The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-09
DEVOTEES OF
CLEVELAND
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q o.'CCllC OllQOSIOOIn DIT the
feast.
The government of the United States
has no right-constitutional or equitable
to levy and collect a dollar of taxation
except for its own support; and whenever
the Republican party goes to the coun-
| try ON the negation of this proposition
and on that alone. 1t will go to certain
| disaster 1t was said in the last election
! that the issue of public order and of a
sound currency stood between the voters
and protection. the father of paternalism
| and the godfather of populism. If the
rich manufacturer can go to congress and
! demand legislation in the interest of his
business, so can the poor agriculturist;
so can the poor mechanic; and u is here
where the evils of anarchiSm took their
! start and have their fertilization. Justice
! TO all IS the only common ground for
! patriotic Americans to stand on-the only
possible ground at once high enough and
! broad enough TO draw from each of the
| two extremes votes enough TO compel
| both to behave themselves.
GROWS WILD.
For these votes, l do not look TO the
leaders of either extreme. They have a
common personal interest. They are
! Joined to their feshpotS. But back of
| them are L. 900. 900 of patriotic Americans
who love their country, who want to do
| right and who will not willingly see free
| misunderstanding the money of the
| people and the integrity of the govern
ment-wrecked by a body of place-seekers
and place-hOlderS, using every device, APP
pealing to every passion that seems to
promise to get or to keep them off. To
such of those 12G00.00O of honest Ameri-
cans as may be directly interested in
protected industries. or have grown up
under the teaching and influence of pro-
tectiOniSt ideas, | would appeal with all
my soul and with all my strength to I'M
learn the fallacy that has misled them
to revise their position before it be too
late.
POLICY OF PROTECTION.
Mr.. Clay never dreamed of protection
except as a temporary expedient to foster
our infant industries. Nobody down TO
this present political epoch, ever thought
OF heraiding protection as fixed tenet
OF party faith. 1t was always regarded as
simple question of policy TO be regulat-
ed according to public needs. but the Re
publican leaders, being out of sectional
and sentimental soap and in sore straits
for an issue. elevated it into a gospel
and began to preach it as doctrine.
1t is at war with the genius of Ameri
can institutions, another assault upon
the intelligence and capabilities of Ameri-
can manhood: perpetual object lesson
to every agrarian, anarchist and PopuliSt
in the land. Behold what is now going
on in the ways and means committee
rooms at Washington, and answer me
whether 1t does not serve as a warrant
for all that CrankiSm has claimed. and
tell me how many presidential campaigns.
like the last. such Il scandal in self
interest, such traVesty of free insti-
tutiOnS, can survive? If the deVoteeS or
divine right and prescriptive provocative
influence had listened to the warning
voice of reason in time. there would have
been no reign of terror. Il the slave
holders of the south had not clung so
tenaciously for imaginal rights in the
territories that had already slipped away
from them. we should have been spared
the divine rights of kings, quite as much
as the right of ownership in man, is
taxation for private purposes prescrip-
tive claim, no matter by what name 1t be
designated; and no such claim can long
stand out against the obvious trend OF
public thought and movement in the
United States Mr.. Lincoln once said. and
said truly: IF slavery be not wrong.
nothing is wrong" Let me 9araphrase
his words and say: IF taxing the whole
people to pay tribute to a part of the
people be not wrong nothing is wrong.
1t is for the beneficiaries of the unten-
able. ever-exDosed system TO see s:hat
the mobiles of the ancient regime in
France. what the patricianS of modern !
times refused to See-itS insult |
ficiency and shortcomings, and to set
about having il mended by statesmen be- |
fore ii is demolished by the mob. With !
a simple revenue tariff, depressing no !
class. but operating exclusively for pub !
lie purpose, and with our financial system /
settled upon gold basis, affording the !
use of so much silver as the business of !
the country may assimilate-the only pos
s:ble bimetallic theory that can be car |
RED into practical effective shall have
that economic stability which of all |
things else the business of the country |
,-.ost requires and an end of quack doc !
tors masquerading as statesmen and |
ouack noStrums labelled patriotism"
1--WE ARE DEMOCRATS"
This is Saint Jackson's day. and with
re-erent hearts we are here TO celebrate !
Gratis. He was for honest money. We |
are for honest money. He stood by the !
integrity of the nation. We stand by the
integrity of the nation. He believed in the
tr-rtcf tod tn hn nf n &c
We believe in the people, |
ard trust TO the fidelity of our convic-
tons. When treason raised its head, he
struck it. When treason, in the form of
anarchy, raised its head. we struck it
whitening blow; and so, again and again.
shall we strike it. whenever and wherever
IL appears. until we have wiped dema-
gogues and demagogism from the face of
the earth, and brought our government
back to its original functions. the Just
protection of property and life, and the
of all men and all classes in
the pursuit of prosperity and happiness.
TREASURER HAMLIN.
The United States treasury depart
ment was represented by Hon. Charles
Sumner Hamlin, assistant secretary
who was entrusted with the response
to the toast Our National Admins
tration." Touching on the life of An
drew Jackson, Mr.. Hamlin said: His
life was marked by a fearless deter
nlnatlOn TO 90 WndI he cONcelNeu 10
be his duty; however much we may
differ from him as to the propriety or
expedience of individual acts, we must
all concede to him rigid honesty of
purpose and high integrity of charac-
ter"
Continuing, he said: I'm honoring
him, let us also render honor to the
illustrious statesmen. who, in the pres
ent as was jackson in the past, are
oo 1orc If ON. nOIitical faith
MI Hamlin quoted President Jack
son to show that his refusal to recOg-
nize the independence of Texas in 1886
was a parallel to the attitude of Presi-
dent Cleveland towards the Cuban re-
volt.
Hon Washington Irving Babb, the
Iowan, spoke for that
state.
In the absence of Dan w. Lauter of
st. Paul, leader of the national Demo-
cratic forces in Minnesota, his prepared
speech on behalf of the state, was read
Oy Secretary Jacob Hopkins.
T. j. Mahoney was chosen to speak
Tor Nebraska.
J. Med. Trimble of Kansas City. re-
sponded for Missouri in a ten minute
speech.
BUCKNER APPEARS.
The health of General Buckner was
trunk before he was called on to speak