The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-17
) by bribery of the Kansas legisla-

ate by bribery of the Kansas legisla-
ture
Twenty-one years ago witnessed the
wholesale prostitution of government
in the south by the colossal bribery of
g primitive supplemented and igno-
rant race. through which an irrespon-
sible set of adventures like Governor
Moses, were enabled to bankrupt sew
eral southern states, and the money
obtained in the process was stolen by
the Adventures. A single state
South Carolina) was placed forty mil
lions in debt without having a single
Improvement to show for the vast ex-
penditure. 1t was at this time, also,
that the notorious freedman's bureau
frauds became so conspicuous that
even the conspirators were alarmed at
the total lack of decency exhibited,
and attempted to get themselves white
washed.
1t was at this period, also, that the
whisky ring disclosures involved the
President of the United States, and
began to open the eyes of the Ameri-
can people to the corruption of "our
government" and was the beginning of
that loss of confidence and faith in it
that has since grown so conspicuous.
1t was at this period, also, that sill
yer was dethroned, and in the Ian
guage of our contemporary, the money
function of ''one-half the money of
the world" destroyed by the act of
this intensely Republican Congress and
its servile administration, done for the
purpose of doubling the purchasing
power of gold, increasing the value of
the interest which the interest-gather-
er collected. and made it impossible
for those in debt to any more than pay
the interest on their debt"
All these facts our contemporary
must have had in mind when it penned
the first paragraph quoted But what
did it have in mind when it pehned
the second? What was this last yes
tige. of market for silver which it
claims "the Democrats removed?' 1t
was the Sherman silver purchase act,
which every friend of silver has de-
nominated a fraud, and which has
been so denominated many times in
the columns of our contemporary.
This fraud was perpetrated by a Re
publican Congress and administration
for the purpose of deceiving the friends
of silver into a belief that the Harri-
son administration and its supporters
were the friends of silver
The repeal of the fraud has been the
only act on the silver question by an
administration and Congress that had
been in power but one year on the
4th of last March, and surrounded
from the first by problems, complex
ties and evils that have been the lega-
cy of thirty years of Republican mis-
government. and which, in magnitude
and portent, have presented difficult
ties seldom exceeded in the history OF
mankind.
The quackery Of our contemporary on
this matter is only equalled by that
by which it seeks to fasten response
Ibility on this administration for the
hard times the money panic, and the
bond issue for the purchase of gold
And it neglects to state that among
the last acts of President Harrison
was to hold cabinet meeting for the
purpose OF this very issue, which he
foresaw was doomed to come, and
left as a legacy to the Democratic adj
ministration along with an empty
treasury and an impoverished nation
Whenever our contemporary wants
to take fling at the Democratic adj
ministration it should avoid reference
to the act of its predecessor, particu-
larly as to the crime of 1873 Com
parsons are odorous,' sometimes, and
in this case make the Republican par
ty smell to heayen:e'