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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
A RIDICULOUS RUMOR.

Republican papers are circulating
about to engage in a crusade against
free silver. They announce that the
President is organizing a campaign, to
be participated in by members of the
cabinet, and in which officeholders
throughout the country will be expec-
ted to engage on peril of gaining the
disfavor of the powers that be.
One of the chief things relied upon
as evidence of this, are letters of in
quiry sent to some prominent per-
sons, among others the Governor of
Idaho, asking how the people of that
state view the Presidents utterances
on the sound money" question. The
queries come from st. Louis, but that
is near enough to the seat of govern
ment to answer the purpose of those
who jump to the conclusion that they
emanate from the Administration.
The idea is an absurdity. If such a
movement was attempted it would
damage the cause intended to be sup
ported. It would be held up as pros
titution of the powers of the Presi-
dent and would give just cause for the
outcry that would certainly be raised.
There is nothing in it. The goldites
are doing all that lays in their power
to promote the sound money propa-
ganda. Papers are being subsidized.
literature is being supplied by the ton
and speakers are getting ready for tho
war against silver. But the admins
tration will not be foolish enough to
so far transcend the legitimate bounds
Of its official position as to openly en-
gage in the fight, or to require any of
the appointees of the government to
take part in it. The story is a Republi-
can canard.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
A FINAL REJoINDER.


Our friend of the Dispatch must be
institution for which Provo is famed.
judging by a number of semi-crazy re-
marks which have appeared lately i'll
: it's editorial columns. Processing to
banker after harmony it seeks to stir
up dissension, and pleading for peace
it provokes rejoinder.
The animus of the Feasibility of our
Provo contemporary appears to be
The Herald's position on the equal
suffrage question, which the Dispatch
says is ''a desertion from the good old
democratic position of anti-female
suffrage as well as all other forms of
anti-sumptuary laws
1t will no doubt surprise the Demo-
cratic delegates to the convention to
hear that a paper. which poses as
Democratic par excellence, classes the
woman suffrage article with ''sumptu-
airy laws" That is funny and we be-
lieve original We are glad to find
something original in the Dispatch.
Our friend is sick. We knew that
by its illusions. It makes acknowl-
edgement of the fact. The cause is, it
cannot tolerate that democracy"
which advocates female suffrage
What in the world will it do when
equal suffrage becomes a practical fact
as it is now an integral principle of
state policy in Utah? We fear its
sickness will then be fatal
Our contemporary thinks "the nerve
and judgment of The Herald at fault"
since women are not to vote upon
the adoption of the constitution" If
the eyesight and comprehension of the
Dispatch were not at fault, it would
have understood that The Herald has
contended from the first that the wo-
men could not vote for or against the
constitution. Notwithstanding the
equal suffrage proposition and its in
sertion in the organic law of the state.
Then the Dispatch talks of diluted
silver arguments" in The Herald, and
proceeds itself to pour out nearly
column of such watery comments on
the same question that the very paper
is damp on which they appear. Very
little that is new can be said on the
silver question. But when goldite pa
pers repeat the old platitudes against
free coinage, the old arguments have
to be repeated to explode them. That
is the situation.
We understand the motive and the
purpose of our Provo friend in thrust
ing its small-pin darts at The Herald
But they will not accomplish the end
desired. And it would be just as we'll
for the Dispatch to recognize the fact
that the equal suffrage article, for
which the Democrats in the convention
contended SO successfully, was settled
upon as the policy of the Democracy
in Utah at the last territorial conven-
ton, and that The Herald is with the
Democracy, while the Dispatch is
fighting the party when it is making
its little squirts at The Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
ANTI-sILvER PALACES.

