The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-14
FAUsTs IDEAS.
Thinks the Mining Float Would Be a
Coed Educator.

Thinks the Mining Float Would BE a
Coed Educator.
A reporter said to Doc Faust yester-
dav:
well, how are your
Happy is no name for it. A silver
platform, with Bryan as president and
Arthur Sewall as vice-president, with
the assurance that the silver cause
will win this fail, should be enough to
make any man smile. I said thirty
years ago that 1 was young and that
1 would live 20 see Democracy in the
saddle again, and that the white
slaves of the north would be as free as
are the black slaves of the south. With
silver restored to the standard of the
dollar of our dads, the gold kings of
England and the villains of Wall street,
who trade in gold and ever get fat on
the misery of the poor, will have to
take their hands off the people and let
prosperity come to the masses Pleas
ure is no name for it; it is joy-joy I'M
speakableI Just think Of it! The gold
bugs from New York, with the rest OF
the north came TO the convention with
their millions behind them and with
all the arrogance that wealth produces,
GA fpr-CilIIS " OlCS1AIC G1ilA " lOll liz
poor silver men to stand aside and let
them have their way as they have had
for thirty years past. They came, but
they did not conquer as many seemed
TO believe they would.
Those true men Of the west and the
south would not be bribed, bulldozed
or frightened into doing anything but
what they were sent there to do. These
men have made a new declaration of
independence of the American people.
The time has come when gold must
rule and the people be slaves, or the
law shall be the greatest good to the
greatest number. The war is on. 1t
is between the great west, the south
and the white slaves of the north on
one side and the gold-bugs on the other.
If the people win this fall the country
will be free. If the gold-bugs win Eng
land will own US. Which do the people
desire?
What should be done about the cleo
ton this fall2 In Utah we have divid-
ed on party lines-Republican and
Democratic. Each can nominate its
men for the offices to be filed on their
platform. and let the people choose the
men and the platform. There should
not be a dollar spent in Utah, Nevada,
Idaho, Wyoming, Montana or Colorado,
but money and speakers should be sent
east, where they will help the silver
cause. Utah has no interest except to
send J. L. Rawlins to the senate in
stead of blatherskite
DO as Joshua did of old-send men
down to the doubtful states with their
rams horns, and let them blow until
the walls of ignorance on the silver
question shall crumble as the walls Of
Jericho did. Command the sun and
moon to stand still, while the villainy
of the gold-b bugs shall be exposed and
the masses educated, that they may
vote themselves free this fall A few
years ago there was a car fitted out
that went east to advertise Utah, and
it was said it did much good. Instead
l would. send the miners float. The
float could be shipped on a 1at-car. In
each town horses could be hitched on
and the miners could be at work, so the
public could see how hard they had to
toll to get the silver out of the hills
Posters could be distributed advertis-
ing a lecture in the evening from the
float. Have two good speakers from
the west to do the speaking. This float
would save hall hire and two brass
bands a day and do the work in a
more realistic manner