The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-13
ALLIsoN.s TWO MEMoR1ALs.

Senator Allison, of Weber county. Of
fered two memorials to Congress in
the senate Friday, one of which is all
right and one of which is all wrong.
| The one that is all right is for the res
toration of free coinage at 16 to l.
/ The one that is all wrong asks the
repeal of the Wilson-Gorman bill and
the re-enactment Of certain clauses Of
! the Mckinley bill. The first memorial
starts out with this preamble:
That the progress of the United
States in manufacture and agriculture.
that the maintenance of our suprem-
acy as the choicest dwelling spot Of
earth, that the general freedom and in
dividual independence of the people
are in a vital sense endangered by our
present financial system, which af-
fords premium to other lands in the
commercial and Industrial controversy
with Us. WHICH multiplies the weight
of public and private debt while de-
credsing the power of the union and
citizen to pay, which darkens the fu-
ture of our genera tons with an i'm
penetrable cloud of hopelessness.
Our present financial system, accord
ing to this, endangers the general and
individual independence of the Ameri-
can people. Granted; but who is re-
sponsible for that system? The party
! that demonetized silver in 1878, the Re-
publican party, of which fact Senator
Allison cannot be unaware.
| Senator Allison's second memorial is
in these words:
/ Your memoriahsts, the governor and
! legislature of Utah would respectfully
represent to your honorable body:
That the entire producing power of
! this nation is crippled by the deliber-
/ ate invitation which this country has
! extended to other nations through the
I Wilson bill. to take the work, wages
and markets of Americans for the toll
/ erS of other lands.
/ Now, therefore, in behalf of the men
and the homes of the United States,
we respectfully ask for repeal of that
invitation. And in behalf of that great
west, which largely supports the civil
/ lization of our country, we ask that
! the tariff rate of the so-called NcKin-
/ ley bill of 1890 shall be restored upon
wool, lumber, lead and all agricultural
products. And your memorialists will
/ ever pray.
( In the first memorial Congress is told
/ that it is our financial system Ga Re
publican SYSTEM which affords a pre-
MUM to other lands in the commercial
and industrial controversy with U.S."
and which "darkens the future of our
/ generations with an impenetrab BILE cloud
of hopelessness;" while in the second
memorial Congress is informed that
| the "entire producing power of this ma
| ton is crippled by the deliberate invi-
tation which this country has extended
to other nations through the Wilson
bill, to take the work, wages and mar
kets of Americans for the toilers of
other lands" There is a picture of
horror only equaled by nightmare
/ dreams resulting from eating too much
indigestible mince pic. But how pleas
ant to think that this destructive Will
son bill has not diminished the power
of this nation to produce memorials.
We think Senator Allison set forth
the true cause of the financial distress
of the people in his first memorial, and
that being SO his second one is a mere
Republican cry for protection.