The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-05
WILL NOT WORK.

me HannalZed organ of Utah Re
publicanism makes an amusing effort
to erect q tariff platform upon which
its candidate may stand during the
present campaign. We do not blame it
for entertaining a desire to provide
some kind Of an old platform for Mr..
Hammond
No party can succeed, no candidate
can hope 70 be elected. unless that
party or candidate stands for some
principle of government. And yet Mr.
Hammond and his party have gone be-
fore the people of Utah, taking abso-
lutely no stand. offering no suggestion
OF a policy with reference to a single
issue of public concern. The state
convention even went to the length Of
refusing to endorse its national party
platform. True, it exhibited a craven.
crawling disposition TO accept any
thing that the trust controlled admin
istration at Washington might propose,
but how does Mr. Hammond know,
how does his organ know what viii be
the attitude of the administration to-
morrow upon any public question? How
does the administration Itself know
what its position will be until it has
received its orders from the corrupt
gang that purchased the presidency
for Mr.. Mckinley and owns the presi-
dent? A president who advocates free
trade for Porto Rico today and urges
high tariff for Porto Rico tomorrow
surely cannot be relied upon, except to
do the bidding of his masters.
Then how does the Hanna organ
know that the Republican party Of
Utah stands for a protective tariff?
How does Mr.. Hammond or his organ
know that the Republican party of
Utah stands for anything except the
infamous Hanna methods that have
prevailed at Washington during the
past TREE years? We have the testi-
mony of Mr.. Hammond's organ that
rascality is enthroned at the national
capital. Yet this same shameless organ
now asks the people of Utah to sus-
tain a candidate who stands upon a
platform endorsing nothing except this
national rascaIity.
Can such humbuggery as this win in
Utah? Not this year.
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The truth about the tariff, as is per
fectly well known by all who have kept
in touch with current events, is that it
has ceased to be a prominent or an
important issue in national politics.
When the Republican congress and The
Republican president placed the Ding
ley bill on the statute books the Re
publican party suspended the principle
of protection. The Dingley act is a
revenue and not a protective tariff
measure, as Republican leaders in con-
gress acknowledged and as Hanna
organ in this city has admitted The
primary purpose in view when it was
framed was the raising of sufficient
revenue TO meet the needs of an ex-
travagsnt administration. 1t is true
that it carried incidental protection to
eastern interests, not for the purpose
Of fostering home industries. but with
view to enabling the trusts and
monopolies to take from the people the
sums that they had contributed to the
purchase Of the presiden- J. 1t is
equally true and notorious that such
scant benefits as We're given western
interests by the Dingley bill were only
wrested from the Republican majority
by most desperate efforts on the part Of
western congressman.
q
as expressed in national and state
platforms, is that it should be so ad-
justed that all the benefits shall not
be bestowed upon one class, while al
| the burdens are placed upon another
class; that eastern monopolies shall
not be given the lions share of the
incidental protection afforded by q
revenue tariff; that western industries
are entitle to something more than the
| crumbs extended by a reluctant hand
In short the Democratic demand is q
more equitable distribution of the bur.
dens and the benefits of the tariff.
Who in Utah will say that this posi-
ton is wrong? Who with the possible
exception OF Mr.. Hammond, who il
known to be extremely friendly to the
/ trusts. will say that western industries
are not entitled to as much considera-
| ton as eastern monOpolies? And which
is the party that stands for the inter.
ests of the west?
The attempt to make the tariff ques.
ton a prominent issue in this cam
| paign, particularly when made in be-
! half of a party that has put forth nC
declaration on the subject itself, viii
hardly blind the people of Utah to the
real issues. No galvanized corpse viii
/ brighten this state into an endorsement
of the gold standard, Hannaism and
government by the trusts.