The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-11


assumed national control. The Trib-
une now attempts to evade the issue
and asks what made the throes?"
and then inquiries:
."Was it not the fact that the whole
country had been turned over TO the
! Democracy"
We will let the Tribune answer its
own question. Here are extracts
from its editorial columns on that
subject:
There is no other hope than in sill
yer for the return of prosperity. Men
may talk platitudes as long as they
] please; the fact that stares everyone
/ in the face is that commodities have
fallen to a point where there is no
| longer profit in production. That
makes it impossible for the men who
! otherwise would employ extra labor
ers, to do SO. That leaves the farm
ers poor 1t leaves between two and
! three million tramps Idle in the coun-
| try, and this condition is menace
! to the very integrity and continuance
of our institutions"
''Why is it possible then for hosts of
men from half dozen different
! points to take up the gloomy march
| of the unemployed? They can all find
/ the reason by taking up the files OF
any newspaper and studying the fall-
| ing prices which have been the rule
| for the past ten years The producers
as a rule are always in debt. When
| for ten years prices continue steadily
! to fall hundreds Of thousands of
| them reach a point when they can no
! longer give employment to other men.
| This is what has come upon the coun-
! try, and hence the land is filled with
idle men. The cause dates from 1873;
the elimination was last october. =
Tribune, April 9, 1894.
eff our country were alone to eStab-
| lish bimetallism, and if their gravest
| fears could be realized, namely, that
| gold would go to a premium and van
ish away they would see three things.
! First, that when the gold went away,
something else would have to come.
| Second, that after all there is no
! surplus of silver in the world, and,
| Third. that suddenly every factory IN
! the United States would have plenty
of work and plenty of sales for their
! material. and the factories in Great
Britain would one by one close down.
We would not care then for any tariff
or for any free trade, or for anything
! else.''-Tribune, May s, 1894.
eff our government was only bright
enough and wise enough and brave
| enough right now to assume the ag-
gressive and, following the
| experience of 1900 years, and repudl-
! ating the experience of the last TWEEN
/ ty years would henceforth recognize
| and use silver as money, all the
clouds in our sky would vanish away
within ninety days Tribune, May
| II. 1894.
These statements cannot be harmon
lied with the notion, now expressed by
the same paper. that nation of over
fifty millions of people enjoying ''un-
exampled prosperity was suddenly
plunged into the most terrible adver-
sity by the accession to power of
party that was elected by the SURFACES
of a large majority of the people, and
for the very purpose of reforming the
abuses established by their predeces-
sors.
The falsehood of the notion IS only
exceeded by it's patent absurdity. The
country revolted against the misrule
of the Republican party, and placed in
power the Democratic party on a tariff
reform platform. And yet we are ex-
pected to believe that, succeeding in
what they endeavored to accomplish
| they became panic-stricken and went
| into practical bankruptcy. Desiring to
be freed from the incubus of high
protection, as soon as it was probable
that the load would be taken off they
! became paralyzed at the prospect The
| IL oIo crai,1et
the reductions in their wages and the
expressions under which they strug
gled, demanded a change of admins
tration of public affairs, and when they
obtained it were made tramps by the
process.
Were there no tramps before their
organiza ton for a march upon Wash
ington? We're they not gradual
growth under Republican maladminis-
tration? Were there no strikes and
lockouts and labor riots under Repub
hcanism and particularly under Har
rison? Had not prices been falling for
| two decades? Were not the agricul-
| tural and laboring classes gradually
| growing poorer during all those years?
The Tribune has declared there were
all these as the result of silver de-
monetization, and has said SO over and
over again, making the story a serial
and picturing its horrors with liberal
display of lurid colors
To come out now and stultify itself,
| eat its own words deny its own propo-
sitions, give the lie to its own declara-
tons, and all to make a political point,
shows ito what depths of degradation
it will descend and how thoroughly
unreliable and despicable it is.
'fWho made the throes?" Why, the
Tribune that asks the question has fur
nished the answer. 1t was the Repub-
lican party, which had had control of
affairs, according to Tribune declara-
tions. for thirty years. The panic Of
1873, the worst in American history,
was under Republican administration
The panic of 1898 came from similar
causes and was under Republican leg
| islation and policy.
It was, as the Tribune declared, a
elimination of troubles that had been
| accommodating. for twenty years. The
throes We're symptoms of a deep-seat-
ed and chronic complaint. The mag
nitude of the disasters is proof that it
wa a no sudden calamity throllrh fea =,