The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-05

nor its cause by throwing slurS entire
ly irrelevant to the subject, nor by
resorting to its common vituperation
when brought to bay.
We perceive too that our contem-
porary is doubling upon itself again in
reference to the hard times and the
responsibility for them. Notwithstand-
ing the strong reasoning presented to
the Denver convention, showing that
the demonstration of silver produced
the prevailing troubles, and in spite of
the statements to the same effect
which have appeared times without
number in dts columns, the Tribune
comes back again to the falsehood that
it is the Democratic party which has
done all the evil, and the Republican
regime for over thirty years brought
nothing but prosperity.
Sometimes that double-dealing sheet
traces all the woes of the world to the
act of 1S79-a Republican measure. 1t
then veers round and lays them ali to
the tariff intentions, or threats of free
trade by the Democrats. Anon it
''nixes those babies up and declares
that both are responsible for existing
social and business disturbances. And
through it all the effort is made to
maintain show of consistency, and
Of r.
ton in its utterances.
On Tuesday the Tribune made re-
view of an article in the Arena on
monometallism and protection, in
which the writer treats of the fight for
tariff reform in 80. when with one
acclaim the national Democracy de-
clared for a system of import duties for
revenue only This rouses. our verit-
able neighbor, and in endeavoring to
criticise the article it uses this Ian
guge:
The criticism we make on that is that
while it is true that the slogan of the
Democracy was tariff reform in 1892
and that slogan won, it was not be-
cause of any great appeal on principle
to the American people. Millions of men
who voted did not vote because they
understood or pretended to understand
the differences between protection and
free trade, but they voted solely be-
cause times were hard, their property
was deprecated in value, their pro-
duets were falling in prices year by
year, they were toiling without reward,
and so they voted for a change. The
ID pgl
three years before that they must fix
the silver business, and fix 1t promptly,
or when the campaign came on again
there would be the charge that the
hard times were due TO the tariff, and
the people would accept the charge as
true and smash the party in power
Now mark that admission. THE
times were hard" property was de
preciated in value" products were
falling year by year." millions of men
were "toiling without reward" The
Republican party was responsible for
these conditions, mind you, for they
existed prior to the election Of 1892, and
that party was warned three years
before what would be the consequence"
OF those hard times and their failure
to remove them by fixing the silver
business" Now contrast that from the
Tribune of July with this from the
Tribune of June %:
But all the industries of the country
fiourished under protection and the out
look for its continuance. 1t was not
until the Democratic party came into
Il -
ton as unconstitutional and its threat
to tear it up root and branch that
American industries were paralyZed and
labor was deprived of employ. This
denunciation and threat benumbed all
forms Of business; manufacturers dared
not stock up and continue their factory
runs; product was cut down to the
lowest limit, and stocks were reduced;
labOrers were discharged by the hum
dreds Of Thousands, and became wan
derers over the land.
And also this from the Tribune of
June 81:
Here is where the Democratic re-
sponsibility for the distress begins,
when the Democratic party came into
power with the threat to take away
that protection as unconstitutional.
This, added to the final crushing of
ton, completed the chain of disaster,
and the great Democratic panic of 1893
ensued. The election went Democratic
the year before, but that year silver,
industry and all forms of business also
went Democratic; that is, they went to
the devil. Republicanism absolutely
declines to take any of the responsible
ity for the great smash.
Here we have our wonderful con-
temporary, that claims to monopolize
all the wisdom of the age and denies
to its contemporaries the possibility of
ever by any amount Of study and re-
search, arising to the sublime height
of Tribune knowledge and scope of I'M
derstanding, asserting one day that
there were not hard times till the Dem
ocrats made them by simply being
elected to office, and few days after
Gliding the Republican party for not
doing something to cure the hard times,
depreciation of property, and the pow
erty of toiling millions prevailing be-
fore the Democratic party was elected!
If the Tribune is to be believed, at
the very same time that "all the in
dustries of the country f1ourished" the
times were SO hard, property was so
deprecated, and millions were so toiling
without reward, that they voted for a
change and as predicted arose and
Smashed the party in power" the Re
publican party.
1t is just like our contemporary on