The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-16
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
To the People of Utah. Delivered at Salt
Lake City on Saturday, June 10th, by
the Territorial De ocratic Convention.

RESOLVED, That as the convention wa
not called to make nominations o
formulate platform OF principles, tn
following be adopted as the sentiment
of the convention to be presented il
the form of an address to the people o
Utah:
We, the democrats of Utah. in con
ventlon assembled, hereby declare GU
devotion TO the time honored principles
Of the democratic party as enunciateG
in the national platforms and imbed
ded in the harris of its members.
We are emphatically in favor Of
equal rights to all and special priyil
eyes to none; OF the greatest possible
liberty to every Individual compatible
with the pubic welfare; of the advance
ment anG support Of home industries
Of the maintenance of local self-govern-
ment to the fullest rightful extent;
and of a strict construction OF the ma
ional constitution.
We are in favor of such reform of
the tariff as is consistent with the IN
terests of the consumer and the pro-
Queer, and declare that duties upon
foreign imports should be levied upon
the luxuries, so far as possible, and not
upon the necessaries of life. for the
purpose of providing revenue for the
necessary expenses of government, and
not for the special benefit of any class
or private enterprise. We are opposed
to the bounty system, by which the
many are taxed for the enrichment of
few.
We demand the speedy passage Of
the bill for trritf reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for an income tax by which those large
property holders who are best able
shall bear their Just share of the bur-
den of taxation. And we denounce the
obstructive policy of the republicans
in congress, 10y which needed meas
ure to provide public revenue is de-
layed, causing uncertainty and doubt
in commercial and manufacturing
circles, and thus paralyZlng industry
and arresting trade. To the factious
hindrances which are still thrown III
the way of the Wilson bill by repabli-
can senators are due to the slow pro-
gress it is making and the disasters
that are consequent upon the delay.
We demand the restoration of silver
to the Coz stitutiOnal position it occuu
pied as money previous to the act of
1873, by which the republican party
cast down that historic and essential
money metal. and caused the increas-
ing disasters which, beginning with
the panic of 1873 and bursting forth at
intervals with terrible severity, de-
pressing the agricultural Interests of
the country, creating unrest and dis
- content among the oppressed laboTing
classes and increasing the armies of
tramps which sWaTmed over the land,
eliminated in the panic of 1898 and
still spi eads its blight upon trade and
industry.
We call attention to the undeniable |
fact that the republican party took the |
government from the democratic ad. |
ADMINISTRATION in 1889, WIN more tnan a |
hundred million dollars in the national |
treasury and turned it back to the |
democratic party in 1898 with a treasury |
practically bankrupt.
We denOunce the silver policy OF {. e |
republican party as a system oil mlser- |
able makeshifts to palllate the repub- |
lican financial crime of 1873, and de- |
Glaze that only in and through the |
democratic party can the people of the |
United States expect the re-establish- |
ment of true blmetalism, which in
cludes the free coinage of silver at the |
ratio of Is to l with gold. We believe |
that this can be done with safety and |
profit to this nation by American &C |
ton, independent of European agree
ment if international cooperation can |
not be Immediately obtained.
We denOunce the republican policy |
of protection as embodied In the infa-
nous Mckinley law and reaffirmed by |
that party in its most recent utter |
ances. We regard 1t as an assistant |
agency to the prostration of silver in |
producing the poverty and distress and |
social calamities OF various kinds which |
still aff1ict our country
We DENY that the high tariffs placed |
upon lead and wool and other commod-
tiles have raised their price or benefit
ed the producer of such materials,
while they have been oppressive and
detrimental to the consumer and the
country at large.
We cordially endorse the democratic
congress and administration:
In repeating the obnoxious federal
election law and thus promoting the
freedom of elections.
In formulating and endeayoring to
enact a bill to reform the existing ex-
orbitant system of tariffs.
In revising the pension lists, so that
while all persons deserving the aid of
the country for services in Its defense
shall be secured in their rights, lmpost-
ers and fraudulent pension agents
shall not be permitted to further bleed
the body polite.
In the exercise of the federal forces
to suppress lawlessness where power to
do SO is clearly vested in the federal au-
thority, and declining to interfere when
it would intrude on the rights of a local
government.
In the restoration to the church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop
erty confscated under the provisions of
congressional law; and We favor the
immediate restoration also Of the real
property SO escheated in view Of the
now indlsputable fact that no pretexs
remains for charging that the majority
of the people of Utah are in opposition
TO national authority.
In the passage through the house
and it's report in the senate of liberal
and excellent bill for the admission of
u tah as a state on an equal footing
with the existing states; and we urge
its speedy enactment as a measure OF
simple justice TO the Oldest and most
prosperous of the existing territories.
In the appointment of bona 6de resi-
dents of the territory to the various
offices in the gift of the government in
stead of men from other sections of the
country unfamiliar with our people and
the situation of our affairs as was
the rule under republican administra-
tions
And we further endorse all efforts to
maintain the dignity and authority of
the government and remove the effects
of over thirty wears of republican mis-
rule
We endorse the official acts of our