The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-25

Several hundred of the workingmen of
Salt Lake and some of the women inter-
ested in their welfare, assembled Oh the
Wasatch corner last evening to take part
In the labor demonstration in favor of
'tUnionism and Silver.'' The meeting
began at 1880, being called to order by
PRESIDENT FRANKS
OF the Federated Trades, who made a
speech from carriage drawn up III front
of the curb. He said labor has been kept
long enough in the background by those
who desire to use the arms md sinews of
the laDoring men as {. commodity;
and it has now become time for them to
step forward and secure their natural
rights. Let them demand them in such
way that a response will come that Will
make US what we should be. He then in
PRODUCED
Z. NJ. ROBERTS,
representative of the Denver & Rio
Grande workingmen, who spoke for some
few minutes on the dark clouds that now
hang over the land, and blamed the cap
italists for the distress now being expert
enced by the people. He advised the
Workingmen to throw off the CALLING yoke
nifty.
After music by the Denhalter band,
JAMES TERRY
was introduced as a representative of the
cooks and walters union. He confined
his remarks chiefly to the Chinese cues
ton. The Chinese, he said are every
day usurping the places of white men be-
cause they can work for starvation wages,
and il is now time that the laboring men
rose up against them or they will find
themselves driven out of some fields
of labor. Any place which will
employ q Chinaman should be boyeotted
with the utmost rigor. Jim Hegney, at
the Rio Grande hotel, who can procure
any man employment On the public
works by giving him a note ferries of
THAT'S right'' and laughter used to
employ Cinnamon and will do so again if
he gets chance. The Morgan and st.
Elmo hotels employ Cinnamon; and all
this while white men are starving for
want of employment. The workingmen
should hunt out every place which en-
pioys q Chinaman, and when he finds
such a place, refuse it his patron
age thereafter. Then the man who
runs it will soon Ill the loss in his
pocketbook and will be glad to let the
yellow workers go. When all avenues
OF labor are closed, the Chinese will be
forced to leave the country and will thus
give rs relief.
The following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:
Whereas, As was proved by our experis
ence during the civil war and subsequent
", when gold was two hundred and two
hundred and fifty, the wage Garner and
worker prospers when money : cheap
and suffers when money is dear.
Whereas, A century ago it was enacted
by Congress and expressly ratified in due
form of law by the legislatures of all the
thirteen original states that the money Of
account of the United States and each
and every state thereof in which all pub
lie accounts should be kept and all iudg-
ments rendered was and should be the
dollar or unit containing 371z grains OF
pure silver; and
Whereas, There is not now extant, and
never has been, any law of the United
States expressly repeating this enactment;
and
Whereas, Anything requiring as this
did, the express ratification of all the
states TO give it full force, validity and ef-
feet, can only be repealed by the express
sanction of three-fourths of the states of
this Union, and no such sanction hath
never been obtained.
Wherefore the money of account of the
United States and each and every state
thereof is now and always has been the
dollar or unit containing 371H grains OF
pure silver each.
Whereas, By the express provisions OF
the Constitution, all power and authority
relative to the tender of coined money in
the satisfaction of debts is reserved TO the
states.
Wherefore all acts of Congress limiting
the amount of silver coin which might be
lawfully rendered at any one time in sat-
isfaction of debt
ARE WHOLLY VOID
and of no effect, and tender of silver
coin in any and all amounts is now, and
always has been, good and sufficient
tender in law; and
Whereas, The power and authority
vested in Congress to coin money was not
an absolute donation of such power anC
authority in fee simple, but a grant
thereof upon trusts, some whereof are the
following, towit.
First-To administer the said power fol
the best good of the whole people Of the
United Stated, and not some part thereof
Second-To preserve and secure to each
and every state of the Union, whether
they be now admitted or hereafter NAV
b. any possibility be admitted. all the
rights, privileges and authority which
the original states possessed after they
had Joined the Union, and
ThIrd-To administer and execute the
power and authority delegated so as to in
no wise affect, injure or impair any right
lawfully and properly belonging Or ap-
pertaining to any state or individual citi-
zen.
Wherefore, Any act of Congress limit
ing or restricting the full, free and un-
limited coinage of both the precious
metals, gold and silver, or either Of
them. is contrary to the full and true in
tent and meaning of the trusts aforesaid
and therefore void and of no effect; and
Whereas, 1t hath at sundry and divers
times been attempted, with greater OF
less success, to unlawfully discriminate
against the full, free and untrammelec
use of the silver coins OF the United
States, and give to them an enhanced
and fictitious value as tokens to that
which they intrinsically possess as coin
"a the end that the debtor class in thi.
country should be impoverished and tn,
creditor class enriched, all of which is
contrary to the constitution OF the United
States, or any free country; and
Whereas, In consequence of such abuse
and unlawful practices the wage-earner
- and workers are oppressed and impover
& ished because, while they may and posi-
bly, do receive
a GREATER DAILY WAGE,
if the intrinsic value thereof be alone re
garded, yet nevertheless because they ar
unable 70 obtain for them and all of then
continued daily employment at sucl
wages the intrinsic value of their annua
: earning is greatly diminished; and
Whereas, In consequence of such abuse
and unlawful practices the riches Of thos
whose capital is invested in coin or il
evidences is by reason of the artificial,