The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-04-18
PROVO CITY. APRIL IS, 1885,
THE POWER OF MONEY.

In all ages Of the world money has
exercised malign power in govern
mental matters. The Roman republic
was the first real exhibit of its wonder.
full power in the destruction of that
form Of government. The finances
were SO handled that the money of the
republic flowed into the hands Of the
few while the many went in rags and
supperless to bed. In a short time
anarchy, then tyranny, famine and
the plague finished the job, and Rome
was a wreck. Our great republic is
slowly but surely drifting upon the
same rock upon which Rome went to
pieces. Our people since the war have
been robbed to such an extent by
tariff exactions that the mass of the
money of the nation has drifted into
the pockets of couple of hundred of
men, the petted favorites and direct
benehciaries of a tariff policy which
placed in the hands of the fortunate
two hundred, the money belonging of
right to the sixty five millions of men.
A tariff reform bill was passed by the
house of representatives with a hope
ful enthusiasm, 1t went to the senate
in blaze of glory, and the ardent
tariff reform patriots all oyer the
union cried in ecstasy: 1--WE have con-
quered at last, victory is soon to be
ours; complete soul-satisfying victory"
The bill went from a democratic house
to democratic senate with a demo-
cratic president, himself an ardent
tariff reformer behind it all.
The bill has been in the senate for
nearly two months. There has been
wrangling, talk and noise in that
chamber, but no real progress has been
made. This strange haIting has at
tracted comment and curiosity both.
1t became so wonderful, did this seem
inglY unfathomable delay, that earnest
and honest men have set about the
task of its unrayelment. 1t is now dis
covered that Philadelphia, Pittsburg
and John Wannamaker have put their
heads together and have actually
raised seven millions of dollars to
baulk the reform movement. Tue
sugar try alone put three millions of
dollars into the scheme. Under Mr..
SteYenson's ruliag forty-three is a
majority of the senate. There are
forty-four democrats and this enor.
nous sum is to be used to fix the popu-
lists, and enough of the democrats
within reach OF gold, to defeat
the bill. The republicans need no
fixing" They will vote against it
anyhow, SO that there is left only four
men to buy. 1t is thought by this un.
holy combination that million and a
half will be amply sufficient to purchase
enough democrats to insure the defeat
of tariff reform,
Money has a wonderful power and
there.are few men, even in our senate
today, who would not look long and
wistfully at a million and half of |
gold before they could summon enough |
principle about them to enable them to
Withstand the glamour of that enorm
Gus sum. Thus are the plutocrats gov
erning US. Shame upon us. We fear that |
If this bill does not speedily pass that
the failure will be due to this seven
millions, or others similarly raised and |
similarly devoted. Is there no way to
ward off this evil save by revolution?
Is it true that the bayonet alone can
confront gold in cases like this? If so
then revolution or anything else than
that a few men may SO corrupt the
masses that the manhood of America
will sit down in alteration before a
mere slop-shOp tailor who has made of
himself nabob by having become one
Of the benefciaries of the attrocious
general tariff policy of the republican
p 'rty, but more directly and especially
Of The iniquitous Mckinley bill.