The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-29
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS

To the People CT Utah. Delivered at Salt
Lake City On Saturday, June 10th, By
the Territorial Democratic Convention
ResoEUed, That as the convention was
not called TO make nominations OF
formulate platform or principles the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention 10 be presented IN
the form of an address to the people OF
Utah:
We. the democrats of Utah, in con-
vention assembled, hereby declare our
devotion To the time honored principles
of the democratic party as Enumerated
In the national platforms and imbed-
ded in the harts Of its members.
We are emphatically in favor of
equal rights to all and special privil-
eyes TO none; of the greatest possible
liberty to every individual compatible
with the pubic welfare; of the advance
ment anG support of nome industries;
of the maintenance of local self-gOVern-
ment to the fullest rightful extent;
and of a strict construction of the ma
tional constitution.
We are in favor of such reform of
the tariff as is consistent with the IN
terests of the consumer and the pro-
Queer. and declare that duties upon
foreign imports should be levied upon
the luxuries, so far as possible, and not
upon the necessaries of life, for the
purpose of providing revenue for the
necessary expenses of government, and
not for the special benefit of any class
or priyate enterprise We sre opposed
TO Ebe bounty system, by which the
many are taxed for the enrichment OF
few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trriff reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
FOR an income tax by which those large
property holders who are best able
shall bear their just share of the bur
den of taxation. And we denounce the
obstructive policy of the republicans
in congress, 10y which needed meas
ure to provide public revenue is de
layed, causing uncertainty and doubt
in commercial and manufacturing
circles. and thus paralyZlng industry
end arresting trade. To the factious
hindrances which are still thrown in
the way of the Wilson bill by replbli.
can senators are due to the slow pro-
gress it is making and the disasters
that are consequent upon the delay.
w
TO the co. stitutional position it occu~
MED as money previous to the act of
1873. low which the republican party
cast down that historic and essential
money metal, and caused the increas-
ing disasters which, beginning with
the panic of 1873 and bursting forth at
intervals with terrible severity, de-
preesing the agricultural Interests at
Il arau4inF IlnTpEf onn die
content am ing the oppr sSed laboring
classes and increasing the armies OF
tramps which swarmed over the land,
eliminated in the panic of 1898 and
still spreads its blight upon trade and
industry.
We call attention to the undeniable |
fact that the republican party took the |
government from the democratic ad |
ADMINISTRATION in 1859, with more than a |
hundred million dollars in the national |
treasury and turned it back to the |
democratic party in 1898 with treasury |
practically bankrupt.
We denounce the silver policy of the |
reuublican party as a system of miser- |
able makeshifts to palllate the repub- |
ican financial crime of 1873, and de- |
Glaze that only in and through the |
democratic party can the people of the |
United States expect the re-establish- |
ment of true bimetalism, which in
cludes the free coinage of silver at the |
ratio of Is to ] with gold. We believe |
that this can be done with safety and !
prOft TO this nation by American &C. |
ton, independent of European agree |
ment if international cooperation can |
not be Immediately obtained.
We denOunce the republican policy |
of protection as embodied In the lnfa- |
nous Mckinley law and reafirmed by
that party in its most recent utter |
spces. We regard it as an assistant |
agency to the pTostration of silver In |
producing the poverty and distress and
social calamities of various kinds which |
still afflict our country
We deny that the high tariffs placed |
upon lead and wool and other commod- |
tiles have raised their price or benefit |
ed the producer of such materials, |
while they have been oppressive and |
detrimental to the consumer and the |
country at large.
We cordially endorse the democratic |
congress and administration:
In repeating the obnoxious federal
election law and thus promoting the
freedom of elections.
In formulating and endeavoring to
enact a bill to reform the existing eX-
Orbitant system OF tariffs.
In revising the pension lists, so that
while all persons deserving the aid OF
the country for services in Its defense
shall be secured in their rights, lmpost-
ers and fraudulent pension agents |
shall not be permitted to further bleed |
the body polite.
In the exercise of the federal forces
to suppress lawlessness where power to |
do so is clearly vested in the federal au-
thority, and declining to Interfere when |
il would intrude on the rights of a local
government.
In the restoration to the church of |
Jesus Christ OF Latter-day Saints prop |
erty confscated under the provisions of |
congressional law and We favor the |
immediate restoration also of the real
property 80 escheated in view of the |
now indlsputable fact that no preteXs
remains for charging that the majority /
of the people of Utah are in opposition
TO national authority.
In the passage through the house
and it's report in the senate of a liberal
and excellent bill for the admission of
Utah as a state on an equal footing
with the existing states; and we urge
its speedy enactment as a measure of
simple Justice to the oldest and mort /
prosperous of the existing territories.
In the appointment OF bona hde resi-
dents of the territory to the various |
offices in the gift of the government in
stead of men from other sections OF the |
country unfamiliar with our people and }
the situation of our affairs as was |
the rule under republican sdministra-
tions.
And we further endorse all efforts to |
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