The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-03-26
DEMOCRATIC DUTY.

1t must be admitted now that the
old party of the people has departed
from its former moorings. The an
cient democracy, from Ghe day of it's
founding until Grover Cleveland sub
stituted his own dictum for the plat
torn and policies, time-honored, sound
and well understood for now nearly
an entire century, of the demo-
cracy. There are gray headed
men in the party in every
single state in the union who re.
member when every utterance of demo-
cracy, in convention or otherwise, re-
stated as the one leading tenet of the
faith the party's devotion to silver
coinage even before any state
ment on the subject of tariff, hostility
to trusts, hostility to the concentration
of more power in the hands of the gen.
eral government, literal construction of
the constitution, states rights, or any
thing else. Under Mr.. CIevelsnd's inter-
probation of the tenets of party faith, the
democracy is pledged to the gold stand
ard. This decision is dogmatic and die
tatorial and treacherous to the ancient
spirit of the American democracy, and
unless met and conquered Will inevit-
ably doom the party to dislntegration
and never ending defeat The demo-
cratic ancient faith, So far as the tariff
question is concerned, used to be tariff
for revenue only. Behold it now after
nearly eight years Of the education of
the people on this subject: We have
democratic congress, democratic sem
ate and q democratic president and
yet no tariff f-for-revenue-only billihas
yet beenwrltten or offered and the half
and half compromise bill of Mr.. Wilson
after it passes the house and reaches
the. democratic senate, is so shorn, 30
honey-combed with compromises and
fsYors TO this class and that, that it
would not be recognized as democratic
at all by any democrat whatever of
forty years since.
Whose fault is this2 Who is to blame
for this terrible relaxing of the party
fbref Clearly Mr. Cleveland alone.
The present tariff bill got through the
house with comparative little altera-
ton Of the authors text but, when it
reached the senate this man and that
had to be placated or bought off, by
this and that concession. The troubles
thickened from the first concession
till now, if it passes, it will be nearly |
as much of a compliment to Governor |
Mckinley ss to w. L, Wilson. Now
this sort of shilly-shallying is bad at any
ime, but it is death and destruction in
times like the present. Mr.. Cleveland
is between the devil and the deep sea
in the matter of the seigniorage bill.
If he signs it he will have the gold
bugs.ofNew York on his back, if he
doesn't sign it the democratic congress
men who passed it will mount him.
1t seems that no man could be more
in all this than he.
This is surely not the way to handle
one's self if it is his business to improve
the financial situation and at the same
time unite and unitize the party. Not
for any individual, Mr.. Cleveland or
any one else, or for any combination of
men can we give up the principles of
the party, principles which have
made it great besides having built uD
here on this western continent the
greatest, the freest and the richest ma
ton of either ancient or modern times.
The Imperative duty now resting upon
The party is to sweep from its pathway
this and all other impediments to the ,
rec play of its benignant principles.
We must have these anti-democratic ,
distinctions to progress and prosperity t
swept away and that at no distant dav.
IT we will soon haYe no democracy and
no country, worth speaking of. I
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