The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-30

been, yet it will buy today all that
gold will buy and pay all the debts
that gold will pay, unless special
contract has been made for gold. The
American people will never give it up,
and the sooner the minions of agrees
sive, insolent, consolidated wealth and
The arrogant apostles of gold mono
metailism realize and act upon this
fact, the better and safer it will be for
them in the future of this country.
Money OF the People.
I'm every state and territory, from
the western side Of the Allegheny
mountains to the Pacific coast, silver
has been known and endorsed by peo-
pie for three-quarters of century,
not merely as sound money! not
merely as honest money but as land
Office money besides. With it their
homes were bought and paid for, and
not much patience remains with them
or their descendants for those who
stand and stignnatize the white metal,
which has done it's work so well.
And the need of the white metal
in the hands of the people is even
greater now than ever before. There
is scarcely a speck of gold in sight
OF the laboring classes. In round num-
bers there are nearly four hundred
millions Of gold in the world and
about the same amount of silver
With silver demonetized the plain.
people. the wage-workers, and those
who raise and sell the products of the
soil, will handle specie money no more
forever, and will catch even a glimpse
of it but seldom. Gold viii be boarded
and hid away in the vaults Of the
great magnates of wealth, and the peo-
pie in their business will be put on the
half rations of paper money, to which
the shrinking and contraction from a
basis Of bimetallism to q basis Of
monometallism will reduce them.
The Time Has Come.
81 wish TO impugn the motives of no
one and to avoid hard words in dis
cusSion as far as possible. But the
time has come when speech, though
temperate, should be very plain. Par
ties from this time forward will not be
framed to cheat on this subject,
whatever may have been done hereto
fore. No dubious phraseology or strad-
ding plankS on the question of silver
will be tolerated in the next national
conventions that are to take place in
this country. Words viii mean what
they say and men will be nominated
whose lives and records will constitute
a guarantee tina the principles declared
will ne carried out. Nor are the peo-
pie to be imposed on any further by
the ominous air with which the money
lords and money-lenderS pirate about
the terrors and disasters of being put
on a silver basis by the free coinage of
silver.
eff the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. as full legal tender money and
standard of statutes and the unit of
account and payment. without word
of international agreement on the sub
ject will put this country on a silver
basis. then we were on such a basis
every day and hour from the passage
of the first coinage act in April, 1872
until the characterization act of
February. 1873. a period Of eighty-one
years, during which we rose from
weakness to the foremost rank among
the nations of the earth. I commend
to all croakers in regard to the silver
basis a careful reading of the act OF
April g. 1892. formulated by Hamilton
| and Jefferson and approved by Wash
ington."