The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-03
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
To the People Of Utah, Delivered at Salt
Lake City en- Saturday, June 10th, by
the Territorial Democratic Convention.

RESOLVED, That as the convention was
not called TO make nominations or
formulate platform OF principles, the
following be adopted as the sentiments
of the convention TO be presented in
the form of an address to the people Of
Utah:
we. the democrats of Utah, in con-
vention assembled, hereby declare our
devotion to the time honored principles
of the democratic party as enunciated
in the national platforms and imbed'
ded in the harris of its members.
We are emphatically in favor of
equal rights TO all and special privil-
eyes to none; of the greatest possible
liberty to every individual compatible
with the pubic welfare; of the advance
ment and support of home industries;
of the maintenance of local Eelf-govern-
ment to the fullest rightful extent;
and of a strict construction of the ma
ional constitution.
We are in favor of such reform of
the tariff as is consistent with the IN
terests of the consumer and the pro-
ducer. and declare that duties upon
foreign imports should be levied upon
the Injuries, so far as possible, and not
upou the necessarieS of life, for the
purpose of providing revenue for the
necessary expenses of government, and
not for the special benefit of any class
or priyate enterprise. We are opposed
to the bounty system, by which the
MANY are taxed for the enrichment of
few.
We demand the speedy passage of
the bill for trriff reform now pending
in the senate, including the provision
for an income tax by which those large
property holders who are best able
shall bear their just share of the bur-
den of taxation. And we denOUnce the
obstructive policy of the republicans
in congress, by which needed meas
ure to provide public revenue is de-
layed. causing uncertainty and doubt
in commercial and manufacturing
circles, and thus paralyZlng industry
and arresting trade. To the factious
hindrances which are still thrown in
the way of the Wilson bill by repabli-
can senators are due to the slow pro-
gress it is making and the disasters
that are consequent upon the delay.
We demand the restoration of silver
TO the COZ titutional position it occrs
pied as money previous TO the act Of
1873. by which the republican party
cast down that historic and essential
money metal, and caused the increas-
ing disasters which, beginning with
Che panic of 1873 and bursting forth at
intervals with terrible severity, de-
pressing the agricultural Interests OF
the country, creating unrest and dis
content among the oppressed laboring
classes and increasing the armies OF
framps which swarmed over the land,
eliminated in the panic of 1898 and
still spreads its blight upon trade and
industry.
We call attention to the undeniable
fact that the republican party took the
government from the democratic ad
ministration in 1889. with more than
hundred million dollars in the national
treasury and turned it back to the
democratic party In 1893 with treasury
practically bankrupt.
We denounce the silver policy OF the
Teuublicsn party as system of miser-
able makeshifts to palllate the repub-
lican financial crime of 1873, and de-
clare that only in and through the
democratic party can the people of the
United States expect the re"estaollsh-
rnent az rue bimetalism, which in
CliG6B b86 lASS COAhosS " ga
ratio of Is to l with gold. We believe
: sss.e european agree |
ment if international cooperation can |
not be Immediately obtained.
We deBOunce the republican policy |
OF protection as embodied In the infa-
nous Mckinley law and reaffirmed by |
that party in its most recent utter |
ances. We regard it as an assistant |
agency to the prOstration of silver in
producing the poverty and distress and
social calamities of various kinds which
still afflict our country.
We deny that the high tariffs placed
upon lead and wool and other commod-
tiles have raised their price or benefit
ed the producer of such materials,
while they have been oppressive and
detrimental TO the consumer and the
at large.
we cordially endorse the democratic
and administration:
In repeating the obnoxious federal
election law and thus promoting the
freedom of elections.
In formulating and endeaVoring to !
enact bill to reform the existing ex-
brilliant system OF tariffs. I
In revising the pension lists, so that
While all persons deserving the aid of :
he country for services in Its defense 7
hall be secured in their rights, Impost- :
rs and fraudulent pension agents 9
hall not be permitted to further bleed d
be body polite. !,
In the exercise Of the federal forces +
} suppress lawlessness where power to 4
O SO is clearly vested in the federal au- q
hority, and declining to interfere when q
would intrude on the rights of local 4
Overnment.
In the restoration to the church of q
esus Christ of Latter-day Saints prop n
rty confscated under the provisions of =
law; and we favor the :;
Immediate restoration also of the real =,
roperty 30 escheated in view of the ~
DIV indIsputable fact that no pretexs ~
.mains for charging that the majority =,
the people of Utah are in opposition ~
national authority. IF
In the passage through the house ~
I'D its report in the senate of a liberal -
Id excellent bill for the admission of 81
tab as state on an equal footing ~
ith the existing states; and we urge e.
) speedy enactment as a measure of NJ
mple Justice to the Oldest and mort ~
'osperous of the existing territories, 60;
In the appointment OF bona fide resi- o S
ants of the territory to the various -
ices In the gift of the government in ~ ~
cad of men from other sections of the az a.,
untry unfamiliar with our people and "a "a
e situation Of our affairs as was &c
e rule under republican administra- 90
1ns.
And we further endorse all efforts to
aintain the dignity and authority of
e government and remove the effects
over thirty wears of republican mis-
lie
We endorse the official acts of our
legate in congress, Hon. J. l.. Raw
Is, and offer his able and successful
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