The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-09
INGERSOLL UN GOLD.
HE CREATES IMMENSE ENTHUSIASM
IN CHICAGO.
Twenty Thousand People Try to
Hear Him-"COllese Gentlemen
dubbed Into Decency by the PO-
lice.


| ON the West Side tonight, to hear the
! speech of Colonel Robert G. IngerSoll.
OF this number 1900 managed TO force
| themselves under the canvass which con-
| tained only 1900 seats, and those OF the
| remainder who did not go away were
| taken care of at an overflow meeting.
which was addressed by local politicians.
Tonight's Grafton was the first that MIR.
| lngersou has delivered in a political line
since the last campaign He was loudly
| cheered when he stepped on the platform,
erected under the tent. But 1t was Just
| thirty minutes from the time he attempted
| to commence speaking to the time when
! sufficient order was secured to permit of
his proceeding.
university TO the left of the platform
( brought their college yells with them, and
| evidently had planned repetition of the
| experience that Candidate Bryan met
was trouble, but a squad of twenty police
men with their clubs succeeded in
QUIETING THE ENTHUSIASM
of the youths and after one onslaught by
the officers, the yelling ceased.
Colonel 1ngerson requested those who did
not want to hear MN to go home, and
managed to get in few cutting remarks
at the outset of his speech, but the quiet
which reigned when he finally got launch
ed into his argument was unusual.
Il admit that all the parties who dis
agree with me are honest. The large
masses Of mankind are always honest;
the leaders not always, but the mass of
| the people do what they believe to be
right. Consequently, there is no argu-
! ment in abuse, nothing calculated to con-
vince in calumny. To be kind, TO be can
did, is far nobler, far better and far more
American. We live in a Democracy, and
we admit that every other human being
has the same right to think, the same
right to express his thougts, the same
right to vote that we have, (applause)
and l want every one who hears me to
vote in exact accordance with his sense
to cast his vote as his conscience die
tates.
I mo man ever made or created money.
1t is beyond the power of legislature and
and congress. Money is not something
that man can create. Money is some
| thing that does not have to be re-
deemed.
MONEY IS THE REDEEMER.
(Applause.) Anything that has to be boil
! stored up with the promise Of any in
dividual or a nation is not money. A ma
| ton can no more create money by law,
than it can create corn and wheat and
promise to pay money is no nearer money
than a bill of fare is q dinner. daughter
'"Twenty-three and twenty-five one
hundredths grains Of pure gold make one
dollar. That is the money of the civil
| lied world. All, but they say: Cannot
you make dollars out Of silver? L say
yes, but when you make a dollar out Of
silver you have got to put a dollar
plause) II you make money Of some
( thing else, you have got to put dollar s
worth OF something else in to the dollar.
1t takes dollars worth of paper to make
good paper dollar. Laughter) 1t takes
a dollars worth Of iron to make an iron
dollar. and it takes a dollars worth of
silver to make silver dollar. You do
not add to the gold by coming 1t any
more than you add to the value of wheat
| by measuring it; any more than you add
to the value of coal by weighing. An,
but they say, what makes gold valuable
is that the law has
MADE IT A LEGAL TENDER.
Again. gentlemen, you are arguing
| backwards. Because it was valuable, the
law made it a legal tender. Making it a
legal tender did not give 1t value; but
being valuable, the law made Il a legal
tender, recognizing its value. And yet,
| these gentlemen say that it got all its
value from the law making it a legal
! tender. 1t is exactly the other way. The
! legal tender law rests on the value of the
metal. Why is gold valuable? l don't
know. Why do most people love oys-
ters? I don't know. applause and
laughter) Why do so many people set
idiotic about election? (Applause.) l
don't know. But there are facts in hui
man nature. For some reason people give
value to gold. And that value is recog-
nized by the law-naking power, and that
is all there is to the legal tender act.
But, says Mr.. Bryan, our money is
too good How can money be too good?
He says: We want more money. l
say yes; we want good money and the
more good money we have the better
There has been added to the money of the
world $225, 000, 900 in gold in the last year.
| dug from the misery crevices of the
| rocks. Next year there Will be IN all
probability a hundred millions more than
that. We are getting more good money:
But he says: We want cheap money
Well. why? Because the money is now
so good that people hoard it. Conse-
uuently he wants to get money that no
body will want to keep (applausel; money
that everybody is crazy to spend. liz we
get that kind of money who will take it?
{ That is the kind of money these gentle
men want in the United States, cheap
money Do you know that the words
] cheap money are a contradiction IN
terms? Cheap money
IS ALWAYS DISCOUNTED
when people find out that it is cheap.
I another way. Twenty years ago, at
! Cooper Union, in New York, l made
/ speech upon this subject favoring honest
( money I said: I am in favor of paper
/ with gold and silver behind it. l believe
! in silver because it is one OF the great
/ American products, but | want a silver
dollar worth a gold dollar, even II you
i beva To make it four feet in diameter.
: 1Annlause) No government can afford
I 70 be a clipper Of coin. Honest money
/ for an honest people issued by an honest
nation That was where | was twenty
years ago and that is where l am to-
night Better be an honest bankrupt
! than rich thief. Poverty can mold IN
! lis hand the jewel, Honor; a jewel that
/ outshines all other gems A thousand
times better be poor and noble than rieh
/ and fraudulent" (ApplauSe)