The herald., 1896-09-14
SILVER SENTIMENT AT LONG BEACH
Eloquent Speeches bv Hon. Henry Z. Hazard
and Others

| Eloquent Speeches bv Hon. Henry T. Hazard
and Others
| LONG BEACH, Sept. Is. Especial cor
respondence.) .)-Silver had its innings
and the friends Of the white metal were
out in force at the mass meeting held IN
| its favor at the tabernacle Saturday
evening. The Long Beach band was
!, on the streets previous to the hour set
/ for the speech-making. and its patriot
ic music added to the enthusiasm which
the multitude, who had come in from the
| outlying districts as well as those living
in town, were loaded with. About 1000
people were present. the majority of
| whom were plainly in sympathy with
the silver sentiment as expressed by
| the eloquent speakers.
Hon. H. c. Dillon, In q neat little
| speech, in which the great questions
now agitating the masses were touched
upon, gave way and introduced as the
| presiding officer of the evening Judge
| w. T. Kendrick.
The Judge briefly touched upon af-
| fairs and paid handsome compliment
| to the two gentlemen who were present
as speakers from Los Angeles to ad-
| dress them on the financial question.
Previous to the speaking the Misses
| the audience with duet on the piano.
Judge Utley on being introduced, was
| greeted with hearty applause. The
Judge is no stranger to Long Beach au-
diences. and his eloquent, clear and
comprehensive treatment of his SUBJ
Ject fell on the ears Of sympathetic and
willing auditors. His arguments and
presentation of facts were simply unan-
| swerable, and he was warmly congrat-
| ulated on his effort at the close of the
meeting.
DR.. A. T. Covert, at the CONCLUSION Of
the Judges remarks. sang a solo. which
was highly appreciated.
Ex-Mayor Henry T. Hazard was the
next speaker. saying, in part:
Our country would soon place itself
| out OF the category Of debtor nations If
we were freed from the power that in
vests our halls of congress and so shapes
our legislation that we will always re-
main in debt. 1t has been the purpose
OF this power to so handicap the Ameri-
can people as to prevent us from declar..
| ing our independence financially as we
| should do. During the civil war we
found this power so firmly entrenched
In the halls of congress that our paper
money must be inoculated with so
many exceptions that its debt-paying
power was largely taken from 1t, and its
| funcions as money largely destroyed
| The original issue of s50.000 900 demand
notes. although not a legal tender at
that time, went to par with gold upon
the order of the secretary Of the treas
ury that these notes should be received
by the government in payment of i'm
port duties and remained during the war
on par with gold, at one time going to
premium Of 2S5 simply because the
government would receive them in pay
ment for money due the government
and because Of this fact the government
has not been permitted to issue any OBJ
legation which has not been so mutila-
ted that 1t cannot be used in the pay
| ment of obligations due the government.
That same power. which in 1852 prevent
ed the government from issuing paper
obligations which would be as good as
gold, are today stronger than ever, and
are now endeavoring to prevent us from
re-investing silver with the functions
of full debt paying power, that 1t may be
so discredited that silver shall be bought
and sold in the markets of the world as
any other commodity and not as one of
the money metals. boldly assert that
this same power does not want sound
money. We find them exerting every
power to prevent us from having sound
| money in 1862. Did we not find them in
| congress injecting into the greenback
the exceptions which robbed it of it's
| soundness as money, that the govern.
| ment might not be independent of their
| gold? That great old commoner. Thad-
| deus Stevens, tells us on his deathbed,
I'VE found that the country must be
lost or the bankers gratified." And to
crafty them the sound money proper
ties of the greenback must be taken
from 1.-THE legal tender clause erased
| or those notes could not be issued and
they had the power to prevent it and
they did, and 1t Is the same power which
today is loudly clamoring for sound
money that prevented our paper money
from being sound in 1862.
In 1878, when the silver dollar was at
premium of per cent over gold. and
went out of our country as result. gold
going into circulation instead, were they
satisfied? Indeed they were not They
took from this dollar it's function as
sound money and refused it the rights
of money-that is the debt-paying pow
er and decreed that 1t should be pro-
duct and not precious metal having the
power to measure other property but
that it should be measured by gold and
that gold should measure all things.
Why should silver be thus discredited?
For the sole purpose Of reducing the
| amount Of money in the world and doub
ling thereby the burdens of the govern
| ment and the people, that their bonds
dearer money, gold. Gold today, by
reason Of this manipulation, has ac
| quired twice the value 1t should have
and requiring twice as much of the pro-
| ducts of labor to pay dollar in gold Is
| it required in 1873 How can 1t be said
| to be an honest dollar when 1t is con-
| stantly growing in value and all other
property declining? 1t is a dollar that
"smiles upon the rich creditor and
! frowns upon the debtor" 1t is the kind
of dollar that will still further aug
ment our indebtedness and put us per-
| manently beyond our power to ever pay
| our debts. We are debtor people. Let
| us beware of that insidious enemy which
would destroy one-half Of the money of
| the world and thereby double the bur-
| den Of our debts and further remove
that period when we as a nation can
emerge from the bondage of indebted
ness. Declare your independence finan-
cially of the balance of mankind and
happiness, prosperity and freedom,
financially, will bless our people. A
gold standard will further rivet the
bonds which now enslave us. This
enemy has been for years strongly en-
trenched within the walls Of our ma
tional treasury, but by the election Of
the "boy orator from the Platte" they
will be expelled therefrom. Vote for
Bryan and freedom from Indebtedness.
REASSERTS A LIB
Rank Injustice Done TO Edwin A. neservs by
| Circulating Q Faisehood
Colonel Hellison Clay Otis insists on