The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-03

cratic principles and policy, our in
dustries were DESTROYED. capital and
labor We're unemployed, the poor suf-
fered as never before in our history,
agricultural products could not be
sold because consumers could not earn
money with which to buy and every
barnch OF trade felt the blighting in
1luence Of the Democratic tariff reform
hard times. The treasury of the
United States was depleted and the
gold reserve disappeared. The govern
ment borrowed money to pay current
expenses, increasing the pubic debt in
times of peace by hundreds of millions
Of dollars.
The Democratic party proposed TO
the people as a remedy for all these
Democratic ills, a deprecated and dis
honest currency which intensified ev-
cry evil
The Election of Mckinley.
During all that period of depression
and distress, the Republican party
stood fast for the principles and policies
under which American industries had
been built UP and flourished beyond
example-the principles and policies
under which the people had proSpered
and the nation had grown great for
generation; stood fast for a sound and
honest currency and in 1896 elected to
the presidency William Mckinley, the
true American ideas and policies, the
friend of every American industry and
The wise and patriotic defender and ad-
vocate of honest money.
Under his splendid Republican adj
Ininistration, public credit has been
restored, the prosperity of the people
has developed, our commerce has grown
great, our trade domestic and foreign
has increased to a degree never before
known and the people are looking with
confidence for greater things to come.
The magnificent achievements Of our
Rrmy and navy in the war with Spain
for the liberation of the doWn-LTodden
and oppre ssed people of Cuba from the
domination of Castilian despotisin, ac-
compliShed under the master guidance
OF a Republican administration, are
necessarily subjects for highest en-
comiuIn by a convention of Ohio Re
publicans To the same master guild
ance, controlled by the great principles
that have shaped the high destiny of
the Republican party from Lincoln to
Mckinley, the people can safely CON-
init the solution Of the momentous
problems of the future of Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines.
Refers to Expansion
Their wise solution will vastly in
crease our foreign trade, spread Amer
lean civilization abroad and add 20 the
honor and power and glory Of this
great nation.
We commend the president Tor the
judicious notifications of the civil
service rules recently promulgated, for
the national defense, for the reinforce
1nent of the navy, for the enlargement
OF our foreign markets, for the employ
1nent of American workingInen in the
mines, forests, farms, mills, factories
and ship-yards. We demand the I'M
mediate enactment of legislation SINH
lar to that faVorably reported 20 each
branch Of the Fifty-fifth congress at
its last session, so that American-builr,
American-oWned and American
manned ships may regain the carrying
of our foreign commerce.
We commend the action of the Sew
enty-thiz5 general assembly Of Ohio, IN
passing the stringent law now on our
statute books, prohibiting the organ
ization of trusts and we denounce
such unlawful combinations as iniIn-
ical to the interests of the people. We
congratulate the people OF the state
upon the fact that a Republican leSis-
lature enacted this law, and We deman5
its rigid enforcement.
We pledge our party to such further
legislation as experience may determine
necessary TO prevent the formation ard
operation of such Ubiquitous and dan
gerous combinations.