The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-30
REPUBLICAN CLAIMS.


Goldbug organs are harping on
single standard prosperity. claiming
credit for famines abroad and good
crops at home, for Letters prices. and
for the money put in ejaculation by
the war
But the sham of it all is beginning
to be understood by the common peo-
pie, who have been buncoed by the
gold brick crowd until they are sore.
When wheat reached $1.77 in May the
journalistic cappers who follow
Hanna's circus rubbed their hands to-
gether and cried I'VE did it," But
when Letter stood from under and
wheat fell more than a hundred cents
in a few days there was nothing
further said.
For two years the foreign demand
for American breadstuffs has been
considerable, owing to famines in the
other wheat fields of the world. This
has kept prices up in spite of the
gold standard. And, while Republic
cans We're anxious to take credit for
the demand, they were unwilling to
assume the responsibility of the
famines which created that demand.
Republicans were reluctant about
entering a war for humanity, but since
the war has begun they point to the
money put in circulation for war pur-
poses as a result of gold standard or
Dingley bill prosperity.
Millions and tens of millions of dol
lars have been paid for clothing, trans
portation and food during the past
ninety days. This money has been put
in circulation because of the war with
Spain and not on account of gold
bugism or tariff-robbery All parties
voted for its expenditure, and yet, the
desperate gold organs of this country
are ALWAYS ready to claim that every
ten dollar bill in circulation is due
either to the single standard of the
Dingley tariff.
The Provo Enquirer says: 1.-The re-
ports that have been coming from the
manufacturing centers ever since the
Dingley tariff went into effect indicate
the successful operation again of fac
tories that had not run since the Re
publicans went out of power and the
Democrats enacted their ruinous semi
free trade measure"
One would imagine that the difference
in the average of the tariff laws re-
ferred to was enormous. 1t would
rather mislead it's readers than tell
them that the Democratic tariff it
complains of, and calls a "ruinous
semi trade measure was actu-
ally higher than the tariffs levied a
few years after our expensive civil
war, during the real infancy of manu-
featuring industries, and in those Re
publican days of Grant, and Hayes.
and Garfield, and Arthur, when Re
publicans had things their own way.
But such an admission wouldn't have
suited the purpose of the Provo adj
ministration organ.
Three years ago the Enquirer was
shouting for protection" just as it is
now. 1t was praising a man who
taught it the tariff alphabet. 1t was
largely instrumental in sending that
man to Washington to investigate the
question of protection to home in
dustries" He went in an official capa-
city. He investigated thoroughly. He
was convinced against his prejudice
He confessed conversion. He denounc-
ed the so-called protective tariff as
"a robbery"
But the Enquirer refuses to see. 1t
will not believe the testimony of its
own witness. 1t clings to the exploded
claim that the higher the tariff the
greater the prosperity.