The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21
JOSEPH F. AND JOHN HENRY.
Something About That "OnIy Repub.
1ican LegisIatureo

Some of the Democrats can read
Some OF them read history. Joseph
f. Smith at the Seventeenth ward
westinghouse on the 10th inst
There's lots o things in that speech.
but when Joseph said that, how could
John Henry keep still. The ignorance
of Democrats has been mighty theme
with that same John Henry But as
Joseph F. takes the lead in the mys-
teries and has asserted that all of our
industries are Republican, if he has
found out that some of the Demo-
Gratis read" startling as the discovery
may prove to be in either case, John
Henry will no doubt govern himself
accordingly.
Surely no Democrat can take any ex-
ception to such a statement as that 1t
was not intended for anything but a,
compliment.
If he had said the greater part of
them read it would have been differ
ent. But some is so indefinite in ap-
plication that it can be construed to
mean a host or only a very small per-
centage.
Democrats, in Utah especially.
should feel gratified to receive such a
fiattering notice from him.
But since the election of 1898, and it
was demonstrated that Utah had cleo
ted a. Republican legislature, he has
such cause to rejoice, he evidently
wants to give them all the notoriety
he can.
But what that Republican legisla-
ture did for the cause of education and
to maintain the credit of Utah and to
abolish the fee system, when oppor-
tunity was offered them, will compel
him to turn on his search light again
to discover it, But he will find the
bounty on beets, bounty on canaigre
root and bounty on silk worms all to
be paid out of what was to be taken
from the general school fund
Farmers wanted to raise more beets
at S. per ton than the sugar company
would buy, but that luminous body.
the legislature, thought the state
should give them an extra. fifty cents
a ton, if those beets should be richer
in Saccharine matter than the contract
called for
You see, if you are not blind, if the
beets were worth more for sugar the
Republican idea was for the state to
pay the beet raiser for it, notwith-
standing the sugar company would get
the benefit of it. But if the season
and conditions were against the raiser,
and his beets fell below the per cent.
IN the contract, his beetS would not be
sold at So, nor would the poor fellow
be getting a bounty, when he most
needed it to bring his returns up to
standard price.
All! That was a Republican legis-
lature with all that protection in the
far west implies. That is, bless those
who are doing well enough. and the
poor fellow who is down and his beets
below the required richness, must keep
on in his struggle. Government was
ir,fa lad RI a1y hi in, h; ,-i
ness, only those who are doing well.
Republicanize Utah, and her Repub-
lican legislature will take care of
some" of the enterprises in our state,
and we can pay taxes to foot the bills.
Yes, Utah elected a Republican leg
islature utterly without backbone
enough to resist the demands
of demagogues to plumber the
treasury for some pets, who are like
who hath three daughters crying,
'givei give! give!"
And yet Republicans talk on the
stump about what a deficit confronted
them in the expense account of the
territory. They ought to tell on what
account it was created.
And if looker-on can see anything
but an enormous deficit that will stare
the next legislature in the face he has
a happy vision.
And it will be created by necessity
for the management of our educational
institutions to eXpend large sums of
money in excess of the appropriations
for their maintenance. To appropriate
money to pay only one class of farmers
(beet growers) a bounty, and withhold
support sufficient TO maintain in dignity
our state institutions of learning, is
something our friend Joseph can point
to with pride and indicate as one of
Democrats to admit Utah as a sover- |
eign state into the Union.
Yes, Joseph F., some of the Demo- |
Gratis read history" and your last leg
islature made little, which voters in |
Utah ought to make a note of.
DEMOCRAT.