The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-23


national silver convention closed this
evening. At the morning session brief
speeches were made on the question,
What is the proper remedy and how
may it best be applied?"
President Johnson, of the bimetallic
league of Kansas, was the first speaker.
Among other things he said: 1.-THE
silver age is upon us. Ireland holds
the key to all values in gold. The re-
peal of the Sherman act was the death
of silver in this country and gold
bullion value depreciates values de-
pending upon free coinage. The end
of the fight may be the death ring Of
gold.
THE international conspiracy seems
to have been at work to reduce silver
far below it's value. Any changes in
the relative values between silver and
gold is treason on the part Of Congress.
The conspiracy on the part of capital
has given us the mortgages today
amounting to $3,5OOOOO,OOO payable only
in gold"
Among the radical statements which
Mr.. Johnson made and which was
loudly applauded was that Grover
Cleveland is a greater traitor to our
government than was Jeff Davis.
Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota,
| made a brief address in which he said:
"The characterization of silver was a
colossal conspiracy and crime, the
greatest ever perpetrated against the
human family. 1t is demoniac'
Mr. Donnelly said he wished the
7 ord would jntarfnra moro frau1af1tr
with the schemes of men. With a
few we'll selected thunderbolts he
thought some good could be done in
| Washington. Humanity stands today
| with lot of Internal bankers on it's
neck. Those bankers were the lineal
descendants of those Christ had driven
out of the temple. They were using
| destroy liberty in this country. The
| founders of the government would
blush if they could see the present
state of affairs. and if they could APP
pear they would go at once for their
uniforms and muskets
| He urged all to proceed on consti-
tutional lines. The two old parties
were responsible for the fearful condi-
ton of the country. He warned the
! free silver" There were traitors in
the ranks. We should never trust a
man who has put the knife into us
F. Bray, eX-Speaker of the Montana
legislature, spoke for the west, and
said the rights of a populous west jus.
titled the prophecy the capital would
yet be in the west.
E. $. King, of Kansas City, was
then introduced He went into the
small parts of the matter of demone
tizing, saying it was well for the peo
pie of the north and south and vest
opposed to the east, to get together tt
come here and study their own inter
est.
At the afternoon session, P. G.. Bow
man, of Alabama, said: 1T occurs tt
me that here is a way that we car
again establish free coinage in this
country. | am convinced by what
see that there is a commonalty Of inter
est between the people of Iowa anC
Ifhose of Alabama. Their legisla tior
affects agriculturists in the grea
northwest in the same way as it affect!
the cotton growers of the southwest
and we come here today to make will
the people of the north a covenant a.
jstrong on the question of free coinag,
as that made by God with Abraham.
The next speaker was Attorney Gen
eral Standish, of North Dakota, wht
urged free silver
The league, before adjourning, passed
the following resolution:
Whereas. The terrible condition
which now exists in our country i
due to the crime of demonetizing sill
yer. which has increased the purchas
ing power of gold, decreased the valu
of all commodities, closed our mines
shops and factories and bankrupte,
our business men; and
Whereas. Three-fourths of the PEG
pie of this country are in favor of tn
full reconciliation of silver, and op
posed to single gold standard, and
Whereas, Silver was stricken dow,
by fraud through the gold, conspirator
: in the old political parties, notwith
standing the pledges of both nationa
platforms to the contrary, therefore, b
it
Resolved, That we recommend tina
the nomina tons from the several dis
! tricts should be made by the friends c
free silver, who are unequivocally i
favor of the unrestricted coinage G
silver and gold on the basis of 16 to
: and whose past acts are the bes
guaranty of their good faith, and VIII
, will stand on the resolutions adopte
by this convention; and that the sal
nominations be made either by polit
cal organizations who are known t
be positively in favor of free silver c
by Independent assemblages of men {
all parties, the candidates bein
! pledged, if elected, in case the electio
of the president of the United State
: is thrown into the House of Represer
tatives, they will vote for such cand
dates as are known to be earnestly j
; favor of free coinage.
THE SEIGNIORAGE RITI