The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-15


money is a sovereign right to be exer-
cised by the government only, and can
not with safety be delegated to bankers
or corporations of any kind. The great
est blessing a free government can con-
fer on its citizens is to provide them
with sufficient supply OF legal tender,
debt paying money, to serve as a me.
dunn of exchange for the products OF
labor and the payment OF taxes.
We re-affirm and endorse the platform
adopted at our last national convention
at Omaha.
We are unalterably opposed to the is
suing of interest bearing bonds, ana we
condemn the recent action of the Demo-
cratic administration in its Illuminating
surrender to the Rothschilds and other
bankers, of our financial Independence,
by secret contract, the infamy OF
which is without parallel in our ma
We demand that the secretary of the
treasury shall cease issuing. bonds to
obtain gold with which to redeem treas
ury notes, but shall exercise the option
givn by law, to use silver or gold IN
making such redemption.
We demand that Congress make it an
lawful for any note, bona or mortgage
or any obligation to stipGlate for pay
ment IN gold only, or in any other par
ticular kind of legal tender money.
We call the attention of the voters OF
Utah (Who wish to vote for their ola
parties once more) to the financial leg
in which the leading men OF poth GU
political parties have united in carrying
out the wishes of the bondholders ana
bankers of this country and Europe, III
contracting our legal tender currency
into interest bearing bonds, destroying
silver as debt paying money and FORCING
the debtor and producing classes TO tte
payment of their obligations IN golu'
which has been the direct cause OF imam
cial panics and the concentrating OF the
wealth of the nation into the hands OF
the favored few, and making paupers oI
millions of American citizens. ANA now
at this particular crisis, when the peo-
pie are being despo.led of their properly
on account of the insufficiency OF money
to pay interest and debts, the Demo
cratic and Republican parties are 81
lent as to the issuing OF legal tenq lei
paper money by the government to re-
leve the peoples necessities; but they
demand in some of their state party
platforms the free coinage, OF SILVER,
which they well know VIII not pc pc
granted by their national parties, the
enemies of silver and the cause of its
restricted use as money.
On the other hand we point to the
Peoples party platforms, national and
declaring for the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1, without consulting the wishes
of any other nation, and the issuing. by
the government of legal tender, deot
paving currency in sufficient quantities
to meet the demands of business ana
give work to the unemployed millions
of people, who are in want and strus-
Cling to keep their little property ana
homes from being conhScateo py the
creditor classes.
Favor Protection.
We demand the protection that, viii
give the American people financial pol
icy of their own, so broad ana hperai
that they can preserve their farms and
homes from the merciless exactions OF
interest gatherers.
We demand protection that VIII pro
tect the national treasury from the con
troll and rapacity of home and foreign
bankers.
We demand protection for silver, our
which is now regulated by European
money changers, who restrict our volume
OF money and thereby cut down the prlce
of cotton, wheat and other staple pro-
ducts. we export from Europe. .,o,,o,
millions of American citizens. who are
for the necessities of life,
through the enforced competition OF the
rauper labor, of Europe and Asia: ~
We demand i protection from the office
seeking politicians. who have controlled
our legislation for the last twenty-five
years for the snoils of Office and in the
interest of monied corporations and mo-
nopolies.
And lastly we demand protection for the
great producing and CONSUMING classes
of this country as we'll as Tor the manu-
woman's Suffrage.
We congratulate the women of Utah on
the bright prospect of acquiring the fran
chise, and thereby becoming the political
equal of men, believing as we do that
if they avoid the present corrupt methods
IF the old political parties, their refining
influence and sense of justice, VIII be-
t,lxr ll0 IL
ot to its original purity and in accord |
with the high purpose of the founders
OF our republic.
State Government.
While favoring state government for
Utah, we recognize the faults of the pro-
posed constitution, and trust to the ma
terial Judgment of the voters OF the new
slate to remedy in the future such de-
fectS as may exist.
We favor direct legislation by the mi
tiative, referendum and imperative man
date.
The magnitude OF this contest is SO por-
tentious to the liberties of the American |
beople and the enemy SO firmly entrench- I
I'd, that we invite the assistance of those
y no believe in more money and less mis-
cry and in the free and unlimited coinage
1f silver to co-operate with Us, whether
-hey agree with us or rot in all our other |
demands. those who are sincere in their
Wish to end the reign of monopo]es ana
corruption which have brought our once I
happy and prosperous people to the
verge of ruin.
Warren Foster objected to the term
protected monopolies" in the first |
paragraph because it brought up the
ariff question Now there is no differ
nee in the Democratic and Republt- !
an parties on tariff, except in the size |
f the dose He moved to strike out I
he word protected" wherever it DC
urred.
ng with alarm and pointing with
ride" which was laid on the table.
ffered withdrawing the veto power
wherever it existed but he changed his
1ind when informed that it was AL
eady provided for.
A Debs resolution was killed and the
latform as read was adopted.
Lawrence Nominated.
A lady delegate nominated Henry w.
lawrence, cutting Captain Snyder out
f a. chance to make a nominating
peech. He got there in a second
owever. together with some thirty
Their people, including the Weber
ounty delega ton, Captain Bailey,
George Shell and a man from Davis
ounty. Shell set 'em afire by saying
nat Lawrence was known from the
,e foes of Bear river to the water
lelon patches of ST George; from the
-intah reservation to Skull valley;
ON Promontory to Kanab; from Para
oontah to Fish Springs. George de-
Lred that Henry would be elected.
Henry was nominated by acclama-
on.
The rules were then suspended while
autain SNYDER captured the candidate