The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-01


tor The control of the state should
by all means be kept in Republican
hands, and hence the Utah State jour
nal will on all local matters be Re
publican, but in the choice of a presi-
dent it will champion the cause of, and
give it's support to the candidate of
the people, who has now arrayed
against him the aggregate capital of
the eastern and middle states, with
which capital they hope to compass his
defeat. e. A. LITTLEFIELD.
Success to the Journal and its able
editor, Major Littlefield.
Mistakes() OF Ex-Prest. Harrison
The purposes and policy of a great
political party can be fairly construed
only by the language of the platform
aid by the Interpretation of those who
stand upon it, If there were any un-
patriotic sentiments expressed in the
Chicago convention, they found no
coumtenance from the majority, nor
Judgment in its declaration of pr5nci-
pies. If any Mckinley advocate thinks
this is not a fair test. let him apply its
logic to the Republican platform. This
document commits the Republican
party to a gold standard until interna-
tional bimetallism is obtained. Yet
Senator Lodge, Senator Platt and
other leaders represented minority in
the st. Louis convention that is against
bimetallism of any sort. Would Nc
Kinley be willing that his position be
judged by theirs? Now, Mr.. Bryan
policy can be judged only by the plat
L; h I1f
terances. Keeping these obvious tru-
isrns in view, note the following from
Harrison's recent speech:
He charges that Bryan believes he
must ask the governor of a state for
'perTnitg ion to enforce the laws of the
United States" Oh, for q moment
of that heroic virtue that sustains the
honest money causel Within it's
brief duration L might find language
venomous enough TO describe such en-
bellishing effrontery.
He charges that the Democratic party
and Mr.. Bryan propose that whenever
a 'tunultuous congress" and Sub
servient president" do not agree with
the supreme court, 1.-The judgment Of
that court shall be reconsidered and re-
versed by increasing the number Of
judges and packing the court with men
to-" Not a word of such a purpose can
he find in the platform or in Bryan's
declarations; though Harrison's allega-
ton came naturally from Republican
who had in mind his own party's prece-
dent for doing those very things.
Harrison makes his sheer about I'M
constitutional legislation, emitting to
state, as one of our brilliant lawyers,
that the income tax had always been
held constitutional in this country I'M
til a judge changed his mind"
Again. he says: do we want silver
because we want more money, a larger
circulation? I have not heard anybody
say so. Mr.. Bryan is not urging it on
that basis This assertion can be ex-
planned ON only two grounds: Dense
ignorance ON the part of the ex-presi-
dent that would shame western
schoolboy, or else the possession of a
tongue that would be the envy of An
anias.
Then, after basing his whole financial
argument upon an alleged 53-cent dol
lar, he says the only benefciaries I'M
der free coinage would be the dishonest
debtor and 1.-The mine-owner who uses
this government to add so cents to the
value of every dollars worth of metal
he produces from his mine" Herein is
such a palpable absurdity-the untruth
contained in it is such a hoary- headed
old sinner-that the assertion belongs
not to the realm of theoretical argu-
ment, but to the domain of scientific
fact. Judged from the latter stand
point it is the most astounding mis-
take(?) of the lot.
Grevious as were the errors of COM
mission in Harrison's speech, those of
omission were still more reprehensible.
Think of this man, with the highest
homes of a republic upon his head, dar-
ing to stand before his countrymen
with a discussion upon finance in which
he omits the two fundamental PROPOSE
tons. When I say fundamental,
mean it not from the present silver
mans standpoint, but from it's historic
and scientific aspects in political econ
omy for hundreds of years. Not a word
of Harrison's speech in finance but was
uttered in complete disregard of the
law of supply and demand and the law
known as the 'quantitative theory of
money.
I have purposely confined my discus
cus51on in this series of comments to
those mistakes" that could not be sub
ject to disputation. From some men
it were idle to expect much. The pot
house politician, the selfish president of
a soulless corporation and the editor
whose bread and butter depend upon
the business Office, may garble state
ments, deny historic facts, fly in the
face of science, substitute his own
opinions for facts and then treat them
as facts, he may libel his fellow man
and attempt to brand him with some
of his own viciousness. I say such
persons may do all these things with
out provoking comment. But when
they are done by self-constituted lead
ers in a pretended battle for f'honor, Z"
for virtue and for social order" by
comparison 1 should call treason
C. L. ROOD.