The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-23
THE @HARD TINES. COINCIDENCE


The chief stock-in-trade of the Re-
publican dealers in campaign stuffing
for country voters, is the stale stupid
ity that the Democrats are responsible
for the hard times. While the great
pressure of the panic of '93 was upon
the people, many of them did not stop
to consider the relation of cause and
effect. The Republicans cried, 81 told
you So" and thoughtless folks respond
ed, That's fact" But there has
been time since then to do a little re-
fleeing and reasoning, and none but
the densely ignorant are fooled by such
a fallacy.
However, Republican stump orators
rely largely for pabulum to deal out to
the masses, upon the depression that
came upon trade and business gen.
orally, about the time when the Demo-
cratic administration succeeded the
party which had held sway and had
been responsible for ali the legislation
during a third of century. They un-
derstand, of course, that the common
tween coincident circumstances and the
effects of pre-existent causes. So they
expect during the campaign to succeed,
as well as they did at first, in palming
off the panic of '93, with its consequent
distresses, upon the Democratic. party.
But every farmer knows that seed
time and harvest are not Simultaneous.
time after sowing for the seed to ger
inmate, and come forth, and ripen and
be ready for the reaper. He would not
credit a man who came into possession
of a field of wheat just when it was
ready to cut, with the labor performed
by the previous possessor who planted
it. Nor would he blame a man who
took hold of a farm covered with
weeds come to seed, for the bad cult
walton of the former farmer. So, peo-
pie who think have come to see that
though the troubles that cropped up
in the country seeded out just when
the Democratic party succeeded to the
control of affairs, the party that had
sowed the seeds and held possession of
must be blamed if anybody for the
condition of affairs which were evident
results of previous causes.
Now, The Herald has not claimed
that all the woes of the times are due
to the Mckinley law. 1t was the crown-
ing evil of the oppressive system of the
taxation of the many for the benefit
0F {ol
lican party. 1t was but one of many
causes that led to present effects. But
The Herald has stated and proved that
if tariff legislation was the cause of
hard times, it was Republican tariff
legislation, because there has been no
other in operation during all those
years and up to the present date.
A very forgetful and illogical Repub-
lican paper has proclaimed time and
time again, that the hard times were
due to the Democratic administration,
and the only evidence it could adduce
was that as soon as the party came
into power these troubles came also.
In response to that, we have cited the
sorrows and Affections that have fol-
lowed the enactment of the Mckinley
law. And now that fabulous sheet
proves the folly Of its own position by
these remarks:
Why did not our contemporary add
more counts to it's Indictment? Whv
did it not say that under the Mckinley
law the cholera was raging in Russia
and the black plague in China; that
since its passage there has been a
mighty earthquake in Smyrna and the
president of the French republic has
been aSsassinated; that while that bill
has been on the statute books China
and Japan have gone to war against
each other; that since that bill has been
on the statute books there has been a
great rebellion to try to overthrow the
republic of Brazil? When finding the
give them all, especially all the prob
able ones? There would be just as
much sense in assembling either of the
calamities which are mentioned above
to the Mckinley law, as the ones our
contemporary ascribes to it.
Just take out from that precious par
agraph the words Mckinley law and
insert Democratic administration.
and the reasoning ~ of the Republican
sheet. and its party, and its stump
speakers. will stand self-exposed There
would be just as much sense in saying
the Vigilant was beaten by the Britain
MIA, the shipwrecks occurred at sea. the
scarlet fever broke out in BROOKLYN.
the sun burned the grain in Dakota.
and Mars has been found to be without
an atmosphere, as results of the cleo
ton of the Democratic party to power,
as to ascribe evils with which and that
event there is and can be no natural
connection.
But as to any disasters which have