The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23

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Eve are entering upon a campaign
which is a remarkable one in many
respects. Heretofore, at least in the
last twenty-five or thirty years, each
party has gone into the campaign prac-
tically solid, presenting a united front
against the opposing party, but in this
campaign there has been practically a
bolt from every convention which has
been called. This means that the peo-
pie are not so willing now as they have
been to allow the platform of a party 10
control their elections Men are think
ing this year with more earnestness and
intensity than they have been think
ing in recent years, and the result Of
this thinking will be manifested when it
comes to
REGISTER THE WILL
! of this great nation, and between that
| time and this hour we expect to present
/ to those who must act upon the ques-
tons, the issues of this campaign. L
beg you to consider whether the great
toiling masses of this nation have not
a right to make a business out of poll
/ tics for once, and protect their homes
and their families from disaster Gap
plause) 1 have not been in the state
| of New York long; have not met many
Of your people; and yet in the short
time that I have been here L have met
enough Republicans who said they were
going to vote our ticket to make up for
every Democrat that ever deserted us,
and we welcome the coming guests as
we speed those who are parting. Gap
plause)
ut IS HOLLOW MOCKERY
to grant to the people a right in your
constitution and then deny them the
privilege of exercising it. 1 assert that
the people of the United States. those
who produce wealth as well as those
who exchange it, have sufficient patriot
ism and sufficient intelligence to sit in
judgment upon every question which
has arisen or which will arise, no matter
how long our government may endure.
(ADDlause)
MY friends" he continued, II want
you to remember that in the discussion
of this money question there are GER
tain fundamental principles, and when
you understand these principles, you
understand the money question L was
out in a portion of this country where
they irrigate on large scale, and
found enormous plants, and in inves-
tfgating this the thought occurred to
me. what principle underlies the sub
ject of irrigation? It is that water
runs down hill When you understand
that water runs down hilF all you have
to do is to dig ditch with slant,
and you can carry water wherever you
want it. So it is with the money ques-
ton. You have got to ind out
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
which undeq-lfe the subject, and when
you understand them you understand
thu money question. What is the
principle that underlies it all? 1t is
the law of supply and demand, which
applies to money as to everything else.
You know that if the worlds crop next
year of a certain article is very much
greater than the crop this year, that
the article will fall in price; if the crop
is much smaller than this year, that it
will rise in price. You know that the
law of supply and demand reaches and
controls all sorts of property. 1t
reaches and controls money as well as
other forms of property. The estab-
fishing of gold as sole unit of value
throughout the world, and the destruc-
ton of silver as standard money,
means that you shall destroy the value
of all property except money and in
vestments that call for a fixed amount
in money. 1t means that you will give
to these investments and to this form
Of property-money-a advantage over
every other form of property. When
you
UNDERSTAND THE EFFECT
of this policy. and then understand
that the desire for it is manifested
most among those who hold the fixed
investments or trade in money, think