The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-20
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has made several spasmodic attempts
at this, but in such jerl1y and halt
ing manner as to give direct evidence
that, to use one of its own elegant quo
taItions, it has tbftten off more than it
can chew" and is seized with another
of it's frequent attacks of journalistic
chorea.
In reference to the arraignment of the
Republican party for having brought
the laboring classes into the conditions
under which they suffer-" it asks the.
question:
''If that is true, how is it that Re
pubicanS were smart enough to keep
loft this condition until the Democrats
got into power?'
The answer is, because they didn't
Those conditions are, as stated in the
resolutions, the elimination of disas-
tiers that burst forth from time to time
with increasing violence from 1873, I'M
til they reached their fun force, before
the Democratic party had the oppor-
tunity TO make even a commencement
of the reforms which it was placed in
power to effect.
1t was those disasters that led the
people OF this country to arise in their
might and demand change. The
effects of the long rule OF the high
tariff anti-silver party OF monopolies
and class legislation were so oppressive
and disastrous to the masses, that they
determined to throw off the yoke of
the party responsible for those condi-
itions, and they did so.
The crop of financial and industrial
disasters Of 1893 was the harvest of
Republican planting, and occurred be-
fore the Democratic administration
could sow a single seed or do anything
to arrest the growth of Republican
deadly products. The Republicans
were not smart enough to keep off
these conditions but they were cow
ardly and mendacious enough to
charge the fruits of their folly to the
party which has been chosen to redeem
the nation from the results of their
misrule.
Our contemporary says: 'It is easy
enough to make an assertion Cor
rect. But we Will supply the proofs.
We will go no further for them than
its own editorial columns. Speaking of
the act of 1873 and its fruits, it said:
When in our country everything was
moving forward without friction; when
the products of the country brought
prices which enabled producers to pay
generous wages to labor and at THE
same time to save a fair profit on their
own labor and capital; half the volume
of that capital was stricken down. 1t
has required twenty years to realize
the full effects of that sinister legis-
lation.-Tribune, June II, 1884.
1.-THE moving of these Industrials is
not in itself a disease, but it is a symp-
tom of a disease which is working
away behind them. It is the penalty
which this nation is paying just now
for unwise or dishonest legislation. -
Tribune. June 8.
1.-The dispatches yesterday morning
were not at all assuring. They showed
that in five states large sections of the
country were given UP TO riot and VIC
lence. The original cause came from
the demonstration of silver, which
brought on falling prices and a neces-
sity for reduction all round, which has
done more to denoralize the American
people than three or four great revolu-
tons would have done."-Tfbune,
June 8.
Thinking of those who have been
ruined as silver miners. and beyond,
| those who have been ruined as wheat
TaiSers and stock-raisers and cotton
raisers and merchants and mechanics,
all through the warfare made on silver,
and we get a glimpse of the the dis
tress which followed that shameful
| legislation of 1873 and the failure on
THE part of Congress since to right that
E1nfamy and world-encircling mighty
wrong. Tribune, June Z.
1.-THE Tribune. has for years been
pointing out this inevitable result as
one of the Accomplishments Of the de-
mcnetiZation of silver. Farming doesn't
pay because the prices of farm pro-
ducts have fallen below the cost at
Which they can be turned off the farm
/
and can't make any. Tribune, May 25
when the Congress in 1873 destroyed
half the real money on which trade
transactions were founded, the wheels
of commerce kept revolving, it is true
but with ever lessening speed, until ait
the end of twenty years its process of
Slowing down caused a panic and such
distress and Gripping of industries as
this generation had not en."-TIib-
une, May is.
eff our government was only bright
enough and wise enough and brave
enough night now to assume the ag-
ressive and, following the
experience of 1000 ears, and repudiat-
ing the experience of the last twenty
years, would henceforth recognize and
use silver as money, all the clouds in
our sky would vanish away within
ninety days. Tribune, May II.
If our country were alone to establish
bimetallism, and if their gravest fears
could be realized, namely, that gold
would go to a premium and vanish
away, they would see three things.
FIRST, that when the gold went away,
something else would have to come.
Second, that after all there is no sur
plus of silver in the world, and third
that suddenly every factory in the
United States would have plenty of
work and plenty of sales for its mate
rial and the factories in Great Britain
would one by one close down. We
would not care then for any tariff or
for any free-trade, or for anything else.
Tribune, May s.
Figured down closely. it was simplv
a conspiracy of less than fifty bankers
beyond the sea, Joined in by less than
fifty bankers on this side and carried