The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-21
What the action of the church, viii
be remains to be seen.
AN APPEAL TO BUSINESS TEN

The Herald is in receipt of the fol-
lowing self-exp lanatory letter from the
Democratic Campaign Committee of
Commercial Travellers, room %, Lindell
hotel, St Louis:
st. Louis. Sept II, 1896.
To the Commercial Travellers of the
United States:
This committee, acting under the
auspices and authority of the national
Democratic committee. asks your CO
operation in establishing Bryan and
Sewall commercial clubs all through
the United States, and viii promptly
reply to adj correspondence and furnish
to members of such clubs literature in
support of the Democratic platform as
recently adopted at Chicago.
We are particularly interested in the
organization of wholesale and retail
merchants, manufacturers and COM
mercial travellers and commercial rail-
road employees.
We believe it to be the case that
among those most seriously and dis
tressingly affected by the long years OF
declining values which we have passed
through are commercial travellers ana
their EMPLOYERS, the wholesale mer-
chants and manufacturers, and their
friends and customers, the retail mer-
chants of the country. All interests,
AGRICULTURAL, labor, transportation, etc,
have been greatly demoralized and de-
pressed, but none more so than mer-
camille business interests.
We believe that the remedy is EN-
bodied in the recomme ndaticnS OF the
Democratic platform, and especlaliy III
tne re-establishment OF blmelaliislii
and equal rights at the mlnts OF lne
United States for both gold and silver
we know that about so per cent OF the
commercial travellers of the United
States so believe They have oppor-
tunities to know of the great and Vers-
q file resources of our country and nave
every confidence in its power anu
ability to sustain at par with goin Tue
entire silver supply now in the WVl Ie
if necessary; and there is no neeu iol
MS to wait until foreign nations give
their consent for us to open cur minis
to silver. ,.4,.,- fo,.
ono. wear only are sufficient to absorb
in nayrnent all the silver money ana
siIvar bullion now mined. and on each
Succeeding year we would have even si
a. larger crop to exchange for more sli-
Yer which might be mined.
We believe in paying the bonds ana
obligations of this country strictiy III
accordance with the contract, IN COM
as it is written and speclhed III .ne
bonds and we do not believe in giving
the bondnolder gold and the Ia[lliT ~ ,
and worlxing1nen silver. All should De
treated alike. Nor do we believe In as
crinoinating against the debtor clasS
and compelling that class to pay oplI-
garions in appreciated gold Wnlcn
We're given to be paid in either gold OF
silver. .,o.+;o,, os
BRYAN and Sewail and a Democr dtIo
congress would bring to TINS coulltI
such an era of commercial acllVlly any .
industry as it has never before eApeIl-
n-cad. and thar all would prosper from
such a. resul<. eoo+
We ask YOUR attention to the facI
that the opposing forces are conducl-
inc their campaign upon most lhloI0I
ant and autocratic lines 800
T1hev are not using legitimate argu-
r,erte and honest, fair and patriotic
methods. but they call those VINO s-u-
vocate free silver coinage tnrouSh ID d
sincere and honest belief that IL wa
benefit the country and our peopie'
fools. cranlzs. repudiationists and arlaT-
chists. ......i+-
They are themselves repudiationlsts'
because they are trying to have the
contracts of Indebtedness made by our
neorIe Dayable in coin repudlated
AGAINST the interests of our own peo-
,qIa and country and paid in gold,
which has heavily increased In VaIue
and is constantly increasing, thereby
/ imposing upon our own people Ndst
/ increase of liza abilities and Indebtedness
/ for which no consideration mas peeh
received. This would make 1t appear
! of
ism are disSoyal to their own couIitry
and peoole. Their views are AFFECTED
NOT by patriotism and a love OF coun-
t1-v. but by greed and self-interest.
They are themselves the anarchists
as they are attempting to override the
free will of the people in order TO Iorce
their own selfish and ruinous poIlcles
of government upon the country, there
by proving themselves to be enemies
of free and enlightened suffrage ana
republican form of government con-
tr6IIa5 nv the will of the majority.
We hear runors and charges OF dis
charge of employees and Intimidation
in many places, and are now investl-
eating many of them. Many of these
arise from the acts of railroad man
a ora,-s who are themselves in turn CO.
creed and inundated by foreign pond
holding interests.
There are in nearly every stale
strong and effective laws against IN
tinidation, and we would be glad to be
informed in relation to such acts.
This committee believes in far, IN
preiudiced, undrammeled and non
coercfve political methods and in the
courteous and respectful treatment OF
those who hold opposing political views
and it does not believe in pursuing
such a policy to the extent OF supmlt-
ting to untrutfful SANDER and abuse
from hired corporation attorneys and
other mercenaries employed to hell
organized greed and rapacity to OPP
press our people and disrupt and de-
bauch our free institutions. Therefore
in reply to such we propose to talk
We invite the aid and cooperation
of all commercial travellers IN the Unit
ed States in spreading patriotic senti-
ments, organizing Bryan and SeWaii
clubs. securing information OF mtllnl-
dating methods. and other campa-gn
work. We would be pleased to have
sent us information as to what con-
Germs are intimidating employees and
as to how they are doing it, so that we
/ can take appropriate action.
Tr,1Iv j. e. PITTS,
JAMES W. JUMP, secretary