The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-02


have never dared to submit the gold
STANDARD to the arbitrament of a ball
lot. (ChRsrS.)- Every step that has
been taken has been taken by stealth
and without the approval of the Amer
lean people fApplauSe) When silver
wes demonetized in 1873 the people had
not discussed it, and persons who were
members of congress and who voted
ON the measure testified they did not
understand that the bill demonetized
silver. When the crime was discovered
and the American people attempted to
restore silver TO its ancient place by
the side OF gold the opponents Of free
coinage forced the Bland act upon con-
gress as compromise, and as socn as
the Bland act went into force, the enc
macs Of free silver sought to repe2d the
Band act and leave nothing in its place.
But the silver sentiment grew until
1880, and in that year the opponents of
free coinage being afraid of the pas
sage of a. free coinage bill, secured an
other compromise which was known as
the Sherman law. Let me call your
attention for a moment to that law. In
1 the support OF that measure, Senator
Sherman made a. speech, and in the
course Of that speech he went on TO
show that we required forty-two mil
LIONS new money every year to keep
PACE WITH POPULATION
and industries, and he defended that
measure on the ground that it gave the
people more money. And yet in his
Recollections published only a few
months ago, you will find that Senator
Sherman says he was in favor of the
Sherman law simply to prevent free
coinage, and that he was willing to
vote for its repeal the day after it was
enacted, If he could prevent the substi-
tuition of free coinage (Applause)
! There you will find the chief support Of
the gold standard policy in the United
States supporting a bill because it gave
money TO the American people and then
declaring that he would have voted
for the repeal of it the very next day.
/ (Applause.) They secured the repeal
of the Sherman law and pretended they
would restrre silver 10 its former place.
There were some who said the trend of
/ the Sherman law was to that end. and
that we had to clear away the rubbish
before we could puild up g. good eys-
tenn; and then there were others who
said that if we stood for free silver we
would drive Europe to bimetallsm
| But those wko made this argument
have proven that they
WE'RE NOT SINCERE,
and that their purpose was 10 deceive
the American people. (Applause) In
this campaign every party, in its plat
form so far, has declared that the
principle Of bimetallism is better than
d gold standard, and yet in spite Of
these declarations you know that there
is body Of people in the United States
who, under cover of friendliness to BIZ
metaIl1sn, are seeking to faSten a gold
standard upon the American people,
Mr.. Bryan then went to the north
end Of the platform and was received
with great cheering. He continued as
follows:
Il don't know whether you have been
able to hear anything l have been say
ing on the other side or not. (Cries of
NO. 1 was telling them that no
party in the United States had ever
made a fight for the gold Standard
mean an open fight, or put that de-
claration in national platform.
do not know what the convention to-
morrow will do, but 1 know this, that
the Democrats who are in charge Of
the convention which meets tomorrow,
when they were in Chicago a few
weeks ago, opposed the free coinage Of
silver on the ground that it would pre-
vent International bime tallism towards
which all the efforts of this govern
ment should be directed. (Cheers.) If
tomorrow they declare the gold stand
ard is a good thing, they viii have to
take back
THE MINORITY REPORT
which they submitted to the Chi
Cago convention. They will have to
take that report back and confess that
in Chicago, instead of expressing their
sentiments, they attempted to perpe-
tra,te a deliberate fraud on the Ameri-
can people. (Cheers.) The convention
Tomorrow viii be unique in one re-
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convention ever held in the United
States, because it will be a convention
which will name a candidate not for
the purpose Of electing him but for
the express purpose of electing an
ether candidate whom they dare not
nominate. (Cheers.) I simply speak
of this to show you what kind Of a
fight we are engaged in. We are fight
ing enemies VINO will not come out
into the open field and declare to the
American people what they want
Great applause.) AS against the foes
who strike in the dark; as against enc
mics, who, like the owl flies best at
night, Qaughter,) we propose a plat
form which means what it says, and
says what it means, and takes the
American people into its confidence"
(Cheers)
Mr.. Bryan then addressed the people
ON the east Side being received with
loud applause. He continued:
THE free coinage OF silver is not a
new doctrine. One Of the prominent
Republicans said the other day that it
had flashed upon the country like a
lightning flash out of a clear sky Oh,
no, my friends; the free coinage of
silver is not a sudden idea sprung into
life. The free coinage of silver is
AN ANCIENT noCTRTNE
When we ask for the free coinage Of
silver. We SIMPLY ask that it shall be
given the same treatment at the mint
that gold now receives That is all.
(Great appiause) We have the free
coinage Of gold now. All we ask is to
just add the word silver to the law,
so it Will mean free coinage of both
gold and silver. When we ask for I'M
limited coinage we simply want the
mint open TO silver as it is to gold
because there is unlimited coinage of
gold now. You can take to the mint
all the gold you want from any place
you like, and it will be coined into
money, and the money handed back to
YOU. We want to amend the law by
making it true of silver, too, so there
will not be one ounce of silver in all
the world that viii be excluded from
the minis of the United States. We
want to say if there is a man in the
world who has an ounce OF silver bull
lion that he cannot fully employ some
where else that he can bring
that bullion to our mint and have it
converted into $1.29, and employ that
Sl.29 in buying the proceeds of the
body of American citizens. Great an
plause9 We want the ratio of 16 to /.