The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-22
AS TO SMASHING INDUSTRIES.

There is much amusement to be OBJ
calling upon our morning contemporary
to prove some of it's rash assertions
and reconcile its daily self-contradic-
tons. In two-thirds of column on
Wednesday it made an attempt to JUS
tify its assertion that the Democratic
party had started in with a threat on
it's lips to smash Unfortunately the
great industries of the country If given
an opportunity" Instead of doing so,
it virtually admits, while sticking to
its nonsensical charge, that it didn't
mean exactly what it said.
The absurdlty of the notion that the
people of the United States elected the
Democratic party to power, because it
proposed to smash all the leading in
dustries of the country if given that
opportunity, ought to be sufficient to
show what a ninny the Tribune was
for uttering it. But its latest attempt
at explanation is sillier than the non
sense which it does not explain.
Just. take this for example;
When the Democrats in their plat
form said they would take ali tariff off
raw materials" etc.
Did the Democrats say that 'in their
platform? When. where, how? The
Tribune says OF The Herald:
when it comes down to argument
nothing can be as exact as our con-
temporary"
Thanks. That is perfectly true And
it constitutes one of the complete diff
ferences between this paper and the
Tribune. Nothing can be more mex
act and self-contradictory than the al
legged arguments of our contemporary,
except its wild and brutal and ground
less charges against its opponents, both
personal and journalistic.
If our neighbor would be a little more
exact in its propositions it would not
have to make so many eXplana tons
that do not explain or to play so many
antics and exhibit so much malignant
irritability when confronted with its
fooIery. The Democratic party never
uttered any threat to smash an Amer
y.
laws which had been enacted for the
enrichment of a few at the expense of
the many, and relieve the country of
the incubus under which it groaned
through the enactment of that crown
ing atrocity of Republican protection
the Mckinley law
The Democratic platform on which
/ /
'Since the Mckinley tariff went into
operation there have been ten reduc-
tons Of wages of laboring men to one
increase. We deny that there has been
any increase of prosperity to the coun-
try since that tariff went into opera
ton, and we point to the dullness and
distress, the wage reductions and
strikes in the iron trade as the best
possible evidence that no such pros
perity has resulted from the Mckinley
act"
The depressions which reached their
extremity just when the Democratic
party succeeded to power, were, as
the Tribune itself has frequently de-
clared, "the elimination" of the eff
fects of legislation which preceded
them; that is, Republican legislation.
The facts mentioned in the Democratic
platform from which we have quoted
were patent to the whole country. The
troubles which eliminated" in 1893
had been increasing for several years
and had been pressing more hardly
and rapidly since the passage of the
Mckinley law
1t was the fact that this was known
and felt throughout the land that
caused the upheaval of 1892. And the
tickle and illogical multitude knew no
better in 1894 than to act as though
they expected the Democratic party to
in a year and a half, the ills
which had been the effect of more than
thirty years of Republican legislation.
AS to the wool and lead and cattle
and sugar industries, which our jump
ing-iack opponent takes a kick at, they
were all on decline under the full
operations of the Mckinley law and
are now improving under the mere in
PRODUCTION of the Wilson law. These
facts are beginning to soak into the
minds of the masses and will be I'M
by the time the voters of the
again exercise the franchise.
1.-THE Democratic party as controlled
today could have no motive or inter
est in fostering foreign industries at
the expense of the American people.
The folly of the charge that this is it's
purpose, must be apparent to every
body who does not look through the
colored spectacles of Republican dis