Show I A Republican Appeal < The chairman of the Republican territorial B terri-torial committee has put hisname to another rt an-other campaign circular He distributed several last fall which added nothing to r his reputation for accuracy nor to the f success of his party His figures were as faulty as his arguments and he suc 15 t ceeded especially on the sheep question i the only one about which he knew anything any-thing in proving the exact reverse of his proposition This time he discourses on the cause of the financial depression and his exhortation exhorta-tion to Republicans is announced as a I clarion call It is more like the blast of a penny trumpet and is a mere echo of the hackneyed cry that threatened Democratic Demo-cratic legislation is the cause of all the financial and industrial troubles that are I now pinching the country There is not a new idea or original thought in the entire en-tire address V First the promises alleged to have been V mane by the Democratic party during the last campaign ara detailed with the distortion V dis-tortion with which Renublican papers have colored them and next exaggerated V V pictures are drawn of present conditions These are made to appear as cause and effect the selfishness of the people of Utah is appealed to and they are nrged to V V free themselves from Democratic misrule But with the fatnity common to the author the fact is admittedby way ofT of-T > howeverthat change has been V i made in the tariff laws or in the policy established by Republican legislation and V Republican rule What follows as an Inevitable and irrefutable deduction V Why if all the evils he has painted were realities and they are the result of the principles and policy of any party the entire blame is traceable to the R publican I publi-can party which he wants the people of I Utah to be foolish enough to follow V It is not true that since the election V wages have been lowered in every mining l min-ing camp mine mill and smelter 1 fl is not true that strikes were unheard of i before But if it were the cause cant can-t not be due to Democratic agencies as he VV asserts because the forces and policies V against wnich the country revolted las fall are still active and the nation is reaping reap-ing the haiTcst of Republicn sowing He charges that The Democratic party have been in power hundred days and have made no effort to remove the monstrous and iniquitous measures oJ the Republican party Did he expect that in a hundred days without any authority au-thority in law to effect a change the now administration could reform the abuses which his party have inflicted upon the nation Congress is to meet in a month and those evils will be grappled with inV in-V due time But the change made of delay gives away his argument for it makes palpable the fact that present conditions are the result of past that is Republican legislation and administration I The repeal of the purchasing clause of V the SHEBSJAN bill he asserts is threatened threat-ened by the Democratic party and will inflict more widespread disaster Does he not know that the Republican party is If anything more anxious than the party he assails to repeal that clause He had better ask somebody who knows something some-thing of the policy of the party for which he speaks to explain it before he snaps his shears right and left he is cutting the hide and clipping off the ears of his own flock V 1 i When wool is placed on the free list and I t VV manufacturers have had an opportunity V to demonstrate its benefits end sheep VV r men a chance to see its effects on their V products it will be in order to descant on I j the good or evil results of free wool So Q with any other changethat may be made under a Democratic administration if What we see now are the effects of Republican I Repub-lican measures if politics form a moving j V < n cause in their production V The calls and harangues and pleadings plead-ings of Republican demagogues just now V arc the cheapest kind of party buncombe and only the mentally weak or wilfully blind will be influenced by them except to smile at their absurdity or feel con t I tempt at their mendacity The croaking of the crane this time is but a repetition I of great cry and little wool I |