The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-31
HON. O. w. POWERS.

applause.
The judge then told little about the
Intensity of the struggle in Illinois and
the middle states, where wealth and
power were arrayed against the people
and that the latter were determined to
have their right to rule.
Some of the arguments used in the
east against silver was that over-pro-
duction was the cause of low prices,
too much wool grew on the backs of
the sheep the farmers worked too hard
and produced too much wheat and corn
and the cotton planters too much cot
ton and we were made poor through
having too much wealth. Money is
not wealth, it merely represents wealth.
If the argument is right that by pro-
ducing TOO much wealth we have be-
come poor, then we are all wrong in
teaching our children to be industrious
We should inculeate on them the ne
cessity of being idle and lazy for fear
they become poor by producing too
much wealth Settlers should seek tine
worst and most unproductive lands and
we should teach our children that the
highest type of man is the savage, who
craWls out of his cave and kills d snake
for breakfast.
My friends, this is the only conclr-
sion such reasoning can bring us to-
production is the cause of our troubles.
me factories and the granaries are
full, but people are hungry and ragged
because they have not the money with
which to buy what they need; there
fore we want more money.
1t has become so that money is more
valuable to the banker locked up in
his vaults than out among the people.
We ought to be a nation of lenders
Of of
Men in AFFECT poverty in New York
stand on the street corners and pro-
claim about the fear of a flood of
cheap money, men who haven't got a
dollar and didn't know where to ger
one When l heard this talk about a
flood of money | told them to give IL
t. t.lcir wives or send it to Sair iaiSe
and even offered to pay the freight
on it. These people who have never
been in Europe and never expect to
go to Europe are greatly worked up
lest Chauncey Depew, when he goes to
see the Prince of Wales, will have some
difficulty in changing his American
dollars for English sovereigns. They
are afraid that when some no account
marries an American heiress he will
have to take her dowry in 50-cent dos
lars. Too bad, isn't it?
The arrogance of the money power
in this struggle is wonderful and APP
palling, and their denunciation of
what the plutocrats call the common
people is exceedingly bitter.
They tell us that it is for the benefit
of the .laboringman that the capitalist
wants a gold standard. Capital loves
labor so that it cannot bear the thought
of paying the laboringman in 53-cent
dollars. l suggested to some capital
lists that if they loved the laborer as
they professed, it would be a good
plan to pay him 50 instead of 81. These
Shylocks are dishonest in this, they
are dishonest when they say it is for
the purpose of having a high tariff on
pumpkins and other things that they
are pouring their millions. into Mark
Hannas campaign fund.
CAN'T TRUST THE REPUBLICANS.
Turning to local matters, the judge
asked if Republicans could do their
| full duty to the silver cause by elect
| ing Holbrook as congressman. The
Republican party as at present con-
! stituted could not be trusted with
safety 1t was like the dog which the
| two tramps found guarding the kitchen
| door. One tramp told the other to go
! in and ask for something to eat, but
there stood the dog. Go on says
| the other, "he won't bite; he's wag-
cling his tall Yes" was the reply,
| hes wagging his tail, but he's growl-
| ing with his mouth, and l don't know
which to believe"
| The Republicans here are wagging
| the tail, while the Republicans in the
east are growing. Can you tell which
| to believe? asked the speaker.
| It is for self-interest that the cor
porations, the wealth, the power, the
note havers, the pawn brokers and
all human birds of prey which fatten
on the necessities of the people, are
allied on one side and the common
people on the, other for self-protection.
SERFS OR FREEMEN.
The issue in this campaign is whether
seventy millions of people shall be
made serfs, and we have a republic
in name only, or whether we shall be
free. Why do they call us anarchists?
Because we have declared for the
money of the constitution; because we
have had the temerity to criticise the
supreme court, the creator, the people,
criticised it's creature. Any American
citizen has the right to criticise any
American institution. They are great
ly wrought up over it, and John Nj.
Palmer says he would rather live I'M
der monarchy than the principles of
the Chicago platform. No man who,
under any circumstances, declares he
would submit. to a monarchy in this
land should receive single vote. The
best blood of the world was spilled to
found this republic and it's free insti-
tutions. the like of which were never
possessed by man before. Yet Palmer
declares he prefers g monarchy, and
he is not alone in this.
Judge Powers then read an extract
from Bishop Worthington' sermon,
where he says it is generalization of
the farmers and the people that have
brought about present conditions.
The fact, said the judge, is the peo-
pie are being educated so that the
money changers can no longer deceive
them. He who attacks the free schools,
the glory of this land, is worthy to be
called an Anarchist (Applause)
The reason the farmers sons have
left the farm is that they have seen
their fathers and mothers bowed down
with toll. and seen the fruits of their
toll stolen from them and boarded in
the Golfers of the usurers. That is
why they have left the farms and gone
into the cities to try to better their
condition.
Lauterbach of New York has said
the people will not abide by the decis-
ion of the people. if Bryan is elected.
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