The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-19

Gated in Lombard or Wall streets. In
the financial struggle now confronting
US, they may call on more panlcs with
which TO distress the people, and tell
US that they are caused by foreign
] holders crowding upon US our own Sc
curi.ies ard that foreign financiers
will not invest in this country fearing
the tender of debased money in llquI-
dation of our obligations. How ridic-
ulous. for where else in this world can
they find the security which this young
and vigorous republic affords? VIII
/ they try Argentine or Australia again?
/ viii they go to Central or South Amer
/ lea or Mexico? If SO, we can afford
: to let them go, for with silver re-
stored, we can dig wealth out OF the
rock-ribbed hills with which 10 pay
our obligations fairly and honestly,
and then ourselves become the lenders
and not borrowers, letting others be-
come the "hewers of wood and the car
riers of water" Very respectfully,
MOSES THATCHER.
HON. JOHN T. GAME.
Hon. John T. Game sent the follow
ing. which was read by Chairman Har-
riS:
Hon. R. n. Baskin, Chairman, and
Hon. ]. r. Letcher, Secretary Com
mittee Bryan and Sewall Ratifca-
! ton, SAT- Lake CITY, Otdn.
Gentlemen appreciate your kind
! invitation to attend a. Bryan and Sc
wall ratification meeting on Saturday
! evening and make an address on the
issues of the campaign. An engage
ment previously made will take me out
of the city on Saturday and prevent
me from attending. While personally
/ absent, shall be with you heart and
soul. / fully endorse the good work
done at Chicago and congratulate the
people of Utah upon the bright pros
poets of a speedy deliverance from the
thraldom of the gold bug.
1 shall during the coming campaign
be glad to render any assistance in my
power to advance the cause Of Bryan,
SewaI and silver. Very respectfully,
JOHN T. GAME.
THOMAS G. MERRILL HEARD
FROM
Chairman Harris then read the fol-
lowing from the HON. T. G. Merrill:
To the Chairman of the Ratification Meet
ing for Bimetallism and Bryan:
I very much regret my inability to at
tend this meeting in person, but as life
long Republican and having devoted the
most of my time for the last three years
in the work for the restoration of BIZ
metaliism by the education of the voters
OF this country upon this question, l de-
sire to say that the most earnest efforts
of those who place bimetallism above
party or personal and selfish interest for
the last year, has been to secure the
adoption of bimetallic plank in the plat
form and the nomination Of candidates
| whose record would be a guarantee that
they would carry out such a platform in
good faIth either by the Republican or
Democratic parties, because by means of
such thorough party organization the OBJ
ject would be much more certain of ac-
| complishment.
In the convention of the Democratic
party held last week in the city of Chi
cago We have secured all that we could
desire in the platform there adopted and
in the nomination of William J. Bryan
for president of the United States.
Having secured this result for which we
have all been laboring it would certainly
seem that now to divide the forces for
biinetallism would be worse than suicidal,
2Hd no man who is loyal to the great
interest of the state of Utah can do other
wise than to use his every effort to assist
in the election of the ticket nominated at
! Chicago; and it would seem that no true
patriot who understands this question can
take any other ground.
The educational work which was inaug-
urated by the organization of the National
Bimetallic Union in Salt Lake city on the
10th day of May, 1885, has been a very
important factor in starting in the agri-
| this tidal wave for bimetalliSm and
Americanism and making possible the
events which transpired last week in
Chicago, which Will overWheim Mckinley
and the gold plutocrats in the final strug-
gle next November.
In order to secure the election of Will
lam j. Bryan as president of the United
States and a congress, the majority OF
which shall be pledged to independent BIZ
metailism, this educational work must be
continued with greater force and effective
ness until next November. The money OF
the gold men will be poured out like water
TO endeavor to stem the tide for bimetal-
ism, and We cannot and do not desire tc
attempt TO compete with them by the use
OF money, but we must have sufficient
funds to spread among the voters, who are
all anxious to study this question, abund-
ant bimetailic literature Of the highest and
best type.
When . voter is once converted TO BIZ
metallism, he never backslides and al
once becomes missionary anxious to con-
vert others.
MRS. LA BARTHE.
Mrs. La Barthe came forward amid
cheers and spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Friends-Not that words
o. mine are needed to add strength 10
what has already been so ably spoken,
buI II speech is SiiVern and silence is
golden, then is it time for US TO assert
Ourselves and show women's endorse
ment OF this worthy cause and noble
leader. We are aware that Mr. Nc
tA1nley received his nomination on the
anniversary OF the defeat of Napoleon at
waterloo, so Mr.. Bryan, the crowned
representative of the silver cause was
nominated on the anniversary of a day
famoS7s in the annals of Democracy but
equally revered by all lovers OF human
liberty. On July TO- 1892, Andrew Jack
son signed his veto of the bill to re-
CHARTER the United Sta1es bank, thus pre-
cipitating upon the country the nrst
fierce hight between the money power
and the people. On that day slXty-four
years ago, New York, New England
Pennsylvania and the east occup, ed the
same relative position which they occupy
today. The forces Of plutocracy were
maSSed in solid array against the peopl G.
Financial disaster was threatened
mortgages were foreclosed and work
shops we're shut down. The money power
had full sway. The powerful press was
in the service of the u. S. bank Op-
posed 20 this powerful aggregation, then
as now, Was The south and west, drawn
together then as now by a sense of com
non danger. In 1882 as in 1856 the money
OF the country was conferred in the east
and northeast. The parallel between tbs
situation OF today and that of sixty-foul
years ago is complete in every detail
Between now and next November the
parallel may be carried TO the ultimate
2l9 and Clay 49 votes. making Jackson's
majority an overwhelming one. The
people of today are no less patriotic
powerful or any less keeniy alive TO thoil
own best interests than in 1882. The seven
teenth Democratic convention was the
grandeSt record. The platform in respec.
to its declarations concerning silver coin
age IS all that silver Democrats couiC
demand or ask. 1t IS as clear definite
and emphatic declaration tor the in
dependent and unrestricted coinage O.
l silver as the most devoted Republican
= could have framed 1t leaves, in this par
ticUlaT nothing TO be desired. Mr.. Bryan
; has said, it is battle for the plain PEG
ma rf "a Let n