The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-14
THE REAL ORIGINAL CAUSE.


When Republican paper tries to
ride two horses, both galloping in op-
posite directions, it is sure to be split
in twain or to fall to the ground and
hurt ard muddy the spot with which
it suddenly sits. That is what is the
matter with a contemporary which, as
is common with folks in a ridiculous
position, tries to get up a convulsive
laugh over its uncomfortable situation
The two steeds on which it tried to
ride at once were silver and the tariff
each as the sole cause of certain eff
fects In one column it would rattle
away at lively rate to show that all
the troubles in trade, finance and in
dustry came from the demonstration
in 1873. In a parallel column it would
canter away and trace everything from
which the country was suffering to the
access Of the Democracy to power, and
the consequent fear of free trade"
The result was it was endorsed and
exhibited the fact that it was consid-
erably shattered.
1t is now grinning over its new posi-
ton on the ground and declares that
the present depression is due to both
causes. 1t is somewhat confused in its
ideas and murlly in their expression,
as might be expected from trying to
look two ways at once. But the domi-
nant declaration is reiterated and that
is sufficient for our purpose. 1t is this:
ct is a clear case that the real cause
of the present trouble, the real original
cause, was the contraction of money Of
ultimate redemption in this country"
What more would you have? The
opinions expressed in connection with
this, that the crash would have come
sooner if it had not been for protection,
even if true-which we most emphat-
ically dispute-do not alter the fact
that 1.-The real, original cause" was not
the tariff, either for revenue of for
protection, but the silver crime of 1873.
And who committed it, pray? 1t was
a Republican plot, of Republican origin
and Republican contamination. AS our
contemporary has it, when the Re
publican Congress demonetfzed silver"
1.-THE real. original cause" is what
people need to understand. Not the
unreal. imaginary. theoretical, SUPPOSE
tious cause or causes. And that stands
out clear and unmistakable, by the
confession of our contemporary, as the
act of twenty years ago committed by
the Republican party.
AS to the wool and lead conditions
and the. arguments about the effect
upon them of the tariff, we have the
object lesson" that both went down
in price under the increase of the du-
ties placed upon them, and that not a
dime of those duties has yet been
taken off. Protection has not raised
the price of either. to the home pro
Queer.
The troubles and distresses and de-
pressions, strikes. disturbances and all
the ills that have been experienced for
a yea. burst out every now and again
during the twenty years preceding, and
are fairly, logically and certainly due
to some pre-existent cause or causes.
Let our distressed contemporary lay
them all, if it chooses. to its "real
original cause.-The decentralization of
silver by the Republican Congress of
1S7S," but it is useless for it to grin
and point its shal1y finger at some
thing that is yet in the future, and try
to lug that in as a companion to the
real original twenty years old evil.