The Louisville COurier-Journal holds
that the silver miners of the west are
Simply attempting to double the price
of silver by process of legislation. Fur
! Their the Courier-Journal says: 1.-THE
fight for silver now in progress is
therefore, merely form of protection
1t is part of the system that subjects
the masses to onerous exactions in or
der to promote the prosperity of &
few
The Courier-Journal, for some in
scrutable reason. has become a thor
oughly gold-colored monometallist or
gan. That is why it discourses such
erroneous doctrine. and puts forth such
palpably untruthful statements as
those we have quoted. Is it not a fac.
that instead of any endeavor to "dou-
BILE the price of silver" the legislation
of 1873 in effect doubled the price of
gold?
Look at the facts in the case as to
silver. Was it not the reinforcement
of that royal metal which cut down
it's market value? And whatever at
tempts are being made to raise it, are
| they not to simply restore it to its for.
mer position. Legislation cast it down.
legislation can place it back.
The fight for silver is not "a form of
protection" The purchase system I'M
der the Sherman law was. That has
been knocked out. What the advocates
of silver contend for is not "protec-
tion," in any form, for one metal more
than the other, but the placing of both
silver and gold on the same level as
money metals. the ratio between them
to be what experience has proved to be
natural and right.
If the free coinage of silver is pro-
lection, what is the free coinage of
gold? Is not that protection also? Is
it not the worst kind of protection, if
there is any protection about the mat
ter-the protection of a monopoly?
Silver advocates want no monopoly:
they Mt the free coinage of both
metals without Discrimination against
either.
What generous exactions' are there
in demanding the coinage of both sill
yer and gold as the money of the coun.
try, the same as It was from the begin.
ming up TO 1873? Are not the generous
exactions" those which demand that
gold shall be the only standard of val
ues, this cutting out one of the moneu
metals. compelling debtors to pay their
creditors in gold, which has appreci-
atcd because of the protection of mono.
metallist legislation, and doubled its
value when compared with the price OF
commodities in general?
1t looks as though the Courier-Jour-
nal is trying to throw dust in the eyes
of the people of the south for some
Interior purpose. Not genuine gold dust
but the bogus article. The two sen.
fences We have quoted are palpable
perversions Of fact and principle which
it seems to US must be perceptfble tc
every Democratic writer. They are en-
tirely unworthy of so experienced and
able paper as the Louisville Courier.
Journal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

wanted just now is to come to full
understanding in relation to party
policy.
The great issue is the financial ques-
ton. While it is not true. as asserted
by the Republican organs. that free
silver is going to split the Democratic
party all to pieces it cannot be denied
that there are a number of very strong
gold men and others who are called
bimetallists who are against free silver.
But that is not going to split the
party all to pieces" The large major
ity of the party are in favor of free
coinage, and the majority will rule and
Will choose the leader when the proper
times comes.
II must also be remembered that the
same kind of dissension as to silver
prevails in the Republican party, with
this difference: that the large majority
Of its members are opposed to free sill
yer coinage and only the minority are
in favor of it. And the number of as
pirants for the leadership adds to the
confusion and divisions in the party.
The imagined misfortune" of the
Democratic party is fortunate sit
uation. A "superfuity of aspirants" for
the leadership of a party before any
leader is needed is indeed a misfor-
tune, both for most, if not all, the as
pirants and for the party itself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
AN IMAGINARY MISFORTUNE.

The Providence. Rhode Island, jour
nal remarks: There is truth. of
course, in the declaration of a promin-
ent public man that the supreme mis-
fortune of the Democratic party at
the present time is the want of lead
er. It might be retorted, however, from
the Democratic side that one of the
chief embarrassments of the Republic
can party is superflmty of aspirants
for leadership"
That is exactly the situation so far
as the Republican party is concern
ed. AS to the Democratic party there is
no need just now to fix on national
party leader. That would be premature.
When the right time comes the right
man will be recognized. The Demo-
cratic party is not without men fully
competent to take the lead. What is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

Speaking of the attempt to boom
Harrison as a bimetallist, the New
Haven Register makese these peril
nent remarks: Just where ex-Presi-
dent Harrison is coming in as a COM
promise presidential candidate on a
platform of conservative bimetallism,
it is hard to see. But perhaps the term
is new contribution to the juggleries
of the English language, mysterious
enough to encourage both the gold
and the silver men. and yet frank
enough to bunco both. If so. it will not
prove good campaign cry. We are
on the verge of a battle in which plain
words and unmistaken terms are to
play successful part. No straddle will
be possible
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
AMERICAN EXPORTS OF SHOES.


