The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-25
Party of the People.

Our party is the party of the people,
not because it is drifted hither and thlth-
er by every wave of popular excitement
and misconceptions, but because while II
tests every proposition by the doctrines
that all interests should be defended in
the administration of the government
without especial favor or discrimination.
Our party is the party OF the people,
because in its care for the welfare OF all
our countrymen it resists dangerous
schemes born of discomfort, advocated by
appeals to sectional or class preJudices,
and reinforced by their insidiouS acts or
private selfishness and cupidity.
above all, our party is the party OF
the people when it recognizes the fact
the life of our country's strength and
prosperity and when it teaches that none
of our fellow-citizens, rich or poor, can
escape the consequences of degenera-
ton of our currency.
Democratic care and conservatism die
tate that il there exists inconvenience and
imperfect distribution OF our circulating
medium, a remedy should be applied
which will avoid the disaster that must
follow in the trail of silver monometal-
lism.''
Letters of regret were also received
from Secretary Lamont, Postmaster Cen
eral Wilson and others.
Hill Receives an Ovation.
Toastmaster Brown introduced Senator
Hill as the Democrat who stands for all
.
tiles"
The senator was accorded perfect ova-
ton as he rose to speak TO the toast,
Democracy"
Senator Hill said in part: 1.-THE most
important recent event in our national
affairs is the decision by the supreme
court that a federal tax on rents or the
income on personal property, laid by the
last Congress is the direct tax and must
be apportioned among the states accord
ing 10 the census For that event We
Shol111 PnnQraTnlatQ ourselves and render
hearty thanks.
Referring to the silver question. the
senator said: Il am not in the councils
of the gold monometallistS, but if l were
L would suggest that they are preJudiced
against the cause of sound and safe cur
rency at this moment by nagging over
false and immaterial subjects as whether
under the coinage law of 1l92 the silver
dollar was the unit of value.
IF New York can be carried by the
Democrats this fall it can be carried IN
1886 and with it the country and the presi-
dency. Another defeat here forbodes ma
tional disaster"
Sound Money and Democracy.
Comptroller of the Currency James H. |
Eckles spoke to the toast Sound Money
a Fundamental Principle OF True Democ-
After referring briefly to the justice and
eXpedlency of a free press, and speaking |
which the Democratic party stands, Mr..
IickleS turned to the financial question
of the day. Sound money, he declared |
to be a fundamental principle OF true
Democracy. Referring TO the attitude of |
President Cleveland, the speaker asserted !
that the signs of returning prosperity |
demonstrated the wisdom OF the govern |
ment S recent acts, and the confidence of |
the people in the adnllniStra ton. He |
argued that the future fortune of the !
Democratic party demanded that 1t should |
avert all sham and illusion in dealing |
with the money question. He said IN |
part:
am sure Democrats bent upon advanc- I
ing their party's interest and the coun-
try'S prosperity can do no better service |
than the present objections from dis |
tnctiveiy Democratc standponit 10 tne
position which the advocate of free coin
age of silver, as it is now presented, would |
commit the party.
Due to Miners.
'The gravest indictment Democrats pre- |
scented against the protectionists was that |
they were aiding ana abettlng class legis- |
lation in maintaining protective tariff |
laws upon the statute books, yet the at |
tempt IS now being made to place the |
Democrats in the position of advocating
for the politics there is in 1t legislation |
that is as distinctly class legislation as |
the most extreme measure ever conceived |
by the warmest adherent of protection.
81 do not OVerState when l say the |
present agitation of the free coinage OF
silver is due in the first instance to the |
class, who are complain
ing that their mining interests are ldIl-
gushing, claim it to be the duty of the
government to revive them by affording
a market for all the silver bullion they
can deposit at the minis. and to make
them more profitable by coming for them
free of charge all such bullion into dol
lars containg less than one dollars
worth of metal endowed with full legal
tender properties.
IAN attempt is made to disown any such
claim, by pleading that silver is wrong
fully disseminated against. that the
amount of our circulating medium is too |
small per capita, and that the country is
in financial distress by reason thereof,
though the circulation per capita is great
er now than at any time in the country's
made so largely by the coinage
since 1878 of 423, 127, $50 silver dollars, but
under this pretext is to be found the real
reason, and that the promotion of the sill
yer interests by legislative enactment.
Display of Ignorance.
'If there be doubt as to the truth of
this charge, let an examination be made
to those who i'll the first instance promot-
ed the movement to have silver made a