The Anaconda standard., 1895-05-16
ONLY THE BEST OF EN-
The Big Silver Conference at Salt Lake
in the Hands of a Few.
THREE MEN FROM EACH STATE
1t Was Decided Not to Seat the Del
esates Who We're Sent There
BY Commercial Bodies
Speeches for Silver.


Salt Lake, Utah, May 15.-The peo-
pie Of Salt Lake were up early to-day
to witness the opening Of the silver
conference. about which so much has
been said during the past month. From
the head of East Temple street to its
foot, in the business districts and on
all the cross districts in the section.
the buildings were gaily decorated In
the national colors, while from every
nag staff waved the stars and stripes
in honor of the great. event. Inscrip-
tions. notices and divers other emble-
matte of the sentiments of the silver
champions were also in evidences.
The procession left the Knutsford
about IL o'clock. headed by the Dem
halter band and a platoon OF police.
In the first carriage were seated Gov
ernor West of Utah. Governor Rick
ards of Montana. Governor Mcconnell
of Idaho, and Ex-Governor Prince of
New Mexico. The procession reached
the Tabernacle at noon, where a large
audience had already assembled. The
decoration of the Tabernacle presented
a picturesque appearance. hundreds of
American flags and about 400 yards of
bunting having been used in the deco
rations. From conspicuous parts of
the gallery hung the following mot
toes:
Financial independence" "Our Song
Silver Threads Among the Cold"
Sound Money Say the Gold Bugs; Sill
yer Say the People," I'VE want a Cir
culating Medium That Will Circu-
late"
At 1920 o'clock Governor Richards
called the convention to order and de-
livered the following speech:
'In the history of nations no great
wrong was ever righted save through
the concerted efforts OF earnest men. 1
have faith enough in humanity TO be-
lieve that the natural patriotism of
the heart is equal to the duty of honest
effort and tireless action in the cause
of right when the right is clearly un-
derstood. Misdirected activity in any
cause that concerns the welfare Of the
people advertises a paternity OF ignor-
ance rather than a fatherhood of
malice. We have met to-day, not as
censors, parading the causes of our
discomfort, heralding to the world the
bitterness we feel over the injustice
that has made our cooperation the
necessity of the hour; but as earnest
men, representatives of. a great cause
and delegated to the performance of a
duty by a constituency whose inter-
ests are environed only by the geo.
graphical limits of the republic. We
have met as champions of honest
money-of money so honest that it's
pure white luster Is never tarnished by
the tears of the starving or rusted by
the blood of crime as 1t moves through
the channels of commerce in a current
of perpetual hope. We have met, not
to appeal to the prejudices that may
cluster instinctively around the self
interests of any community or people;
not to weigh anchor upon a sea of un-
certainty in the trade winds of poll
tics, but to institute a new movement
along new lines for the better educa-
ton of the masses on the financial
problems of the day.
| In calling this conference, and in
| viting the cooperation of western gov
ernors in an interstate educational
movement in the interests Of the free
coinage of silver, ] was impelled by
the belief that in the home circle of
the American citizen lay the destiny of
the white metal. The time has come
| when we must appeal not only to the
| business sense of the voter with nom
| partisan logic, but we must reach down
| lnIO Ine moral acINlt1eS OF the nedfI
| and ask that the individual conscience
stand up and be counted on the side of
/ right.
There never was a time in history
| when the moral side of a great ques-
ton appealed with greater force to the
intelligent voter than to-day. with the
| evils of monometalliSm emphasized in
the misery that affiicts our land. The
argument of the single standard advo-
| cate has matured from a gilded theory
into a condition that ought to appeal
with irresistible force to the candid
observer Of events. 1t becomes our
| duty to supplement the argument of
smokeless smokestacks and abandoned
1 farms, of broken banks and crushed
commercial enterprises. with incisive
reasoning as TO the policy that ushered
in the winter Of our discomfort Ex-
listing conditions, rejecting the mis-
| fortunes or the business world upon
| every phase of our industrial and So
cial life. have stimulated a demand on
| the part of the masses for a better
knowledge of financial propositions.
| that self-interest may be respected at
| of silver be better served, in the recep-
tive condition of the public mind. than
| through a systematic course of educa-
| ton that will reach the individual in
telligence in the sacred circle of the
home. The eminent gentlemen who
| represent the several states in this con-
ference have been selected with the re-
sponsibility of devising ways and
means for the carrying out of this OBJ
ject, and that your papers will prove
an aggressive step in a most successful
campaign of education. l doubt not.
Already the European wing of the
American republic is beating the air
in an effort TO retain its lofty perch
The gold men of both continents read
in the signs OF the times the possibility
of an early defeat. and are bending
their energies TO the annihilation OF the
object OF their fears. All that litera-
ture can do. all that oratory can ac-
| complish, all that gold can achieve
will be done to strange the growing
sentiment for silver. A subsidized
press, controlled by the financial In
terests that thrive on the misfortunes
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