The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-14
SILVER AND FINANCE.
Judge Goodwin's Lecture Before the
University Students.

Judge Goodwin's Lecture Before the
University Students
One fault of Judge Goodwin lecture
before the students of the Utah university
last evening was its title, s'The Silver
and Finance Questions of the Day. -
Under that caption one would expect an
endless array of figures, minute and
necessarily dry dissertation on political
economy with at least passing reference
to the tariff question; but these features
were absent from the judges address.
The lecture was series of word paint
ings of Arcadian scenes replete with poet
ical ideas and suggestions, passing ike a
panorama before the minds eye and fall
ing pleasantly on the ear like Tenny-
sonian poem.
The first half OF the discourse was de-
voted to 1.-THE majesty of the mineral
kingdom The kernels under this head
ing were, that the metals are the origin of
all the comforts and happiness enjoyed by
civilized man; that this age is the metal
lie age; that in proportion to the amount
of money in circulation civilization adj
vances or recedes. The speaker said that
since the demonstration OF silver
farm lands and farm products
had fallen 40 per cent. In this country
the depreciating process was still going
on. The rich were becoming immensely
rich and the poor exceedingly poor.
AgriculturIsts were unable to sell their
produce for enough money to paw the
interest on their mortgaged farms. The
Insurer was sapping their Vitals and happy
and prosperous homes were either broken
up or made the most miserable instead
of the happiest and most loved places on
earth. The sons and daughters of the
farmers were forced to leave the old home
and earn their bread not by honest and
honorable toll, but by their wits.
Nations always declined when the cir
culating medium was contracted. There
was not enough gold in the world to con-
duct the business of the world The
waste by abrasion was SO great that the
quantity of gold in circulation was kept
down. In transmitting a million dollars
to Europe the loss by abrasion amounted
to S16. Remonetize silver, increase the
circulating medium, and happiness and
prosperity will follow.
The second half of the discourse was
devoted to 1.-THE Training of Children -
The speaker showed the dangers which
q people had to fear in this metallic age.
When rich men had arms of steel to work
for them instead of their arms of flesh
they were liable to seize the poor
their hearts often became hard
like the metal they use. Youth
should be taught to advance itself by its
own efforts by honest and honorable toll.
This western country enjoyed climatic
and other conditions favorable for pro-
dncing a race as brave and as beautiful as
the classic Grecians ever were, but there
was danger in the mild and kindly skies,
causing relaxation and too much love of
ease. Ia a country where the girls can
swim better than they can skate. there is
always a little bit of danger. Everything
in this age had metallic ring about it,
and the men of the west must be taught
to rely on their own strong arms, and
they will not then fail in honor or duty
when called upon.
The attendance of students and the
public was large. A vote of thanks was
unanimously rendered the judge at the
conclusion of the lecture.
Nineteen million ssGrand Republic''