The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-10

petual debt; that all which dignifies,
all which elevates. all which exalts
our moral life, must wither and perish
under the desolating touch of gold.
Ill fares the land, to fastening ills
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay;
Princes and lords may flourish or may
fade,
A breath may make them as a breath
has made:
But a bold yeomanry, their country's
When once destroyed can never be sup
piled.
A man who knows that money is the
life blood of the body commercial, and
that no man or set of men can ever
have a right to ligate the limbs of the
body or to arrest or impede the nor
NAL circulation of that blood; man
who knows that money coined from
either of the precious metals is sound
money, as attested by the experience
and wisdom of all ages of the past;
man who knows that all money of the
constitution is sound money; that
money which is good enough to pay
every pubic debt, that money which
was good enough to pay George Wash
ington for his expenses incurred in es-
tabiishing our liberty. is good enough
TO pay Ickelheimer, or Morgan, or any.
other man, in the wide, wide world;
THAT MONEY OF JEFFERSON.
of Jackson, of Madison, of Monroe,
and of Benton, is honest money, and
he that says It is not insults the MEM
Org of those dead but sceptered sove-
reigns who rule our spirits from their
urns."
A man who knows that International
agreement is a mere device to appease
the people and once more disappoint
and betray them; and. that they would
place this nation under subsection to
Great Britain in the matter of the
standard of value are no friends of
their country and their kind; and that
the true ratio between the metals is
sanctioned by time, 10 to l. A man
who knows that this nations honor is
not in the keeping of that predatory
element, that leagued and
CONFEDERATED SCOUNDRELIsM
which loots the treasury, stiles COM
merce, paralyZes industry and plumbers
the world; a. man who cannot be ruled
by consolidated monopoly or aggre-
gated wealth; that a vast majority of
the American people are farmers; that
when prosperity shall return it will
come first to those dust-covered mil
lions whose hard sun-browned hands
never touch a polluted dollar, who work
in the field under the open skies, under
the buTaig sun of summer and through
the froSts and storms of winter from
the time the stars grow dim in the
east till they rise in the west: that
when these prosper all who trade and
who transport, all who buy and all
who sell will prosper, and that until
I this happens none can prosper except
those who speculate in human misery.
A man who is in complete sympathy
with the common people. who knows
the tragedy of poverty and the pathos
CT the short but simple annals of the
poor. 4 man around whose simple
rural home is no wall of iron to keep
out his fellow man a. man who needs.
and who has no bodyguard. but whose
Shield and protection are the love and
sympathy of his fellow men. Such a
man is Richard ?. Bland He is as
patient as Washington, as sympathetic
as Jefferson. as
GRAVE AND AS JUST AS JACKSON
/ and as wise and sagacious as any man
who ever occupied the presidential
chair. He can command the suffrages
of more Democrats than any other
man standing upon a free silver plat
form and he can command the suf-
frages of more silver men who are not
Democrats than any other Democrat
He can carry every state of the south
He can carry the prairie states and the
mountain states and the Pacific states
and he can carry more states of the
central and eastern part of the coun-
try than any other man standing in
the position which the great Demo-
cratic party has here taken. Nominate
: him and he will be elected by such a
majority as has never been witnessed
in this country Then will be fulfilled
the Californian's prophecy of that Land
from out whose depths
SHALL RISE THE NEW-TIME PRO-
PHET,
! that wide domain. from out whose aw-
/ full depths shall come, all clad in skins
] and dusty feet, a man fresh from his
makers hands; singer singing very
sweet; a charmer acharming, very
wise; and then all men shall not be
/ dumb. nay, not be dumb, for he shall
/ say Take heed. for 1 prepare the way
for weary feet " The eyes of the
whole world are upon US; the great
heart OF mankind beats with anxious
4 expectation of the issue of this con-
future veal or woe of this country.
BY the ashes of your ancestors, by
the memories Of your great and vener-
ated dead; by the love which you bear
/ to your children; by the duty which
/ You owe to posterity, in the name of
all that men hold sacred, 1 appeal to
( you, to resolve this great issue right
and there is one name, the very ut
terance Of which is complete solu-
tion-Bland, Bland, Bland.
The tributes to silver were shrilly re.
ceived, as was the reference to Ickel-
heimer and Morgan, and there were re-
sounding shouts of Bland Bland.
Bland" with which the Grafton was
rounded out. Another seconding
speech was made by ex-Congressn,an
John R. Williams, of Illinois, VINO said
he had served four years on the coin
age committee of the house of repre-
sentatives with the Missouri states.
man, and paid homage to his honesty.
intelligence and fidelity.
Mr. Williams spoke from the platform
IN part as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen of the
convention: In behalf of the great and
growing Democracy of Illinois. l rise
to second the nomination of a candidate
VINO mas done more than any other living
american Tor the restoration of silver.
ana FOR this triumphant victory (Cheers).
F. candidate who is not an orator but
a statesman of sound judgment and
many years of useful experience; man
whose long and loyal service for free
coinage of silver has made his illustrious
name 4 watchword in every home of
America. loud cheering.) Having
served four years with Mr.. Bland on
the coinage committee and six years in
the house of representatives l know him
and know him well. The Democracy of
Illinois is proud of all the illustrious
names that will be presented to this con-
Vention. We would rejoice to honor them
ALL but this great silver question which
is now boiling over in this convention
riseS far q hove nd al O. ilnt