The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-30
lNGERSOLL ON BRYAN.
PECULIAR TALK BY THE GREAT
INFIDEL.
He Says Bryan Hntes the Rich Man;
Hates the Successful Man-GoId
Has Not Been Corncred.

NEW YORK, Oct. 29-To close the
speaking campaign in this city, the
Mckinley League of New York held a
rousing rally in Carnegie hall tonight,
and the fact that Colonel Robert G..
Ingersoll was to be the chief speaker
attracted an audience that filled the
hall long before the meeting was
called to order.
Among the prominent people in the
boxes and on the stage were: Mark
Hanna, John w. Mackey, Hon. War
ner Miller, General Samuel Thomas,
]. N Seligman, D. o. Mills, Cornelius
N. Bliss, General Powell Clayton,
Joseph H. Manley. General Arson G..
McCook, F. W. Blooningdale, John
Murray Mitchell and others.
John E. Millholldnd of the league
presided and after the preliminary ad-
dresses introduced Colonel Ingersoll,
who began his speech in vigorous
manner as soon as the applause which
greeted him and which lasted several
minutes had subsidized. He said in
part:
OUR COUNTRY.
This is our country; the legally ex-
pressed will of the majority is the
supreme law of the land. We are re-
sponsible for our government. We
cannot excuse ourselves for the acts
of the mobiles. We are the kings, we
are the mobiles, we are the aristocracy
of America. When the government
goes wrong the blame is on our brow
We should all vote as we like.
II love this country because the
people are free and if they were not
it would be their own fault. l am
not going to appeal to your prejudices,
even if you had any. l am going to
appeal to your brains and hearts, and
ask you to maintain the honor of your
country.
"Three great questions are presented:
First, as to money; second, tariff; and
third, right of self-defense.
WHAT IS MONEY?
What is money? Money is a prod
uct of nature, something that man
cannot create. 1t is not made; it has
to be found And yet we have man
running for the presidency on three
platforms with two presidents,
who says that money is the creation
of law.
"Mr. Bryan wants money so poor that
the poor cannot spare it; so poor that
the rich won't have it. The farmers
of Maine and Vermont have answered
him. I have confidence in the farm
ers, who, when the sun shines and the
crops flourish, pay their debts. Bryan
says: Vote for cheap money and pay
your debts Creditors say: What is
going to become of u.s.? The question
is: Can congress make SO cents worth
of silver into a, dollar? If they can, let
us have the silver, and use it for moth
ing else
Bryan says that gold has been cor
nered, and millions of people believe it.
1t is strange how credulous some peo-
pie are. They say gold has been cor
nered, and yet for several years the
rate of interest has gone down. If
gold had been cornered, the interest
would have advanced. Why not cor
ner silver? Perhaps it is too poor to
corner
Mr. Bryan says that free silver will
make silver 16 to 1. What's the use
of stopping there? Why not make it
one to one?
OH, BOB.
Mr.. Bryan hates the bondholders of
the railroads. What did those
wretches do? 1 don't know. They
helped to build the 10000 miles of our
railroads, build cars equip roads and
maintain them. Mr.. Bryan hates the
rich. He hates the successful man.
Does he want to be a failure? If he
does let him wait until the Sd of No
yember. There is the question of tar
iff. I want the American people, as
far as possible, to manufacture every
thing that they use. I want to keep
this country to ourselves. In order that
we should prosper muscle musr be
in partnership with brain.
IT would rather have one good county
bank in New York than the whole of
Mexico.
Il am no prophet, nor the son of a
prophet. nor a very profitable SON. In
1892 I said If Cleveland was elected he
would cost the country $4,000, 00O, 600. He
has cost it more. We took the wrong
man on the train at Buffalo, and we
put the wrong man off. We want to
produce great men and women here in
our own country. We want business.
POPULISTIC PHILANTHROPY.
1--WE don't want any Populistic phil
anthropy Let. us have protection.
How much? So much that our in
come will be equal to our outpouring.
don't like to see a man pawning his
bonds to pay his own salary with.
1--WE have no classes IN the United
States; millionaire may be a milk