The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

LIdH WHO lOuay is sweating DlOOu Tor
fear some laboring man is going to
have his wages cut in two. Derisive
| laughter).
Now, my friends, the policy of the
enemy is 70 divide our forces. Can
lrishman in the crowd, Johnny Bulls
policy too.") Whenever there has been
an effort on the part of the laboring
man to secure any legislation in their
behalf, where have they found their
friends? They
FOUND THEIR FRIENDS
on farms and not in Wall street among
the advocates of the gold standard.
| (Applause.) And now, they appeal to
| the laboring man to come with the
/ money changers and help them to de-
| feat the farmer, because he wants a
higher price for his product. They
want the laboring man to believe that
/ the coinage of silver is going to hurt
/ him.
MY friends, L would rather risk the
! laboring man to decide what is a good
thing for him than 10 leave his inter
ests in the hands of his enemies. (Ap-
plause.) The laboring men know that
| they cannot separate themselves from
| the tillers of the soil. They know
there can be no prosperity or happiness
| in the country until the farmer is sell
! ing what he produces for more than
it costs him to produce it. (Cheers)
They known that a policy which de-
! creases the number of home-ownerS
i and increases the number of tenants,
/ curses not only the farmer but every
! one who earns his bread by the sweat
| of his brow; and they know that the
great toiling masses have got to stand
together, or, if ] may use one of the
early jokes, they have got to hang to-
gether or they will hang separately
Now, my friends, l have suggested
these things for your consideration and
I want to
SUBMIT A FEW QUESTIONS
for you to ask your opponents when
you enter into discussion with them,
because conversions are made through
you. More people are converted in
these hand-to- hand contests than are
converted from the platform, and |
want you as missionaries to go into
all the darkness around you and to
bring converts into the lines. Cap
plause.) If a man says he is for the
gold standard tell him he is a man
without party in the United States;
tell him he cannot stand on any ma
tional platform ever written in this
country. If he says he is opposed to
gold standard and in favor of BIZ
nneGallis1n, ask him whether he thinks
the best way to get bimetallism is to
have a. gold standard. Oaughter.) And
if he is willing to have bimetallism, ask
him how long he is willing to wait for
it, If he says he needs other nations
to help, ask him what other nation he
wants to help, and
WHAT CHANCE HE THINKS
THERE IS
of this helping, and ask him whether
he thinks a. creditor country, whose
managers ndswhoSe rulers profit by
the restoration in the value of the dol
lar, are very good people to expect to
come to help US to stop the thing
which is doing them good Ask him
what reason he has to think that hui
man nature is amy different in for
eign country from what it is here;
and ask him if he knows of anybody
here trying to hurt himself just to
help somebody else. Naughter) If he
says that he does not think that this
nation is large enough to have a finan-
cial policy of its own, ask him what
he thinks this nation is large enough to
have. Naughter.) If he says that we
are not able to legislate for ourselves
on the greatest question that can come
before the people, ask him what right
we had, anyhow, to declare our indie
pendence a hundred years ago. More
laughter) If they tell you that they
do not want a 53-cent dollar, ask them
if they have got any of these dollars
to sell now at 50 CENTS Tell them that
under free coinage the dollar will be
the same as it is now; will be of the
same weight and the same fineness,
and that it will be legal tender bet
ter than it is today, because while the
silver dollar is a legal tender today, I'M
less somebody contracts against it, the
new silver dollar will be a legal tender
no matter if men hereafter try by law
to deTnonetize what the government
makes money. They tell you that che
government must redeem all its obi
cations in gold Who said so? No
law ever said so. No law is on the
statute books today that ever said So"
He went on to speak OF the failure
OF Mexico to maintain the nominal value
OF the silver dollar, and used substan-
tally the same argument as that used
by him in Buffalo to the effect that the
failure furnished no argument apple
able to the United States. AS to the
objection that under free coinage money
could not be coined as fast as it could
be used, Mr.. Bryan said:
I'VE can make more minis, and vet
you find people who are frightened at
a flood and then are frightened at a
drouth of money. I don't know any
thing more pitiful than to see a man
who is in mental terror lest he should
have TO struggle with a flood and
drouth Of money at the same time
Qaughter) They say that
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER
will SO stimulate the production that
mines will produce more than we can
utilize. Whenever I hear a man say
that there may possibly be in the fu-
ture more silver produced than the |
world can utilize, l am always remind !
ed of one thing that consoles me very
much. Every time it commences to
rain, it is possible than the rain may
never stop, and yet 1 have known it
to be so dry that people have actually |
prayed for rain, although they knew
all the time that if it ever got started |
it might not end. (Applause.) But peo-
pie are afraid of a flood of rain be- |
cause they know it has rained for 5000 |
years and we never have had but one
deluge. To be sure, they talk of an
other flood. Naughter) You tell me !
there will be a flood Of silver. [ tell |
you it is possible, but not probable [ |
tell you we have used silver money for |
5, 600 years. and we never have had even |
one flood Of silver all that time. Gaugh-
teri And if the time ever comes when ,
we have too much silver, so much that |
we cannot use it, l shall be much mis-
taken. 1 feel oh, so hopeful that we
Will lind some way OF stopping the
Hood, If we ever want to.
L have known some good friends
who are almost afraid to go to sleep at
night for fear somebody would break
INTO the back yard and use it as a
dumping place for the silver of the