The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-07
Mrs. Richards Closing Article on
the Document,
A RECORD OF DISHONOR.
THAT Is WHAT THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY HAS MADE.
How the Industries of Utah Have
Reen Affected-The Democratic
Governor Fully Vindicated-The
School Fund-The TahIeau.

16. What is a brief summary of thu
Republican party?" CCatechism)
Ans. ''The answer is a quotation from
one of Utah's statesmen: 1t is thu
synonym of progress. of reciprocity. OF
assumption, of emancipation and OF
national dignity, integrity and honor
1t recognizes and adopts the constitu-
tion of the United States as its guide
and rule of action. Its principles have
been and are advocated by the great
est statesmen Of modern times. 1t pro-
tects the wool, the lead, the iron and
the manufacturing interests of the
United States and enhances the value
OF our agricultural products 10y open
Ing up foreign markets through its
policy Of reciprocity It broke asunder
the shackles of 1000, 600 of human souls.
1t saved the union and is the friend
of the union soldier. No thought of
treason or disruption has ever entered
a truly Republican heart. The Re
publican party is the highest type of
Amencanism."
Reply, First: TT is a synonym of
progress" OF progress in what? We
have progressed" in the accumulation
Of debt from almost nothing in 1861 to
$40 000, 600 900 in 1895. We have pro
crossed" in accumulation of annual in
terest from an insignificant amount
in 1861 to 50 400 600. 900 in 1895. We have
progressed" in contraction of the
circulation from S52 per capita in 1866
10 less than s. in 1891, and many
dnanciers estimate the per capita. cir
culation as even lower than that at
the present time. We have pro
crr.pSEp5'' in q NAV that 10 nav
cest Of the population Il per cent of
the WAalth of the nation; that is, per
cent of our population own SAG, $50, 000-
600 out of 500 900. 600. 900 of our aggre-
gate wealth This is progress" with
a vengeance. A few years more of it
a2d the II per cent of our people will
carry the manacles that were worn by
the cOlored race.
Second: ut is a synonym of re-
sumption" How any intelligent Re
publican can look upon that awful
crowned with The so-called rresump-
ton" as a credit to a party, is a great
mystery 1t was in resumption that
the dark drama closed. Think of the
words depicting the steps In
the depreciation. contrac-
ton, bank subsidy, raising value OF
bonds. refunding. decentralization, re
sumption" Each one % these acts in
wolves the whole prosperity of The
country. They mean shrinkage and
starvation. They mean. millions o.
,1en reduced to beggars and tramps
They mean sorrow and anguish in the
family; the crying Of children for food
and the heartrending sObS of mothers
for their loved ones. These also are
SYNONYMS of RESUMPTION" and ii is q
pity that the catechism did not think
TO enumerate them all among the
Vaunted perfectiOns Of the Republican
party.
Third-"It is synonym of nationa,
dignity. integrity and honor" It is q
confessed blot on our national es-
CutcheOn that Alexander Hamilton
conceived the thought of instituting al
excess of barbaric pomp in the inaug-
uration of our government. Washing
ton was induced to patroniZe in some
degree the pageantry of royalty in his
installation. True patriots were scan
dalized. Jefferson rebuked the ostenta-
ton Of his predecessors by discarding
all display other than that of the no
bility of essential manhood. 1t is thi:
that carries the image and likeness OF
God: and against the tinsel, the as
sumption and oStentatiOn Of the Hamil-
tonian species l would array the I'm
assuming nobility of Jefferson.
Fourth-"It is a synonym of integrity
and honor" Pausel Hold your breath
for a moment and think seriously OF
the career of the Republican party
and its financial leaders! Analyze your
thought after passing those seVera
acts and their Authors in review. and
see if there is left in your soul a ven
GRAFTON for them so Godlike as tha'
which we ascribe to integrity and
honor
Fifth-'It saved the Union" How
selfish and invidiOus this claim to eX-
elusive patriotism! Could the Union
have been saved without the co-opera-
ton of the hundreds of thousands of
the Democracy of the north which con-
tributed its equal share to the bloody
conflict? Under the inspiration of the
Federal Union all partisanship was
merged into a patriotism that knew no
allegiance above love of country. Ask
those countless spirits of the dead
whose earthly bodies lie smouldering
upon historic baJtle fields; ask them If
1t is true that Republicans saved the
Union" How unseemly it is to set
up this claim for Republican partisan
ship against the martyr faith of a
mighty army Of the heroic dead!
SiXth-But to show that Republican
tendencies are ever in the direction of
reckless extravaganza, let us for an
object lesson look at the Republican
administration in the south during +ne
reconstruction period. when the regular
army was stationed throughout the
southern states and Republican poll
ticfans We're able to control the legisla-
lures through the votes of the newly
enfranchised colored men. Inasmuch
as these states were compelled TO repu-
date such indebtedness as they had in
Cured for the purposes of war. the in
crease was exclusively due to the Re
publican Adventures. who undertook
TO appropriate in advance the earnings
Of the south for the next generation.
Debts and Liabilities