The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-29
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REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY"
The eloquent and convincing speech
I made by Hon. Joseph L. Rawlins in
the Seventeenth ward seems to disturb
the Republican stomach and disagree
with it as bad as the cholera morbus.
All who heard the calm and candid
reasoning of the gentleman agree that
it was a magnificent though dispas-
sionate presentation of the great is
sues that lie Immediately before the
people of Utah. A long dissertation in
Republican paper designed to throw
cold water upon it can simply be re-
garded as frantic effort utterly in
vain.
The splendid grafton needs no de-
Tense, and we do not propose to at
tempt to make any. We refer to the
attack upon it merely for the purpose
of showing, once more, the absurd in
consistency of the champion and apol-
ogist for Republicanism which endeav-
ors to assail that distinguished gentle
man That paper asks the following
questions:
What is the stress that he refers
to which came to the country through
the mischievous legislation of the Re-
publican party? He says they enacted
laws favOring- the rich and depressing
the poor, fostering trusts and COM
bines passed Ubiquitous Tariff laws,
demonetized silver, increased the taxes
and the burdens of the people. Is not
Mr.. Rawlins a little reckless? What
burdens did they lay upon the poor,
and if they passed laws which en-
couraged capital to engage in manu-
features, did not those same laws re-
suit in reducing the cost of every ar
ttcle to the poor and keep the money
of this country from going across the
sea? Did they not at the same time
give hundreds of thousands of poor
men employment at generous wages?"
That is taken from one editorial in
our morning contemporary. The fol-
lowing is clipped from another edi-
torial on the same page in the same
issue of the same paper:
It is all we'll enough to talk about
boom prices" and to lay the mis-
fortunes of this generation to the ex-
travagance of the people, but it will
not do; it will not bear analysis 1t is
not the fact. The extravagances came
through the government The crime
came through the acts of the creditor
class, which by a trick took from the
people half their money, and with it
half their prices, and left more than
half the men of this republic in a con-
dition where it is impossible for them
to make any money and where it is
only possible by the sorest labor, and
sorest self-denial, to make a bare liv-
ing.
We are of the opinion that our Re-
publican friends, who are endeavoring
bnce more to deceive the people of
Utah, will find it very difficult to
reconcile two conflicting declarations
made on the stump and through the
press. One is that, through Republican
legislation, there was such prosperity
during thirty years Of Republican rule
that everybody grew fat and increased
in wealth. The other is that during the
same period, under the same legisla-
ton and rule, half the money of the
the masses were left in such a pitiable
condition that they could scarcely
make a bare living, while thousands
upon thousands of them tramped over
the country seeking for work and find
ing none, and in the most highly pro-
tected regions strikes and riots were
in order among the working people
that they might force decent wages
from the plutocrats who had grown
rich under Republican protection for
their particular interest
The prosperity boosted of under Re-
publican maladministration was the
prosperity of the rich by the impover-
ishment of the poor. By the fostering
of the employing classes and the en-
slavement of the employed. By the ac-
emulation Of wealth in the hands of
the few ground out of the blood and
bones and muscles and sinews of the
toiling multitudes. Republicanism is
the rich mans party, 1t legislates for
him. 1t protects him. 1t fattens him
and fills his Golfers. But it cares not
for the toiler nor the consumer. 1t
makes millionaires, but it fashions
them out of the productive labor of
the sweating and struggling millions.
That is the kind and the only kind of
that has come to the Amer
lean nation through the wonderful
beneficence of the Republican party.