The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-09
POLITICAL NOTES.
Murat Halstead says:

POLITICAL NOTES.
Murat Halstead says:
German did not like so much free
trade in raw materials as Cleveland
displayed in his message that gave the
measure to the campaign of education
he had had German suffered at st.
Louis in 1888 the same pangs that Villas
felt in Chicago in 1892, on the platform
question. Cleveland turned him down
in private on the tariff plank, and
Villas was turned down in public by the
convention itself
The gold reserve in the treasury is
low at this time, and if there was no
immediate hope of an improved revenue
system, the necessity of issuing bonds
would be imperative. But this danger
win be averted within a week by the
passage of a tariff bill that will provide
the needed revenue to replenish the gold
reserve. Mr.. Carlisle is right in his
view of the case. There is no neces-
sity for alarm in the present financial
situation. "-aKnsas City Times (Dem.).
Those who desire to invest their gold
in government bonds are more anxious
about the low condition of the gold
reserve than any one else.
Outside of the silver-producing states
and California the doctrine which has
just been enunciated by the Republicans
of half dozen states in the Mississippi
valley is the doctrine which the party
advocates, and which it is prepared to
stand by. Internationally the declara-
ton in the California Republican con-
vention two months ago in favor of
free coinage at the 16 to 1 ratio does
not represent the sentiment of any i'm
portant element of the party in that
State.-St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat (Rep.).
The declaration of the California Re-
publicans does not represent the senti-
ment of the party.
The ST. Louis Post-Dispatch Oem.).
commenting on the proposition put for
ward in the New York constitutional
convention to make voting compulsory
says:
1t is proposed that all persons who
fail to go to the polls shall be deprived
of the right of franchise for period
to be prescribed by the legislature.
Some more effective punishment than
this, however, would be necessary.
The man who neglectS voting would
not be likely to grieve if he were kept
away from the ballot box long time.
1t is matter of indifference to man
who does not vote how long he may be
compelled to stay away from the polls
as a punishment for not voting.
Mr.. Germans constituents in Mary
land do not hesitate to express their
disapproval of the senator's course on
the tariff bill, and at some of the in
dignation meetings which have recent
ly been held the language employed
come dangerously near not being parlia-
mentary.-Houston Texas) Daily Post
Oem.).
The language was nearly that used
in senatorial courtesy contests.
In whatever the United States do to
mediate between China and Japan care
should be taken to preserve the distinc-
ton between mediation and NEEDLE
some interference.-N. Y. World
Oem.).
This is just as far as the United
States should go.
1t would take Debs and all his
friends, working sixteen hours day,
all the balance of their natural lives
to pay the interest Chicago will have
pay on their account.-Chicago Inter
Ocean Rep.). a~
Chicago's officials should have
thought of this when they dallied SO
long with Debs.
The French methods of procedure
sometimes seems harsh to American
readers. accustomed to the elaborate
protection which our own laws throw
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that justice is as well secured on the
average under one system as under
the other, and the French court has
certainly the merit of getting at the
facts with the utmost possible direct
ness and certainty. = Philadelphia
Times Dem.).
The fault often in American courts
is that justice is too long delayed.
There may have been, at some time,
good and sufficient reasons for insist
ing on unanimous verdicts and for
making a jury consist of twelve men,
but if so, they have long since disap
peared. For more than century this
country has existed under majority
rule and if we concede to one accused
of crime the legal presumption in IA
Vor of innocence, we shall expand the
majority rule sufficiently if we permit
a verdict to be found by tWo-th1rdS of
trial jury.-San Francisco Chronicle
Rep).
The two-thirds or three-fourths YER
dict of jury will very likely be adop-
ted by all the states at no distant
day.
When the wretched Guiteau shot
down the lamented Garfield, infiicting
weeks and months of terrible suffer-
ing and agony on man who had
never harmed anyone, what was the
result? A flood of foolish sympathy
for that worthless scoundrel, and a
long, weary legal disputation in regard
to his trial and the conduct of it. The
Caserio case has been better managed.
To be effective, the law should follow
swiftly with it's punishment every
transgression of it.-New York Recor-
der Rep).
The making of heroes out of muir
derers tends to make murderers.
The trial of Santo Caserio for the
murder of President Carnot has been
quickly settled. The assassin has been
sentenced to death, and he will be
placed under the guillitine in time
New York Herald Qnd).
This is the way it should be settled.
When we compare this speedy move