The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-02-13
PROVO CITY. FEB. Is.
HUMBUGGERY IN POLITICS.

There has been nothing but humbug
gerry in politics in this country since
the good year 1873, when John Sher-
man interpolated brief paragraph in
q pending bill, entirely demonetizing
silver. That was humbug in aid
of itself of wonderful proportions.
There was not one hundred men IN the
nation outside of Wall street who
knew that such a raid on the people
was ever contemplated, and not ten
who at that time believed that it would
even be consummated, And yet it is a
blooming fact accomplished to day.
AS soon as congress and the people un.
.derstood what had been done the eff
forts to conceal or condone the fell
work commenced. There was law after
law, bill after bill offered, suggested
and passed TO tinker and sustain the
finances. Sherman's purchase law was
perhaps the Unfrankest and most dis
honest of them all, but that, if it had
not been repealed and had it been
lived up to, carried out, and continued,
would have rendered the last two bond
issues unnecessary and we never would
have heard of the $500,o00,00O sugges-
ton. There came half score of other
base makeshift measures more or less
weak and unfrank, dishonest and
tinkering in their nature, but the un-
frank policy was out-done, uver-done
and out Heroded by the repeal of that
same purchase act. We were told that
all commerce of the country needed in
order to bloom and blossom as the
rose, was that same repeal. We were
juggled into it. What has been the
result? The panic conditions went on
and on and the poor wretches who
were vainly endeavoring to keep the
wheels of commerce moving, went
from one depth of financial misery to
another until they have at last touched
bottom. The only reason that they
have not all tumbled to the depths and
universal bankruptcy superYened, is
that no one has come along to topple
them over. All this, too, when the
country is chock full of all the basic
elements of wealth.
We are told by our task-mssters in
Wall street that the frank acceptance
of the gold standard alone is the
needed panacea That the $500, ,000,-
0C0 bond issue is to restore the good
old times now rapidly sinking to the
condition of mere memory, will do
the busines, make money plenty and
start up matters again. The humbug
of it all is that that issue had it been
made would have fixed and rendered
permanent for all time the gold stand
ard policy of the administration. Why
is there not man connected with the
administration who is broad enough
and honest enough to come out and
tell the people frankly what all this
means, what it is leading too?
Notwithstanding this lack of good
faith, but above all, this lack of fair
dealing, the people are fast arriving at
q correct conclusion. When the idea
that the people are being sold out and
utterly humbugGed, docs once really en-
ter the public mind and find lodge
ment there, the emphasis of the re-
proof our false leaders will receive,
will ring down the arches tor centuries
and centuries. A little humbuggery is
relished now and then, but when it
ruins and impoverishes the entire peo-
pie of a nation like this while it en-
riches only few bankers in the east,
1t becomes dangerous to the national
life.