The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-24

sured supremacy for another quarter
Of century.
But before the inaugural festivities
had ceased at Washington, the head
of the new administration sought
strange gods and espoused alien prin-
ciples.
The interests of money were placed
ABOVE THOSE OF HUMANITY.
Organized greed was fed with golden
spoons, while the cry of the hus 5and-
man was unheeded and the sweat Oh
the toil5r brought him no bread.
The Republicans had inherited the
principles of Hamilton. according TO
which the government should be a
convenience for the rich. Our presi-
dent tried to crowd them out and to
place his own feet on this ground. As
the months rolled by every principle
that is vital to Republican institutions
was violated and every precept OF
Jefferson, every doctrine fundamental
to Democracy, was trampted 70 the
earth. Since then. defeat has fohowed
dfshonor until we have lost even what
we formerly had.
All might have been well if the ad-
nlinistration had respected Repubtlcsin
institutions and not used its great
powers to increase the burdens of our
people for the benefit Of
FOREIGN AND EASTERN SHY
LOCKS.
But the spirit of Democracy is I'M
moral.
Today. the Democratic hosts are
again mastering on the plain. IN
fortunately we have pursued a course
which has led men to question our
Democracy, and to doubt our PROBES
sionS We have allowed ourselves to
be influenced by men who have not a
drop of Democratic blood in their
veins.
The first thing necessary for us TO
do. is to stand for something definite
stand for those principles upon which
the hope of humanity depends. If we
do this, and once show the people that
we are in earnest, no power on THIS
land can prevent our shaping the
policy and guiding the deStinieS of the
republic
The question of protective tariff has
long BEEN an issue in this country
For the first time, we took an unequivo-
cal question ON ii four years ago and
we won The tariff has been revised
and the probabilities are that neither
political party will make any radical
change in it. 1t is no longer worth
while to discuss the theories of a
tariff. L
PROTECTS THE PROTECTORS,
but not the laborer, for while it checks
the importation of goods it cannot pre-
vent. the Importation. of cheap labor
from all over the earth.
The climax has besn reached in tbs
passage of that legislative monstroSity
known as the Mckinley law" This
law was based on the theory that il
taking blood out of the patient was
beneficial, then the right thing to dc
is to draw 1t all out at once and be
done
It produced a deficit in the United
States treasury of about $70,000,000
while wages We're gradually reduced
and conditions throughout the country
continued to go from bad to worse un
til the final crash came in 1894. We
must maintain a reasonable tariff
which will not be so high as to stoI
all Importation and VIII therefore sup
ply the treasury with revenue. Blu
we
MUST LOOK ELSEWHERE
for the cause of that paralysis which
is destroying our country.
Between 1873 and 1880, this country
and all of the nations of Europe b!
law destroyed one-nalf Of the redenp-
ton money of the world, and reduced
by fully One-half the annual addition
to the stock Of money of the world.
Silver when used at all was put or
the basis OF paper money. The effec
of this was 80 double the work which
gold had to do, and by doubling it
inpOTt ance its purchasing power wa.
doubled; it made two hundred cen
dollars AS the debts, interest, take.
and other fixed charges ware not re
duced, it took nearly everything which
the farmer and the producing CLASSES
generally could scrape together to NEE,
the fixed charges. This
DESTROYED THE TRADE
of the merchants, and soon forced tlnt
factories to be shut down. The condi-
tons are getting worse day by day
and there can be no great prosperity
in Europe and this country until tbs
wrong that produced this distress hal
been righted. AS it was done by tn,
arbitrary act of government SO il
must be undone by the act of govern
mem.
AS the Democratic party represent.
the great toiiing and producing masses
it must take the lead in undoing thi:
wrong. II will be a fierce struggle, for
those INSCRIPTIONS men who, by cor
ruption and triclxery, fastened thi.
system on the world will resort, nay
are already resOrting to desperate
means to hold their advantage The
Democratic party must speak with M
uncertain sound on this question.
The men who year ago made abou
$40, 100000 out of the government il
small bond transactions carried GU
| through a secret contract with thu
president and the secretary of the
! treasury, will do all in their power tt
prevent change of policy. They vii
try to
CAPTURE THE CHICAGO CONvEN
TION
! and failing in that will move HEAVIER
and earth to control the new admins
! tration in case We succeed.
In Europe the ratio was 15h part.
Of silver to l of gold of equal finenes
and nearly all their monetary systems
were in harmony with this standard
In our country, it was Is to l and ou
whole system is in harmony with tina
ratio. a d,sciartion in favor of 16 to
| means nothing new, not an experiment
! but a return to what we had
Last week there was held in st. Louis
a convention which viii be known il
history as Mark Hanna's trust" rail
road attorneys, corporation agents
/ lobbyists and those men who hav,
made millions out of the government
and are looking for another harvest by
governmental aid were not only ii
control, but filed every place from
chairman to page. 1t was the
MOST BRAZEN EFFORT
on the part of organized greed tina
was ever witnessed in this country. [
the Democratic party will be true t.