The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

every measure that saXored of adj
vancement. During all these years
the arsenal and arms have been
resistance and obstruction to Republic
can measures. They have always
been the party of opposition; they
have stood in the way always; they
have never had any picketS thrown on
the line of advanced thought. 1t was
but natural that at last when called
upon to assume the relnS OF govern
ment by one of those spasmodic errors
of the people they found themselves
entirely untitled for the task be-
| fore them. Although replete with
political shrewdneSS Democratic lead
ers have been lacking in statesman
ship; they have been floundering in the
quagmire OF legislative stupidity for
three long years. Every attempt at
craftsmanship in internal affairs and of
diplomacy in foreign affairs has
brought ruin on the one hand and
humiliation on the other. weary ana
bedraggled, found guilty by the peo-
pie in every count of incapacity.
laundering ad infinitum, the Demo-
cratic leaders in sheer desperation
have turned their faces in new
direction. They have taken upon
themselves the agitation of the cur
rency question in the hope that they
may again fool the people and re-
cover the position they so deservedly
and completely lost.
Silver Issue No Good.
But they cannot escape their fate;
no amount of silver agitation can
turn the minds of the people from the
fact that under thirty years Of pro-
lection and reciprocity this country
developed as no other country has in
the history of nations and in three
years Of threatened free trade tariff
legislation the Democratic party
brought disaster and ruin to thous-
ands and thousands of American
homes. They cannot blot the figures
Of the treasury department which
show that under President Harrison's
administration 1898 ,000,00O were paid
on the public debt, and that the public
debt under President Cleveland's adj
ministration had been increased over
$3.50 000, 600; or that under the McKin-
ley law there was provided a revenue
Of $5.0OO,OOO in excess of the require
nlents of the government, while under
the Wilson law there will be a deficit
of from S60,0000 900 to 500, 900, 900. The
only law passed by the Democratic
Congress has been declared unconsti-
tutiOnal by the Supreme Court of the
United States
No amount Of beating the tom toms
or raising fhe dust over the currency
question, will blind the people to the
fact that three precious years of the
commercial life of the republic have
been sacrificed by the Democratic
party on the altar of free trade.
The Republican eff"
The question is not, shall we use
more silver?' There is no opposition
to this country to the enlarged use of
silver, if it can be brought about
without disturbing our present trade
relations with other countries; but the
question is shall the American mar
kets be open to the world on a cheaper
basis than to the American citizens
themselves? Shall the workrnen and
tradesmen of foreign countries enjoy
the privileges of market made
valuable by the higher ideals and in
telligence of the American people
when they in no way contribute to
that condition, pay no share of the
taxes and in no way assist in sustain
ing the American government? This
country is vast empire with re-
sources and facilities so boundless
that 1t can produce anything needed
by man. It is yet in its infancy; it is
ten times more capable of develop
ment today than it was ten years ago.
We have just begun to take the riches
from the mines. Our farmers are lust
learning the science of production at
the least cost. AS a nation, I'VE fur
n1sh the greatest market in the world
This Is largely because of the higher
wages and higher civilization of our
laboring classes. America with one
twentieth of the population of the
world. produces one-third of the
manufactured articles and the con-
sumption of products by the American
people is almost half the consumption
OF the entire world. Is such a market
for our own product worth keeping for
ourselves? Is it surprising that Eng
land is constantly working for en-
trance into such a market?
Need of Protection.
If the workmen OF England and
other countries had the same wants.
the same pleasures in life as our own
workmen, there would be no need of
protection to our industries The Amer
lean workmen has made what was at
first a luxury, today a necessity, and
ne has been able to attain
these luxuries through the Re
publican principle of paying Amer
lean wages 10 American labor.
The factory and the farm are
wealth. When you stop the music of
the spindle and the roar of the fac
tory you leave the plow to rust in the
farm yard. When the factories were
closed, the workshop deserted, labor
idle, the entire network of our indus
trial system diSorganiZed and the
frightened owners of money had lock-
ed it in their boxes or hidden it in the
chimneys, it is not surprising we find
our currency circulation too limited
and that there was general demand
for an increase. It is in keeping with
the record of the past that the Demo-
cratic leaders should strive to take ad-
vantage of a sentiment created largely
through their own laundering and then
go shouting from the housetops their
devotion to silver, in the hope that
they may through this agitation be
saved from oblivion.
DOdGing the Issue.
The facts are, the Democratic party
never did anything for silver in any
of the years 1T was in power During
the years before the war, when free
coinage did exist, the Democratic
party did not coin two million of sill
yer dollars, and yet in the past TWEEN
ty-five years the Republican party has
coined over three hundred millions of
silver dollars and issued three hundred
million of silver certificates against sill
yer purchased. There can be no dis
agreement as to the enlarged use of
silver; there are few or none who are
not in favor of this. The question is,
how can it best be brought about?
1t is question of economics and not
of politics, and as such should have
careful consideration. We must keep in
mind that none of the great CONNER
ciaI nations of the world, the nations
of intelligence and civilization are
users of silver alone, and the time is
past when any one nation can found
its financial existence on basis not