The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-24

Dover, Del, Oct. 23.-The Dover op-
era house was crowded tonight with
enthusiastic Democrats, who gathered
to greet Thomas F. Bayard. United
States ambassador to Great Britain.
Mr.. Bayard was greeted with tumultu-
Gus applause, and spoke in part as fol-
lows:
81 believed, standing as I did, more
than 5000 miles away from you, but
| looking across the sea that divided us,
when 1 saw the consequence of meas
ures which had been adopted in this
country; when I saw grave errors that
threatened the welfare of the people of
this country, which were upon US when
1 left my home, which were coming up
on US when last L stood in this very
place to bear my testimony of that
which I believed to be true, and when
L saw my expectations and my fears
fully realized; when l saw the conSe-
quences of suffering, of a financial pam
ic precipitated upon the people of the
United States; when 1 saw business
paralyzed; when I saw bankruptcy star
| ing honest men in the face; when
saw confidence blanched and tin1id
when l saw capital cowardly-it al
ways is shrinking from conflict at the
moments its services were most need
ed-when 1 saw all these things, saw
the wreck and the suffering that you
were undergoing here, my friends, I
| cannot say that was surprised.
Woes Brought Upon America.
81 can only say that I was grieved,
and l am here tonight to put before
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vite again the evils from which you
have barely escaped, whether you will
| place power again in the hands of a
party to whom America owes her
worst woes and her greatest suffer-
dngs? (Applause.)
This is the question, 1T is no idle
question-it is one fraught with the
deepest interest to everyone who hears
me-
Mr.. Bayard compared the condition
of the country on March 4, 1889, to the
| state of affairs four years later, when
for the first time since 1861, the Demo-
cratic party had a president of it's
own choosing, and controlled the House
by a large majority and a scanty, al
most nominal. majority in the Senate.
All the measures that had been passed
and the consequences of which We're
exhibiting themselves had been enacted
by the Republicans. He then said:
"If the trade policies of the country
had been unwiSe, if the distribution of
public powers to private hands and
private use had followed; for all of that,
the Republican party stood then, stands
today and will ever stand responsible.
"The Democratic president of 1885,
he said. 'thad stated to the people that
by an honest and strict collection of the
taxes, by an honest and economical
expenditures of the funds of the gov
eminent, a surplus was gathering and
had gathered that was dangerous to
public business and was useless and
ought to be abated.
God Help the Surplus.
eff there was a scarcity of money
created by the accumulation in the
treasury, the obvious method was to
diminish the source of several supplies,
so that the people would pay less and
enjoy more and public business be not
disturbed by a congested treasury.
That was common sense. 1t was
honesty. But it did not suit the pur-
pose of the incoming party. They said
Nor When they came in, they said,
AS to the surplus, we will soon manage
that
sGod help the surplus. And the sur
plus disappeared amid prof1igate, ex-
Icessive, lavish expenditures for the
purpose of making the people of the
United States believe that the govern
ment should support the people and not
that the people should support the gov
eminent. (Applause)
.'But into power they went, and in
stantly there was enacted, upon the
demands of the influences that con.
trolled their party; that control their
party today; that are seeking to gov
ern this country now, precisely the
same methods by which they sought to
govern it then-instantly the demand
came that they should hand over to
the men who led the Republican party
those powers of the government that
are essential to its existence; they de-
manded that those powers should be
handed over for private uses for pri-
vate profit, to be divided and parceled
as though it were the plumber, the
spoils of captured city or province.
Plumber ParceIed Out.
Unto their hands-the longest and
greediest fingers clutching the largest
share-they passed the tax and power
of this nation. Every man who had
loud cry; every man with an unScrupu-
lous grasp; every man who was prom
Used a, reward for the money he had
furnished to corrupt the votes of poor
men-to each of these has been handed
his share of the plumber. And what
was the outcome! z Let us describe it
in one word-profligate expenditures
had changed the surplus into a deficit.
That emptied the trasuery, and put it
in debt, and then a bill of enormous
taxation made in the name of protection
to American industry-the MCKINLEY
tariff law, and then bill urged on by
the same principles by those who owned
the mines of silver and were interested
in their development-the bill which
bears the name of Mr. Sherman-the
Sherman silver purchase BILL Nv
friends. those measures had been
passed before the election of 1892.
Public policies do not always de-
clare their results quickly. 1t is like
the habits of man. Health has no
symptoms. You merely see that the
step is light, that his eye is clear, that
his color is fresh, and you say the
man has health. On the other hand
if the habit is one fatal to health. Won
do not perceive at once, but gradually
and gradually the evil habit proclaims
itself. 1t tells upon him; but not until
his constitution may be undermined do
you perceive the haggard face, the
feeble step, the CLASSY eye and all the
symptoms of ill-health upon that man.
They do not declare themselves in a
day, but declare themselves they will.