The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

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Parties founded upon religious or class
issues, like the A. p. AS never have
| aourished long in this country. They
nave grown up in night and persisted
N a night. They can have at the best
universal liberation and freedom, but
| they have more than once existed long
enough to .astonish politicians and upset
party calculations = Chicago Herald
| Qnd).
Such parties are wanting in broad
fundamental principles, and no human
structure can be raised on anything else,
If it is expected to endure.
What are the facts? why, in the first
place, during the five years of Mckin-
steadily, the decline being from SO to 60
per cent. The peaceable nature of the
American sheep alone saved Governor
Mckinley from being torn limb from
| limp by these indignant and insulted ami
mails in Ohio.
In the next place, no sooner has the
new tariff gone into operation with WOOL
/ on the free list than American wool rises
rapidly in price. Within the past two
months, the price of wool has advanced
| 10 per cent. on an average OF the differ
price of foreign wool has declined 40 per
| cent.-Boston Post Dem.).
Let friends of the Mckinley bill explain
it how they will. it is an indisputable
fact that wool, under the operation of
| the Mckinley bill, went lower than ever
before.
Maine has gone Republican by an in
creased majority. Let her 60 Her peo-
pie may feel offended because the Demo-
cratic party lessened the tribute which
! her people can collect through pro-
tective tariff, but the taxpayer will re-
| joice at the measure of rehef already
brought and will demand more. Wait
until the consumers speak They will see
tariff reform in a different light from
that in which the protectionists view it.
| Omaha World-Herald
The new tariff has been the means of
making the people Independent of the mo-
nopolies to a certain extent. Maine has
been and is a stronghold of protection,
and the result of the election is not sur
prising.
The expectations of the Republican
campaign managers, based on the recent
i erS that a majority of the next congress-
men from that state will be Republicans,
are doomed to disappolntment.-Atla
Journal (Dem.).
! few disgruntled bounty benefciaries
are not able to turn a state from the
policy it has always protested in the
twinkling of an eye, nor in two twink
| lings.
! The New Orleans Picayune says 1t is
ridiculous to suppose that the electoral
vote of Louisiana will be doubtful in
1896, and remarks:
1T will be added to the Democratic
column, as usual, and the majority will
be large
Republicans who are building their
hopes on swinging Louisiana into the
Republican column are building their
hopes on the sands
! There are two features to the silver
policy to which Secretary Carlisle has
been allowed to commit the administra-
ton. One is the coinage of lightweight
silver dollars, that is dollars containing
about half dollars worth of silver,
with a view. to turning the so-called
se1gniorage' into the treasury. The
other is the cancellation of the treasury
notes as rapidly as possible by paying
out for them silver dollars or silver certifi-
Gates which call on their face for silver
dollars.-Boston Journal (Rep).
What an absurdity to say that light
weight silver dollars are being coined;
they have the amount of silver in them
authorized by law. But this Is Repub-
lican gold-bug sheer. The policy of pay
ing out silver is a proper one.
The Republicans aim to renew the tariff
agitation. They seem to find a melan-
choly pleasure in destroying business. To
that end they desire the renewal Of the
tariff fight and the restoration of the
/ Mckinley law. To prevent this the peo-,
pie should combine against the Republi-
can party. Its candidates for Congress
That accomplished this year the danger
Will be past. Before another congress
sional election comes around the people
will be SO well satisfied with the Demo-
: nTnnnSitiOn
change 1t will be resented as an offense
against all the people.-Kansas City
Times Oem).
The fear of the Republicans is that the
people will discover what blessing the
new tariff is that they will never want
to trust the Republicans with the power
to tinker the tariff" as they surely
would if given the chance.
Another side light is that the high price
of gold, as compared with silver, is favor
ing the increased production of the for
country, but positively. In the United
States great many silver mines are shut
down, because it does not pay to work
them, and the pent-up waters of enter
prise are seeking outlet through the cham
nels of gold mining.-Chlcago Inter-Ocean
(Rep.).
If silver were restored to It's legitimate
place as a money metal, gold would not
appreciate as it has done, while silver
would appreciate very rapidly, thereby
inviting capital to invest in silver min
ing.
! The Wilson bill, according to Mckinley,
is responsible for all the disasters which
occurred under the Mckinley law. If
the major were not logician he would
be regarded as a comedian.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
| The major has been up in Maine the
home of the great joker, Reed, and he
seems in this case to have been infected
with the joking mania.
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