The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-27
DEoEIvERs OF THE PEOPLE.

There is something about Republi-
canism, using that term in strictly
partisan sense, which seems to Undue
its extreme votaries with disposition
to trickery, sophistry and brazen mis-
representation. Republican orators,
from some of whom much better things
might reasonably be expected, are
moving around among the people and
so presenting public matters as to mis-
lead and deceive the uniformed, and
especially some of the ladies who for
the first time are engaging in practical
political affairs. We have listened to
some of these speakers and have been
amazed as well as Disguised at the
| bold, direct falsehoods uttered by them
and also at the gullibility of a great
many of their hearers.
One of the topics on which these Re
publican stump speakers are dilating
is the old and threadbare declaration
that hard times, closed work shops, idle
mills, reduced wages, the tramp nui-
sance and other ills which afflicted the
nation during nearly three years, were
the result of Democratic legislation"
OF course, that is in accordance with
the declaration in the latest Utah Re
publican platform, but it is marvellous
in its impudent assertion of a patent
untruth. and in its acceptance by so
many people as if it were gospel. One
reason why some of them accept it
in that light is, no doubt, because
there are professed and professional
ministers of the gospel who proclaim
these falsehoods on the stump.
The people of Utah certainly ought
to know that there was no tariff legis-
lation by the Democratic party until
the fall of 1884. They ought to know
that the panic of 1893 was the culmin-
alton of a series of disasters, conse-
quent on continued business depres-
sions, which commenced to come to a
head about a year before the end of
President Harrison's term of office.
Also that when he vacated the presi-
Dental chair, the surplus of over a
hundred million dollars which was left
in the treasury at the end of the first
Cleveland administration, was entirely
exhausted; that the gold reserve had
been reduced to such an extent that
Harrison, in alarm, had to appeal for
gold to Wall street; also that Secretary
Foster had prepared bonds to be is
sued so as to tide over the trouble I'M
til the results of Republican miserable
management might be dumped at the
~
Nothing can be palmer to one who
sees without gazing through Repubii-
can colored spectacles, than that the
financial and. Industrial troubles from
which we are now happily becoming
extricated, were the fruits of Republi-
can planting. They were the results
of causes that had long been in opera
ton. AS well assert that the harvest
of one year is the crop from the next
years expected planting. as to say that
the evils that smote the country in
1893 were the results of Democra tic
legislation which was not enacted until
1894.
Facts ought to be stronger with SEN
sible persons than mere assertions. The
facts are that since the Democratic
legislation on the tariff, business Of all
kinds has revived. Financial con-
fidence has been restored. The mills
and workshops and factories which had
been closed under the Republican
panic, have been reopened under the
beneficial effects of Dmocratic legis-
lation. The furnace fires have been
relighted; the armies Of tramps have