The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-04
AT THE OLD COURT ROOM.

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AT THE OLD COURT ROOM.
1t Was n Rouser From Start to Fin
ish.
The closing grand Democratic rally
at the Wasatch building was well at
tended and full of enthusiasm. The
meeting was called to order by Colonel
Merritt who proposed that Mr.. q. A.
Williams take the chair. Mr.. Williams
by way Of introduction said that the
coming election was a most important
one for Salt Lake city and for Utah
territory. The best interests of the
country would be served by the Cleo
ton Of the Democratic candidate The
Republicans tell us that all the ills
we have been suffering from cor the
last twelve months is due to this
Democratic administration when cry
honest man knows that what is trt.ub-
ling us now is twenty years of Republic
can misrule, the n1isrule which de-
monetized silver which fostered trusts
and monopolies. Every Democrat and
every man who has the interest of
his country at stake should get out
Of the Democratic candi7at for tn
legislature. Mr.. Williams concluded
his remarks by Introducing the
HON. DAVID EVANS,
of Ogden. Mr.. Evans said he had been
lifelong Democrat and expected to
die a Democrat. He was a Democrat
because Democracy meant human lib
erty- When any party gets the idea
that it is a part of good government
TO aid one part of the community at
the expense of another, that party
has gone sadly off the true lines for
which government exists, and that is
what the opposition party has done.
This election will not, it is true, change
the complexion of the legislature, but
IT is nevertheless a most important
election and you should all turn out
tomorrow and see that your neighbors
and friends do the same and that they
all vote the Democratic ticket.
1 cannot help but think that so far as
the Republican party is concerned, it
urges people to be Republicans, not
on the ground of partisanship, but for
individual interest The price they offer
for Republican votes is a promise that
the government will do something for
those who vote that ticket at the ex-
pense of the rest of the people. Is it
not fact, however, that since the
passage of that monstrosity the Nc
kinley bill, that times have been grow
ing harder and harder? The Republi-
can sophists tell us that these hard
times are all owing to an anticipation
of what the Democrats will do They
pretend that the government is going
to do something dreadful to hurt the
nation, but the people of this country
are too sensible to be hoodwinked with
any such talk. They tell us that if the
Democratic party will pass the Wilson
bill that it will ruin that party, but
they would only be too glad if the
party of the people would do something
which would ruin it. Well they know
that prosperity will follow the passage
of the Wilson bill. The income tax
bill is one of the most just measures
ever introduced into Congress, because
1t taxes the wealth and not the indi-
Vidual No system of taxation is so
equitable, right and just.
Have we plunged the country into
distress and trouble? What about
Tom Reed and the billion dollar Con-
gress? That was the time when the
country was plundered, when Specula-
ton ran wild, when trusts and tramps
were manufactured.
The people at the last presidential
election repudiated the action of the
Republican party by over a million
majority, condemned their high tariff
measures and declared for tariff reform
IN the most emphatic manner. The Re
publican party was almost wiped out
Of existence. so badly battered that it
hardly knew itself
Coming down to the tariff question
in Utah, they tell us we must have a
tariff on wool. Why should we have a
tariff on wool? Why should the sheen
baronS who feed their sheep on the
public range free and make 60 per cent.
on their investments be protected at
the expense Of the farmer, who, if he
is lucky, makes per cent on his in
I To-
ters want free trade so far as the
range on which they feed their i1ocks
IS concerned, but they want protection
for their product Are they not fit to
look after themselves? Is there any
reason why they should be wards of
the governments
The sugar factory at Lehi has re-
ceived $4,000 this year from the public
purse, and yet it is not the stockholders
in the sugar factory who are clamoring
for the bounty. It is the bowling poll
tician like my friend Varian. who wants
the sugar bounty perpetuated. Yet he
knows that bounty given to a. private
corporation is illegal. 1t has been SO
decided by the supreme court of the
United States. ANY government which
takes money from one portion of the
community and bestows 1t on another.
commits a robbery, it may be a legal
fzed robbery. but it is robbery all the
free silver apd protection go hand in
hand. In the House and Senate z per
cent Of the Republican members ia
vored free silver, and So per cent. of
the Democratic members favored free
silver. Even Mr.. Varian himself yelled
himself hoarse for the election of the
great arch-enemy of silver. In the east
they charge that the Democratic party
is too favorable to silver, and it is un-
doubtedly true that a larger epeicentage
Of the Democratic party is fox free sill
yer than of the Republican party The
Republican party is like the Texas man
who, when drowning, prayed and in
formed the Almighty that he had never
stolen any mans cows, had never run
away with any mans wife, but admit
ted that he was the biggest liar that
had ever lived on this eartn In con-
clusion. l think it would he a grievous
error for this territory to 20
Republican. We ought to hold up the
hands of that gallant young man Jo-
seph L. Rawlins. who has the ear
OF the administration, who is seeking to
strike the manacles from the hands
of this people, who is doing grand SER
vice and striving to get an appropria-
ton for pubic buildings who has the
interests of Utah thoroughly at heart.
It is to sur interests to uphold and