The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-21
THE HERALD WAS RIGHT.

The Tribune Of Monday says it wishes
to inform honest Democrats through
out the territory that The Herald is
persistently lying to them. The honest
Democrats and every honest man in
Utah will not believe it, for they know
the Tribune itself is telling falsehoods
when it says we are lying
In The Herald's article the statement
was made that when Mr.. Cleveland
turned the government over to General
Harrison sit was prosperous in all its
departments, and there was in the
treasury of the United States a surplus
Of nearly one hundred million dollars
The Tribune makes no denial of this
fact, and it can make no denial of it.
Is to make statements that can be
borne out by the record, to lie? 1t has
never been so considered by men of
ordinary intelligence and average NOR
ais
The Tribune then goes off and talks
about Mr.. Hendricks speeches during
the campaign of 1884 and his references
to the Republican tariff. We never
even mentioned the name of Hendricks
connection that "our recollection is
that the surplus in the treasury when
MIR. Cleveland went into power was
some 1920, 900, 600" The recollection of
that paper on money matters has never
been considered of the very best, so we
ask for facts and references. But we
said nothing about that particular mat
ter.
Our contemporary, we call it contem-
porary, but it is really behind the times,
says we reiterate that if the country
has been going from bad to worse, it
has been under Republican laws" Yes
we said that, and we reiterate it this
morning. Has the country been going
from bad to worse? 1t certainly has
While it has been so going, has there
been any tariff law except Re
publican tariff law? There has not
Then it must follow that the country
has been going from bad to worse I'M
der Republican laws. The one law
that is generally considered to affect
the business Of the country more than
any other law is the tariff There has
only been the Mckinley law in force
since the present Democratic admin
blamed for the business depression, if
legislation has anything to do with it.
The Democrats did not make this law;
they merely administered it.
The Mckinley bill has been a curse
to the country, for under it the coun-
try has suffered from great financial
depression; under it merchants and
banks all over the country have failed:
and under it one Of the greatest strikes
ever known to the country occurred.
If this bill We're so beneficent, why did
the people vote against it in 1892?
Our contemporary says that there
is not an article that the Mckinley
tariff was put on but is cheaper today
than it was when the law was passed"
If this is so, it cannot have raised
wages, for the wages must come out
Of the product of labor, and when the
price Of the product is reduced, the cost
of all the elements entering into it
must be reduced; there is no escape
from this conclusion.
But We should remember that if the
Mckinley bill has cheapened the price
of all the things on which it placed a
tariff, it has also cheapened those
Americans who have purchased these
cheap articles, for as General Benjamin
Harrison said, somehow or other
a cheap coat seemed to make a
cheap man. One of the cries of the
protectionists has been against compe-
tition with the cheap goods of. Europe.
For how many sins has the Mckinley
bill to answer.
The contemporary ends its article
with a quotation from Hon. Bourke
Cockran's criticism of the tariff bill
just passed. Cochran criticised the
bill because it did not reduce the Nc
Kinley tariff enough. and this the con-
temporary knows. But as an Offset we
quote what that ardent Republican, the
Hon. Ben Butterworth, said on May IA,
1890:
The manufacturers and the trusts