The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-22
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10 The Salt Lake Herald.
ne venerable editor Of a weekly she ct
OF TINS city. writing regarding Judge Par
eer Lamous dispatch to the St Louis
The dispatch gave away the fact that
re mas practically 10 knowledge OF the
money question: no knowledge Of the sig
sslIicance or metallic money and the ef-
Iect upon country when the volume Of
lhetatic money Is greatly Increased or de-
cIeasedi that as a lawyer and strict con-
stfGcionfSt he has accepted as true the
theory that the only safe measure of val
ues is metal which BY the fiction OF the
lhterest-gatherer is the only safe meas
IRE because i IS always the same. He
has never lifted his eyes to see that this
changelsSs 25-S grains Of gold which
nakes a dollar doubled in value between
1910 and 1886 and since then has shrunken
- per cent IN value as measured by every
form OF property He has never for a mo-
ment reflected upon what the effects upon
a people must be when the golden yard
SUCK by which all their property must
DC measured ShrinkS TO eighteen inches
or IS increased to four feet six inches"
" o0ld not these remarks apply with
equal force. II there IS anything IN them.
20 several other gentlemen. for instance,
TO Theodore Roosevelt Charles W Fair
eonks, both our senators and our repre-
publican in the United States in good and
regular standing? Is It not in fact an
indictment Of the whole Republican par
w II Judge Parker Is stupid blind and
Ignorant because he has not had his mind
ifiumined by this editors profound luCu-
Drations on financial questions. the Whole
Republican party are all equally unfor-
Does not every practical. clear headed
man, whatever his views upon the silver
question may have been and are as to
righteousness, wisdom or expe9iency Of
the settlement of the question. know that
the question has been settled? And so
that with the Republicans IN control OF
the senate as they viii be during the next
four years. fn all human prebs biIity, there
can oe no change The effect Of the dis
from the canvass The question was
purely academic and of no use IN the
campaign except as a scarecToW to drive
excessively timorous gold standard vot-
ers, who were aisgusted with Roosevelt
ism. to vote the Republican ticket once
more. Does the editor know OF a single
who could have been induced to vote the
Democratic ticket by the insertion Of the
strongest possible resolution for the dOu-
BILE standard backed by the declaration
OF judge Parker that he favored it2
Judge PaFkers telegram was a master
stroke IN removing. from the Republican
campaign q bOgy that might have saved
them several thousand votes in each state
east Of the Mississippi river. And q few
thousand votes in several doubtful states
may change the result Of the election. Is
any Democrat who believes in the well
known. long established principles OF the
party but also believes in the free coin
age of silver going to bolt? Where viii
he go? Will he jump from the frying pan
into the fire and swallow the bombastic
Republican platform with its plank for
single gold standard. for iegalized ROD
berry. misnamed protection, for subsidy
ing the shipping trust for imperialism. for
executive usurpation-in short, for Roose-
veltism?
I think 1t may well be charged against
Judge Parker as cruelty TO animals TO
destroy so many able editorials and elo-
Guent speeches upon sound money care
fully elaborated for the campaign by one
short telegram Of less than five lines,
DEMOCRAT =
July y 1904