The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-21
Teller and Other Silver lien Score
the Platform Put Forth by
the Republicans.

lar.
/ THE representatives and supporters
of Mr.. Mckinley consented to the
insertion in the st. Louis platform of
the gold standard a declaration thinly
veneered by declaration for bimetal-
lism when the leading commercial
nations of the world should CONSENT
/ but until that consent was secured, the
gold standard must be maintained. 1t
is well known that this consent cannot
be secured from Great Britain and
that such declarations for bimetallism
means nothing with this limitation
upon It, Mr.. Mckinley consented TO
/ the declaration for the gold standard
i IN Ire platform, and IN his recent
/ speeches has accepted it and has be-
/ come the advocate thereof; he has
shown by his speeches heretofore made
that he understood the danger OF the
gold standard and the distress which
would be inflicted upon the American
/ people by its adoption, and yet he
/ pledges the people to support and
maintain that system, and
FAsTEN UPON THEM ALL THE
EVILS
of the financial system which he has
/ heretofore repudiated, if they will
make him president Whatever may
have been his attitude Oh the money
/
ably hereafter support the same f1nan-
cial system that the present Demo-
cratic administration has, and if cleo
/ ted must continue the policy of Mr..
/ Cleveland in the sale of bonds in time
I of peace. Hence, with the success of
+ Mr.. Mckinley W. may look for con-
/ tinued increase OF the public debt and
the sale Of bonds to maintain the gold
standard.
That the condition of the country
/ is not satisfactory all admit. The pro-
! ducers of wealth are not receiving fair
and proper compensation for their
/ labor, whether in field, factory or
mine; enterprise has ceased; values
are constantly declining; labor is I'M
/ employed; discomfort and distress pre-
walls to an extent never before known
/ in the history of this country. and no
reason can be found for such an I'M
happy condition, save in vicious
monetary system. Those who profess
to
( DEPLORE THE PRESENT FINAN-
CIAL CONDITION,
and oppose the free coinage of silver,
are divided in opinion as 10 the cause
! of the present condition. Some declare
that it is because We have too much
tariff; others that we have not enough;
while the fact exists that every gold
standard country in the world, whether
/ it has a high or low tariff, is now and
has been during recent years in the
throes of financial panic; and every
silver standard country, compared
with its former condition, is enjoying
an industrial development and degree
/ of prosperity hitherto unknown in it's
history. While thus differing in opin-
ion, they unite in asserting that the
/ gold standard must be maintained I'M
til foreign countries shall signify their
Willingness that the American people
shall exercise the rights of free men
and create financial system of their
own. If we overlook the humiliation
and degradation we must feel on ac-
count of such a declaration of fnan-
cial dependency, we may well inquire
when the consent of the leading COM
mercial nations will be obtained.
No one who has read the proceedings
of the three international monetary con-
fererCss that have already been held,
or who has examined the impractical
Bile propositions presented at those con-
ferences, can for a moment believe that
any
INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLIC
AGREEMENT
can ever be made with the consent of
an tine leading commercial nations of
the woc,d.'' When will Great Britain,
controlled as she is and ever will be by
49, Z. edltor classes, who collects vast
sums of money for interest due her and
her citizens, who buys OF US annually
many more millions than she sells to
u.s. and whose interest ii is to make the
pound sterling purchase as much of
our products as possible, consent
that we shall be financially indie
dent, as we are supposed to be politi-
cally independent? When did the cred
itor classes of Great Britain ever give
up or in any way yield an advantage
such as they now possess through the
maintenance of the gold standard?
There is no hope for International BIZ
metallism until the United States shall
establish bimetallism for itself, and
when that is done, international BIZ
netallism may be secured
WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF
GREAT BRITAIN.
The United States. on all other sub
jects of legislation, acts independently
of any other NATION on earth. BY what
process of reasoning is its right, au-
thority or ability to legislate upon this,
the most important subject with which
1t has to deal, questioned or denied?
With a nation equal in wealth and
power to one-fourth of the world it is
cowardly to say that we must ask the
permission of Great Britain to estab-
lish and maintain a financial policy of
our own. Believing as we do, that
return to the monetar system es-
pecially recognized in the constitu-
ton and completely provided for by
law from 1892 till 1873 affords the only
ground of hope for the betterment of
the distressed condition of all the
classes, except those who live by the
increment that money loaned gives to
those who loan it, we appeal to all
classes to rally to the support of the
only candidates whose success indi-
Gates any hope of relief.
LET the merchant and business man
whose dwindled and lessened profits
have. despite his care and economy,
brought him face TO face with
PROSPECTIVE BANKRUPTCY AND
RUIN,
the professional man. whose best eff
forts scarcely afford him compensation
for his labor alone, the farmer, the con-
tinually falling prices of whose pro-
duets have left him no returns for cap
ital invested and work performed, and
last, but not least, let the grand army
Of laboring men, SO called, the artisan,
the mechanic and the miner and every
one who depends upon his daily labor
for his daily bread, look about him and
observe the great number OF those who