Show LEST WE FORGET The first thing to remember before we forget it is that the undertaker who puts an iMnpty collln in Ills hearse fills a carriage or two with hired mourners and moves with solemn procession through a few streets every morning to convey the Idea that he Is doing a rushing rush-ing business will when he keeps l that practice up long enough be put down as a fraud The next thing to remember before we forgot It Is that were national conventions con-ventions conducted as is the House of Representatives were delegates from Territories denied a vote there would be no silver plank In the Democratic I national platform S I The next thing to remember before we forget It Is that were Mr Bryan to I repeat ono of his silver speeches of I four years ago as good sense to an audience ho would be laughed to scorn and knowing this in the two speeches he has made since his last nomination he did not once mention the subject I l The next thing to remember before we forget It Is that no one not oven I the minds are clamoring any more for silver because they are doing belter than they ever were before rriore men are employed and at betterwages than I ever before and prosperity is more general gen-eral and more evenly distributed than j ever before In Utah While remembering lest we forget it must be kept in mind that four years ago the Silver Republicans gave Utah over to the Democracy that It was before be-fore India had been placed upon a gold standard when It was vital that In the United States Senate every possible voice should beraised for silver to back the commission which had been sent to Europe to try to restore silver by international in-ternational agreement That at that S time a Senator was to be elected In Utah that the contest raged through the whole term ofthe Legislature that not one word for silver was uttered by the Salt Lake Herald during those anxious days that not one sliver argument argu-ment was offered in the Legislature by any Democrat except one who favored the election of a man who had been a Silver Republican and finally the Herald Her-ald in Its slavery to wealth in Its betrayal be-trayal of principle and in its native meanness and savagery read every member of the Legislature out of the party who had cluhg to such men ash as-h d been faithful and eminent advocates advo-cates of silver While remembering lest we forget we must keep in mind that the Salt Lake Herald loses all Interest in silver except ex-cept during campaigns that during tho years when there was a prospect of silver restoration It was silent and when at last the need arose of electing a silver advocate of strength and Influence Influ-ence to the Senate It was as dumb asa as-a sick oyster on the subject There are other things which lest we forget we must this year remember Among these are 1 Mr Towne says Mr Bryan Is ag good a Populist as he himself Is 2 Senator Tlllman and his friends with Mr Bryans help dominated the Kansas City convention ajjd the Senator Sen-ator read the platform while Gen Weaver sat by applauding 3 Mr Bryan eight years ago voted for Gen Weaver on an Irredeemable platform Gen Weaver has not changed his views and Is this year giving his heartiest support to Mr Bryan Bry-an and helping him give direction to his campaign v 1 4 4 n HIS platform aims the first blow at the sovereignty of the cqurts in the United States ever directed by a political po-litical party 5 His platform reverses almost everything that the Democratic party ever professed and about the only tenet of the ancient faith that he is known to cling to is free trade which has never been tried In America that Its trial has not been followed by a drain of gold to the Old World by the filling of all our warehouses with foreign goods and to tho distress of laboring men all over our Republic Lest we forget wo should keep remembering re-membering the distress of four years ago tho mighty depression the almost despair We should remember the change tho advance In values the fact that the only cloud in the sky Is the possible danger of the election of a man as President who Is the greatest political politi-cal boss that the country ever saw who Is seeking by appeals to tho fears tho ignorance and the darker passions of men to be elected President and whose platform Is a menace to our country and our prosperity and a direct di-rect encouragement to license and violence vio-lence |