The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-09

will take care of the poor and esOeci-
ally of the workingmen. (Applause).
But the American workingman wants
no charity. (Applause) He does not
want some lordling to patronize him
and take care of him and protect him
from the cold and chilly blasts of
winter or the hot and scorching rays
of the summers sun. American man
hood has not sunk so low as that.
(Applause). The American working
man demands only the privilege Of
taking care of himself by virtue of his
own energy and manhood. He asks
only fair field and an equal chance
with other men. do not, for one,
propose to become a ward of some
wealthy man by any manner of
means.
If you give men an opportunity by
legislation to foster their own in
dustries and their own enterprises.
they will prey upon the whole nation
and it will not be long before they will
come TO the conclusion that the ma
ton owes them just the privileges that
are granted, and these special privi-
leges granted for special purposes will
soon be elevated to vested rights
Once elevated they viii call you a
demagOgue if you undertake to wrest
from their hands the ill-gotten ad-
vantage.
Democrats For Silver.
I want to point out to YOU. my
workingmen friends, in a few brief
utterances. the great fact which l be-
heve with all my heart-that if You
would establish in this country the BIZ
metallic system you must support the
Democratic party (Applanse). In
other words, the silver party in the
United States is and will continue to
be the Democratic party. (Applause)
Ihere is in this question the elements
OF a great party issue Let me point
1t out to you. [ have already said that
the Democratic party is the party Of
the plain common people. The money
OF the classes, of the wealthy, of the
bankers, is gold; the money of the
masses is silver. Applause). 1t is in
silver that your wages are paid you
1t is with silver that you buy your
groceries and your clothing. You sell
dom see more than enough silver
though you out west here see a great
deal more of it than the workingmen
of the east do.
Now, then, will not the party of the
classes be true to the money of the
classes? [ tell You it will. On the
other hand, will not the party of the
people be true to the money of the
people in the end? (Applause). Now
let me prove to you that this separa-
ton OF the two elements. that this ris-
Ing Issue is even now taking form
Our Republican friends upon the
stump are telling us that the only
party that gives any hope that silver
will be remonetized Is the Republican
party. They are saying that from one
end of this territory to the other.
Are Simply Lying.
:, Contractor j. H. Bowman. Repub-
lican, frOm audience)-They don't tell
the truth.
Mr.. Roberts-wen, maybe that is a
habit of theirs. Gaughter). I know
the man who made that remark.
judging from his tone, won't hold me
responsible for their not telling the
truth. GaughteT. But they tell this
story, nevertheless, and l want to
ask, What is there In the conduct of
the Republican party in its relation to
this question which justifies that as
sertion? viii anyone deny that the
Republican party is responsible fo1, the
characterization of silver in 1873? Ger
tainly not. But our friends, as d way
of explanation. say they were really
not aware of the fact that their legls-
lation in 1873 demonetized silver. I
will tell you what they remind me of.
You have all read of some fool FELLOW
who, in handling an old rusty flint
lock, pointed it in the direction of
come friend and carelessly snapped 1t
exploded and his friend fell lifeless
al his feet; and then the cnattering
idiot dropped the gun and said: 81
did not know it was loaded"
Oaughter). So with our Re-
publican friends by this legis-
lHolon Of 1873 They say out west here
they didn't know the thing was loaded.
[Applause)
The Other Explanation.
That is one explanation: but in the
east they insist that they did know
it was loaded.
They say this question was repeated
ly before Congress, that demonetiza tlon
was several times reported from COM
mtites's. that the columns of Congress
t1lnal Records are full of discussions
of it. Now then, l have only this
question to put to this class of Re-
publicans who insist that they did not
know 1t was loaded. 7 ask them, Since
You see what evil effects have followed
your legislation, how enterprises have
been killed, how industrial depression
has come to the nation how the price
of products and property out of which
men pay their debts has d4preci9HeI1
we'll nigh one-half, and, according ITO
their own confession, how this leg1is-
laltion has brought more misery and
woe and want into the families of the
psople of the United Staes than fam
inc and pestilence or war. why is it
in all the long years from 1873 to
1893 they have rlcIt redtified the wrong.
(AipplauEe.) 1T does not make any dif-
TeuGnLao which horn tboyy TO 10
will be in the position of the fellow
who thought it would be real fun to
catch a bsar and having succeeded at
last in catching one, called out Justify
for some one to help him let go.
The Future BY the Past
Now then. I have no way to judge
the future but by the past. [ 1'ecog-
nize at tonce the lamp by which my feet
must be guided in this question and
th2E is the lamp Of experience with
Republican administrations from 1873
to 1898. Have they given us any hope
that they will remOnetiZe silver and
bring back permanent and increased
prosperity TO the great republic? Per-
haps the hope WIS in that convention
held in Denver last year, where We're
gathered certain mighty men of Utah
from the Republican ranks sincere i'm
their own convictions upon the cues
ton of free and unlimited coinage of
silver and rather boasttful that they
would make that convention speak ont
something in favor of Silver But did
they? They came back with one of the
most miserable straddles ON that cues
ton TO which men ever submitted. 1t
means something or it means moth .ng.
They reid it one way in the west
and another way i'm the east