The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-26


Ex-President Harrison presided. He
said:
My Fellow Citizens:-The delightful
duty has been assigned me by the
state central committee of the Repub-
lican party Of Indiana to preside over
this great meeting. 1 am to be its
chairman, not its speaker, and 1 con-
+ graduate you on that fact. QLaughter)
Two years ago, this country was not
only the most prosperous country in
the world-for that it had been before
but it stood upon the highest pinnacle
OF prosperity that it had ever before
attained. (Cheers) This is not the
verdict OF politicians; it is the verdict
OF the commercial reports; it is the ex-
pressed opinion Of those men who
make a profession of studying business
and disaster: the losses of these defy
the skill of the calculator. It has been
said, and l think not without reason.
that they exceed the cost of the great
civil war. These losses have not been
class losses; they have been distributed.
The holder of stocks and bonds has
found mis- wealth shrinking, and so has
the farmer and the workngman found
his wages shrinking. There has been a
general participation in the calamitieS
of the past two years, as there was a
general participation in the prosperity
of the preceding years.
The great national losses, like those
Of the civil war, have sometimes their
adequate compensations. Great as was
the civil war of the Union, we feel that
1T was adequately compensated in the
added glory that was given to the flag
and in the added security that was
given to our civil institutions and the
unity of the nation. (Cheers.) But the
losses of the last two years have no
such compensating thought. There is
no good to be gotten out of them
Qaughter) except for guidance. They
seem to have been of a :retributive ma
ruler, like the swamps into which a
traveller was unconsciously driven, that
has no amediOrating suggestion except
that they teach him TO keep on the
foothills and on the roads that are on
the hill-tOps. We were told the rich
were getting richer and the poor
poorer. and 10 cure that imaginary ILL.,
our political opponents have brought on
tine when everybody is getting
poorer. Great applause) / think l
remember to have heard once of an
inscription on tombstone that ran
something like this: Il was we'll;
thought to be better; L took medicine
and here I lie"
More INSTRUMENTATION.
Our Democratic friends have passed
a tariff bill that is approved-so far as
/ can learn-by six Democratic sena-
tors, and by nobody else.
Mr. Cleveland has repudiated it, and
has declared it involves perfidy and
dishonor: that 1t was so shameful in
its character that he would not even
put his name to it. All the leading
Democratic papers in the country have
condemned it-both Of the old stalwart
varie " and of the mugwump variety.
The Democratic chairman of the Ways
and Means committee, has condemned
it. and the entire Democratic majority
IN the House of Representatives con-
demned it. Now. that is a. great mis-
fortune It is a misfortune that the
4 Democratic party was not able to
evolve tariff bill that the party would
accent as settlement of the tariff
question But it is not accepted as a
settlement Already we have a procla-
nation from Mr.. Cleveland and Mr..
Wilson that this is only the beginning
of the crusade against American indus
tries. Now. that's a great misfortune.
If we could have been told by our
Democratic friends that we were at the
bottom. of the well, dark, damp and
dismal we would have begun to look
tiu to see whether we could not find
some star Of hope. We would have be-
gun to anoint our bruises and try to
build some scaffold by which we might
climb out But we are told there are
lower depths in store for US; so this
country is TO be held in a state Of sus-
De0se. It can be ended in just one
way. and that is by an overwhelming
Republican victory in November. When
New York gives Levi P. Morton $4,000
majority and Indiana her state ticket
25.OOO, and Illinois and those states that
have wavered, fall again into line and
the next Congress is Republican, there
ho lq
found the end of this disastrous con-
dition. (Cheers)
An Artful Dodger.
think the Ohio Democrats the other
day declared all these disasters OF
which we speak came upon the country
under the Mckinley bill. Well, to be
sure. the Mckinley bill was a law until
the 18th of August, when the German
bill was passed. 1t had been arrested.
We were listening from day to day to
prophesies that from two weeks to
three or four that it would be repealed.
1t was not a law in any sense that any
merchant or manufacturer could act
mon it. It was dead in a business
sense, though alive on the statute
books Why, sir, it would be just as
reasonable TO complain of man who
had been arrested, handcuffed and lock-
ed IN in a cell. for not supporting his
Family as to complain that the Mckinley
bill did not give prosperity during this
ueriod of suspense. And then we are
told that under the Mckinley bin the
price Of wool went down-and that
since ii has been made, it is going up;
that sugar on the free list was higher
than with sugar at a 40 per cent duty.
All this. Notwithstanding the old Dem
ocratic doctrine that the duty was all
ways added to the cost Of the domestic
article.
General Harrison then made a neat
speech in presenting Governor Mckin-
ley.
Gives Ben Taffy.
Governor Mckinley opened with eulo-
esisfic reference to the administration
OF President Harrison under which, he
said. the country has prospered as it
had never prospered before or since,
The address was devoted almost who'll
iy to the discussion of the tariff, espe-
ciaiIy the effect Of the Democratic tar
Sff law.
the law recently passed, which was a
startling surprise to the audience. The
sugar schedule Schedule Ed, he said,
in effect, provides for the continuation
Of the treaties of 1875, made with the
king of the Hawaiian islands. under
which all sugar from those islands
was admitted free. This provision was
inserted by the Senate. 1T gives the
sugar trust" said Governor Mckinley,
IAN advantage which has no; hereto
fore been suspected. The sugar pro-
der the control of the sugar trust; that
country is the field of its primary oper-
atoms. The Democratic party took