The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-09

4 Charles Emory Smith Occupies
Most of the Afternoon.
CANTON, O.. Sept. s.-The Republi-
can editorial association of ohio met
in the Elks' han st 1880 o'clock this
morning.
The venerable John Hopley of
f3ucyrus presided.
Canton was fixed upon for the meet
ing place Of the association, for the
reason that " IS the home of the presi-
hentia1 candidate supported by the
editors Of the association, and in order
that a formal call might be made upon
him. About two-thirds Of the pronlin-
Ealt editors Of Ohio were present.
When il was announced by Colonel
Brown president Of the association,
rhat he had a letter from Whitelaw
Reid Of the New York Tribune there
was an outburst Of cheers. The reader
was frequently interrupted by applause
and at tie close Of the reading Hon. J.
III. Ickes moved a vote Of thanks be
given MI. Reid and it was unanimously
carried
The letter in part was as follows:
I'VE have had the four years in
clover which our friend, the enemy,
promised Us in 1892. The people ere
A-hlNT Htll-litQ Aletl tJiE9 nave IieiQ
enough Of il. on the old lines this
campaign was already won. Then
burst out
THE ADULLAAIITES.
Every unthinking OF INSCRIPTIONS
man hat was in Distress and every
r5e tiaf was in debt and every one
shaG aas discontinued gathered them
selves tegelher, not unto David. alas.
but unto Altgeld. They captured the
naranal convention of an historic
party bud degraded it anG- Inundated
The caunfrg by asking the American
people i voc that they would not
obey The eighth commandment. Now,
when question is submitted TO q
popular vote, people must infer that
there a-e two sides TO Il and that they
have a right to vote on which ever side
their Judgment or their interest in
clines. But there are no two sides TO
the moral law. No man, no party, has
a right to put the eighth commandment
10 d popular vote; TO decide through an
expression of popular desires at the
rolls whether tins nation shall cheat
SITS creditors by paying its debts at the
rate Of SO cents on the dollar; and
whether every private debtor shall be
at liberty to CHEAT 10 the same extent
the man who has trusted him.
TO propose such a vote F.nd such g
decision is itself a. crime but having
proposed it
THE PLAIN PEOPLE
OF the country will sustain the great
commandment by vote which viii
surprise the men who would break 1T
You can make tree silver men see, from
the financial history OF every nation
that ever tried it, that While making
more money does initiate prices, il
works both ways. II raises prices for
what they have TO buy, as well as Tor
what they have to sell, and is apt to
raise the former first and highest The
grocer raises his figures long before
The day labcrer can have his wages ad-
vanced. and the la.borer never really
catches up till the inevitable crash
comes; free silver never did cheaper
the necessities of life, but il chearens
the men Look at Mexico and China.
and India Next 10 the attack on The
eighth commandment in enor1nity, is
the attack by our opponents on the
constitution and courts of the United
States.
''The protest against the use of con-
stitutionai power for the suppression of
riot. the proposal to pack the supreme
court, the attempt 10 destroy the
validity Of cOnFractS-these are not
mere dema gogism, or even intelligent
communism: they are the foral in
auguration in the United States Of
RUSSIAN ANARCHY.
IEule better is the demand that every
thrifty, economical anti prosperous
li1izen shall be discTimanated against
and taxed. not merely once like other
people but twice. first on what he has,
and then on what he earns. Let us be
as considerable as you please OF our
erring countrymen who have been
honestly misled, but let us indulge in
no DISCUSSES as TO the unpatriotic, I'M
American and revolutionary character
Of this whole programme
The president Of the editorial aSso-
citation was instructed to inform Mir.
Whitelaw Reid by telegraph at his
camp IL the AdirOn6acl1s that a vote
of thanks had been given him.
The afternoon session was given over
TO the address Of
9 CHARLES EMORY SMITH
There was a. large audience assem-
bled in the hall Mr.. Smith was Evarm-
" greeted. He said in part:
when Jefferson said that he would
rather have newspapers without a gov
ernment than a government without
newspapers. he Indicated the vital part
which newspapers play under free in
stiSutions. That was one hundred
years ago. A hundred years ago news
papers were sentinels at the outposts |
Today shey hold the central citadel as
leaders and exponents; they are the
very life blood of free discussion
This is prominently a campaign Of
education. 1t is thus. peculiarly, cur
campaign. The journalists are the real
educators. X is true there are gresa |
text books from; the masters. This Is
new Adam Smiths Wealth Of Ma
tions." with American application, a
new Bunyons Pilgrim Progress" |
through the slough of despond of Dem
ocracy and up the hill of difficulty, /
new Ba1cers Saints Rest" under as
sJiTed Republican restoration. The |
other tiSles of these masterpieces are
William MoKiniey's complete political /
economy of Open Mills for Dull Labor |
Rather than Open Mints for Free Sill |
YER" Benjamin Harrison's 'Satirical /
Reflections on the Absuriities of a Boy
Orators Idea of Independents of the I
Law OF Grsvitadon,' and Thomas 3.
Reeds old orchard 'Plums OF Political
Philosophy" But the old text books
are
EXPOUNDED BY THE PROFESSORS
in the class room and 50 the new text
books are edited with notes and index
and daily elucidated by the school
masters OF journalism
VIC must first educate ourselves. We
are already grounded on right p,in-
ciptes, bot we want more earnestntss.