The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-12

which are strung together so closely
as to virtually make of them a string
of human beads on the highway of
commerce, are clean, well built and
carefully managed; the school system
is one Of the best in the state, and
water, which flows in steady streams
fren almost every canyon, makes a
crop failure impossible. But notwith-
standing that this beautiful valley is
A CORNUCOPIA OF PLENTY,
business is almost at a standstill.
Money is scarce: it is no longer profit
able to shear the wool from the thou
sands OF sheep owned here; on ac-
count of the low prices prevailing, it
does not pay to ship the wheat to
market; fruit is rotting on the ground
and whitening on the trees, and al
though living in the midst of plenty
and IN a section as fertile as are the
vallies of the Nile, the people live in
dread of the coming of the taxgatherer
and are constantly haunted by the
thoughts of the interest that is coming
due on the money they have borrowed
III order TO improve their holdings and
which work has made the valley the
garden spot of the promised land.
Because of this condition of affairs
there is a spirit of political unrest
among the people. They are anxious
for a change and the great majority
believe that the triumph of the silver
cause means for the country a pros
perity that viii distribute some of its
beneficient influences upon the noun
tain-guarded valley they love so Well
For nearly thirty years has the valley
been inhabited by
THE FORCES OF CIVILIZATION.
In its virginity it was the home of the
buffalo, the beaver and the antelope;
and warlike Indian tribes of the north
and on it's now grain covered fields
many sanguinary battles have been
fought and won by the old men of to-
day who as youthful pioneers trans
formed the grass grown plains into the
fertile farms that now dot the valley
from end TO end and from mountain
side to mountain side like the squares
of 2 checkarboard. Almost every man
of family is a home-owner So fierce
has been the battle against adverse
circumstances that the very soil of
their farms is fortified with the sweat
of their brows and enriched with the
blood of those who fought for suprem-
acy with their Indian foes. After
years of toll, after years of self-denial.
they now see the result of their efforts
either rotting in the fields or stored
away because of the blight that has
come over the land by reason of the
vicious financial policy for which at its
inception John Sherman was sponsor
and of which in its latter days Nc
Kinley and Cleveland are champions
There is not a man or woman in all
this broad domain that cannot uner-
ringly
POINT TO THE CAUSE
of the undoing of the people of Cache.
but. strange TO say, there are people,
that by McKinleyism the key is to be
forged that will again unlock the
doors that lead to the haven of pros
perity and that the name of the gold
bug leader is the synonym of silver
restoration, increased prices and COM
plete happiness.
1t is upon such people that Hon. o.
w. Powers and Hon. w. H. King, the
Democratic candidate for congress,
have been urging a campaign of edu-
cation, campaign of common sense.
a campaign of Home Sweet Home
Since leaving Salt Lake city, Judge
Powers has Travelled several hundred
miles, made speeches in six different
towns in the valley, and acted as
peacemaker at q conference where
only by tact and diplomacy was a
serious rupture averted. Judge King
has addressed his coming constituents
in five different towns So effective
has their work been that the true doc
trine OF silver has permeated every
canyon and every farm house in the
valley and has made of thousands
missionaries IN the great cause. in the
success of which Bryan and the new
Democracy have staked their all.
The telegraph has kept the readers
Of The Herald informed of their tour
of triumph. but it has not depicted the
great interest manifested by the peo-
pie. Farmers and their families in
iPoaay cases drove twenty miles or