1t is of no use for Republican organs
to deny the fact that American man
ufacturers are competing with English
firms in classes of goods of which the
latter have made specialties, and
which, because of "cheap labor" some
times miscalled "pauper labor" it was
supposed needed in this country to be
protected by a high tariff.
Instead of the United States being
flooded with those cheap goods of
foreign fabrication under the new
tariff law. America is sending her
manufactures abroad and underselling
European made goods in British trade
centres.
The London Daily News. in speaking
of the labor troubles in the shoe trade,
in a recent issue had this to say, which
is sufficient answer to statements in
attempted denial of American exports
OF shoes to England:
1.-The employers cannot ignore one of
the most disquieting features of the
situation. 1t is the now rapidly in
creasing growth of American COMPETE
ton in even the home market. This is
shown by the fact that on a single day
in the week before the holidays, three
tons of American boots and shoes.
which had been landed at Liverpool
from New York, were delivered to Lei
cester dealers. Nor can this excite
much surprise when it is realized that
the Leicester dealer can now have
these goods delivered free at his own
door cheaper than he can buy them
from the Leicester manufacturer. In
the case of ladies' glace kid boots, for
example, the difference in favor of the
American maker is as much as eight
pence per pair, and at that price an
order has actually been delivered with
in the last few days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
THE COST OF THE PENSIONS.

While the Grand Army posts in differ
emit parts of the country are preparing
their resolutions of indignation against
great disappointment to them to dis
cover that public sentiment is far from
sharing their indignation. On the contra
~, there are numerous evidences that the
people who are called on to pay the ex-
penses of the government are inclined to
thank Colonel Waring for having called
attention in a striking manner to the
swelling the burden of the pensions.
More than one-third of the expenses of
the government are for pensions. The
appropriation exceeds by more than one
was assigned to it fifteen years after the
close of the war. Thirty years after the
end of the war its pensions cost us more
than the most expensive of the great ar
maments which are squeezing the life out
of the richest nations of Europe. The fol-
lowing table shows the enormous in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
The Herald Was a Daisy.

The Salt Lake Herald labor edition Sun
day was a daisy. 1t was chuck full of
choice matter from the pens of all the
great labor leaders of the country. Every
man in Utah should have a copy of it;
especially those of the laboring class, for
1t will be a great benefit to them if they
read the letters u contains from the many
leaders of diffeu2ht labor organizations.
The Herald is entitled TO the bakery
for getting out such a paper, which shows
the enterprising spirit of The Herald
management. 1t would do credit to a
town twice as large as Salt Lake.-Mil-
lard Progress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
Grent Credit to Us.

The labor edition last Sunday of The
Salt Lake Herald is an issue Of which
its authors and publishers can we'll feel
proud. Its articles on the labor situatid<
Of today, viewed from every standpoint
are complete and contain many practical
suggestions. There is nothing OF the ex-
sort to CRATE on the views of people of
different opinion. but is calculated to ap-
peal to all classes of citizens IN the m
of this country. 1t is an edition every
man in Utah should read, which , can
be done with pleasure and profit. Inc
is a credit to that great paper.-Mount
Pleasant Pyramid.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
POLITICS AND SILVER.

