The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-17
HON. A. c. HATCH TALKS.
The Republican Humorist's Effort
Out at VernaI

Vernal, Aug. 13.-Hon. A. c. Hatch
spoke on Republicanism last week here
in Vernal and although not at his best
he exhibited the party spirit of claim
ing every thing, even to Thomas Jeffer-
son and Andrew Jackson, and all the
great men and principles of the Demo-
cratic party He out-"Craned Charley.
Among his humorous illustrations he
claimed that Mr.. H. J. Grant has said:
"Patronize home industries" and made
an effort to make this apply to Mr..
Grants standing in favor of protecting
these industries by tariff. He seemed
to forget that patronage and a protec-
tive tariff were two very different and
distinct things, and that all the
pioneer promoters of home industries"
had asked for, was the patronage of
the people, not one of them having ever
asked the national or territorial gov
eminent for bounty or assistance in the
establishment of these home industries.
The speaker became very humorous
even to hilarity, and when he came to
touch on the wool question he scared
and forgot as well, for he left out the
tariff question entirely, and made a
comparison on supply and demand
about as follows: Il shipped 300 head
Of horses to Chicago and the very best
could get was $3.50 per bead, and
last week l sold twenty-one head of the
same kind of horses and received $50
per head right here in Vernal. The
demand was better for horses in Vernal
than in Chicago.
Yet he claimed to be Republican
and a friend to the people of Utah, and
was going to show the people out here
how superior was his doctrine and how,
by becoming a member of this party,
men could enjoy financially such great
blessings.
Among other things he forgot to men
ton was Democratic statehood, and how
the people had been knocking at the
door for thirty years under Republican
rule, for admission into the Union, and
that at no time did they even receive a
civil answer to their petitions On the
territorial legislative enactments he was
mute, not even telling us how easily he
was won over and became an advocate
of bounties when he discovered that the
sugar factory owned $500 acres of good
beet land, and that the benefits would
go direct to the shareholders by allow
ing this bounty.
the farmers of Uintah county, and the
average amount produced per acre is
Sc, while the average yield per acre of
sugar beets is S2S, yet Mr.. Hatch sees
nothing wrong in taking tribute from
the horny handed tillers of the soil of
Uintah county, and giving 1t without
remuneration or value received to their
more prosperous friends of other coun-
ties.
He forgot to tell of the bounty on
wool and the canaigre root, the great
mortgage law and the attempts to re-
duce the school fund one mill in order to
carry out these generous bounty meas
ures. He seemed to forget everything,
only that by going into Sanpete county
he became an office seeker, and was
elected by the Republican party, and
had turned from a Democrat and be-
came a Republican.
And while he was so forgetful the
people remembered it all and a majority
of them were thankful that they We're
Democrats, and that the record of the
Democratic party in Utah, without ex-
ception, was good, and there was none,
no not one, that had ever advocated
such a principle of unfairness.
We are right in the midst of busy
and generous harvest and generally
everyone is busy and in good health.
PINE TREE.