Show WHO IS TO BLAME One of the planks of the democratic platform or address issued Saturday last and the one which gives hem more trouble than anything else reads like this We denounce the hyprocrisy of that portion of the republican press and party which infamously endeavors to charge the effects of the legislative errors of a third of a century upon a party which had but just entered into power when tnose terrible evils over upread the country The logic which argues that effects precede their causes i is fit reasoning for a party which affirms i af-firms that the ioreigner pays the tariff tax on the imported goods purchased I by the American peqple The republican party came into power in the good year of 1861 They commenced business with a big war on their hands We are not inclined toI I arraign them on but one point in the conduct of that great war and that is the fault which has steadily dogged the footsteps of the party ever since That is the wasteful extravagance which distinguished every department of the army and navy and which bequeathed be-queathed a debt to the nation larger by several billions than there was any earthly honest excuse for If the party had stopped there and not carried this same wasteful and dishonest extravagance extrava-gance into the civil administration after af-ter the war all would still have been well The war fault begot a scale of expenditure which all the resources of the government on a peace basis could not afford The fell spirit of waste slopped over and priyate business enterprises and individuals drank in the spirit trom the government The result was inevitable and we had the credit mobilier the whisky trusts etc without numbers and without bound Into this duty vortex wasqdrawn illustrious men or men with illustrious illustri-ous names Schuyler Colfax the vice president of the United States the head of the great order of Odd Fellows and a Christian of exalted virtues So fearfully was he involved that h e was driven by the returning sense of decency de-cency Into exile from public life and EOOII into an unhonored grave After him caintt such names as Congressman Oana Ames General Belknap and a wHole army of lesser names Greenbacks Green-backs were as 1 the sands on the seashore sea-shore as if there was never to come a day of reckoning These evils were but a part of the fruits of their thirty years of legislative legisla-tive errors The enforced resumption of specie payments before the country was ready for the measure was the commencement of their dangerous dan-gerous premature and unwise sys tem of contraction which the demon etization of silver was a later product In whose interests i were these enormous enorm-ous spoliation measures taken Not the poornbt the small operators of course Whose then None other than the men who gathered gold while the country was bleeding at every pore and who grew rich while strong honest hon-est men grew poor and poorer still and gaunt poverty and unbearable misery swept in black waves over the wrecked and ruined land The black wave was surely and threateningly approaching and it broke in full force upon our shores about the time the distressed people resolved upon a change The resulting democratic demo-cratic president without congress or senate to project measures of relief could do nothing The angry waves roared and surged about him for four years and the only wonder is that things were not worse at the close of Clevelands first term than they were Strong man as he was he could do but little to stay the tide but what little he was able to accomplish was still of great service to the country But for his wise policy things had been far worse than they actually are today The honest efforta of the democratic administration today to pass measures of relief are thwarted and obstructed by whom None other than the party which has led the nation to the bleak shores of ruin and would complete the work by giving the plutocrats a whole nation of white slaves in exchange for four millions of black ones The Wilson Wil-son bill had been passed two months since but for the obstructions offered by the men of 73 A free coinage law would be in force today but for the pets ot the republican party in New York who are the allies today of the gold sharks of European policier The paragraph has a deeper reading than the republican papers of Utah believed be-lieved when they read it Sunday morning morn-ing last |