The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1896-10-24

pie at Milwaukee,:
Since the pubI!e officers are elected
10 carry out the will Of the people. II
Is essential that the public should
know two things. First, for what poll
eies does q candidate stand? Second.
win he carry out those policies IL elect
cdr While there may be things
In q platform with which you cannot
agree, and things out Of 1t which You
would like to see In It,. It is necessary
that the candidate should believe In
the platform upon which he stands !
believed IN the principles OF our plat
form long before It was written In Chi
ago.
We have suffered some assertions
Why? Because the paramount issue OF
he money question. 1t is easy enough
10 hold q party together when q plat
form means nothing, but when any
party stands for q great principle. 1t
must expect some people who do not
believe in u to leave It.
Ny friends, this great money question
has been forced upon the people. not
By the advocate Of free coinage, but by
the gold standard people. After the
election in 1892, . money combine was
formed for the purpose Of repeating the
Sherman law. They did not take the
democratic platform and live up to II,
but they took one sentence which de-
clared for the repeal Of that law and
demanded its repeal. They said the
law was a make-shift. What is a make
shift? Something that will do until
we get something better. The demo-
tratic platform declared for the repeal
Of the Sherman law and the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver.
The money interests combined to re-
peal that law and leave nothing In its
place. They claimed gold was going
abroad. Did they stop 1t? No. They
started an issue to furnish bonds. They
had o,0o0, 900 issued, and then had
$50, 600, 900 more issued, and then 60
tered with the Rothschild CONTRACT
My friends, while the administration
entered into this contract, I want to cay
that all the leaders of the republican
party were In favor Of It.
The republican party did not de-
nounce II in their convention. Nor, /
want to say that II was the most in
famous contract ever entered into by
any nation. That contract employed
certain firms in London and New York
to look after and protect the govern
ment's interest They purchased the
good will Of these people. When you
purchase the good will OF any person.
II is because you admit you ara In his
hands. i am not willing to admit that
the government must purchase the
good viii Of anybody. am not willing
TO admit that 7e.OO0.0 900 Of people are
permitted to govern themselves by the
aid OF any syndicates, but that they
win govern themselves in spite Of
them.
am not surprised that the members
OF that syndicate are opposed to the
democratic party. / believe thar the
democratic party can get along with
out them / believe that they ought to
be treated as any other ccnspirators.
A man said to his sons: "Dsn't 90 into
the retail business; 60 into the whole
sale business That is res sectable."
This applies to you. II q man at
tempts to do the goyernn snt O small
injury, it is contemplate II 1t is q
Wholesale injury, it is respectable.
Mr.. Bryan then told the story of the
successive bond deals ami the plan to
again issue bonds to a private syndi-
cate which was defeated, and how,
when the bonds were SOLD In open mar
ket, the president Of that syndicats
paid more for them than he paid at
secret sale. Mr.. Bryan Continued:
What does it meant II means that
the people who would pose as the
guardians Of the treasury would rob the !
people. This fact did not excite the !
Indignation Of the onicials of the gov |
eminent, and a short while later the |
chairman Of that syndicats was present
where an Official OF the government !
was the honored guest at q banquet. II |
We believe In equality before the law,we
cannot make any distinction between
he man who takss s5oo. 900 and the !
man who takes 500.
Now, they talk Of honor of the gov
'rnment / believe that the honor Of /
he government car be better maintain
ID by 7o.eOs.oo Of the people than by
with handful OF nnanciersL
The republican party does not denounce
he bond syndicate. The democratic
AIRY doeA