The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-16

twenty-nine to twenty-one to take up
the tariff bill, thus clearly foreShad-
owing that they viii also pass the
free silver substitute for the House
tariff bill. it may be expected that their
rage will know no bounds, as it will be
interpreted to mean, evidently, that
there is to be no tariff legislation I'M
til the silver question is settled. This
of course the east will denounce as an
attempt on the part of the silverites
to hold up legislation until the pro-sil-
yer people get what they want. But
before they go so far in their denunci-
alton of such course we commend to
their attention the course marked out
for congress to pursue a number of
years ago on the same question by
man who is now in high feather with
the single gold standard people-John
G. Carlisle.
Mr.. Carlisle in 1875 when the Bland
Allison act was under discussion, in
the course off some remarks he sub
mitted on the question of the free
coinage of silver said:
Our power of legislation over this
subject will not be exhausted by the
passage of this measure, and we ought
not to halt for a single moment in our
efforts to complete the work of relief
fnaugurated by it. The struggle now
going on cannot cease, and ought not
to cease until all industrial interests
of the country are fully and finally
emancipated from the heartless donni-
nation of syndicates, stock exchanges
and every great combination of money
grabbers in this country and in Eu-
rope. Let us, if we can do no better,
pass bill after bill, embodying in each
some one substantial provision for re-
lief and send them to the executive for
his approval. If he withholds his sig
nature and we are unable to secure the
necessary vote here or elsewhere to
enact them into laws, Notwithstanding
his veto, let us as a last resort, sus-
pend the rules and put them into the
general appropriation bills, with the
distinct understanding that if the peo-
pie can get no relief the government
can get no money.
That was John C. Carlisle, the chant-
pion Of the peoples cause, before he
became "n1an Friday" to the pres
ident of the United States, and fell
down in selvile alteration at the feet
of the money power. We do not say
that the recommendations of Mr.. Car
Isle ought to be followed today, for
they are recommendations that involve
the employment of revolutionary meth
DDS, yet the course was advocated by
Mr.. Carlisle, now much petted by the
gold people of the east, and who in the
same speech denounced the demoneti-
cation of silver as "the most gigantic
tic crime of this or any other age"
That was eighteen years ago and the
people of the United States have reaped
more fully the harvest of sorrow, dis
tress and poverty that resulted from
that Republican sowing to the wind
IN 1S73-they now know more and suf-
fer more from it's effects in the year of
grace 1896 than they did in 1878. when
Mr.. Carlisle made his revolutionary
recommendations, and the course he
more excusable now should it be re
sorted to. We do not say the senate
should take that course-We do not ad-
vocate it; but, as was said in a recent |
editorial in the Cincinnati Enquirer
IF a majority of the senate should at |
any time say that the government can
get no money unless the minis are I
opened to the free coinage of silver,
let it be remembered then that the |
first came from the man
who now presides in the treasury de- !
partment under the benign administra-
ION If Tho rraot anOSt1a Of sound !
money Grover Cleveland