The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-11
TRYING TO FOOL THE PEOPLE.


The Republican executive committee
in its address to the Republicans of
Utah, in treating of the question of
free silver, said, in part:
We re-affirm with emphasis the belief
of Utah Republicans, promulgated at
their last convention 'in a bimetallism
which is the full recognition alike OF
gold and silver and their free coinage
in the minis of the nation at the ratio
of 16 to L. but further enter our protest
against the proposition that free silver
in and OF itself will give this nation the
needed relief from present daplorabIe
and distressing conditions. We agree
that its rehabilitation would alleviate
conditions greatly, but there are other
and important economics that must 90
hand in hand with this issue in order
to obtain that prosperity so earnestly
desired by all. Conservative states
manship is necessary to our present
emergencies, and above all, confidence
in the abilities of an administration is
pre-eminent
That intimates, but does not declare,
that the restoration of silver to its
proper plane in our monetary system
would not bring the relief that the
people of Utah are convinced it would;
it is a clear attempt to belittle the
silver issue and minimize it's import
ance.
Let our readers contrast what the
Tribune of yesterday. in a double
loaded article, said on the same sub
ject:
We are absolutely certain that the
prosperity, if not the very peace and
perpetuity of this republic, hangs upon
the settlement of the silver question in
the immediate future. AS we see events
eliminating, there is nothing before
this country but disaster unless the
people can be aroused and can be made
to accept the treasures which the ALI
mpassionate placed in the hills and
deserts of the west to serve as a meas
ure of values, as a regulator of prices,
and as a means Of perfect civilization
for this country, and to extend that
civilization to the countries south. This
being the case, it takes every partisan
thought away from the people who feel
the Importance of the matter earnestly.
In such a situation, men can
not stop TO think whether they would
like to vote for Mckinley rather than
Bryan or not. Men are going to vote
this fall for their own hearthstones,
and if the people can but be aroused
10 the necessity OF DelnS TiSHl lIIlS
year, the candidates on election day
will be forgotten and only before the
peoples eyes will the one brutal plank
of the St Louis convention, and the
other plank that is aureoled with
hope, which was passed in the Chi
cago convention.
There is no hemming and having
about that statement. It doesn't
shilly-shally about 'other and import
ant economics" Why couldn't the Re
publican executive committee see and
state the case like that? Presumably
for the same reason that the leopard
cannot change its spots.
AS our contemporary says, 1.-The can
didates on election day will be for
gotten and only before the peoples
eyes will be the one brutal plank Of
the st. Louis convention, and the
other plank that is aureoled with hope,
which was passed in the Chicago con-
vention."
We do not believe that any of the
people of Utah can be fooled any Of
the time this year as to what is the
true issue.