The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-15

some Of our tariffs are no longer needed
TOT revenue or 10 encourage and protect
our industries at home. why should they
not be employed 10 extend ana promote
our markets abr0adz'' All that the Chi
eago convention was willing 20 say By
way OF endorsement was We believe IN
the adoption of ali practicable methods
LOT the IurIner extension OF our foreign
markets. including commercial reciprocity
Wherever reciprocal arranEemeuIs can De
effected. consistent with the principles Of
protection. and without injury to Amer
lean agriculture. American laDor. or any
American industry Who are to be the
vouchers sfor the prescribed consistency
The Democrats Obviously not Inc Re
publican Tevisi0nists2 on. no. The
stand-patters. OF course.
According to the Chicago platform, no
readjusJment tot the tariff can be en-
trusted TO Democrats. because their IN
fitness for the function has been demon
strated By history. a Democratic tar
III. We are told has always been fol-
lowed by business adversely. a RepubI
can tariff by business prosperity" This
is history -as she is wrote. by RepJih-
Eean national conventions Was II no.
the Democrats who framed and enacted
the tariff OF 1876 which WAS followed By
decade Of unprecedented prosperity
ere Democrats or Republicans reSpon-
sible for the tariff legislation which ser
twelve years had preceded the friEhtful
crisis of 1892 Really these Republican
platform-mongers must take for granted
that the voters. whom they essay TO gull
nave missed common school education
Still pursuing the policy Of claiming
everything" the Chicago platform ayers
that the country is indebted exclusively
to the Republican party for the estab-
I1Shment Of the gold standard the main
tenSnce OF which. II warns voters can
not safely be committed TO the Demo
cratic party. II this means that the
preservation Of the gold standard cannO-
safely be entrusted to Brvanites the as
sertion is a superfIuOus piatitude. II IT
means that the same thing can be said
Of the conservative Democrats who were
dominant at the White House in Mr.
Clevelsnd's two administrations, and who
are expected TO dominate once more a.
St Louis the assertion IS rank with
mendgCirT and ingraJitude.
As q matter of fact. Mr.. Cleveland in
his first annual message OSS5) urged a
repeal of the Bland-Allison silver law
which was calculated 10 pull down the
gold standard by requiring the pUrChas-
Ing and coming Of silver. His secretary
OF the treasury strongly supported the.
a Republican administration which dOu-
bled the load Of depreciating silver by
the Sherman law Of 1890 On the other
hand. Il was President Cleveland who. N
August. 1898. -conEcked congress for the
express purpose Of stopping silver pur-
chasing and coming. and kept the lsgis-
iature nailed to Washington I'LL the gold
standard got a chance to lift its head
If We come down to 1895 does the credit
Of being OGtSpOken and Iufie1l bic cham
pfons Of the gold standard belong To the
their platform disingenuous. dishonest
plank in favor Of internatiOnal bimetal-
ism which they knew they could never
get. or to the gold Democrats VINO. set
ting fidelity TO great principle above
the duty OF allegiance 70 party. unfurled
a banner of their own OF went forth in
solitude TO obloquy and exile?
We believe lastly. that no more sari-
Gus tactical error has ever been commit
ted by political commanders. on the eve
of pampaign expected TO be strenuous
and heated. than the Chicago cOnven-
tons endorsement of the demand for the
of the fourteenth amend
ment
The Republican plank dealing with this
subject is open to grave objection on two
grounds In the first place, it ignores the
constitutional dei1mitat1on of the federal
legislature from the federal judiciary.
The plank insists that congress shall de
termine the question Of fact and of law.
whether IN any state the elective tran
striCted- That is to say. u arrogateS to
the federal legislature a function which
IS reserved TO the United States supreme
court. In the second place. the trainers
of the plank had not sense enough TO
heed the adage. Let sleeping dogs lie.
The prOvCcation TO TecrudeScenCe or
race prejudice and race enmity was given
at q time when practically. tIle De-
mocracy seemed likely to let the election
go by default, when 2 ma jOTitE Of the
Democrats. or at all events. OF
their sffs ders. seemed disposed to accept
a hopeless or cOlOrleSS candidate. and
to mass over the one man who as Re
publicans themselves fOrebOded. might
reach the White House on which twice
already he has upreared the Democratic
standard.
It was. we repeat the worst Of bad tao
tics to administer at such a iuncture an
electric and eye-opening shock TO south
ern Democrats; and II Senator Hanna
had. been there he would never. have
such an act Of folly.