The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-22
THE SALT LAKE HERALDy TUESDAY. OCTOBER %, 1895.
pies party ticket, an answer to the fol-


and unlimited coinage of gold and sill
YER at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.
and restoring the silver dollar as the
unit of our money system, making it
full legal tender in the payment of all
debts, regardless of party or the views
of other nations, who do not consult
us as to the financial policy they adopt
for their respective governments.
Answer to second question.
do not. The present amount of
money per capita in this country is not
sufficient for the people to pay their
debts. meet the demands of business
and the employment of labor at re-
munerative wages; but just enough for
the creditor class to confiscate the peo-
pies property and enslave the indus
trial masses. The volume of money
should be speedily increased by the
free coinage of all the gold and silver
we can produce in this country, and
the issuing by the government of legal
tender treasury notes ITO make UP the
per capita to at least $50 and then in
crease the circulation as the population
and business demands.
Answer to third question.
am opposed regardless of parity
to the government calling in the green
backs and Sherman treasury notes and
issuing interest bearing bonds. The
power to coin and issue money is
sovereign right of government; it was
exercised by our own American colo
MES respectively, before the declara-
ton of independence, and the adoption
of the constitution. On entering into
the Union of states, they gave up and
delegated their authority, to coin and
issue money. to the general government
for the public good. Money being
creation of law, a medium to exchange
the products of labor, pay debts and
taxes and a measure of the peoples
values, the right to issue and control
the distribution of money, should never
be surrendered to greedy. private cor
porationS, that they may be able to
take advantage of the peoples necessi-
ties, but should ever remain in the
hands of the government the agent of
the people To restrict the coinage and
issue of money i'm the interest of the
creditor class (as has been done) and
then allow the enforcement of law
against the debtor, to despoil him OF
his property when he is powerless to
get money to pay his debts, is the most
cruel and inhuman act that can be
perpetrated by representative govern
ment.
Answer to fourth question:
The secretary of the treasury is VIC
lating the spirit of the law in not u.s.
ing the option given him to redeem
United States treasury notes, in either
gold or silver. The law of 1890 ex-
pressly gives him the authority to coin
silver dollars for the redemption of the
Sherman treasury notes, which he Is
now redeeming in gold from the sale Of
interest bearing bonds, for which he
has no authority in law. The discrim-
nation in not paying out silver by
the secretary prevents a parity of gold
and silver, which otherwise might be
maintained by our government.
Answer to fifth question.
Yes With the invention of machine
cry and the modern appliances to as
sist in the production of wealth, the
hours of manual labor should be les
sened and leisure given for the i'm
provement of the mental faculties of
better prepared for assuming the du-
ties they owe to society and good gov
eminent. Yours respectfully.
HENRY w. LAWRENCE.
HoSan's Reply.
Ogden, Utah, Oct. II, 1895.
Messrs Tyne, Graham, Hagan and
Barnett, of the Utah B. of L. and
the K. of L., respectively, Salt Lake
City, Utah !:
Gentiemen-Yours of the 18th inst
received, and in reply thereto will
say:
First believe in the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1 and the restoration of the
money functions which it possessed
prior to 1873. without the consent Of
any other nation. 1t is not necessary
to differ with the party L represent.
because it. is the only party that is
nationally in favor of silver
Second-The present amount Of
money per capita is entirely made
quate to carry on the business of the
at least $50 per capita. as demanded
by the Peoples party's national plat
form. and issued without the inter-
vention of banks.
Third-The proposition to recall the
greenbacks and treasury notes IS a
scheme of the Bankers association,
adopted at Baltimore last summer. 1t
is in accordance with our present
banking system adopted February 25,
the Baltimore scheme and the whole
idiotic Except for bankers) system
I would not belong to any party that
would not oppose the methods of our
present legal bank sharks and Shy
locks, who are protected by laws en-
acted for their benefit by bribing con-
gressmen and senators with money
SIOIeu legally from tle people. Inc
party which I have the honor to rep
resent is the only one that is opposed
to the bank sharks, who now-even
now-have the audacity to ask the
voters to elect them to the executive
and judicial branches of the govern
ment of the coming state of Utah
Fourth-Most certainly 1 am. If a
man adopted the methods of our pres
ent Rothschild agent, known as the
secretary of the treasury, to apply to
his own business affairs, he would be
a. fit subject for the lunatic asylum.
Fifth would certainly favor eight
hours or less as a legal work day. AS
new machines are invented to perform
the duties Of man. the hours of labor
must be correspondingly reduced or
the unemployed will have to get off the
earth. If this plan of adjusting the
hours Of work to correspond with the
advancing power of machinery We're
adopted 1t would be a giant stride
toward the solution of this problem.
The party whose platform I stand
upon is nationally in favor of the
views I herein eXpress, including the
eight-hour law. That is why 1t is
ridiculed by the agents of plutocracy
During a political campaign all the
candidates and the parasitical press
sing songs Of lullaby to the sovereign
voters" the laboring men. They pet
them. feed them abundance of tariff
and taffy, embrace and love them, oh,
N.Y. just as hard as mule could kick:
but after election. under a high pro-
tective tariff or the Sugar trust VIII
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