The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-26
FROM a WOnAN'S
POINT OF VIEW.

The principles of Democracy are to
be found in our most valued docu-
ments; the Declaration of Independ-
ence contained them, the constitution
of the United States embod1eS them,
principles that have survived all
changes, THAI have been tested thor
ougniy ought to guide us. Truth lives
through the ages and parties are OF no
value unless they are ready 10 be
guided by the truth. Since our fore
Fathers, VINO laid down their lives for
freedom, believed in Democracy, there
must be elements in it worthy of rec
ognrtiou.
rhe toiling millions are ready to sup
port Democracy because they know
mat this party will consider their
rights.
The masses toll from morn till night
In many cases if they want to save
enough money to buy little homes,
they must deny themselves everything
in order to accomplish their purpose.
Legislation. if properly directed, could
mitigate the situation of the working
people. In the last thirty years very
little has been done for the bulk of
humanity III our country. Panics have
occurred which made thousands of
people homeless. Homes were desc
lated. Many a man who toiled for
years just for a competency saw every
thing which he possessed swept away
and he was left face to face with the
world to begin life again at the low
est round of the ladder.
The Republican party is ready and
willing to give US four more years OF
the same bliss to which we have been
treated in the past The people can
be fooled some of the time, but they
cannot be fooled all of the time. So
now the period has come when they
will think for themselves. This idea
of declaring that d platform which
advocates sound money" is neces-
Sary is the merest nonsense. What
makes money sound or unsound? Have
I the Republicans acquired the power
| to endOw the mineral gold with
| mind? If so it might be we'll to speak
| of the soundness of money. A circu-
| lating medium is a, necessity. In
! choosing this medium convenience
should also be considered. But why
I should a party declare that only gold
! can be used as a circulating medium?
/ We all know that gold is not as plen-
tiful as silver, and therefore COM
mands a higher price. Now money is
| a medium which represents so many
bushels of wheat, so much wool, ETC.
| Therefore, according to our St. Louis
| friends, 1T would benefit the farmer to
! dispose of so many extra bushels Of
/ wheat in order to gain that coin
which he uses in business? The
! soundness of this policy is not appar-
! ent to any logical man. But it can
| plainly be seen that it would be
vast benefit to those who have already
! a1nassed fortunes to put a fictitious
value on money.
Silver and gold have always gone
hand in hand. If they are used to-
| gether it will not put premium on
! gold, and therefore the former will
not have to groan under the weight
| of heavy mortgages.
We are getting so accustomed to
debt that the habit of constantly Dor
rowing will ruin US. The Bible says
/ neither a borrower or a lender be. If
this policy were adhered to strictly
/ England would not be the power be-
hind the throne in this country. The
idea of the United States being deeply
in debt to that little island. With all
our vast domain. our waving fields
Of grain. our great cotton tracts, our
mines of gold and silver, ought we
to be poor? Ought we to have starv-
ing thousands within our midst?
Alas, with all our wealth, with food
actually decaying, children cry for
bread. Something is radically wrong
with our present financial administra-
ton or We would be in a different
condition.
True, it is necessary to practice
economy in the fat years so as to be
prepared for the lean ones. but the
government ought to set the example
in this. Every person should be taught
to shun debt, the children even should
have explained to them the danger
there is in borrowing and when peo-
pie thoroughly understand the shack
les which debt fastens upon them, they
will avoid it, This land is intended
to be peopled by a. race Of freemen, not
of slaves. Whether we be bond or free
depends on the measures taken by our
government. BY standing firmly by
the Democracy we will uphold the
principles for which our fathers fought
and we will yet see our people enjoy
the fruits of their labors.