The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-06


the hunfbleSt citizen as entitled to as
much consideration as the most ele-
waited THE only thing that has cast
a shadow over the Democracy in the
last three years is the fact that some
of the Democrats have departed from
the support of the principles of their
fathers and have tried TO galvanize
eastern Republicanism with Demo-
cratic name" (Cheers9 j.a
There is a great work before the
Democratic party 1t must make a
government of the people, for the
people and by the people in the sense
that it was intended by our fore
fathers. We have just passed through
a Congress, much abused but having
much to its credit. When history
comes to be written it will be seen
that it will be entitled to be ranked
as one of the most important Con-
crosses that ever met. 1t has placed
the issues properly before the people.
Have Wanted Harmony.
81 believe in the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold, at a
ratio of Is to /, without regard to the
action of any other nation on the face
of the earth. (Cheers.) [ think the
money question is the paramount is
sue. We must recognize it as the is
sue on which the presidential election
of 1896 will turn" Those who have up
held the cause of silver have been
slower to act than their opponents.
They have been too conservative. The
gold men for years have insisted upon
making a mans belief in silver test
in the Democratic party, and the sill
yer men have held back from doing
battle because they wanted harmony.
They have not lacked in desire to
support silver. The free coinage of
both gold and silver has been a doc
trine of the Democratic party ever
since its foundation. The platform of
1892 declares for the coinage of both
gold and silver.
No party has ever dared to go be-
fore the people of this country with a
platform declaring for gold. Yet the
silver men are accused of breaking
insist upon the precedents that have
been set for over a century. 1T
reminds me of little story.
A boy was once told by his mother
| to stop pulling the cats tail. He lock-
ed up innocently and replied, Why
! I'm not pulling the tail. I'm just
| holding it and the cats doing the pull
! ing The gold men say we are doing
all the pulling" daughter and cheers.)
The Silver Craze.
In the speakers state the silver
| Democrats have been asked to defer
| their claims for fear Of disturbing the
! harmony of the party. Eastern con-
ventions ask for what they want II
very plain terms. Western conventions
must do the same. Because man Is
born in the mountains it is nothing tt
his discredit. Yet we who advocate
the cause of silver must meet the mos
profound contempt. One writer o.
goldbug literature said to the speaker
that the next thing would be to en-
franchise the jack rabbits, as they
would be as sensible as the average
silver voter They have the swee
condescension to call us lunatics."
The eastern leaders and press say
that the silver craze is blowing over
Perhaps so. But out in that belt WHERE
the wind blows very strongly ant
sweeps everything in sight, an ole
farmer was once building very broad
stone wall. A neighbor came to hin
and said:
Spending a good deal of time owe
that fence, amt you2" 80
Yes" was the answer, shut II CUES
it's all right. You see this fence i
four feet high and five thick Now i
a cyclone blows it over, it'll be just on
foot higher"
When the gold men have blown owe
the silver craze they will find it is jus
foot higher than it was
The New Yellow Fever.
They tell you that free silver is !;
disease. A man in Wisconsin said tina
to me and asked if l was old enough, t
have experienced what was called tn
greenback disease in early days.
told him ] had never experienced that
and asked him in turn if he had ex
perienced the new yellow fever. H
asked me what that wasJcand | toll
him it was a product of recent years
The old yellow fever killed the ma,
who had it. The new yellow feve
kills the man that does not have it.
daughter and cheers.)
Take a farmer today. Let him soy
his crop work hard all summer, pa
all his necessary expenses and he ha
not much left. Yet a broker can g
down into Wall street and by man
ipulation of those crops can make NOR
in one morning than the farmer make
in a season. Then he adds to this tt
supreme presumption that he shout
legislate for the producers. In a re
cent speech Bismarck said Farmer
must stand together and protect them
selves from the drones, who do moth
ing but produce laws"
PIow of Legislation.
1t is the producers of the countr
who make it what it is. The man VIII
handles the plow makes the wealt
of the country. He is its only dc
Tense in time of war. He must bar
his breast to save his country. Yt
the man who does nothing to help hi
country can guide the legislative plo'
and make much more than the fal
mer. 1T is the business of the Den
!. ocratic party to see that the pillow
run so that the people will harvest tn
crop" Jackson said there are no nece:
sary evils in government. Jefferso
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