The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-17

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Farmers Patriotic League of Maryland,
to the number of 200, called on Secre-
tary Carlisle today at the treasury. TO
invite him to address them in Balti-
more at his convenience.
The secretary received the delegation
on the south steps of the treasury.
where Mr. H. K johnson, the leader
of the delegation, made an address, in
which he said they were Cleveland and
Carlisle Democrats who proposed to
vote for Mckinley as the representa-
tive of honest money. Postmaster War
field, of Baltimore, accompanied the
delegation.
Secretary Carlisle mounted a chair,
and as he did so some one called out
Tell the truth" He promptly an
swered: Il will try to do So" Then
he said:
Gentlemen, | am very much obliged
to you for this visit, and very sorry
that 1t is not in my power to comply
with the request which you have come
here to make. The reasons why 1 am
not able to do so I think are we'll I'M
derstood by the public. My business
has been so arranged as TO permit me
to make few speeches in my own
state, but under the circumstances it
would not be possible for ME to go
elsewhere.
TO THE LABORERS.
Il cannot, therefore. accept your in
vitation to go to Baltimore, but one
or two things have been suggested by
the addresses just made, about which
1 would like to say a few words to
you while you are here. If there is a
laboring man in the United States who
really believes that the money he is
now receiving for his wages is too good
for him, that it is buying too much food,
too much clothing for himself and
family, or that it is paying rent for
q better house than he and his family
ought to live in, it is his duty to vote
for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of is to l. (Cheers.)
If there is any laboring man in the
United States who has saved money
out of his earnings and deposited it in
a savings bank or building association
or paid it on a policy of insurance for
the benefit of his family, and who de-
sires to have it paid back to him in
currency worth about half as much
as the money ne paid out, he also ought
to vote for the free and unlimited coin
age of silver, for that will give him
exactly what he wants.
A COVERT THREAT.
''On the other hand. every man in the
United States, whether he works for
wages or not, who wants to preserve
the value of what he has already accu-
mulated and insure the value
OF what he may hereafter re-
ceive, ought TO vote against
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer and for the maintenance of a sound
s,-,-
(Applause) While every man pno works
sation for his services must be deeply
interested in the result of the pending
contest, those men who work for rail-
read companies and ether transportd-
ton companies, many of whom reside
IN your city. and some of whom are
perhaps here, have 4 special Interest
in the question involved, because their
employers are confronted by a situa-
ton which makes it impossible to so
increase wages Gs TO compensate for
the diminished purchasing power OF
the money in which wages must be
paid if the policy of free coinage OF
silver at is to is adopted. These com
T2nieS cannot increase wages unless
they can increase the receipts from
their business; they cannot increase
the receipts from TIER business, unless
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rying freight and passengers, and if
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charges for carrying freight and pas
ssngsrs, it is safe to say tEat the very
men. the very people who are now
most clamcrous for the free coinag e
of silver would be The first 70 protest
against it and to demand legislation to
prohibit it in all cases where such leg
islasicn is not already existing. Cap
plause-)
ONE TRUTH
The man. therefore who works for
q .rasst , .s.Iyn Company wOdld find
hi~,sesf 80 helrless Victim of a policy
which diminished the purchasing power
o. ms V ges about One-ha.f and COM
PEELED him to work On and on for the
same number OF dol,ars he received be-
fore. thus destroying all the hope of
Improvement of his condition. But,
gentlemen. The laboring men have t,aeir
fate in their own hands. They have
the power to protect wages against
depreciation and to protect their cOUn-
try against financial disturbances and
ruin, and If they are as intelligent
ard patriotic as l believe them to be,
they will so exercise their power that
no reckless sgitatnr Will hereafter dare
to APPROACH them in behalf of his wild
tnf ry ssae Of france
and evil government. prolonged ap-
.piauSs.) Now, gentlemen, ! Thank you
again for this visit. and | tender 10
each and every one of you my bes.
wishes for his prosperity in whatever
calling he may hereafter be engaged"
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