF hers looked very lonely there:
Pray tell me, sooth-what would you do?
know-and SO do you'll
Then having done what l just did
With not a frown to check or chill,
Suppose her red lips seemed to bid
Defiance to your lordly will;
Oh, tell me. sweet, what would you do?
know-and so do you'll
Eugene Field in Exchnge.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The farmers of Nebraska will have
the sympathy of all in the loss they
will sustain through the drought and
hot winds that have swept over the
state and killed the crops. If a system
of reservoirs could be created in the
state, (and there are ample rains in
the spring to furnish water), then the
crops could be saved from perishing
through drought Nor would the hot
winds so wither them if water could be
had to irrigate them. A recourse to
irrigation would only be necessary at
intervals of several years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The wrecking of the st. Louis ex-
press on the Ohio & Mississippi rail-
way. near Cochran, Ind, was doubtless
the work Of someone in whose heart
fingers bitterness over the failure of
the strikes in that state as wen as the
failure Of the general strike. If the
niscreants who open switches that
wrecks may occur could be caught in
the act there would be little danger of
their escaping punishment The wreck
ing Of or attempting TO wreck, trains.
whether passenger or freight, should
be made murder in the first degree, and
the punishment death. If the killing of
single individual maliciously is
murder, how much more criminal is
the wholesale malicious killing of peo-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

own efforts or submit to the Mckinley
law, the public infer that the senator is
in the pay of the trust, and if the SEN
Iator denies that under oath, the public
infer that he has sworn falsely.-N. Y.
Times Dem.).
And no protest or denunciation on the
part of any senator can make the peo-
pie draw any other inference or modify
the one already made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
HIS PREFERENCE.

Come here my little son, and see
What God has given you and me;
A tiny baby, fair and sw eet,
With dimpIed hands and cunning feet,
1t won't be long ere he can play
And frolic with you every day"
But Johnnie sadly shook his head
The teardrops fell upon his coat
Then, sobhing audibly he said:
I'D rather had er billy-goat."
New Orleans Tines-Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

1t IL said the war between China and
Japan is being carried on in utter dis
regard of the rules of civilized war
fare. This means that the Chinese and
Japanese think that if people are just
flied in going to war to kill each other
they are justified in killing people 10
any way when they get a chance.
This is not civilized warfare. but it is
logical warfare. If nations were really
civilized there would be no warfare.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

Casimir-Perier does not smoke, and
the discovery of this fact has created
a commotion in Paris. Here is another
example for the Little boy who smokes
cigarettes. Throw away your cigarette
and you may become a president.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The great exodus to Europe of arts
ans and other workingmen from New
York may be explained on the ground
that they wish to come back from Ire
land so they will be eligible to a posi-
ton on the force.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

Dove, Leonard and Zeitung are all
tailors and have all invented bullet
proof shields. Their fame will soon en-
title them to term themselves I'VE the
people," displacing the Three Tailors OF
Tooley street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The Women's Home Industry Asso-
citation is interested in the cultivation
of the silk worm. The Mems Home In
dustry Association is interested in the
cultivation of the bee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The New York Republicans are GALL
ing for harmony. After the election
they win be calling for explanations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

Rudy's Pile Suppository is guaran.
,teed to cure Piles and Constipation
or money refunded. 80 cents per box
Send stamp for circular and free sam,
pie to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa
For sale by Godbe-Pitts Drug Co., Salt
Lake city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

German as well as Hill is a Shakes
pearean scholar. His arraignment of
Cleveland was Loves Labour Lost"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
THE CoMMoNwEALER

Yes some of us has gone ter work;
1t had ter come ter pass,
We couldn't earn three meals a day
A keepin' off the grass.
Washington Star.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

Horses usually make their fast time
in harness; people usually make theirs
out of harness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

Corbett could silence Debs the next
time he opens his mouth sooner than all
the courts in the country. Give him a
trial.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

If George Gould develops such a tai
ent for taking in ships as his father
did for railroads, the British navy is
doomed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The New York Mail and Express
says. Probably MI Cleveland regrets
writing that letter" It is quite certain
that German does.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

All the papers are discussing the
duty of the hour. 1t is the duty of the
clock to strike the hour when it comes
around
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

Since Hill quit quoting Shakespeare
all the poetry has gone out of the tariff
debate
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The outward movement of gold, no
lticeable this week as heretofore, alarms
inc sensible person. for every sensible
lperson knows that without the circula-
Ition of gold back and forth between
New York and London our foreign
trade would languish. The gold that
goes out now will come back later to
move our crop exports.-N. Y. World
IDem).
Of course this is true. There is no
necessity whatever for a bond issue.
The movement of gold between New
York and London cannot be used much
longer for a lever to raise bond issue.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01


