The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-22
SOME TIMELY QUESTIONS.


A subscriber asks the following
timely. questions:
l. Why should the government of
this glorious country, with its bound
less wealth and unlimited natural
resources, in an attitude of abject
proStratiou ask aims of any other
nation? l ask because Messrs. Me-
hlsley d Co deem this position an
eminently proper and becoming one.
p Why should England assuming
the attitude of a philauthropist con-
sent to accept a 80 per cent reduction
ON money owing it. when it is per-
fecuy we'll aware that il can legally
collect 100 per cent in excess Of the
just debt?
8. What is a radical free silverite?
4. During the anti-slaVery agita-
ton which eliminated in our late civil
war, was not the cause declared to
be an issue in municipal campaigns,
and were not the people uneQuivocally
divided upon that issue?
.. Is the cause of the white slave
less vital, less worthy, than that of his
coiored brother that 1t should be
ignored in the present campaign?
e. Is it not singular that many of
the heroes who fought and bled for
the emancipation Of the eolored race
should be straining their energies to
the utmost in the effort to deliver their
own into a bondage more cruel, more
unyielding and more hopeless?
I. Is there any reason why the
Democrats should fail to make a clean
sweep at the coming election?
This country should not ask aims of
any other country. The reason Nc
Kinley & Co. deem an attitude of alb
ject prostration before other nations,
so far as the money question is con-
cerned, proper, is because they were
elected on and stand on the St. Louis
platform, and its position on the
money question is abject in the ex-
IRENE
England is looking out for her in
terests and no one elses. 1t is to her
interest TO make other nations believe
that her interest is theirs, and she has
succeeded most admirably in the case
of the United States. She has sue
ceeded in making the government at
Washington believe that it is morally
financially right to pay all debts in
gold when they were contracted to be
paid in coin. coin meaning either gold
or silver, For this purpose England
has made use of the money power in
this country. which is absolutely i'm
partial in sacrificing this or any other
country for gold.
A radical free silverite is one who
believes that the silver question is
paramount. in politics. to all others
and never waivers in this belief Ac-
corddng to the Tribune, a radical free
silverlte is one who doesn't believe
that Mckinley is as stauneh a friend
of silver as Bryan is,
During the antt-slavery agitation
which preceded the civil war. that
question was the one dominating is
sue. The people certainly were di-
Vided on that issue
The cause OF the white slave is no
less worthy than was the cause of the
black man, and it should not be
ignored. and viii not be- As emarci-
patton finally came to the black slave
so viii it eventually come to the white
slave. But there is this difference be-
tween the slavery of ante-bellum days
and that of today: the former was
sectional; today it is universal, and
it knows no color line.
It is both strange and inexpHeable
that men who fought and bled that
their colored brethren might enjoy the
blessings Of liberty the same as them
selves should be willing to forge the
chains upon their brothers, even upon
their comrades in arms. vet it is true
that some of them are Why they are
no one can say, stiH every one knows
that man may be a hero at one time
and at another a craven; that his
soul is moved to pity in some cases
and to cruelty in others. Man is not
a consistent being, and that is about
all that can be predicted of him.
There Is no reason why the Demo-
Gratis should not carry the coming
election They have the broadest, best,
most American platform of any party.
while upon that platform stand candf-
dates who are the equals Of any other
candidates and the superiors Of the
most of them. II the cause Of free sill
yer, if the cause of the people is to
triumph. then win the Democratic
ticket be elected in its entirety.
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