The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-14
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Peoples Department of
The Dispatch. Think For
1t. Write Fol-. 1t.
Edited by Sam. A hing.
To the Editor PUBLIC OPINION.

Edited by Sam A hing.
To the Editor PUBLIC OPINION.
Ii there is any subject that should BIZ
brought before tie voters of Utah il
its true light, it is the real cause of tn,
the present hard times. Are the times
harder now than during the years 1889
1899 and 1891? The republicans or,
and CLAIM that they are, but it is no
true. During the time tn republic n,
point TO as prosperous years, men could
60 In debt, and did go in deep. Ali
classes, lawyers, farmers and business
men borrowed money and run bills ano
lived beyond their incomes. Pay day
came, and notes and bills could not BE-
met,
The result was that mortgages WERE
foreclosed, suits were instituted to FL
force collection; the banks refused
further loans, and the merchants re
fused more credit Consequently every
body was compelled to pay for every
thing at the time of purchase. If this
could not be done they went without.
People are compelled now a-days to
live on their income, and pay tout OF
said income) debts that were contrac
ted three or four years ago. There IS
just as much and perhaps more money
In the banks and in circulation now
as there was in the'good time period;"
but it cannot be borrowed so easily.
All classes have exhausted their Dor.
rowing capacities. In other words
they have exhausted their securities
and haye nothing to borrow on, there
fore people must pay as they 60, ano
go as they pay.
The republican newspapers have
several theories as 10 the cause of the |
stringency in the money market
One glaring head line viii announce |
that 1t is lear of democratic legislation
and the next paragraph will state that
it is caused through thu demonetlza-
ton oi liver, and every man knows
that 81 er was given it's first set back
III 1913, When the republicans were in
control of the government. Silver is
now goiag up IN price, will the republi-
cans be as Tree TO tell the people that
tie dtm ocrats Responsible tOl It's
rise? Times are be ter as Tar as monty
Is conceIned and 1t is getting easler
every day, will the <. o. p. say it is be-
cause the democrats ere In power? Ii
The present mode of doing business il
continued for one or two years, and
people are not permitted t. b ,rrow or
run in deb., and can pay as they are
now doing, their old debts, it will not
De long until every body will be pros
porous, aud it wont be fictitious pros
perry either. The prosperity of the
past has been fictitious and too mu:h
ike soap bubble. riss to a great height
and burst.
The prosperous people are those who
IRE not in debt, who own every dollar
hey earn aud are not afraid of The
heriff. Voters. Stick ~ the democratic
principles, IS they are the only oues
hat will fret the American working
nan, and lift off the calling yoke OF
bondage that has been growing harder
O bear for twenty-five years. The
democratic principles enacted into laws
viii not give the millionaire a license
o rob the American people, as tkey
ave been robbing them under high
arIff. When the Mckinley bill was
ondemned by his own constituents.
L. mckinley asked them to wal
nd give the bill a chance. Give it
hree or four years to show the good it
7ould do, That rule will work one
14y as well as another.
The democrats don't want thirty
ears to restore prosperity. Give them
My two terms and the United States
Ill be more prosperous than they
ave been during the rule of the" Great
n Pretentions" party.
q. v Robson.