The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

4 IS lOtS IN this question, ana cnere are
many questions that might be put TO
your opponents that they would find
1t difficult to answer. If there is a man
among your acquaintance who tells
you bimetallism is good but he does
not think we can have it without
foreign aid, you tell him that you think
the United States is big enough to have
for itself any good thing that the peo-
pie want. (Applause.) If he tells you
he does not want 50-cent dollar you
tell him you know lots of people who
have been without any kind sf dollars
so long that a 50-cent dollar would be
a, Godsend to them (Applause@ You
tell him also we never had
A FIFTY CENT DOLLAR
in this country until the advocates of
| a gold standard struck down silver and
/ closed the minis to its free coinage.
Tell him that whenever the United
States opens its minis again to the free
coinage of silver and places the white
metal on the same footing with the
yellow, that there will be no fifty-cent
dollars in this country, but the silver
/ dollar will be as good as the gold dol
lar, but neither one will be 200 cent
dollar like the gold dollar. (Applause)
If they tell you the free coinage of Sill
yer cannot help you, because no matter
4 how much money there is you have to
boil, mis- Inuscbe, his sweat, Ills bl'aIn
convert the natural resources OF this
natiOn ineo material wealth. and unless
! he can sell what he produces for more
/ tran the cost of the production, he can
not afford to produce it, The condition
of the farmer, VINO ought TO be the most
/ independent person among us, all has
grown worse and worse until the farm
4 eTS' sons are being driven into the
cities TO contest for every job in the
cities, (Applause.) Laiooring men are
interested in the restoration of bimetal-
/ lisrn. Why? Because bimetallism gives
more opportunity for labor; more con-
sItant employment, and that is the first
thing the laborer desires. Don't talk to
man about what d dollar will buy
until you have given him a chance to
work to get the dollar with which he
is going to buy. (Applause.) The bust
ness man is interest ted in bimeI allism
because he makes his money out OF
those to whom he sells. If farmers and
laborers cannot buy he cannot sell And
If he cannot sell, he cannot buy from
the wholesaler or manufactures. The
business man is finding out he
NEEDS FREE SILVER.
Some of them have been letting their
bankers do their thinking and they let
them adopt a. gold standard Wathout
hIlOWlIlS uiS SlleCI QPOI bl1OIil I1IN41i
selves. But these business men who
have been relying upon their local bank
ers, find the local bankers rely on the
New York banker, and the New York
banker relies on the London banker, ana
a few great magnajtes hold the strings to
the brair.s of the men who ought to
think for themselves. (Greal APPLAUSE
The professional men, the farmer, the
lawyers, the men who belong to the
/ no r1rO611o.a1-<s of
the wealth You cannot destroy the
prosperity of those who toll without I'M
dermining the foundations upon which
they stand. If the money changers can
make it necessary for the government
Ito SELL bonds alt 1041a, when they are
worth 119, money ehaveTs are able TO
profit out of the extremities of the gov
eminent. (Applause) They are 3ter-
ested. You might just as we'll go to
the wolf and ask him TO guard the
welfare of your flock of lambs as to
go to the money changers and ask him
to prescribe a policy that would be
good for the American people. (Great
applause.) 1 want you to take this
question and think it over and solve 1T
for yourselves.
IF anybody had told you twenty-five
years ago, when we had bimetaliism,
a system endorsed by every great
statesman that this country ever knew
up to. 1878; if anybody had told you
that in the year of our Lord 1896 that
there would be a. party declaring in IA
vor of the maintenance of a gold stand
ard until foreign nations broke the
shackles that fastened the American
people, you would have considered it
improbable. Yet the picture L present
to you is not near so improbable as
would have been prophecy twenty-five
hisah rOxSd
the position of the Republican party in
this campaign Can we afford TO throw
the influence of the United States ON
the side of gold alone, unless we are
prepared to accept universal gold
standard with all that it means? Cries
of mo, neveri') If you think we cam
not If you think we should not, if you
think we must not, then
1 WANT YOU TO CONSIDER
your parts in this transaction. The
mined by Congress and the president.
1t may be determined by one
vote I'M the house and one
vote in the senate. and Ghe vote
OF the president. The vote Of one state
may determine the election of the pFeSi-
dent and the vote of one citizen may de-
termine the election of the member of con-
gress who casts the deciding vote upon
that question in congress. Every day has
the same number of hours every other
day has, and yet some days are longer
than a century. Some hours are fraught
with Importance that decades cannot
measure. (Applause.) The day on which
you cast your ballot may determine for a
few years, or forever, the financial policy
of the United States. That day is the
most important that has come to the
United States in time of peace since the
signing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence Great applause) want to bring
this question down home to you. You
you bring it dow to themselves and to
their conditions. If l should say to you /
there was a fire in the other end of
town you would not be distrusted But |
if l said some persons house was on |
fire and gave his name and that man was |
in the audience he would at once 5ecome |
an interested party. Why? because his |
property and loved ones would be in |
danger. l want to tell you that your |
houses are on fire and that your families |
plause.) If you have little home and /
it only cost you 500, and has but one |
room you who own that little home
would be as much exercised by the an
be the great man who lives in a marble
palace, because it is your home.
You have something to sell before
you can get it. You tell that man
that if you have something to sell, no
matter how much you have. you cam
not get anything for it until you find
somebody who has
MONEY TO BUY
what you have to SELL (Applause) If
they tell you that we have falling
prices because of our production, you
tell them we have falling prices be-
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