The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-26
REPUBLICAN CAsUIsTRY.

1 A WOulQ-De humorous story Is DelllS
circulated about a farmer Intending to
sue a certain Congressman for dam
ages because the price of wheat has
not increased as it is said was prom
| ised before the election of 1892. OF
course the story is merely a ruse to
create or foster the false impression
that the Democratic party made prom
ises that have not been fulfilled.
| In the same way a notorious adven-
turer, whose mendacity is only exceed
ed by his ignorance. and impudence
| is quoting promises alleged to have
been made by The Salt Lake Herald as
to the results that would come from
the triumph of the Democracy. The
quotations may possibly be made prop
erly SO far as they go, it is the infer
ences that are drawn from them that
are fallacious and foolish and designed
to deceive the supplemented.
! Democratic orators and writers in the
campaign Of 1892 portrayed the evils
that had increased upon the country
under Republican rule, and proclaimed
that only by a change in public pol
| icy, which would come from a change
of national administration, could the
country be redeemed from those evils.
But they did not promise anybody re-
demption while Republican laws and
policies still ruled in the land. Neither
| did they say those laws and policies
could be overturned in a day.
If any person, in town or country,
imagined that just as soon as Grover
Cleveland took the chair of state the
evil work of thirty years or more would
be undone, that before Congress could
enact new laws to supersede the bad
| legislation of that period, that before
new enactments could become opera
tive, the changes desired in the affairs
of the nation would occur, they simply
showed their inability to understand
the simplest matters of government.
These little Republican lodges are
devices to turn attention from the I'M
deniable fact, that the disasters which
confronted the Democratic administra-
ton on succeeding to the control of
the government, were the fruits of
many years planting. They could not
possibly be the effects of a cause not
yet set in action. They were the burst
ing Of the boil ON the neck of the ma
ton which had been. fostering for years,
the outflow of corruptions in the body
polite through a long process of accu-
mulating disorders. The cure must
take time.
Neither Democratic speakers nor
Democratic journals promised relief I'M
til the new regimen had been given OPP
portunity to effect it. Republican OBJ
!structions have been placed in the way
to hinder the changes promised. and
now those who placed them there stir
up the people to blame the party in
power for not making the changes.
Everybody who quotes the alleged
promises of the effects to follow a
change of national administration,
knows that no dates were fixed, no def
mite period named when the beneficial
results would be enjoyed. They knew
that laws would have to be passed and
the effects would come after those laws
had been put in operation, not possibly
before
If anybody is deceived by the duplic-
ity and foolery of these Republican
jokers and jeremy bidders, the laugh
is ON them. A little common sense will
dispel all such illusions and the most
rural of out of the way agriculturists,
would know better than to expect a
crop before the seed is sown, or to be-
lieve that weeds would cumber the
ground in a moment because the farm
changed owners. Republican charla-
tans and clowns may make folks grin
but they will not make converts by
such casuistry.