The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-31
THE PEOPLE VS.. PLUToCRAcY.

The silver men of the United States
no doubt appreciate the fact that they
have to face force that hitherto, for
many years, has found itself invinci-
bic. For that reason it expects to con-
troll the future as it does the present
situation. 1t is now the monarch of
all it surveys. But monarchies and
even empires have been overturned
and crowned heads have fallen before
the might of a greater power, the pow
er of the people.
That which confronts the cause of
true bimetallism today is the money
power. 1t rules this world. 1t is greater
than kings and queens. princes and
presidents. It is the power behind the
throne. and pervades parliaments and
congresses, and Yields it's sway in
church and state. 1t says to the finan-
cial and political world, gold must alone
be the standard of fianace, the measure
Of vaules, the monetary unit. And the
nations bow to that decree.
Where shall the champions of silver
turn for support? To the same source
which furnished the force to overcome
tyranny and despotism in political
government. To the power which has
wrought revolution when the times
were ripe for it. To the people, who in
this country are sovereign-in theory,
and who can prove that they can rule
in practice when the necessity arises.
The power of the people is greater
than the power of money. Eve plutoc-
racy must yield to a united and reso.
lutte populace.
The work of the Bimetallic Union
and other silver leagues must be
popular movement. The masses of the
people of the United States will have
to be made to see that in true bimetal-
lism is their hope for redemption.
Silver money is the money for the
masses, and silver should be coined as
gold, the dearer metal, is coined, with
out discrimination against it, as
brought to the minis and at the ratio
with gold which experience and his
tory prove to be the natural relation
ship.
Remove from the popular mind the
sophistries with which the representa-
tives of the money power have be-
guiled them. Show them the true
causes Of falling prices of products,
the decrease of industrial ventures,
the impoverishment of agriculture and
common labor. Make clear to them the
wrong Of casting aside the metal that
should provide the great bulk Of the
money of the nation. Prove to them
that it is wealth which is fighting
against the popular welfare, and try
ing to rivet the chains with which it
has bound it's debtors, that Mammon
may continue to rule And there will
come speedily an uprising which will
sweep away the overmastering power
Of money in our national affairs, as
surely as the French revolution over
whelmed the regal and aristocratic
power and drove it from la belle
France.
To the people the appeal Of the sill
yer advocates should be made. They
have the votes. Politicians can be
bought. Even so-called statesmen are
influenced by the money power. Re-
igious men and inf1dels are swerved by
its sordid breath. But each man in this
great nation holds in his hands as
much power at the polls as any other
man, whether toi1ing for his daily
bread or engaged in caring for and
counting his millions of boarded
wealth.
It is votes that will count in the day
of election. which should prove the
Day of Judgment for the gold tyrants.
Move upon the masses. Convert the
working people. Open the eyes of the
sons of toll. They ought to be ready
for the silver truth because it is to
their interest that bimetallism shall
prevail. and interest sometimes is
stronger than principle when men are
to be enlisted in great work If the
body of the people of the United
States demand silver and vote for sill
yer, the gold men of the nation will
have to take back seat, and the
money power so far as national
finance is concerned will meet with
signal defeat