Show IF NOT WHY NOT exceptions have been taken to repeated on assertion that abo election of a democratic president had more to do wibb alie present business depression and monetary panic than anything else this assertion it is needless to say is excepted to by democrats who are too strongly partisan to exercise their reasoning faculties and a a rulo they declare that it which is responsible for tho woes which afflict the nation in the language of the great I 1 am the leading democrat of utah they say its all right we ask these unreasonable beings who like ourselves are painfully aware of the changed condition of things who like ourselves have no credit at the bank who liko have hard work to make both ende meet to look backward a few brief months and tell us what they saw then if they should say that the connary generally was prospers ff ous that tho people generally were employed at good wages and were corn contented and happy that the prospects ecta for long continued indus 6 trial activity were good then wo will ask thorn what has caused the great change the utter stagnation in manu fae turing commercial and industrial lines and if they shall ay as many t of them have said it is owing to the sherman law wo will remind them 1 that that law was on the statute books last fall and that by that law upwards T per month add the circulating medium with that law out of the way the currency will bo contracted so it cannot be that the sherman law is the cabie and we must look further and wo need not look very tar to find the cause of the present terrible state of affairs in our country it may bo summed up in two words demo cratic success that implies a fear that tho democratic party may have the courage of its convictions and will proceed to carry out its threat to over turn the industrial policy under which i the country has prospered Is not that fear sufficient cause for the present universal business prostration wo eay yes and THE STANDARD is not a calamity howler either and this lion will continue until some assurance shall be given that the will not bo modified go aa to destroy its protective feature |