The herald., 1895-05-18

the coinage of either and each standing
upon an equal footing before the law.
The system founded by Hamilton. sane
toned by Washington and Jefferson. its
wisdom and justice questioned by none,
until the year 1873. In that year, with
yer dollar was dropped from the coinage
of the country and every debt therein
existing, public and private, aggregating
thousands OF millions OF dollars, was
Nmade payable in gold alone.
\ Men that have intelligence enough to
Gpmprehcnd its significance and still op.
pose the undoing of that wrong should
be\ exceedingly careful how they accuse
other people of dishonesty.
It. was the great money power of the
worAl that thus stealthily destroyed the
timeAbonored monetary system OF our
country. Those men who own and con-
troll vast sums of money, and debts
payable in money. understood that if
silver could be destroyed by stopping its
coinage and eliminating its legal lender,
their claims thus becoming payable ex-
clusively in gold or its equivalent the
gold itself would become more valuable.
They understood perfectly that a gold
sharing its functions and meeting part of
the demand. was an entirely different
measure of values from what the gold
dollar would be standing alone. They
knew that by the memorable law OF sup
ply and demand the value OF gold must
inevitably rise, while the value OF every
other species of property must just as
certainly fall.
Thsiis exactly what has taken place.
The business of the world is done upon a
money basis. 1t is measured in terms of
money.
The address was read by Bartine of
Nevada and it was frequently interrupted
by applause; the hand clapping and
cheers of approval were long and loud at
the close. and without discussion the ad-
dress was unanimously adopted.
| a recess of fifteen minutes was then
| taken to allow the delegations an opportu-
| nifty to present names of committeeman.
On reassembling Shafroth of Colorado
moved that all the delegations not now
| filling their lists of committeeman shall
within thirty days send in the names OF
their committees. This was agreed to
and the following were reported:
Executive committe Colorado, e. B.
Light: Idaho, G.. b. Bryant California,
III. W. Langenour; Montana. f. I. Mer-
riman; New Mexico, L. Bradford Prince;
Oregon, Sydney Deli; Washington, W. c..
James; Wyoming, +. W. Mandell; Utah,
r. c. Chamber
State mmitteeemen-Idaho, ]. W.
Plummer James G. Gwin, Governor W.
j. Mcconnell, w. M. Leisure. w. Il.
Bradley. Charles Brown, Frank Parker.
Bishop William Bulge, i. A. York, Will
Watt, James McNabb.
Montana-F. L. Sargent, William Blck.
ford, J. 7. Arlington. A. NJ. Holteer,
John Il. Toole, o. P. Chisholm, A. H.
Mitchell, W. A. Clark, o. f. Goddard.
New Mexico-W. r. Thornton, w. G.
Hadley, 7. b. Mills. Nicnolas Gales, +.
A. Manzanares, d. P. Carr, Jefferson
Reynolds.
0regon-J. Bourne. jr., DR.. Robinson,
Colonel +. V. Drake, G. M Donaldson.
Charles Nichol, T. Patterson, W. D.
| Hare.
Washing ton-Miles G. Moore, Ben
Kingsbury, John Wiley, Thomas Carroll,
Will ID. Jenkins. Catain Seabury. II. J.
Snively. Il. T. Wilson, H. J. Chase.
Utah-Fred J. Kiesel Moses Tha tcher
L. A. Wall. r. Macintosh, A. W. WINS,
Thomas Kearns, A. f. Holden. j. Q,
| Packard.
| After invitation by Governor Prince to
visit the irrigation congress at Albuquer
Que in September the convention ad
journed.
The delegates and citizens united in 6
banquet at the Knutsford tonight, a
which there were many silver toasts ant
responses.