The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-28

Dut lIllS ASSAULT OO6S uOL emo IQeTS.
The supreme court of the United States
and the federal lower courts are ar
rdlgned because they used the familiar
writ of injunction to suppress violence
and TO restrain men from breaking the
law, and that platform PLAINLY means
that the Democratic policy was that
when the supreme court exercising its
constitutional power and duty, gave an
Interpretation to a law of the United
States that was not pleasing to Con-
gresS they would increase the number
of judges and pack the court to get a
decision TO please them. (Applause)
Mr.. HIN said in his speech of this as
sault on the courts: That provision,
if it means anything, means that it is
the duty of Congress to reconstruct the
supreme court of the country. It
means and now no.e his words-''the
adding Of additional members to it or the
turning out of Office and reconstructing
the whole court. 1 win not follow any
such revolutionary step as that
You are to answer then, my fellow
citizens, in all the gravity of a great
crisis, whether you will entertain a
party who propose to destroy the bal
ance which our fathers instituted in our
system CT government, ana whenever a
tumultuous Congress disagrees with the
the supreme court and subservient
president is in the White House, that
the judgment of the court shall be
RECONSTRUCTED AND REVERSED
by increasing the number of judges
and packing the court with men who
wifi decide as Congress wants them
to.
1 do not intend to spend any time in
the discussion of the tariff question.
That debate has been won. (Applause9
and need not be protracted. 1t might
run eternally upon theoretical lines. We
have had some experiences, but they
were historical and remote, and not very
instructive to this generation. We
needed an experience OF our own, and
we have had it. Qaughter.) 1t has been
a hard lesson, but a very con-
vincing one, and everybody was
in tn school house when it was
given him A panic in 1898 of most ex-
traordinary character has been sue
ceeded by a gradual drying up, less
and less until universal business dis
traction and anxiety prevails over all
of our community. l do not believe
there has been a time. except, perhaps,
in the very heat of some active panic,
when universal business
FEAR AND ANXIETY
and watchfulness even to the point Of
depression has characterized this great
METROPOLIS as it does today (Applause.)
What has brought it about? Gen
tlemen, who is there to defend the VIII
son tariff bill? Who says it is a good
tariff measure? CA voice. Nobody. }
1 do not believe a candidate can be
found to say that it is. Mr.. Cleveland
repudiated it 1t was so bad that he
could not attach his official signature
to it, and it became a law without 1t.
He said it was full of incongruities and
inequalities What has been the result
of that measure? Our manufacturers,
left without adequate protection, have
been successfully and gradually clos
ing up and putting out their fires. But
not only has this produced such an
effect, but it has practically contributed
to the financial depression that we are
in. The maintenance of the gold re-
serve up to S10O,000000 by the govern
ment for the redemption of our notes
was essential to confidence in the sta
bility of our finances. When the gov
eminent reserve runs down, people be-
gin at once TO say:
1--WE may come to a silver basis if
gold is going out" How can you
KEEP A GOLD RESERVE
of 500, 100000 when you have not one
hundred millions in the treasury all
told? How can you maintain this
gold reserve for redemption of notes
when you have an annual and contin-
uous deficit, and your income not
equaling your expenses? So that, my
friends, this tariff bill has not only
contributed, by increasing Importation,
by taking away the needful support
for our own manufacturers. but it has
contributed in the way of increasing
the silver scare to bring US into the
present condition of distrust and dis
may which now prevails. (Applause.)
But 1 did not intend to follow that
question further. 1 am quite as much
opposed to cheapening the American
workingman and workingwoman as I
am to cheapening our dollars. ZAP
plause) l am quite as strongly in IA
vor of keeping work at home as l am
gold dollars (Applause) If it should
be known tonight that the gallant SOL
der, the typical American, that dis
tinguished and useful statesman, Will
lam Mckinley of Ohio, applause and
cheers, would certainly be elected
president, how the bears would take
to cover on the stock exchange to-
morrow
My friends, as Republican I am
proud of many things, but 1 can sum
up as the highest satisfaction I have
had in the party and its career that
the prospect of Republican success
never did disturb business. applause
In connection with this financial mat
ter, do we all realize HON important
the choice of a president is? Do you
know that as the law now is, without
the passage of any free coinage of sill
yer at all, it is in the power of the pres
ident of the United States to bring the
business of this country TO a. silver
basis? All that he has to do is to let
the gold reserve go, TO pay out silver
wien men ask for gold, and we are
there already. 1t is only because the
presidents of the United States that
we have had and the one we have nov
have regarded it under the law as his
public duty to maintain the gold basis,
MAINTAINING THAT PARITY
between our silver and gold coins which
the law declares is the policy of the
government, and because he has the
courage to execute the powers given to
him by the resumption act to carry out
that declaration of public law. I I'M
dertake, therefore, to say that if Mr..
Bryan or man holding his views were
in the presidential chair, without my
legislation by Congress, we should be
on a silver basis in a. weeks time. ZAP
plause)
Three or four years ago, when I was
in New York, some one of these report
ers who sometimes hear things that are
not intended for them, got hold of a re-
mark of mine about the wild horses that
Mr.. Cleveland had to handle, and [
simply meant by that what has since
been demons trated, that he did not have
a
4 COMPACT OR SOLIDIFIED PARTY
behind him; that the Democratic party
in Congress represented every shade of
every ism that has ever been propoJud-