The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-04
POLITICAL NOTES.


Congressman Wilson showed himself a
thorough American in. his speech before
the London chamber Of commerce, tues
day evening. In the friendly contest for
resentatives of British trade that the
United States was now prepared to give
them a hard tussle.-Boston Post (Dem).
Every protective measure directly in
yites to speculation beforeSit becomes a
law, while it is pending in Congress. Wit
ness the recent speculation in sugar and
whisky 1t encourages speculation after
it becomes law. 1t puts certain INDUS
tries on a false and artificial basis. 1t
first puts up prices and then stimulates
to excessive and unbalanced production.
which necessarily ends in collapse of
prices and panic.-Chlcago Herald Qnd).
Arbitration is but natural resort when
two sides to a controversy cannot agree.
1t has been steadily gaining in popular
tional issues and the settlement of labor
disputes Had it been resorted to in the
Pullman controversy the great strike
which followed, with all it's deplorable
consequences, might have been averted.-
N. Y. Herald Qndo.
Many of the most active advocates of
Judge Holcomb'S nomination were Mr.
Boyd's most earnest supporters. Seeing
the imposslbility of electing their own
candidate to Congress many of the in
dependents of the Second district Will
support Governor Boyd in order to defeat
Congressman Mercer, in return for the
support the Democrats are giving to
Judge Holcomb and other Popultst cand1-
dates.-Omaha World-Herald Pop).
One good effect of the repeal of the
federal election laws is already seen IN
the growing demand of the southern peo-
pie for honest elections under state laws;
This is precisely what was expected and
predicted by the advocates of repeal so
long as outside authority was interfering.
often most effectively, human nature
prompted resentment of such meddhng
and public sentiment would not convict
offenders.-N. Y. Evening Post Qnd.).
Kansas men. being of better than aver
age intellectual abilities very properly
ascrbe their condition to the robber tariff
laws and the laws made in the interest
of eastern manufacturers and capitalists
by Mckinley and his fellows in Congress
who eonspired against the common peo-
pie. Farming in Kansas has been con-
Quoted at a loss, the people of the state
have yearly advanced closer to poverty
under the operation of laws passed to
keep down the price of agricultural pro-
ductS.-Chicago Times Oem.).
The refiners are the only importers of
raw sugar who consume 1t in preparing
their goods for use. Under the new law,
therefore. they pay the import duty to
the government and because of the anti
trust feature of the new law they are
restrained from advancing the price of
sugar. In other words the new law pre-
sents to the people s45.000.000 gained in
revenue and from S12.0O0,000 to $4,000 900
year saved by the discontinuance of the
bounties.-Kansas City Times (Dem.).
The cry against corporal punishment, in
an institution like this, is pure sentiment
talism and nothing else. 1t is the prac-
tically unanimous opinion of those famil-
lar with the criminals who are sent to
reformatories that there is no other argu-.
ment that will reach a certain number OF
them so expeditiously and with so little
sacrifice of what remnants of. good are
left in them.-St. Paul Pioneer Press
(Rep). .
The allegation that the amendments
to the New York constitution are intend
ed to give the Republicans a party adj
vantage is supported by the final vote on
their adoption. The vote stood 50 to 40,
all of the affirmative votes being cast by
Republicans. Three Republicans voted
with the Democrats against the revised
constitution.-Phi Philadelphia Ledger Rep).
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