The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-28
Special to The Herald.l

BOISE, Ida, July 27-An enthusiast
tic meeting was held here tonight for
the purpose of organizing Republican
club which will support Bryan in the
campaign. Speeches We're delivered by
Hon. W. E. Borah, Justice j. W. Hus-
ton of the supreme court and George
NJ. Parsons, attorney general The
leading address of the evening was by
Mr.. Borah who, on account of his
staunch advocacy of the cause of sill
ver and striking resemblance to the
Democratic presidential nominee, is
called the Bryan of Idaho. Mr. Borah
said in part:
The only thing offered to us by the
st. Louis platform on the financial
question is International bimetallism.
1t is the goal for which every true sill
yer man is striving. But, while this is
true, we have no faith in its accom-
plishment without the aggressive and
independent action of the United States.
Look down the map of the world, and
place the palm of your hand over it at
a certain point and you will cover the
three great creditor nations of the east
France, Germany and England. Upon
these we are asked to wait.
FOR TWENTY YEARS
through International conferences we
have been striving to get some plan,
some promise. Nothing practicable,
nothing tangible has been developed.
In the meantime the depression becomes
more intense and contraction has gone
on until a nation having two-thirds Of
the population of those three great ma
tons, with. its resources practically IN
developed, is doing business with a per
capita circulation of $3.50, and at this
date the best word we have from En-
gland is, 1t must be remembered that
this country is largely a country of
debts payable in gold and any change
which involves a raise in the price of
commodities generally, that is TO say,
the diminution of the purchasing power
of gold, would be to our Disadvantage
1t is true that both France and Ger
many are more
FRIENDLY TO BIMETALLISM,
and yet both these nations have prac-
tically declared that they will not act
without the consent of England
Every interest, every selfish impulse,
every motive which actuates the
aristocracy of the unearned increment
tells those people that they are inter
ested solely in the appreciation of gold.
1t is the tribute which the unrequited
toll of every nation pays to those
creditor nations each year. Their gold
is loaned in every land, and to ask
our people ITO wait until they shall tire
of seeing it bring back the harvest
which it does not sow-until they shall
tire of seeing themselves enriched
without effort is to ask more than our
people will grant. At last the feeling
has come that it is better to rely upon
the resources and the energy and the
patriotism of the citizens of the re-
public for national prosperity than
upon the patriotism or, rather. phil
anthropy of those who control the
money power of Europe.
EVERY SINCERE MAN KNOWS
that Mr.. Mckinley is standing upon a
platform which is being interpreted
from one end of the land to the other
as single standard platform pure and
simple, and for the Republicans of this
state TO support him is to abandon the
silver cause. We are not leaving the
party, we are simply standing upon
the principles for which we have con-
tended all our lives as Republicans
and denying the right of any man or
class of men to fasten recommendation
upon the party and compel Is TO ac-
cept it as Republicanism."