Already there is too much ground for
the bitter complaint which is often
heard, that the only people who have
to pay their fare are those who cannot
afford to. The essential bribery which
turks in a practice that grants favors
(and valuable favors, too to legislators
and judges who have the making and
constituting of laws affecting the grant
ors is not the only evil of the system.
When it reaches the. wholesale proper
tons which now exist, it seriously
diminishes the earning capacity of
railroads. interferes with their power
to pay dividends, and prevents reduc-
tons of rates. N. Y. Evening Post
Qnd). ii r.
The free pass system among pub
lie officials is a disgrace. The giving of
passes to public officials can only have
the effect of making them friendly to
the interests that are favorable to
them. 1t is a species of corruption.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Philadelphia Times Dem), COM
menting on the appointment under the
O'Neil law of a commission to inves-
tigate the recent strike, says:
The commissioners can spend weeks
Investigating the dead strike, and their
report at the end of that time will not
change the facts in the case, which
have already become history. The pow
ers of the commissioners will end with
their report, and neither Congress nor
any other power can enact laws that
will compel employers or employees to
abide the result of an arbitration if
they do not want to. The right of the
individual to judge what wages he can
pay is inviolate, and all the laws,
courts and commissioners in the uni
verse cannot deprive him of the right.
To make arbitration compulsory and
grant the arbitrators power to enforce
their decision, would be to deprive the
individual of freedom of action.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The Coxeyites who have been eking
out miserable existence about Wash
lington by begging now demand that
! congress shall make an appropriation
| to send them back to their homes. They
ishould be relieved, not by an appropria-
ton taken from the public treasury to
which all contribute, but by the assist
ance of those who protested to be their
friends and who took it upon them
selves to encourage the movement. =
Kansas City Star Qnd. Dem).
The movement having lost its politi-
cal, or supposed political, significance,
those who aided the cause by encourag-
ling the 'industrials'' to go to Washing
ton, will now withdraw even their SYM
lpathy. The Coxeyites and Kelleyites
are no longer heroes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

We have a duty imposed upon us in
all this business in the far east, and
that is to exert our influence in favor of
Japan by all possible moral and diplo-
matte means in our power.-N. 7. Her
aid Qnd.).
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01
But our duty goes no further.

Another thing which is becoming evil
dent is that the Senate is furnishing the
strongest argument for the amendment
of the constitution which shall bring
that body into closer responsibility to
the people. The only way to check this
Decentralization Of the highest legislative
body in the land is to make its men,
bers elective by popular vote.-Boston
Post Dem.).
+ The Senate itself has done more this
session of Congress to advance the de-
mand for the election of senators direct
by the people than anything else.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

German, Caffery and Blanchard have
the Democratic party by the throat
What is to be done about it? The Sen
ate bill is better than the Mckinley
law Half a loaf is better than no
City Times Dem).
Half a loaf is better than no loaf, but
lit is clearly insufficient.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

When senator declares that the
House must grant the Sugar trust the
protection it has secured through his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

1t is believed that many Democrats
in Congress. especially in the Senate,
having seen how destructive to Amer
lean interests their principles are, and
how thoroughly disliked by the people,
are not in favor of wholesale destruc-
ton. After the declarations they have
made, it will be interesting to see if
forty-three of them can be whipped in
to line.-Denver Republican (Rep.).
Democrats have always seen how de-
structive to American prosperity the
Republican principles of protection are.
1t is not a question of whipping forty
three men into line. 1t is a question of
how many traitors will join the Re
publican ranks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

Senator Villas did not make a sue
cessful defense of the president in his
speech yesterday. Mr. Villas once upon
a time acquired a reputation in Wis
consin as an orator. He is a large man.
with a heavy resounding voice.-Mail
and Express Rep.).
The president needed no defense for
his letter, which will account forVilas'
shortcomings, if there were any
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-01

The main trouble of the Senate is it's
theoretical courtesy 1t is courtesy
more in theory than in fact. This sham
has been a stumbling block in the past,
and unless the Senate adopts some rule
by which interminable discussion will
no longer be permitted, it will always
be a barrier to legislation.-F Florida
Times-Union Dem.).
Seatorial courtesy is too often only
a name and means for filibustering and
obstructing legislation. Under this
name more discourteous deeds are. done
than is generally dreamed of.
, 1894-03-14
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