The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-19
COCHRAN
ANSWERS BRYAN
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must remember that lurid rhetoric
which glowed as fiercely in the western
skies as that sunlight which, through
pne past week, foretold the torrid heat
o. the ensuing day, and here upon this
Platform we ind that same rhetoric as
MID and insipid as the waters of a
slagnant pool He is a candidate who
was swept into the nomination by q
wave OF popular enthusiasm, awakened
by appeals TO prejudice and greed. He
IS a candidate who, on his trip home and
IN me initial steps of his trip eastward,
declared that this was a revolutionary
movement; who no sooner found him
self face to face with the American
feeling than he realized that this soil
Is Lot propitlous to revolution The peo-
pie OF this country will not change the
institutions which have stood the tests
and experiences of a century for insti-
tutlons based upon the
FANTASTIC DREAMS
Of Populist agitators-that the Ameri-
can nation will never consent to subsu-
Tute for the republic of Washington, Of
jefferson and of Jackson the republic OF
an Altgeld, a. Tillman, or Bryan ZAP
plause.) No, my friends, l have said
there was one statement of great sig
nihcance in Mr.. Bryan's speech. There
is another portion of it which is singu-
laTly free from any obscurity, and that
may be comprised within the two in
itial paragraphs where he talks logl-
cally, consistently, plainly, the language
of revolution. Whatever change may
have come over his manner a a can
diyiate, however much the vehemence
of his eioquence may have been reduced.
two things for which he stands remain
n iS Ia 1oaT kafaDHS
the most
REVOLUTIONARY PLANK
of the convention in speech less vehem-
eIt. but not less earnest than that in
which he supported their adoption. On
this platform he defended the Populistic
programme of overthrowing the integ-
rity OF the supreme court. (Applause9
If there be any fruit which has grown
fol the benefit of adj mankind out Of
the establishment of our republic, it has
been the demonstration that it is posi-
BILE by the organization of an independ-
ent tribunal TO safeguard the rights of
every citizen and protect those natural
privileges against any invasion from
whatever source or however powerful
might be the antagonizing elements.
(ApplaUse) The very existence of that
power presupposes the existence of an
independent tribunal. Yet we have this
11ODullSl1C GOKbU-
Dist measure was condemned as uncon-
stituticnal, proposing not to amend the
constitution in the ordinary way pre-
ecT-ibed by that instrument itself, but
proposing to
PACK THE COURT
reorganize it Che used the language of
the platform itselO 50 that 1t will pro-
nounce those laws to be constitutional
which the constitution itself condemns;
a proposal to make the courts of law
instruments Of lawlessness; to violate
that sacred compact between
the states on which the secur-
ity of this nation rests; to
profane the temple erected for its
protection by the hands of false priests
who, though sworn to defend it, will
be appointed TO destroy it. Great ap-
plause.)
In the time to which 1 must con-
fine myself tonight, l can do nothing
but examine that enc question which
Mr.. Bryan himself declares to be
THE OVERSHADOwINC ISSUE
Of this campaign. I am little puzzled
when / read this speech to decide just
whas mir. Bryan imagines will be the
fruit of change ir the standard of
value throughout this country. L do
not believe that any man can follow
wholly with the speech, because if he
disSentS from one set of conclusions, he
has got to read but few paragraphs
ard he will find another Of a, different
variety. But l assume that it is fair
in a discussion of this character, indie
pendently of what Mr.. Bryan may say
or what Mr.. Bryan may think himself
he stands for, to examine the inevitable
economic effects of a debasement of
the coinage, of a. change in the stan
ddrd by which existing debts are to
IL. rnpa Sllred n scr r1ltaa SIRE Of
value. Now. I will imagine that Mr..
Bryan himself may believe that in
some way or other he is going to bene-
fiji the toilers of this country. He says
he is, but he declines to show US how.
daughter and applause) Fer my part,
] am willing to state here that If Mr.
Bryan could show me that, by any
means known 10 heaven or known TO
earth, any means revealed to the COM
prehension of man. that wages could
be increased, 1 will be
READY TO SUPPORT HIM
here and now. Great applause and
cheers. 1 do not make this statenf5.---
through any pretense of special affec-
tion for the man who works with his
hands. Such a, pretense made in the
heat Of a presidential canvass would
merely insult and discredit the intel
ligence to which it is addressed. Gap
port any measure calculated to in
crease the rate of wages, because
know OF no test of prosperity absolute
ly infallible except the rate of wages
paid to laborers (Applause.) Where
The rate Of wages is high, there must
be prosperity. Where the rate of wages
is low, there must be distress If, then,
Mr.. Bryan can show me that by the
enforcement Of any portion of his pro-
gramme, wages will be increased in
This country, 1 viii not only support
him, but I will recognize him as the
wisest orator that ever opened his
mouth on a platform since the begin
ming of the world. Naughter) 1 viii
be ready to confess that the rhetoric
which ] do not understand is really the
language of inspiration. Oaughter)
] would regard his administration of
the presidency as the
KINDLING OF A GREAT LIGHT
before the footsteps of man. showing
him a broad pathway to endless happi-
ness and measureless prosperity. But
in searching through his speech, in
reading through the whole realms of
Populistic literature with which this
country has been flooded for four years,
I have never yet found one syllable
which showed me how q Populist ex-
pected to increase the rate of wages.
daughter and applause)
when we come 10 find out Just how
MIR. Bryan expects to increase the
wages of labor, we find ourselves lost
in maze Of contradictions and in
haze of obscure expressions. No man
can tell how or when the wages of