The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-09
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WEILSVILLE, Oct. s, 1S96.-Judge
Powers amid John T. Game spoke on the
issues of the day here this evening to a
large and enthusiastic audience. To-
morrow evening Hon. w. H. King,
Judge Powers, w. E. Borah and James
H. Hawley, of Idaho, will speak in Lo-
gan and preparations are being made
to make the meeting a representative
one.
Judge Powers discussed, the financial
question and its relation to the
farmer. He argued that until there was
more money and silver remonetized,
that no relief could come from a re-
adjustment of the tariff or from any
other legislation. He argued that the
low price of farm products, the depres-
sion in all business, was not occasioned
by over production, as claimed by The
Mckinley men, but resulted directly
from the fact that the money of final
redemption had been contracted by I'M
wise legislation. He argued that if the
gold standard men should win at this
election that our circulating medium
will be still further contracted by the
retirement of three hundred and forty
six million dollars in greenbacks and
the issuance in their place of interest
bearing bonds.
Your portion said he TO the farmers
present, will be a further depression in
the price of your farm products. Your
land will continue to decrease in value
until the title of farm after farm will
lass from the present owners and the
agriculturists Of America viii become
the tenants of the creditor class. Al
ready the Independent farmer of a few
years ago is becoming a curiosity. He
will soon be so rare that he will be an
attraction of the museums of the land.
| With oats at the present price, with
wheat at its present price, farmers
have a hard enough time to live, but
their struggle for existence will be-
come harder and harder if gold shall
win. This is g debtor nation. 1t is pour
ing its surplus productions into the
laps of foreign money owners. If we
are to be placed permanently on a gold
basis, we cannot expect more than 20
cents per bushel for wheat 1t has got
to drop lower than it is now if we are
to try and maintain the gold standard.
AS l view the conditions confronting
the people they are of the most Sc
rious nature. They are so serious, that
in considering them our contentious
over local offices seem insignificant
and puny. The man who is not willing
to put aside all personal pride and ad-
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for himself or to save some petty office
for his party. jeopardizes the interests
OF great people in any degree, can
! only be compared to Nero flddling while
Rome is burning. Rome is burning The
magnificent fabric of our republic is
being destroyed by the fires of greed
| and avardce. 1t is a time when men
! should make their votes and influence
| count. 1t is a time when we should
To
measures if those names are now the
cloak beneath which there is the form
Of plutocracy.
We need to elect Bryan to the presi-
dency and we need also to elect King
to congress and state legislature
which will send a straight silver Bryan
Democrat to the United States senate
from this state. We should elect King,
because, if the Democratic congress
sional caucus should declare for the gold
standard King would bolt that caucus
Holbrook, in a recent interview de-
clared that he could not tell whether he
would bolt such a caucus or not until the
should be confronted by such a con-
tingency. We should elect King because
he viii make the voice of Utah heard
in the halls Of legislation. Holbrook is
not fitted by nature or by education
Tor hot contest in congress. We should
CtCAN q SILVER DcIIlOcTdi 10 succeed
ator Brown. We should send a man
thoroughly in sympathy with cur cause.
Republicans may seek to belittle the
assertion as much as they choose. If
their party has a majority on joint bal
lot in the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of Utah, Arthur Brown will
be reelected. Despite the resolutions
adopted at the Salt Lake Republican
county convention, which were aimed
at Senator Brown, there were persons
named for the legislature who viii vote
for him for senator, if they get the
chance. There are nominees pledged
for him in all sections of the state. This
is no time to take any chances. This
is year when you should place a
cross mark opposite the rooster on
your ballot and let it go at that
Judge Powers still further argued for
his party and discussed the position of
Democracy upon the tariff and other
questions raised by the Democratic
platform. He spoke for an hour and
thirty minutes.
MEETINGS ANNOUNCED.
The Democratic central committee
has arranged for a series of meetings,
to be addressed by Judge Powers and
Judge King. On Friday night they will
speak at the opera house at Logan; on
Saturday, at 10 a. m, at Providene;
on Saturday, at u m, at Wellsviile: at
$3.50 p. m. at Paradise, and at s p. m. at
Hyrum