The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-07

Young and growing stake and the great
and diversified industries of the nation
to such a candidate and such party.
VIII such action be consistent With
their declaration for protection and
bilnetallism? If they think chat free
silver, alone, will restore prosperity,
let them consider this pertinent fact.
From June 80, 1884, to December 81,
1895. the amount Of goods we imported
from foreign lands Increased $l45,66S,-
$685. and during the same time the
amount of goods exported decreased
$67, 27S, 097, making a total loss to our
nation of $213,946, 965.
LOSS TO AMERICAN WORKING
MEN.
Every one of the $146, $685. 6S of i'm
ports represent just 50 much money
taken from American workingmen, VINO
need work, and given to foreign work
ingmen.
In the Salt Lake Tribune of May 3,
| 1886, appeared an editorial which stated
phat the goods imported into our coun-
try during the past year cost aLne Ia
/ boring men Of the United States iUO,-
100000 days work. This means apoul
| two months work for every man over
81 years of age and, estimating the
number Of idle men at 5000, 600, about
eight months work for each. In the
face of such a record, ii is now gravely
proposed to place the government again
! in control of the Democratic party.
REPUBLICANS SHOULD CONSIDER
These questions should be fully con-
sidered by all Republicans before they
| decide TO vote the Democratic ticket.
FNrst-Suppose than all The gold ana
silver beneath our soil should at once
be cotmed, what would it avail lGle
Wlorkingmen, if a free trade policy De
established, and they, in consequence
thereof, be denied work TO earn
! living Tor themselves and families!
Second-If, under the present DEM
ocratic tariff bin, which affords some
measures of protection, our industries
are daily declining, until the nation IS
ON the verge of bankruptcy, what Will
be the result, if we have four years
more of such disastrous rule!
Third-If the Democratic candidates,
who are both free traders, are elected
and a congress in sympathy with them,
would not their tariff ideas, put in
force, destroy all the good that could
/ come from the restoration of silver?
Fourth-Is it not then of vital I'M
poIGance that the Republicans stand
J by thiair ticket, elect a free silver Re
pI blican congressman and free silver
! Republican legislature and free SID
yer Republican senator, to represent
the principles of the Repu bkcan party
as expressed in the free silver reSolu-
/ tion of the last convention?
Fifth-What has happened that
makes it necessary to send Demo-
cratic free traders from Utah to con-
] gress in place of free silver Republl-
] can protectionists?
We are not ready to believe that the
} people of Utah. Who, through praise
and blame, through periods Of suffer-
| ing and sorrow, have chung with I'M
swerving loyalty to the constitution,
! and TO a government of law, are
ready to espoGSe the SociallSuc IDEAS
which now dominate the Democratic
! party and have dictated its candidate
THAT party was rendered desperate by
! the certainty of a coming defeat and
! has now entered upon servile bid
/ ding for Populistic support. True 10
it's HISTORY, it is now, and 1T has always
been. ready to make any promises for
votes. and to forsake its tme-honored
principles for power. In its last pl3G-
/ form that party pledged itself to the
silver cause and redeemed its promise
/ by the repeal Of the Sherman pur-
chasing lalw and by rejecting free
coinage bill 1t now promises economy
in public expenditures, but we re1nem-
Der that once before, after denouncinS
Republican congresses for extTava-
gances. it furnished the only billion
dollar congress in our history. It has
once before promised fair dealing to
the veterans of the nation, and 1T re-
deemed that promise by the bitueTest
hostility to every deserving Union SOL
dfer. 1t promised this country in
creased prosperity under a free trade
tariff. with the sad results known to
the people. So today it pledges itself
to free silver, but, true to the history
of the Democratic party, we. believe
that tflat promise, like its other prom
ises will never be redeemed.
Under the banner of protection and
free silver we made this state Repub-
lican That banner we are not ready
to cast aside. We are pledged to the
people of Utah to restore a protective
tariff. No true Republican can give
his suffrage to a party which has bit
ter1ly assailed our wool tariff, our lead
tariff. our sugar bounty. whether
granted by state or national aid.
Aside from rational policy of pro-
/ lection our local mineral, agricultural,
fruit and stock interests especially
need the benefits of protection, isolated
and far removed as we are from the
sealboard markets. On the industries
of wool-raising and lead alone our
people are losers by millions through
the sianSeless change in the tariff law
which William j. Bryan supported by
voice and vote, and which has bene
fitted no one save the owners of foreign
aocks and foreign factories and foreign
producers. These examples alone
make clear how necessary for. Utah S
prosperity it is to have the nation and
the state under Republican rule.
FREE SILVER COINAGE.
The important question of free silver
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 WILL in
all probability, first have to be settled
by the American nation. In the ac-
complfshment of this most desirable
result there are many important and
fer-reaching interests TO be considered.
Certainly, it cannot be denied this will
require the add OF the most intelligent
thought of the nation as silver's cause
must not be weighted down or injured
by unwise legislation
In common with many western Re-
puDlcans, the Republicans of Utah
regret 'he adoption of the financial
plank of the national platform, and ut
ter our protest against the fallacious
theory that the solution of the great
question Of a full recognition, by our
government, of silver as a money