The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-17
MR.. ZANE AT sAL,NA

J democrats are ana now good the he
publicans, he himself being living ex-
ample of the latter. A report of his
speech will be found in another part
of this paper. Never was such light
seen in the south as was shed by Mr..
Zane. He told the people that when
the Democrats came into poWer-in
March. 1893, the country was prosper
Gus. That is not true, and the condition
of things in Utah at that date is q
REPUTATION of the statement. If the
country was prosperous on March 4,
1898, why should it not have been pros
porous up to Monday, August Is, 1894,
the date when the Democratic tariff
bill was passed by the House? During
all that time the people have lived and
suffered under the Mckinley bill, that
perfection of protection, that law that
was to make complete the work of
creation thought to have been finished
some six thousand years ago. oh! that
a Milton might come to tell of its Won
drous workings. But in the absence of
the poet the people will be glad to rely
on Mr.. Zane.
The gentleman told the people that
the first tariff was in 1889. He forgot to
tell them that the highest duty under
that law was Is per cent, and that it
was placed on luxuries such as car
riages. Being pressed for time. he also
forgot to tell them that the late Mr..
Blaine said the Democratic free
trade tariff of 1916. as it was called,
was yielding abundant revenue, and
the business of the country was in a
furnishing condition" Have the Demo-
Gratis threatened" to do anything
worse than that?
Mr. Zane has developed great and
a sudden love for the Mormon people.
He blamed the Democrats for passing
the Edmunds-T Tucker law. If the law
were such as should not have been
passed then judge on the bench,
whose standard was the standard of
the Jays, the Marshalls, the Taneys and
the Chases, would have resigned rather
than enforce a law that his con-
science told him was wrong in princi-
pie. The Republican chief justice of
Utah territory vigorously enforced this
same Edmunds-Tucker law Does Mr.
Zane forget who the distinguished
jurist was? That kind of talk from n
member of the bar is pure demagog-
ism, and merits the contempt of law
yer and layman alike.
The story of the calf and the roam
steer, and how the people of Utah have
i been the calf and the Democratic par
ty the roam steer and the Republican
! n.y. &c h.
led horn that is going to nourish the
people, is very touching, but to sub
stitute Republican bell wether for a
Democratic roam steer is not much of
an improvement And just to think of
poor little Utah Europa going off on a
roam steer thinking all the time it was
a white bull!
| According to Mr.. Zane the Republi-
cans forced" the Democrats to give
Utah statehood. They did this because
Republicans have more sense than
Democrats. If this is so, Individual Re-
publicans do not always show that
! they have more sense, as, for example.
when they so assert on the stump 1t
is due the pubic that all the details of
this forcing" be given by Mr.. Zane.
| When this is done he can show how
the Republicans forced the people to
elect Democratic House, Senate and
tory to elect a Democratic Delegate
Never before was there ever so benefi-
cent a use of force.
Then Mr.. Zane said he would show
them how the Republican party had
wanted and tried to benefit the people
of Utah. He said the Republican party
have tried to follow the teachings of
Saint Paul. If they have tried they
have failed most signally. This is very
much like the devil quoting Scripture.
And then he told the people the Demo-
Gratis were infidels. This being so, it
follows that Mr.. Zane must hold that
a majority of the people of Utah are
inffdels, for they voted a Democratic
ticket and elected a Democrat to Con-
gress. To see Mr.. Zane so jealous in
the cause of religion shows how pow
erful has been the influence of Chair
man Cranes Sunday school circular
and the Nuggets of Truth" Not in
vain was it said, Cast thy bread on
the water for thou shalt find it after
many days"
The record of the late Republican
legislature is thing of which Repub-
licans should be proud. The people
must have listened eagerly when Mr.
Zane told them that the bounties the
Republicans wished to grant were pro-
vided for by reducing the fund for the
support of the University of Utah.
When he told them that the bounty
to the Lehi sugar factory had lowered
the price of sugar, they must have
wondered why the same thing happen
ed all over the country when the tar
if was taken off sugar. Perhaps some
enquiring mind wanted to know why
Utah sugar was the same price in the
Utah market as the imported sugar,
for it was, and the price in the Cali
| fornia market ruled and still rules the
price in the Utah market. Why did not
the Republicans force Governor
West to sign those bounty bills. they
/ having forced a Democratic House and
Senate to pass the statehood bill and a
Democratic President to sign it? They
have betrayed the people of Utah or
they have lied to the people Of Utah.
! Mr.. Zane said no trusts have grown
up under protection. This statement
hardly fits in with the facts. What are
some of the trusts and when were they
organized?
January 81, $780, the Associated Press
announced a cracker and biscuit
trust had been formed by the Dia-
mond Match company, the capital to
be S.. 900, 900. The tariff is 20 per cent