The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-17
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF UTAH.

On the question of free coinage of
silver the Democrats and the Republi-
cans of Utah stand shoulder to
shoulder; on Whatever else they may
be divided, on that question they are
united. There are some Republicans
in Utah who profess to believe that the
tariff is the paramount issue; we do
not question the sincerity of their pro-
LESSONS, but no one can help doubling
their judgment. To such as these, and
all who believe that our present in
duStrial ills can be cured and pros
perfty be brought about by the enact
ment of a sufficiently high protective
tariff, we commend the following edi-
torial from yesterdays Tribune, a pa
per whose Republicansm and belief in
the doctrine Of protection cannot be
questioned:
AS the tide is turning, it seems clear
that today or tomorrow a candidate for
president will be nominated in ST
Louis on the single issue of a high
protective tariff, and with that for a
slogan the party will go out and ex-
pect to conquer. We do not see what
the managers can be thinking of
They saw the people three years ago
last November repudiate that same
kind of a tariff by an overwhelming
majority, and they were able to do it
because the Democrats far and wide
sounded the note that the hard times
were due to that obnoxious and OPP
pressive tariff And still the Repqa5li-
cans, looking back over the wreck of
the last three and one-half years. seem
TO think that by telling the people that
they viii restore that or a similar tariff
they will get their votes. 1t is posi-
bic they will. 1t is very possible they
will elect their candidate, but then.
what? If they will ask the farmers
of this country they will find that for
two years before Mr.. Cleveland was
the last time elected they had not
made cent, and the farmers compose
about half the voters of this country
II they ask the manufacturers they
will find out that for two or three
years before Mr.. Cleveland's last cleo
ton, as a. rule, they worked on so small
margin of profits that they had moth
ing left. Now. it is true that the Demo-
Gratis in that campaign declared for a
tariff for revenue only. 1t is true that
they denounced the Mckinley law. but
they made one which the New York
Sun says lis one of the highest pro-
tective tariffs ever enforced in the
United States. Its average rate falls
short of the average rate of the pre-
ceding tariff. distinguished as the Nc
Kinley tariff. by very little" Now, if
that is true, and who can dispute it?
after a triumph in ST. Louis, after the
men who are telling the delegates there
what the trouble is shall be snuobed
and sent home suI1y and dissatisfied.
what new argument can the orator
make to induce men to vote for the
ticket? We tell them that the matter
has passed beyond the tariff: that no
tariff will restore normal prosperity to
this country. and if the Republicans
triumph and succeed in electine a
president, it is liable to be the last
president they will ever elect in this
world Because when they get their
tariff fixed they will find the people
are so poor that they cannot buy for
edgn goods. and the government will
continue to run in arrears Whom the
gods would destroy they first make
mad 1t looks now as though the gods
were after the Republican party in
dead earnest.
That makes it clear that the great
depression in all business throughout
the country: that the lack Of work for
the laboring man; that the lack of
food and rairnent for his little ones are
not the result Of any Democratic tariff