The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-22

the secretary was unavoidably detained, /
would be necessary to appoint someone tt
act in his place. Fred Simon was chosen
The chairman then handed the following
communications to the secretary, which
were read:
PRED. sIMoN's ADDRESS.
When during our last Presidential campaign
our present secretary OF state flashed across the
ocean the word protection" as the war cry, ant
made that word the issue which decided the
victory for the Republican party, II was also
understood that the word protection was moi
to be hollow sound, nor that one part OF our
country was TO be protected at the expense OF
another part thereof.
The issue meant protection alike to east and
west, and north and south. II meant protec
ton 10 all industries, and especially for those
industries which, while yet in their infancy,
required the fostering care of wise and careful
government.
Early in the campaign it became already
manifest that The eastern states, While demand.
ing pro lection for all that concerned their vel
fare, cared very little for the interests OF the
western states and territories, and were ready
TO sacrifice them at the slightest opportunity
given
Mr. Joseph D. Weeks general secretary of
the American Protective League, addressed
communications requesting articles which
dwelt upon the subject OF protection, and when
an article was sent, which requested that our
lead and silver industries should be protected,
and that plank should be inserted in the plat
form Of The Republican party TO protect these
Industries from all encroachments, the secretary
in letter stated that it would not be wise to
bring this issue before the people in the east
for fear that il might create dissension in their
own ranks.
Who these people in the east were was easily
30 be deciphered between the lines. A few
bankers on Wall street, whose interests were
connected with some English banks, shaped the
policy, and arc to-day continuing that very same
policy.
The east demands protection from the compe-
tition Of English labor and that protection is
readily granted although its resources have
been developed Tor generations past.
The west, yet in its infancy, demands protec-
ton from the Peon labor of Mexico, and is an
swered by such rulings as were made by our
ex-secretary AMI present secretary OF the trea-
sury.
England requires annually about forty FIVE
millions of dollars in silver for its India posses
sions and purchases this precious product at
such price as it sees 1T to set upon it.
Were there twenty Ontario mines in England
and were we consumers Of silver, instead OF pro
ducers, how long would it be ere the price of
silver would advance 20 Sl.l5 or even TO sl.2s
per or! viii not our farmers in the east begin
TO realize that the prices OF their products fell
in the same proportion as silver declined in
value from year TO year? In the same manner
our miners are compelled TO compete with
the peon labor of Mexico, so are they now com
PEELED TO compete with the starving farm labor
of India; people who have reduced existence
20 science, by finding out after years andy years
OF starvation how much of actual food there is
required to sustain life for q certain number OF
years.
Do you for one moment think that England
has any more love for US today than it had
century ago! when under its maternal care she
tried to make us drink her tea against our own
sweet will; telling US, that il was absolutely ne
eessary for our good and :or our health to
drink it.
Does it look reasonable that any policy which
England advocates should be followed by this
natlonf Is 1t not far more reasonable to sup
pose that England still tries to get its pay for
the ship load of tea thrown into the Boston
harbor hundred years ago and to which it has
added usurer'S interest "A thouSandfold?
The west, with patriotic patience, has waited
for the redress of its grievances; but there
comes a time when fOrb earanae ce lSeS TO be
virtue, and sef-DreServatiOn becomes a first law
in nature, and that time is quickly approaching
One OF our western states, which for years
produced the means that kept this country dur
ing the late war from the verge or bankrupt cy,
has by the graSpng greed OF mOnopOliZ!ng cor
poratlons, allowing It's vitality and wealth TO
become exhausted
The other states and territories will profit by
Its experience. They will first protest against
the criminal policy pursued by our present gov
eminent and when protests prove OF no avail,
they will find means to protect their interests
and their existence by placing government in
control which will not apply protection 70 any
certain part Of our country, nor allow itself to
be guided in its policy by handful OF Wall
street bankers, who i'll their turn are controlle
by English gold.
THE COMMITTEE ON SILVER,
through its chairman, Judge Goodwin, sub
mitted the following, and it was unani-
mously adopted:
The men Of the silver states and territories
representing every industry OF those states and
territories, and speaking for the best interests
OF the whole republic, dc hereby
Resolve THAT the characterization OF silver
was q violation the part OF Congress OF
every contract that then existed in the United
States.
= hat the execution OF the law has entailed
ulcounted losses, reducing the value Of all pro-
ducts Of the land and OF the land itself more
than thirty per cent and that its effect is prac-
tically, to make debts perpetual as it, to all
producers, takes from the debtor the capacity
to pay.
s. That it has caused a contraction that has
reduced values until there is no profit left to the
farmer and other men OF small capital who de
pend upon the sale of their products for return
for their labor and capital
4-That the Bland law is not being executed
according to the plain intention OF Congress,
inasmuch VIII lie the people are clamoring for
more morev, tine treasury refuses to coin one
dollar in excess OF the minimum required by
law.
5-Thst we demand of Congress the imme-
date rebeal ofthe law OF 1873 which demOne-
tiled silver OF the Bland law, and insist upon
the free coinage Of silver, that the speculation
in silver by the government shall cease, and that
silver shall be restored to its old position be-
side that OF gold even as when the fathers in
OF the country, and the first Congress Of the
repubiic dacreed that the unit OF values should
be the 412h grain silver dollar.
6-That untll Congress SHAH re-enact the law
that governed during the first eighty years OF the
republic we demand the full coinage Of four
millions OF silver dollars monthly, so long rs the
people cheerfully and eagerly accept silver Ger
tifcates issued on that coin
THAT we believe the certificate Of the gov
eminent, backed dollar for dollar by % $40
grains OF gold or 4l2A grains OF silver on dc
post in the treasury Of the country IS the
money OF civilization, and that so fast as the
mines OF the west can provide, this form OF
money shall supercede all others.
SHAT we believe in equal rights for gold and
silver and the free coinage of both.
q-That we believe no nation ever had or ever
will have too much gold and silver coin; thai
we believe silver and gold coin or their perfect
representatives, gold and silver certificates,
make the safest and soundest money ever In
vented by men.
1O-That the abundance or scarcity OF money
can Only be rated by what of the products OF or
binary toll it requires to purchase il. and 50
rated the present contraction is appalling.
l1-That considering the contraction caused
by the surrender of national bank notes during
the past three years. and the tremendous sums
that must be called in in the form Of govern
laent bonds during he next three years. the ne
cessity of restoring silver 5 as ma il st as is
the Justice of such policy.
Ig-,fhe treasures Of the west, pouring in
steady stream upon the east for forty years, have
electrified and vitaliZed every form of business
there: they steadied and upheld the credit OF
the nation through the great war; they made re-
sumption and the equalization OF values posi-.
BILE after the war, and what we demand now is
as much more to the interest OF the east than OF
the west as the productions OF the east exceed
ours in value.
l3-We implore the representatives of the
western states and territories, without regard to
rarty, TO enter no caucus, 10 commit themselves