The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-03
CAUGHT IN IT'S OWN TRAP.

CAUGHT IN IT'S OWN TRAP.
Score another victory to the great
logician of the Rocky mountains; once
more against itself A few days ago it
tried to show, in spite of the facts and
figures it has furnished to the contrary
many times, that it was the Democratic
party that Knocked out" silver and
gave it the final death blow 1t de-
nounced the Democracy, in a headline,
as "Silver's Greatest Enemy" 1t has
been called down by a. Populist, and in
trying to prove it was right, it sue
ceeds as usual in demonstrating that it
was wrong.
The reason advanced why the De-
mocracy is s'silvers greatest enemy" is
that in the vote to repeal the silver
purchasing clause of the Sherman act,
which our deceptive contemporary calls
silver repeal" the vote of the Demo-
Gratis stood in this wise: Senate-F'or
repeal, 20 aye; 10 nay. House-13S aye;
SIS nay.
That, according to our neighbours
logic, proves Democracy to be "silver's
greatest enemy" Well, here are it's own
figures of the Republican vote: I'm the
Senate % Republicans voted for repeal,
against; in the House 1O1 Republicans
voted for repeal, "a against" Thus, a
larger proportion of Republicans than
Democrats in both houses voted for
repeal and smaller proportion against
repeal. So its own figures show Re-
publicanism to be silver's greatest
enemy, If it's argument amounts to any
thing.
Now observe its crawl Aware that
1T has disproved its own assertion, it
says:
Our purpose was to show that a ma
jority of Democrats voted for repeal.
What Republicans or Populists did has
nothing to do with the phase of the
question we were then treating"
Ohio! In trying to show that "silvers
greatest enemy was the Democrats
what others did had nothing to do with
the case Ell? What was the term
greatest used for, if not in compar-
ison with others? 1t was an attempt
by direct falsehood to clear the Repub-
lican party from it's record of enmity
to silver from 1878 to the present, and
to charge that enmity to the Demo-
cratic party, in the same cowardly
spirit which prompts the falsehood
that the present administration should
be blamed for the effects of thirty years
of Republican blunderings,
Our neighbors forte is to make rash
and reckless assertions. 1t ought to
stick to them until it repents and be-
comes decent Whenever it begins to
reason and explain it makes a terrible
mess and furnishes the means of its
own discontinue.
We have never admitted that the re-
peal of the purchase clause of the Sher-
man act was either wrong in policy or
aimed against silver as money. We
do claim that Republicans We're as
eager as Democrats to get rid of the
miserable makeshift'' And we fur
ther claim that if the fact that a ma
jority of Democrats in Congress voted
for repeal, proves they were enemies to
silver, then the fact that a much great
er majority of the Republicans in Con-
gress voted for repeal, proves that "sil-
vers greatest enemies" are the Repub-
licans And our rash contemporary
has given the figures which establish
that beyond all truthful and rational
The real blow to silver was dealt by
the Republicans in 1873. Several en-
deavors by Democrats have been made
to repair the wrong, but were defeated
by the Republicans. The Bland act
restored the legal tender quality of the
silver dollar and thus remoneltized it to
that extent. This quality has not been
by the repeal act of 1893. We
do not blame either Democrats or Re
publicans for that act. Whatever
wrong may be attributed to either
party was a sin of omission, not one of
Something better should
have ben enacted in place of the clause
That is ALL