The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-30

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command our sober judgment and a
settlement free from partisan preJu-
! dice and passion. beneficial 10 ourselves
! and betting the honor and grandeur
| of the republic. They touch every In
/ terest of our common country. our IN
! dustrial supremacy, our productive ca
pacity. our business and commercial
! prosperity, our labor and its rewards
our national credit and currency, our
proud financial honor and our splendid
! free citizenship-the birthright OF
every American-are all involved IN
THE PENDING CAMPAIGN,
and thus every home in the land is
directly and intimately connected with
their proper settlement Great are the
issues involved in the coming election
and eager and earnest are the people for
their right determination. Our domestic
trace must be won back and our idle
workingmen employed in gainful occu-
pations at American wages. Our home
market must be restored to its proud
rank OF first in the world and our for
eign trade, so precipitately cut off by
adverse national legislation reopened
on fair and equitable terms for our
surplus agricultural and manufacture
ing products. Protection and reciproc
ity, twin measures of a. true American
policy, should again command the
earnest encouragement OF the govern
ment at Washington. Public confidence
must be resumed, and the skill, the
energy and the capital of our country
find
AMPLE EMPLOYMENT AT HOME
sustained, encouraged and defended
against the unequal competition and
serious disadvantage with which they
are now contending. The government
So o
money to meet both its current ex-
penses and increasing needs. Its rev.
enues should be so raised as to protect
the material interests of our people
with the slightest possible drain upon
their resources, and maintain that high
standard of civilization which has dis
tinguished our country for more than
a century of its existence. The income
or the government I repeat, should
equal lis necessary and proper expend-
ltures- y failure to pursue this policy
has compelled the government to bor-
row money in a time of peace to sus-
tain its credit and pay it's daily ex-
penses. This policy should be reversed
and that. too, as speedily as possible
1t must be apparent to all. regardless
OF past party ties or Affiliations. that
1t Is our paramount duty to provide
adequate revenue for the expenditures
prudenfly administered. The Repuf-
ilcan party has heretofore done this
ana L confidently believe it will do il
IN the future when the party again
rs ENTRUSTED WITH POWER
in the executive and legislative
branches of our government. The ma
tional credit. which has thus far re-
sisted every assault upon It. must and
will be upheld and strengthened IF
sufficient revenues are provided for
the support of our government there
will be no necessity for borrowing
money and increasing the public debt.
The complaint Of the people is not
against the administration for borrow
ing money and issuing bonds to pre-
serve the credit of the country, but
against the ruinous policy which has
made this necessary. 1t is but an in
cfdent and a necessary one 10 the
policy which has been inaugurated
The inevitable effect of such a policy
is seen in the deficiency of the United
States treasury. except as it is replen-
ished by loans and in the distress of
the people who are suffering because
of the scant demand for either their
labor or the products of their labor
Here is the fundamental trouble the
remedy for which is Republican OPP
por-tunify and duty. During all the
years of Republican control following
resumption, there was a steady reduc-
ton of the public debt, while the gold
reserve was sacredly maintained and
our currency and credit preserved with
out depreciation, faint or suspicion. If
we would restore this policy that
BROUGHT US UNEXAMPLED PROS
PERITY
for more than thirty years under the
most trying conditions ever known
in this country, the policy by which
We made and bought more goods at
home and sold more abroad, the trade
balance would be quickly turned in our
favor and gold would come to us and
go from us in the sediment of all
such balances in the future. The party
that supplied by legislation the vast
revenues for the conduct of our great
est war and promptly restored the
credit of the country at its close, and
that from it's abundant revenues paid
off a large share of the debt incurred
in this war and that resumed specie
payments and placed our paper cur
rency upon a sound and enduring basis
can be safely trusted to preserve both
our credit and currency with honor,
stability and inViolability. The Amer
lean people hold the financial honor
of our government as sacred as our
flag. and can be relied upon to guard
it with the same sleepless vigilance.
They hold it's preservation above party
feahy and have often demonstrated
that party ties avail nothing when
the
SPOTLESS CREDIT OF OUR COUN-
TRY
is threatened. The money of the Unit
ed States, and every kind or form of
it, whether of paper, silver or gold,
must be as good as the best in the
world. 1t must not only be current at
its face value at home, but it must be
counted at par in any commercial
center of the globe. The sagacious
and far-seeing policy of the great men
who founded our government, the
teachings and acts Of the wisest finan-
ciers at every stage in our history,
the steadfast faith and splendid
achievements of the great party to
which we belong and the genius and
temeTity of our people have always
demanded this and will ever maintain
it. The dollar paid to the farmer, the
wage learner and the pensioner must
continue forever equal in purchasing
and debt paying power to the dollar
paid to any government creditor The
contest this year will not be waged
upon ties of theory and speculation,
but in the light of severe practical ex-
perience and new and dearly acquired
knowledge. The great body of our
citizens know what they want and
that they intend to have They know
for what the Republican party stands
and what its return to power means
to them. They realize that the Repub-
lican party believes that every work
shop work should he done at home and