The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-08
WAR AS CERTAIN AS NEXT WEEK,
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| war is declared the short side of the
market will put a million dollars into
his pocket. Now, would the gentleman
tell US -(several members on the DEM
ocratic side: who is it?'')
Mr.. Grosyenor-Tell us how anybody
can be benefited by preventing war;
Eow? l mean any stock broker, any
BODY who holds any stocks. How can
that happen when prices are going up
or down as each battle progresses and
as each ship has TO surrender? Then is
the time that stocks rise and fall. And
were stock gambling. which 1 thank
God l am not, there would be no oc-
casion more gratifying to my greed
than war with the United States and
another country.
END TO UNCERTAINTY.
Why is it that every manufacturer of
the United States wants an end put to
this war? Because they want things
to get back again to where they were
before this agitation began. Why is IL
that the treasury of the United States
wants TO put an end to this uncertain
ty? Because the revenues of the gov
eminent are being destroyed by this
excitement and uncertainty. Therefore
IL is that the president, backed up by
his cabinet, and backed up by the'best
Judgment of the house and backed by
the best judgment of the senate, is pro-
ceeding as rapidly as possible TO put
an end to this war. and yet the gentle
man says that the president has fall
tered A charge no more serious than
he has preferred has brought the head
or many man to the block; a charge
mere infamous than that could not be
borne by any man in this country, to
make II appear that the president has
used the power that congress has given
MIN TO operate upon the stock markets
OF this country. Prove that, and you
would have a vacancy in the presi-
uency Just as quick as you can estab-
lish 1t. The charges have no truth.
DENIED BY LENTZ.
Mr.. Lentz-I have already said to you
that l deny that i said anything of the
kind. l never said that a telegram had
Eot been sent.
Mr.. Grosvenor-"The administration
set the story afloat in the interests of
stock speculation" Those are your
exact words, as the reporters notes will
show. You made charge that ought
to condemn the president of the United
States to Impeachment and imprison-
ment- /, for one, have felt that it was
d terrible assault upon the honor and
integrity of Spain. what we did on yes
terday, but ii must be remembered that
there was put up on the one hand the
choice of insult to Spain, solemnly de-
livered by the president, an intimation
to the whole world that there was
danger of murder to American repre-
SentativeS in Cuba, or there was put !
on the other side the danger itself. We
can have more tragedy along this line, |
until war comes to put the whole |
thing into the hands of tragedy
WHAT WOULD THE VERDICT BE?
"Now, then, 1 will say that over |
oo he ~
Spain that was deliberately hurled at |
her by the American people, that the |
administration was compelled to put |
the chances of murder, not that the |
government of Spain would do it, but |
the government was so powerless to |
maintain order, that the ships of a |
friendly nation are unsafe in her ports, |
and might be overwhelmed by mobS |
and murder have taken place. Sup
pose the message would have gone to
congress yesterday, and suppose that
last night the blood of that distinguish
ed and chivalrous gentleman from Vir-
GINA had soaked the soil of Cuba? |
What would have been the verdict of
the American people against the ad-
If a man in the house is
so forgetful of his dignity as an Amer
lean citizen of the humblest character,
to intimate that the president has been
juggling a thing like that, l will not |
answer for it.
PURPOSE OF DEMOCRATS.
Mr.. Speaker, did not suppose that
in this American congress 1t was nee
essary that / should make an eXplana-
ton in order to defend the president
OF the United States from an insnua-
ton like that. l am glad the purpose
Of the opposition is now fully and clear
" disclosed. l am delighted that be-
cause OF a little change in the pro-
gramme. wholly unimportant except as
II strengthens the daily augmenting
powers of the United States-a change
made under stress of circumstances
that would have controlled any civil
med nation-I am delighted that the
gentleman from Ohio has given US no.
lice that every occurrence now and
hereafter is to be taken advantage of
Tor party purposes, and l am delighted
mat the gentleman from Texas (Mr.
Balley) has two or three times now,
or each succeeding day, pointed out
with great delight that there are diff
-erences OF opinion on the Republican
side of the house. I suggest to the gem
-leman that when he opens a recruit
ng Office to get volunteers to pass I'M
Ter his banner to fight the administra-
ION, he had better make contract for
ne rent of his quarters from day to
lay, as he will probably not need them
iery long in the future
THE WORLD NOTIFIED.
Here comes a matter which the
Whole world win say governed the ad-
as it ought to have been
'CVerned, and the world will be notified
onight that the president has been as
allied by distinguished representative
N this floor, his motives impugned and
us integrity censured. and the whole
-cdon charged as being instigated by
. criminal purpose, and this in a body !
nat boasts that it is going to stand by
he administration.