The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-18
DECLARES FOR BRYAN.


When any Democratic paper. whether
great or small, has bolted the Chicago
ticket and platform, the fact has been
heralded throughout the land. Some
have wondered whether the New York
Journal would or would not declare for
Mr.. Bryan In its issue of Monday
last it came out boldly and squarely
for him, and to emphasize its position
it double loaded its article and made it
double column in width. There is
scarcely a paper in all the country that
Yields a greater influence than the
Journal. Better to have it on the side
of silver and Democracy than a score
of such papers as the Atlanta Journal
and others of its ilk that have bolted
the ticket.
The Journal says, in part:
The manner in which the opponents
of the ticket nominated at Chicago
have begun their campaign must rouse
the profoundeSt resentment Of every
American regardful of the interests and
jealous of the honor of his country.
The representatives of half of the
American people have been denounced
in delirious language as anarchists,
cut-throats and sWindlers. Their cho-
sen candidate for the highest office in
the republic has been pictured as
crazy Jacobin or a designing dema-
gogue. Commerce and industry have
been threatened with the very panic
these alarmists have professed to
faar
This crusade has been one of reckless
misrepresentation from the start The
libellers of the late convention know
that the Chicago platform is not an
archical. In most respects it is in
spired by enlightened progressiveness
The anarchical elements in the con-
Vention-Tillman and Altgeld-were
distinctly frowned upon. Tillman was
Missed whenever he rose to speak The
mild implied criticism of the majority
of the supreme court, or, rather, of
the one justice who changed his mind,
was thoroughly well deserved, and
might have been made much stronger
without improperly. Sinca when have
we been endowed with infallible judges,
whose acts are above criticism? If the
advocacy of the just and scientific prin-
ciple of the taxation of large incomes
was anarchistic, then every statesman
in England is an anarchist, and, in
stead Of searching the cellars of the
houses of parliament for barrels OF
gunpowder, the authorities ought to
search tine pockets of every member
for bombs. The income tax is the back
bone of the British financial system;
it is about to be introduced, in a grad
uated form at that, into France and
it already exists in its most extreme
degree in Germany.
The condemnation of the practice OF
substituting government by injunction
for the old, orderly processes of courts
and juries, so far from being revolu-
tionary, is in vindication of the ancient
rights of the English speaking race
against a novel and dangerous inno-
walton which deserves the name of an
archy much better than anything done
at Chicago.
I'VE hold adds the Democratic pro-
fession of faith. that the most efficient
way of protecting American labor is to
prevent the importation of foreign pau
per labor to compete with it in the
home market" That is honest, straight
forward protection-the only kind that
does what it pretends to do.
The Chicago platform demands sim
plicify and economy in government,
and protests against the profigate
waste of money that has characterized
Republican legislation. That is not the
reckless spirit of mob. It is rather
the sober utterance of prudent property
owners and taxpayers, of whom the
Chicago convention was principally
composed.
The protest against arbitrary federal
interference in local affairs is one
which Jefferson would hav commended
as the very foundation stone of his
political faith
Moreover, the silver nlank in the
Chicago platform does rot deserve the
frantic vituperation levelled against it.
Ii It's authors were mistaken in their
methods, their aim was to introduce
blmetalNsln, and bimetallisu- is a scion