The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-19
IT WAS A FIZZLE.
THE MASS MEETING OF WORKING
MEN HELD LAST EVENING.
The IrrepressibIe John Stubbs
Doubtless HOodooed 1.-THE Sill
yer Delegates Failed to Appear,
But Several Addresses Were Made

A mass meeting of workingmen was
held last night in the square opposite
the Metropolitan hotel, for the purpose
Of discussing free coinage and the
financial question generally. Very
few people gathered at the platform,
and those who did get together showed
little enthusiasm Several Of the sill
yer delegates were expected to speak
at the gathering, but Notwithstanding
the fact that Chairman John Stubs
was fitting all evening between the
platform and the Knutsford, none of
the noted visitors put in an appear
ance.
In the meantime Warren Foster was
called upon to hold the attention Of
the audience until the orators should
arrive.
Mr.. Foster said he wanted to amuse
them until the delegates came In
the absence of an organ and monkey
he had been chosen. The people seem
to have lost hope. Even the great
silver meeting does not seem to have
created any stir. Machinery is pushing
men out of employment. The worst
feature of it is that when men lose
employment they do not lose their ap-
petites. A man who has to depend
upon others for a livelihood is a slave.
Many are in worse straits than the
blacks were before the war, because
slave owners had to feed them to keep
up their value.
Free silver is of the greatest i'm
portance to the west. No one can tell
what the two old parties will do. Their
platforms at the last presidential cleo
ton were almost Identical on the sill
yer question. The purchasing value OF
money is vastly greater than 1t was
two years ago. There is not, there
fore, an honest dollar in the United
States.
The financial question: is what de-
mands attention. Tariff. like infant
baptism, should be laid on the shelf
for more important issues. The labor
problem will sometime be settled by a
fight If not of ballots then of bullets.
The only remedy for all these evils IS
the free coinage of silver at O 16 TO l
ratio.
N. B. Dresser stated that the Work
cuss the land. the financial and the
transportation questions. He wished
also to give notice that several pro-
visions in the constitution would be
handled from that platform The
workingmen are alive to the defects in
financial affairs They want reform
and above all things they demand sill
E. w. Reese said silver at d to %
would never satisfy the laborer. The
16 to 1 ratio is what they desire. The
has been violated. Instead
OF equal rights, special privileges are
given to millionaires. railroads and
The city council, he said, only laughs
at the appeals of workingmen. A city
said once in his presence |
that not one dollar would be appro- {
priated to create labor. II believe" /
he went on, chat the Lord was dis
pleased with that language, for just I
then the lights went OUT Gaughter) I
can be done until workingmen I
elect Representatives from their own i
ranks.
John Stubs declared that working
men should wake UP to their duties.
He felt very much discouraged. he said.
over the fact no silver delegates had
come to the meeting in answer to his
invitation. Mr.. Stubs said he was
dissatisfied with the proceedings of the
silver conference, and wanted to see
more light on the question.