The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-31
PROVO CITY. AUG
TRAITORS TO UTAH.

There are traitors to Utah who seek
to destroy either her good name or the
worth of her productions. 1t is charged
that free wool will destroy the sheep
industry. We are often warranted in
the effort to establish the truth in
pleading a negative and this is one of
those occasions The Mckinley tariff
did not raise the price of wool. On the
contrary, wool steadily declined as
long as that severe measure of protec-
tion was law on the statute books. If
it becomes question between letting
the sheep or the silver interests go, it
would not take Utah single moment
te decide, and it ought not. The sheep
are at war with all other stock inter.
ests which silver fosters. This is the
difference. The republical party de-
stroyed silver but protected wool. The
wool protection was breyet only. 1t
was not real. The grand word "pro-
lection" stood boldly oyer against it,
but under that policy wool sank from
1S cents to cenJs.In the other case the
work was done in more finished and
complete way. Silver sank from s1.29 to
81 cents. There is no doubt about the
character of the work done for Utah in
this matter. In the matter of wool, We
can etand that easy but with this sill
yer matter 1t is another thing quite.
II Ad this malign energy against silver
never been exerted, this day would
have seen Utah the largest producer of
that metal on earth and she as we'll as
every other state in the broad union
would have been enjoying sucn meas
ure of prosperity as they never before
enjoyed. No one will or can deny this.
Yet We have given this all up, SO far as
republicans could accomplish it for the
chance of holding wool up few cents
g pound when everything else is
smashed, but which also proved to be
an immense failure, even in that pitt
ful enterprise, Or to that pitiful ex-
tent.
They were traitors to Utah who
sanctioned the wicked raid on silver in
the first place: they are still traitors
who vote to keep Ia power or to estab-
lish here, the party which cut the
throat of her owly unfolding silver
productions. we maintain that the
graYest injury ever inflicted upon Utah
was demonstration. 1t scars as lar
above any other possible injury IS
the sun does above the earth. Yet
here in Utah are men. Utah born men,
and newspapers engaged every day in
telling the people that they must vote
to plant republicanism permanently
here. The party which has wrought |
tle widespread disasters which have
visited our beautiful territory for three
years, is the only party worthy taking
charge of the destinies of the new
state built up upon foundation of
silver. Those who preach this gospel
OF untruth are traitors as also are those
who blindly swallow the dangerous
mess of political poison. When the
party which robs the taxpayers of
Utah confers bounty upon a rich cor
poration by wringing it from I'll 9
pockets of the distressed poor and
falsely calls it furnishing a market for
the farmers and encouraging and stim-
ulating agricultural development, it
becomes worse than the mere act of |
the traitor, it is the act of the robber.
The money already paid to the sugar
trust is enormous, aud every cent of |
the vast sum has BEEN paid out and for
nsnght. Money taken without valu-
able consideration having been re-
turned is guerdon of the robber, the re-
ward of the traitor. We trust Utah
people will ponder upon some of these
matters candidlY, and after that see if
they can vote for the party which in
its esrgerness to serve the rich has very
nearly destroyed the country.