The real leaders of the Democratic par
ty-not Cleveland and his coterie,. but
such men as Crisp. Voorhees,, vest:
Blackburn, Vice-President stevenson ana
the like-appear to be determined to force
the free-coinage question to the fore. and
in the next election. 1t is a shrewd, and
it is designed to be a far-reaching poll
teal movement. The masses OF the PEG
pie of all political parties in the mlddle
west, on this side of the Mississippi ana
in the south are largely in favor. OF the
gold in the mint. In the east opinion
is divided and while, if the truth were
known, it would probably be found that
the laboring masses there agree with
their western brethren, still the press and
politicians of both parties in the eastern
states, with a few exceptions, are con-
trolled by Wall street influences.
So far as the Democratic party is con-
cerned, it looks as if the line OF battle mas
been drawn. In all political probability
the Democrats will declare for free coin
national action. and they will nominate
a western man in harmony with that
What then, will the Republicans do?
Will they dare do less? The eastern Re-
publicans, with Reed and such men at
the head. may think it wise to truckle to
the banking influence and to the eastern
press which Wall street controls But the
east will be as .powerless in the Repub!i-
can convention to name q candidate as IN
the Democratic convention More So In
fact, as the Republicans. unlike the Dem
The great west will dominate the Repub-
lican convention and the delegates from
the south will not be under admlnlStra-
ton CONTROLS. F. Chronicle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
BITS OF MERRIMENT.

Weary wayfarer Ito station agenD-Be
the trains runnin' on time, now?
Station agent-Of course they are.
Can't you read that sign?
Weary wayfarer-Yes, but he'erd re-
port that they was a-runnin' on rails
The Great Divide.
Texas justice-You admit you stole the
pig out of the pen?
Colored prisoner-Yas, 1 admits stole
de pig, but / wuz hungry, an 1 didn't
have muffin ter eat.
tears in his eyes, as he chalked him
down for two years.-Tammany Times.
I saw him in the play at nine,
The friend he loved most dear
Was dead; and all were deeply moved,
AS he wept DER the bier.
At twelve I saw this man again,
His friend who had been dead
Was there: two beers they bent above
Brooklyn Eagle.
(Which is my part in the duet?" asked
the prima donna of her husband. who
was the tenor.
Your part? Here it is, of course. The
one with the last word in it."-London
Punch.
Bjinks-So you finally got the. manu-
script of your novel back from the edit
OF, ulu you. WnaL Inaue MIN 50 lOLS
about returning it?
Bjinks-He had pawned it for a dollar
and half.-Someryille Journal.
'.She understands men perfectly"
''She ought to after tending a soda
fountain three seasons.-Detroit Tribune.
Have YOU had that printing done in
which we refer to the silver tones of the
tenor?" asked the manager of the opera
company
mot yet" replied the agent.
We'll, have them put that line In the
biggest type they can get. We play Den
yer week after next.-Washington Star.
Bank president-No, really, I cannot
say that there is anyone against whom
we can bring a charge But there is Adj
derton. come to think of 1t; we have al
ways been more or less suspicious of him.
Police Ofhcer-But / don't know as I
care to see Adderton. Isn't there some-
body about the place in whom you have
always had the most implicit confidence,
and whom you have always trusted? Yes?
Well. that's the man want to see.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

Republican statesmen of the Frye
cullom stripe who sustained President
Harrison in his unprovoked and in
Chill, new cry Monroe doctrine" and
let slip the dogs of war because Great
Britain attempts to collect a just
debt from Nicaragua. This thing of
being a Republican requires more
moral versatility than we feel capable
Of, so please excuse us.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
OUR LABOR EDITION
Worth Trcnsnring.

Last Sunday the Salt Lake Herald with
commemorate enterprise issued an i'm
per in the interest of the workingman.
They presented thirty-two pages of we'll
written articles mostly on labor matters,
labor question. from many prominent
men including lawyers. business. and pro-
fessional men, church representatives,
etc 1t is on the whole volume of in
formation that is worth treasuring.-
Springville Independent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

MIR. George q. Croker, in the North
American Review. presents the follow
ing table as showing the rates of in
surance prevailing in different coun-
tries: France, 8 cents per 500: Ger
many, Is cents per 500; England. Is
cents per 500: Australia. IS cents pen
500; Austria, IS cents per 500: Russia,
81 cents per 800; United States. 100
cents per 500.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

