| Show THE WEST SUFFERS among alio man evils brought upon the country through the election of G rover cleveland there are two so hurtful to the west and so directly traceable to the democratic leader that no truthful man can deny the wrong or lessen the responsibility which attaches to the dominant party one of the afflictions of the western elope an affliction in which utah has had glicr share has been and the presence of a horde of chinese who invade the trades and tho industries of white men degrading the wadea nd associations of labor and diverting a steady stream of money from this country to their own land not long since THE garo an estimate of of days labor as a reasonable aggregate of the work done by chinese and represented by the cash lavinge exported to china from san francisco alone this is equivalent to more than abear tor every male manual toiler in i all the pacific coast states and territories while white are walking the streets in a vain search for labor tens of thousands of are employed in vocations which otherwise auld give wages to our own citizens and support to their wives and children butali has her share of this evil and is by sympathy and interest anxious to see the remedy applied the redress provided by law was the geary tion measure by which all chinese not registered before may wore to be een this act could havo been effectual to rid the country ol 01 probably 95 per cent of the chinese as only very email proportion of them had complied with its regulations but it was arbitrarily and unconstitutionally suspended by mr cleveland who ordered the custom officers of the united states to disregard dil regard its provisions and thi abrogation of the law exists in face of tho fact that the law hae been declared constitutional the west suffers for mr crime and the people of utah who told last year in effect that alio democratic party and its leaders were the solo and only sate guardians of the constitution and laws should bear in mind that their interests inte reits are now invaded and a statute of the united states demolished by grover cleveland simply because he happens not to be in sympathy with tho purpose of the law the other one of these two particular afflictions resulting from abo democratic victory is the partial suspension of silver purchases not content with or derins congress to meet and repeal the law made mandatory the purchase of ounces of silver monthly mr cleveland in the meantime and pending the action of the congress which ho had convened in extraordinary tra session determined to anticipate the proposed repeal and his secretary of the treasury has wilfully and inexcusably failed to comply with the law the effect of his crime is noticeable upon the mining industry of utah and surrounding states that was already lad hag been made much worse by the administration for our part we believe that the suspension of purchases was for tho purpose of keepin g the arico depressed in order to aid mr warfare upon silver how can the people of utah who esteem obedience to law and who value their own prosperity give further support to a party which cruelly and flagrantly assails the western welfare and which to reach that evil result overturns the plain laws of the land |
