The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-26

free silver will raise the price of wool
the same as it viii the price Of every
other exported product The Enquirer
says it viii not decide to support Nc
kinney till they see what he says in his
letter of acceptance. This is probably
gentle hint for Mr.. Hanna to hurry UP
and tap his barrel-Eureka Miner.
This country has been on q gold
standard for twenty-three years, and
the results have scarcely been such as
to make its retention in perpetuity seem
highly desirable. The wealth Of the
country is being massed in fewer hands
every year, prices are going steadily
down, and they will go still lower if the
gold standard is continued. Why any
man in business, any man who owns
a piece of land, any farmer or wage
Garner, should wish the gold standard
continued indefinitely, for the benefit
of a small class of already enormously
rich men of England, we are unable to
nderstand.-Nampa Leader.
The manner in which the corporate,
armed and dictated press of the east
maligns and traduces the double
standard advocates, says the Durango
Democrat, is arousing a feeling of re-
sentiment that will unquestionabiy
ripen into an open rupture between
the masses and the classes, and the
latter, if a break occurs, will have the
arrogance and impudence pounded out
of them. Such epithets and delirious
language as liars, thieves, cut-throats,
swindlers," ETC., is not always permit
ted TO go unrebuked. The gold advo-
Gates rely exclusively upon a crusade
Of corruption and misrepresentation
they libel all reason and scott at facts
Of an unanswera bic character; they de-
nounce enlightened progress as 'an-
archy," and frown upon criticism they
cannot answer; they declare taxing in
comes anarchy, bimetallism as ''trea-
son." and the will of the majority a
dangerous innovation" There IS
nothing incendiary in opposing the
practice of substituting government by
injunction for the constitutional pro-
cess. There can be nothing revolution
airy in protesting against return to
McKinleyism and protest against fed
eral interference in local affairs is not
treason. Declaring against the att
tempt to swindle the government out
of more than 5000, 600 by extending
the, Pacific railroad bond is not
crime. The plain facts are the AFRO
gance of wealth, overriding Of laws
and open corruption of the Mckinley
syndicate will be rebuked. whether at
the polls or elsewhere.
In most respects the superiority of
the Democratic candidate is SO palpa-
BILE as to make comparisons needlessly
cruel to his opponent. What, then, is
the duty of American citizens who de-
sire to secure the best possible govern
ment fer the republic during the next
four years? Plainly it is to vote for
that presidential candidate who is
manifestly best fitted to administer
the government and to settle the finan-
cial question through their representa-
tives in congress. Gold men may vote
for gold candidates, silver men for sill
yer candidates and bimetallists for
bimetallists; but nobody who realizes
what is at stake in this campaign can
vote to abandon government Of the
people, by the people, for the people, in
favor of government of Mckinley, by
Hanna, for a syndicate.
I hope 1 am not as mean as the man
who penned the following poem, but
at the same time I'm half inclined to
believe that he is correct in his con-
illusions:
In the dark piazza corner
Swaps a hammock through the night;
And within its tangled meshes
Lies a maiden-"out of sightr'
Sheltered in the same snug corner,
Where the light is none too clear,
Gently swinging this fair maiden,
Sits a man in chair drawn near.
From the west the silvery crescent
Throws soft kisses to the trees;
And they murmur back message,
Lightly stirring in the breeze.
flushed are all the worlds rude noises
In the stiffness of the night;
Nature sleeps, her beauties cleaning
In the moons caressing light.
Net a sound her rest disturbing,
Save the maiden's soft Il won't?'
Which is followed in a moment
BY the same voice murmuring 'Don'tv'
Ever thus it is in corners,
When the maiden says Il WON'T
For he does. by some queer reasoning,
Every time she murmurs Don't"
q, e. SH.