The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-04

tereS1E. / want TO ask you why lnc
advocates Of the gold standard, who
are engaged IN other kinds of business,
do not maze some statement "a regard
10 their business?
They want it understood the labor
ing man is Influenced by personal m
terests but these great leaders OF the
gold STANDARD are simply interested IN
the puSslio veal. There is a great dat-
ference between those VINO advocate BIZ
mefallism and those who advocate
sold standard. Ask a. farmer why he
wants bimerallism and he says be
cause 1t would be good for him. He
is not worrying about somebody else.
He has troubles enough OF his own. IT
is the same with a iaboring man or a
business man or professional man. ASK
a financier why he favors the soid
standard. VIII he tell you because IL
is good for him. You never heard
one OF them say it. lLaughrer.) Iney
want something that viii help some
body else. / am afraid some of our
opponents
ADD THE CRIME OF HYPOCRISY
Ia. the sin of vice. There are principles
which underlie the money question:
principles which you must understand
before you can enter into discussion
of the money question, and the first
STtGt DIznClDtC ~ tlAdtt Liz "ESt0E VI -
dollar depends on the number OF dol
lars You have to learn that scarce
money means dsar money, and that you
can change The purchasing power OIL d
dollar whenever you can change the
number OF dollars Our opponents dis
pute this, some of them. bat no Writer
on political economy wall tell you that
volume is inmaLegial.
Now, my friends. l assert that when
me- KING
a dollar by an individual then the gov
eminent assumes the solemn duty of
creating enough dollars for the people
to do business with. (ApplaUSe) Yet
the very people VINO invoked the law
of 1873 TO strike down a part Of the
peoples money now deny the right OF
the people to invoke the law to replen-
ish the currency of the nation
(Cheers.) I know that whenever we
express an opinion on the money ques-
ton that we subject ourselves to the
contempt of the New York fnanciers.
GU cannot protest we need more
money and then prove your sincerity
by joining with those who would trans
fer the power on determining how much
money we need over into the hands Of
those who profit by the destruction Of
prices and by the increase in the value
of their notes and mortgages. Not one
of those who are particularly benefited
by a gold standard has ever given his
own benefit as his reason for the love
OF the system. (Cries Of That's right. y
THERE Is A CONSPIRACY
among the money changers TO enslave
the producers of wealth. 1t is an inter
national conspiracy, entered into by
men who love the dollars and domina-
ton Of foreign nations better than they
love our flag. Great applauSe.) We do
not like TO be called anarchists, but l
would rather be what our opponents
cal an anarchist than TO confess that
10000, 900 of people are not able TO ait
tend tc their own business. Some OF
them are now leaving the Democratic
party. They say for the country's good,
but L betieve that they have left the
party for the parVy's good. Great ap
plause.) We can't build q. wall 10 keep
anybody from getting out of the Demo-
cratic party, because then nobody out
side could get jn. All we ask is that
when a man leaves the Democratic
party, he shall have a reason that en-
ana-ues from the head or the heart and
not one tucked away in a pockeGbook.
Great applause) A man is willing to
give any reason in his head or heart. 1t
is the reason that exists in the pocket
book he is not willing to ted about.
(CTies of "Good.'O We expect some
men to leave the Democratic party. We
could have kept them in had we want
ed 10, if we had made the platform
mean nothing (Applanse) If the
Democratic platform on the money
question had been what our opponents
wanted 1T, it would have been just like
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
because both would have been frauds.
Great applause.) If we had adopted a
mated candidates who would pledge
themselves not To do anything without
first going down to New York and ask
ing what ought TO be done, what would
have been che result? Why, these mag
mates would have been able to silt back
and say they are both good men, the
country is safe under either Great
laughterl We could have had that
sort of a campaign if we wanted it:
but somehow the majority OF the people
in that convention decided they wanted
another kind Of campaign, and SO
they made a platform that breafhes
the spirit Of the Declaration of indie
pendence. tremendous and long con-
tinued applause.) They made plat
form that means what it says and says
what il means. They say in that plat
form they are opposed to the issue of
bonds in times of peace; to the traf-
ticking with Synd5cateS every once in a
while at a high price. Great laugh
Ier) That plank was not written Just
TO bring syndicates to us. We had no
SUCH idea. We thought we would try
the experiment of running the party
without the aid of syndicates and see
how we got along. (Applause and cries
of Good.) Then a plank denounces
trusts. of course that is a rather harsh
plank. 1t was not written TO make a
man who belonged &c a trust feed that
he owned the party. Great laughter)
We knew he would not like it When
we Thought he would not like It, we
thought
WE WOULD LIKE IT.
THE very parts of that platform
which have been most hateful to the
men who have used the Democratic
party for private gain and their country
fog- public plumber, are the nearest
parts to the masses of the American
people. Great applause.) We expected
some of them to go. We knew some of
our generals would go, but we knew
that battles are won by the fighting of
private soldiers more than by the fight
ing Of generals. We were willing to
draw up our army on one side and let
our opponents draw up theirs on the
other, and then We Were willing 70 give
them all cur generals, If they gave us
all their soldiers. Great applause
We as'e not losing anybody from our
party except the great, biz Democrats
Q,aughter-) And don you fnow, when a
great big Democrat breaks into the
Republican party he makes a hole so
big That a great many little RepuIoIi-
cans can run out? daughter and ire