The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-02-19
AN IMPENDING CHANGE.

A little oyer two years since the
country administered a stinging re-
buke to the republican party. 1t was
crusher to be sure. The weak make
shift policy of President Harrison had
disgusted the public sentiment of the
United States and the people not only
refused to return him, but they also said
to the republican party, we ara tired of
you. Here in time of almost unpre-
cedented prosperity, with the country
chuck full of all the elements of wealth,
instead of our debating commercial
and monetary law TO the world, we find
ourselves begging and cringing every
where, making so called reciprocity
treaties, first with one petty republic
and then with the other, and calling
that miserable, petty policy by the
name of craftsmanship, instead of
standing upon our superiority and
power and saying: 'Here we are with
all you need, if you want it come in
with your money gold or silver. or both,
and you shall have it at fair and equit-
able rates and good treatment besides"
The defeat of the republican party fol-
lowed, and it was indeed the most
crushing that was ever experienced by
any party in this country. The trium-
phant democracy went in with every
sail set and prosperous breezes from
every point of the compass.
The trouble is and was, that the
same mediocrity which characterized
Mr.. Harrison's administration clung
with fatal tenacity to its successor,
In no branch of the government has
there been display of even fourth
rate craftsmanship. 1t is true that
congress passed Mr.. Wilson's tariff
bill, but only after the senate had
emasculated it and took out of
it one-half of its power to re-
lieve the trade of the country
from the onerous exactions upon it.
Congress unwisely listened to the
siren song Of the gold bugs and re-
pealel the Sherman purchase law. un-
der the foolish and specious plea of the
gold people that that was all the
country needed to send it forward upon
a new career of prosperity the like of
which was never before seen. But q
few months experience with the new
toy demonstrated fully to all that the
cause of the stagnatiou laid deeper
than that measure, and it became per-
fectIy plain that it was the contraction
of the volume of money current which
was at fault. We say this truth wa
fully demonstrated. Yet with all that
the democratic administration. con.
gress and executive, labored. and has
labored ever since only to still further
contract the currency. 1t did more; il
went to borrowing gold and made an
understanding with the lenders, that
notwithstanding the bonds we're to be
paid in coin, so expressed On their face
the treasury would pay them in gold,
Is 1t any wonder that last fall the peo.
pie rose up in their might and admins
tered another rebuke fully as stinging
as the one two years since, and as q
matter of simple desperation, returned
the republican party to power?
This has worked, as yet, no relief.
Things are in no better condition than
before, nor can they be. Now what is
to be done? Clearly, the democratic
party of the nation is for bimetallism
for the restoration of silver as the
shortest and best means of restoring
the volume of money current to itE
normal condition, or at least in sc
much as that the crippled energies OF
the people would be restored. Now
there are enough republicans tired Of
this nonsense to Join with the pro silver
democrats to insure the full restoration
of silv>r, as well as the old time pros
psrity of both the government and the
people, They will do it and out o.
this misery will come the means of a
complete renovation. a third party, q
business American party, will be the
sure result, and it will sweep the ma
ton out of the hands of these trick
sters who. under the specious and die
honest cry of honest money" are
really laboring to put the business oi
the United States upon gold basis
in the interests only of the few bankers
in New York who have gone in with
Rothschilds and Lombard street to en-
rich themselves enormously while they
impoverish everybody els g.
Yes. mighty change is impending
1t will come soon and .the McKinleys
Germans and Carlisles, together with
our Clevelands, will be heard of nc
more, forever.
The full text of the New Yorl
Times article on George @. Cannon il
the most fearful arraignment of an in
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