The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-26
EFFECTS OF REPUBLICAN POLICY.

EFFECTS OF REPUBLICAN POLICY.
1t is refreshing to receive a frank ad-
mission, made however unwittingly.
from a Republican paper that the pol
icy of the Republican party has been
inimical to the material interests of the
majority of tn people of this country.
The usual method is to charge all that
to the Democratic party. Everything
that renders it difficult for the working
man to raise a dollar, wherewith to
purchase that for which at one time he
would have had to pay two dollars, is
incontinently alleged to be the effects of
Democracy, and more than that, the
very thing which the Democrats desire.
OF course that is bald deception, but
it is Republican assertion which takes
the place of argument. But here is the
Tribune talking in this way about Tom
Reed and the Republican party and
their policy:
'FMr. Reed and his friends for years
have been adhering to a policy which
has had the effect to take from the peo-
pie more and more of their capacity to
buy. So the revision of the tariff will
not do the business"
Precisely. We will not dispute that
fact for moment. But the puzzle
would be how that is to be reconciled
with the assertions of the same paper,
that under the policy of that party IN
exampled prosperity and increased
wealth had come to the people, partic-
ularly the working classe. Also that it
was the Democratic party by a change
of policy that would take from them
the capacity to buy" 50 that while
goods might be cheaper for the con-
sumner, the means to purchase them
would be reduced, and therefore it
would be no advantage to have a two
dollar article sold for a dollar if the
working man bod not the dollar with
which to buy. That has been repeated
ad libitum, aG nauseam by the paper
which now admits that it is the Re-
publican policy, and has been for years.
to ''take from the people more and
more the capacity to buy
There is another thing worthy of no.
tice. When the Republican President,
Harrison, made his boast Of ''unprece.
dented prosperity" which was echoed
by our Republican contemporary and
which reverberated for months in its
columns, The Herald showed thai
though in the aggregate wealth had in.
creased in the country, it was really
certain CLASSES which had accumulated
that wealtIswhile the agricultural an6
laboring millions had become impover.
ished.
And now here comes the Tribune
with another acknowledgement not in.
tended any more than the other to be
taken in that light but still just a.
applicable for all that, and in this Ian
guage:
'sThe property of this nation, while
it has increased i'm the aggregate, ha!
not increased among the great army o
producers"
True enough. And it is all the more
striking, coming as it does from a Re
publican source, which further admit.
that,
, E"Tne people are unable to buy tn,
goods through which the nation oh
tains such revenue as comes through
the tariff
OF course we are aware that our Re
publican neighbor does not care TO
such a little thing in its eyes as con
sistency But its thinking readers will
no doubt marvel at these admission
in the face of its former avowals, AM
: wonder. if some Democrat has not beer
getting in work or ideas that hay
been grated upon the editorial column
: of the Republican protectionist advo
cate. Republican policy taking from
the people, for years, more and NOR
the capacity to buy, aggregatini
, wealth for some classes and impover
ishing the great body of producers
WI, well, we certainly are living unde
changed conditions"