They say the North Pole has been
reached; excursions to it are not apt
to become popular, however. owing to
the rigor OF the circumiacent climate,
except possibly among those who have
become accustomed to the billiards of
Colorado's ideal spring climate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

The New York Post has at length
caught on to the fact that "the Utah
Constitutional Convention has finally
adopted a clause forbidding the Legis-
lature to lend the credit of the state
for the benefit of private corporations.
The contest over the prohibitory clause
was a spirited one. and party lines were
divided on the issue"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

1.-The protectionists told US" says the
Louisville CONFECTIONERY. that free
trade would destroy industry. We have
now free trade in wool. and the prices
of woolien goods are lower, their mar
ket is extending, the business is
strengthening, and the wages of the
workmen are rising
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
LEHI REPUBLICANIsM.

All those in Utah who feel il. is right
that men of means should be forced to
start industries for the benefit of the peo-
pie who need employment shoulq study
this statement CTreasurer Whiteheads),
for in it there is the key how this thing
is and can be ACCOMPLISHED.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

We trust that a strengthened navy
will not lead this country to go around
the earth with a chip on its shoulder,
spelling for a fight. We should re-
ugiously avoid entangling alliances.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

The New York World afirms that
during the month of april the wages
of fully $4,000 operatives in iron mills.
wooden and cotton factories and other
industries have been increased. That
is the way tariff reform is running"
II hnr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

We take this occasion of suggesting
to cur telegraph editor that the fact
that "Depew and Eckels Talk is not
so striBingly unusual as to demand
scare head
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
Food For Thought.

Herald contained % pages of interesting
reading matter. There was much food
for thought in many of the articles. The
enterprise of The Herald in. the matter
is. as usual, up TO the times.-Manti
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

We tender the congra tulations OF
the Democrats to the Republican
members of the convention for the
campaign material so generously and
abundantly furnished.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
Worth Filing.

Last Sundays labor edition of The Her
aid fully justified all that has been seid
for it in advance. Timely Industrial and
currency articles from labor leaders of
the country and Salt Lake filled its
pages. It's worth filing.-Eastern Utah
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

Judging from the number of bridal
couples that visit Washington It may
be concluded that it is the march from
Lohengrin and not the Washington
Post march that is most popular there
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
NOTES CoNCERN1NG NoTABLEs.

James Samuel Thomas Stranahan, one
of the old-time citizens of Brooklyn, by
whom the town sets great store, was 7S
years old on Wednesday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

The will of Mrs. Mary E. Richmond, or
Batavia, n. Y.,widow of Dean Richmond,
the famous railroad and steamboat man.
leaves an estate of $15,0O0.0O0 to be divid-
ed among her children. Notice has been
given, however that it will be contested
by Miss Rosalind A. Richmond, of New
York, granddaughter, on the ground of
undue influence by other heirs. Miss
Richmond and her father were overlooked
in the division Of the estate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

Senator Blackburn is said to be pop
ular in his native state because The
is a splendid miner" This upsets all
our former impressions as to thu way
It is taken IN Kentucky.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

The people OF thlS country nave hard
times. Wages have been reduced and the
profits of business have been reduced.
New sources of revenue have had to be
ment, and the people have felt the burden
of federal taxation as serious grievance.
1t is no wonder if under these circum-
stances they have refused to respond to
an appeal to the sympathies from the
representatives of unlimited pensions.
The people are beginning to feel that they
need a little sympathy themselyes.-N. Y.
World
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

"Tamerlane," the anonymous first book
of poems published by Edgar A: Poe. was
sold by auction in Boston on Wednesday,
and bid in by Dodd Mead e. Co., of New
York for 81, 450. The only known COM
panion to this copy is in the British mu-
scum.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

At the rate at which the Cocktail
ton-Doolin gang is being killed off the
Oklahoma bandit will soon become like
the buffalo-an extinct species.