The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-13
SENATOR STEWART DESERTS.

SENATOR STEWART DESERTS.
Senator Stewart has gone over to the
enemy. II all that the telegraph reports
say about him is true The old man
was Disguised with Republicanism. and
everything else. way back in 1892. when
he left Washington. in disgust, because
he could not induce his party to DO any
thing for silver.
The writer remembers what he had
to say. in the course of a long converse
ton in the midsummer of '92. when he
denounced the Republican party and
President Harrison in particular. be-
cause they did not have the moral cour-
age to stand up and defend the rights
OF the people as against trusts and
combines. lie declared, at that time,
that it was possible for trusts and COM
bines to manipulate the markets so that
any commodity could be forced up or
down, as their convenience might de-
mand. He also insisted that the money
barons of Wall street were able to pre-
vent any favorable action on the part
of the government in the interest of
silver
1t is not strange, regardless of his
talk on that occasion, TO believe that
he has abandoned the cause of silver;
because his votes in the senate, during
the special session. just closed, have all
been in the interest Of the barons down
On Wall street.
The telegraph makes the senator de-
clare that he is down there to gather
in his part of the prosperity which is
rampant on the street It would not
be very strange if the senator had been
given a pointer or two by some of the
people who are on the inside on Wall
street, and that he has made a few
dollars in honest speculation, on q dead
sure proposition. 1t would not be
strange if the senator made a few cents
on the rise in Sugar trust stocks; that
is. if he knew there was going to be an
advance, about the time the senate
committee agreed on the schedule.
In his old age, the senator may have
come to the conclusion that it does not
make much difference where the people
get off, so long as he does not lose any
thing. If within the space of five years
he can see a virtue in the trusts and
combines, it is not strange that he
should now come to the conclusion that
there was nothing in the proposition
that the true measure of prosperity
would come to the people only when
the crime of 1873. which he used to de-
nounce so eloquently. was righted
If famine and pestilence visited upon
a great number of the worlds inhabit-
ants can make a man like Senator
Stewart happy, because their dire ne
cessity enables him to gather in a rich
harvest of yellow gold, as a Spectator
on Wall street, then, at heart, he never
was a true friend of the silver cause.
If all that is reported of him now is
true, then his treachery to silver will
not injure the cause, because the men
in whose interest he is now laboring
win not trust him. and he will not be
regarded as a sage. whose opinions are
worthy Of respect. The senator says all
America has to do now is to get into
the swim, golto sleep and get rich. We
suspect very few people travelling in the /
senator's company viii follow his ad-
vice, because if they wish to hold their
own with him they had best keep both /
eyes open.
The cause of silver is as dear to the
people of this country today
as it ever was and. although prosperity 1
upon a wheat famine in /
Argentine. Russia, Hungary and India, !
may come to the United States, it will |
not be permanent in character
Linked with the demonstration of sill |
yer is the overthrow of the power of /
wealth; not its abolition on
the equal distribution of property, as
the money barons declare. And with it /
viii come that era of true prosperity |
which begets happy and contented |
homes. wherein the honest laboring /
man can enjoy some of the comforts of
life, and see his children grow up about /
him with brighter and better future
before them; with no gathering gloom /
IF eventual serfdom rising above the
distant horizon.