The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-13
Scratch Shots.

An eastern patent medicine concern is
sending out letters to papers whom it
patroniZes advising them that the cleo
ton of Bryan will terminate their adver-
Using contracts, and incidentally doing d
little missionary work for single stand
ardism. The Loveland (Col.) Reporter
received one of these epistolatory freaks,
and the reply is appended:
Gentlemen--We are in receipt of a COM
munication from you regarding an adver-
Using contract you have with US, in
which you plainly state that you con-
slider it essential upon our part, If we
wish to hold your Trade, to work for the
election of the gold ticket. So far as our
contract with you is concerned, you are
at liberty to break it at any time you de-
sire, at the same time paying what may
be our due in the deprecated 53-cent dol
lars of which you seem to be afraid. . :
Your house, making remedies for many
of the diseases to which the body is heir,
oecrIes d cure for national financial sick
ness; and threatens not to honer down
our rain barl If the people express their
God-given privileges ct the polls this
coming fall. Concoct a new series of the
ten commandments if you will; write a
new sermon on the mount; allow the con-
stitution of our Union to go by default;
line up a new plan for the sun, moon and
stars 10 follow if you desire; but do not,
we beg of you, attempt to abolish that
grand sentiment of "A government Of
the people, by the people and for the
people" In that lies the perpetuity of
a government which may again be the
grandest on earth. And in the resurrec-
ton of silver lies prosperity for the
masses.
lose your patronage If we continue to
tinue in the course we have chosen,
trusting in the all-wise Deity and the
common: sense of the people to aid us
in the long-sought-for end. Respectfully
yours, w. II. I-HORND9h E.
1t is, I presume, hardly necessary to
state that the Reporter is not McKin-
ly organ.
willy-what is honest money. papa?
Father don't believe anybody knows
exactly, Willy; but | presume, from the
class who use the phrase, that it must
be money which the monopolist, capitalist
and railroad owner earns by the sweat
of their respective brows.
NOVEMBER 6, 1895.
The one-metal host
Have been nipped by frost;
And what will Mckinley now do?
Poor thing
He'll float up the creek,
While the brine from his cheek
Germs up that famed streamlet anew
Poor thing!
I note that a few of the silver organs
are gleefully commenting on the failure
of the Diamond match trust as being the
just interposition of righteous provi-
dence.
1t is such rabid bigotry as this which,
when read by sensible men, hurts the
cause we represent. The advocacy. of
bimeta1lism does not necessitate a violent
antagonism to capital, as seems to be the
idea among certain of our friends 1t is
the abuse of capital which the silver party
is seeking. to remedy; and while there are
trusts which outrageously misuse the adj
vantages it is their good fortune to OBJ
tain, Diamond match is not among them
Under the manipulations of this corpor-
alton the public have seen the price of
matches descend to a point from which
it is impossible for the uninstructed to re-
alize how a profit can be sustained-and
the public it is who have benefited in
this reduction, and who should condone
a circumstance which may possibly effect
a rise in the price of lucifers.
Give the devil his due-as The Herald
says to its correspondents. j. A. Y.