The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-01
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS

the 4cIIlJOEAd4 AGLOSAaSAS OCaANOAASA
Reso1ued, That as the convention wal
not called to make nominations Of
formulate 8 platform OF principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention TO be presented IL
the form of an address TO the people o.
Utah
we. the democrats of Utah, in con
yention assembled, hereby declare oul
devotion to the time honored principles
of the demoCs attic party as enunciated
in the national platforms and imbed.
ded in the harris 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 and support of home Industries
of the maintenance OF local self-govern-
ment TO the fullest rightful extent;
and of a strict construction of the ma.
ional 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 Iuxuries. so far as possible, and not
upon the necessarles of life. for the
purpose of providing revenue for the
necessary expenses Of government, and
not for the special benefit of any class
or private enterprise. We are opposed
to the bounty system, by which the
many are taxed for the enrichment of
q few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trrif 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, Dy which needed meas
ure to provide public revenue is de-
layed, causing uncertainty and doubt
in commercial and manufacturing
circles, and thus paralyzlng industry
and arresting trade. 10 the factious
hindrances which are still thrown in
the way of the Wilson bill by repdbli-
can senators are due TO the slow pro-
eress it is making and the disasters
that are consequent upon the delay.
We demand the restoration of silver
to the COZ stitutional position it Occur
pied as money previous to the act of
1873, by 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-
pressing the agricultural Interests of
the country, creating unrest and dis
content among the oppressed laboring
classes and increasing the armies of
tUamps which EWarmed 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
ministTation in 1889, 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
republican party as a system of miser
able makeshifts to paliiate the repub-
ican financial crime of 1873, and de-
clare that only in and through the
democratic party can the people of the
United States expect the re-eStablish-
ment of true blmetaliem, which in
cludes the free coinage of silver at the
- taatIo OF is to + with gold. We believe
VHaC VnlS can be done with safety and
pront TO this mation by American ac-
IIol 1Ipsae PENDENT of European agree.
&lent if international cooperation can
Not be Immediately obtained.
Al We denCunce the republican policy
.bf protection as embodied IN the infa-
nous Mckinley law and reatfirmed by
that party in its most recent utter
ances. We regard it as an assistant
agency to the prostrstion Of silver in
producing the poverty and distress and
social calamities of various kinds which
still afilict 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 endeaYOrlng to |
SUdCI q O14l w s1ClOAh1 OA4C NAASSALE
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, Impost- |
ers and fraudulent pension agents
shall not be permitted to further bleed |
the body polite.
In the exercise of the federal forces |
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do so is clearly vested in the federal au- |
thority, and declining to Interfere when !
it 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 SO 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 its report in the senate of a liberal
and excellent bill for the admission of
Utah as state on an equal footing
with the existing states; and we urge
its speedy enactment as measure Of
simple justice TO the Oldest and mott
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 administra-
tions.
And we further endorse all efforts to
maintain the dignity and authority of
the government and remove the effects
of over thirty wears of republican mis-
rule
We endorse the official acts of our
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