Show A fima it will be remembered by our readers that tue THE has repeatedly peat edly asked the halt lake herald to state what in its opinion is tho the cause of the present hard times timea what for instance is the cause of the decline in price of ettah wool but no ans answer has been baen attempted other than to deny that the present democratic administration is to blame the other day however we met a democrat of soma intelligence I 1 who endeavored to give the cause la substance it was that in america republicanism niEM embraces the wealthy the bankers the arz brokers kers and the bond holders democracy the poorer class esthe laborers and the farmers farinet far meis s last fiill fall the people had deda decla redby their ballots that no longer gouid they bo be subservient to the money power of this government for this reason the bankers brokers bondholders bond holders and monopolistic man had bad said well then you can starve for a time if bod you will not be sub subservient to us we will make times hard so that is tho the democratic theory of the present hard times at least it is the theory extant in this section of the country for not a few are repeating it tho the trouble is of course that the theory is ia wholly democratic and cannot bo be substantiated in the first pla conot enot ull millionaires millions irea or moneyed mon are republicans as the tha anted democratic dinner given by million aires to president dont CLEVELAND D just af after ter his election clearly demonstrated but we will grant for the sake bake of argument that our democratic friend stated the case care correctly the bankers brokers bond holders and manufacturers or of in other othar words republicans public ans are the greatest losers 1 in the country today the stocks stock of the country have shrunk nearly a million dollars in value hundreds of banks have bavo closed their doors and scores of factories have gone under the total loss to this class classi of men can hardly be com computed it is ia so enormous many have lost loat all they possessed posse sed and abad are today onedith one with tho people I 1 others are driven almott to distraction on seliag the decrease in their r 7 va I 1 I 1 M wealth caused by a lack of cot confidence indence in the country if it is 13 true therefore that t they h ey have undertaken to teach the people a lesson the they y are doing it at a fearful cost to themi if that is their objects object the moneyed men show suicidal madness in the pursuit of it |