The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-09

would have done likewise, If its principal
use had been taken away from it.
''Ihis demonstration was in bad faith to
the debtor class, but now when its reno
netization is urged, the money gods hold
up their hands IN holy horror at the bad
! faith it Won1d be to the credit class.
The bones OF orphans and widows
may be laid away in premature graves by
an act that increases their burthen till
they perish under the load, but to reverse
that wrong is an act of injustice to the
ca pltalist whose contract is now payable
in gold.
HWheat, when silver was coined free,
ilko gold is now, was worth $1.5O a
bushel; now it is worth fifty cents per
bushel, and money is so valuable that it
will buy from two to three times as much
as it formerly did. The producing Sec
lions of the United States are reduced to
the cost OF production, with no revenue
returning as remuneration for our toll.
Money, the blood of commerce, flows
sluggishly through the veins of trade,
and the coil is tightening around US, as
silver drops and the value of all other
commodities goes down with it.
"There are Z .0O0 empty houses in San
Francisco. Half of the business houses
in Seattle and Tacoma are empty, and the
fate OF Nevada will be the fate of Utah
unless this vampire is stayed in his
course. Our citizens are becoming bank
rupts, and the energy and toll OF our
young men fail to crown their hopes with
success.
eve are told that Europe will flood us
with their silver if we restore it to its
time honored function, enjoyed since the
birth OF Christ till 1873, as if too much
money would hurt us more than it would
help, and as if the same governmental
hand that makes our money could not by
a prohlbitory tariff prevent any foreign
silver coming to us, If this step was ex-
pedient.
''They tell us that silver is mined in the
west at q cost of thirty cents to the
ounce, when we know that the average is
over 81 an ounce, and that the instinct
for sudden wealth that comes to the few
only spurs on an army of prospectors,
who are now turning their sullen steps
toward the pillow share and the pruning
hook.
"Silver does not rust, it is stainless,
odorless and / as the same ring as gold.
1t is found in uneven and uncertain veins
and pockets. 1t is in no sense different
from gold except in color. In its virgin
purity and spotlesS color, side by side
with gold, it served the world from the
beginning of civilization till assassinated
| in the capitals of the world like Caesar
fell, stabbed in the back in the capitol of
Rome, who would have bequeathed his
riches to the people he had served.
'fPiracy does not thrive upon the high
seas. The peoples rights are not now
trampled upon with the indignity that
preceded the nineteenth century, but by
cunning indirection that is as murderous
in its purpose. Arsenic and morphine
are substituted for the bludgeon and the
cell.
ssAgainst these wrongs and outrages we
do protest. twenty-five states and terri
tories will have their leading men in this
city at the Trans Mississippi congress,
and while they, too, feel the burthen that
is on our shoulders, it is time of doubt
and uncertainty-our own ranks are not
too confident and strc ng-the deadly
poison of public patronage is doing its
work. Our enemy in Wall street raises
his sinuous head and is ready to strike
again and again. By the Intelligence of
the American people, with western men to
lead, the battle must be fought and won.
''Then rally here at Ogden on the oath
inst, and join in the loud acclaim. In
spire our western leaders with the inSpi-
ration that comes from the knowledge
that the people follow. There is no ques-
ton but in this throng of leaders there
will be future president. Let him here
be made strong in the sentiments of free
dom, and the rights of mankind, that
finds its greatest boon in a just and popu-
~.
tions OF personal convenience, and assem-
BILE en- masse. Let there be one unani-
nous cry, and to the tramp OF foot and
the sound of music, let the slogan be
| 'tSilver - s'Silver, ~ 'fSilver, y until the
voice of the Trans Mississippi congress
shall be heard throughout the boundaries
of the civilized world.
"a. B. PATTON,
president Chamber of Commerce. y"
MAYORS HEARD FROM.
| Among the letters received at the COM
mittee's rooms of the Trans Mississippi
congress yesterday was one from Mayor
Charles II. Burritt, of Buffalo, Wyoming,
saying he will attend. And in this con-
nection the chairman of the committee
wishes to say that mayors do not need
credentials. They should report to him
and his certificate admits them to the
congress as delegates.
| for ''unusual energy being employed for
the advancement OF the good cause"
The work OF the committee is the
most thorough that has ever been
done for one of the sessions of
the Trans Mississippi congress, and
letters and kilograms continue to
| go out. Here at the heart of the move
ment an intensely patriotic sentiment ex-
ists in behalf of the west.
GREETING TO NEW ORLEANS.
The following telegram was sent today
to New Orleans:
OGDEN, April 9Th.
ITO the Mayor and Commercial Bodies of New
| Orleans:
"Ogden sends greeting to New Orleans.
The great city at the mouth of the Miss
issippi river needs the friendly aid of the
other twenty-one trans Mississippi states
and territories. We cordially welcome
your delegation. r. LUNDY, Mayor.
A. B. PATTON, President Chamber OF
Commerce.
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