The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-24


lous days, when the handwriting can
be seen on the wall, the words Of Lin
coin are worthy of repetition: Said he:
LINCOLN'S PROPHECY.
Yes, we may congratulate ourselves
that this cruel war is nearing its
close. 1t has cost vast amount of
treasure and blood. The best blood CT
the flower of American youth has been
freely offered upon our country's altar
that the nation might live. 1t has in
deed been a trying hour for the re-
public; but | see in the near future
crisis approaching that unnerves me
and causes me to tremble for the safe
ty of my country. As a result of the
war corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high places
viii follow, and the money power of
the country viii endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the preju-
dices of the people until all wealth is
aggregated in a few hands and the
republic is destroyed. l feel at this
moment more anxiety for the safety
of my country than ever before, even
in the midst Of war. God grant my
suspicious may prove groundless."
How prophetic have the words of
the immortal Lincoln proved to be,
said Mr. Weber Before the war
there were few men who possessed
more than S2.0O0,O00 apiece, but now
only thirty years after, $4,000 men own
more than do the rest of the Il, 600
people of this republic. 1t is the equal
distribution of wealth which makes a
country great, which makes it worth
fighting for, which makes it worth
dying for. Instead of the wealth of
the country being among the many,
II is in the hands of a few.
MONOPOLY HAS ITS GREEDY
CLUTCH
on the threats of the people, and the
trust octopus is gnawing at the yitals
of the nation. There is poverty and
hard times all over the land; millions
of men are vainly seeking employ
ment, and weak women and innocent
children are going supperless to their
beds of rags. In the midst of plenty,
people are starving. The gold stand
ard men claim that this fearful state
of affairs is due to production;
the silver men declare that it is due to
the contraction of the circulating me-
dunn of the country. My Mckinley
friends, there cannot be .over-produc-
ton in the products of the field when
one of Gods children has to go sup
PEERLESS to bed; there cannot be over
production in the shoe factories While
one person is compelled by poverty to
press his bare feet upon the cruel
rocks of the highway; there cannot
be an production in the manufac-
ture of wooden goods when one person
cannot cover his nakedness with cloth
ing. The circulating medium is the
life blood of the nation. We demand
the money of the constitution. When
the people of this land-the common
people-were thinking how this Union
was to be saved, the cupidity of the
gold cormorants became aroused, and
then commenced the conspiracy which
finally resulted in the demonstration
of silver in 1873, and in the enthrall-
ment of the American people in the
bonds of financial slavery.
GOLD IS ALWAYS A COWARD.
1t always disappears in every crisis
and did not dare to come out into
the broad light of day even when sill
yer was stealthily struck down by
the Vaccinations of that arbitrator,
John Sherman, and his associates in the
interest of the bondholders.'
Mr.. Weber denounced Mckinley,
whom he called the counterfeit Napo-
leon of Canton. and in passing refer
ence to the tariff question implored
his hearers not to waste their time
lin kicking a dead dog" He declared
that the question of American man
hood and the question of American in
dependence We're interviewer in the
financial question; that the sheepmen
who were shouting for Mckinley had
as a. basis for their politics SordidnesS
and greed; that such men when they
opposed free silver reminded him of the
serpent who fastened its poisonous
fangs in its own body when cornered,
and that when they thought of the
position they occupied they must hate
themselves. Scared as your con-
sciences are, and tough as your stom-
achs must be-" said the speaker, ''it
must be a dreadful task for you to
swallow this nauseating Mckinley
dose"
Mr.. Weber paid an eloquent tribute
to King, placed Arthur Brown on a
spit-iron of ridicule and criticism, ex-
horted his hearers to vote for men for
the legislature who would strengthen
Bryan's hands by sending a silver man
to represent Utah in the United States
senate, and declared that to endorse
Browns course was tantamount to de-
nouncing Frank J. Cannon as a trail
tor to the best interests of Utah.
KING QUOTES CANNON.
Sam Kings speech was in a differ
ent vein. 1t also was logical, truthful,
convincing and eloquent. He read the
Republican financial planks from 1882
down to date. He contrasted those of
former years with that of 1886, and
showed by the records that the planks
prior to that of 1896 were mere springs
to catch woodcocks." THE Republican
party has betrayed the people" said he
land now they are asking to be again
placed in power. But the fires of
rs still burn in the breasts of the
American people, and they are again
determined to be free from English and
European domination. The people of
Beaver We're led to believe last year
that the Democratic party would do
nothing for silver, and that the hope
of its restoration was in Republican
success. Wells. Cannon and Allen in
stilled that belief into your minds and
pie The Republican party was tried
at St. Louis and was found wanting.
Your leader for four years, Frank ].
Cannon, and c. E. Allen denounced
the action of that convention, depart
ed from it like heroes and are now bat
Ting under the standard of silver and
for the success at the polls of that
champion of the people, William ].
Bryan Let me read the words of Frank
]. Cannon, delivered before the st.
Louis convention, as the closing para
graph of an address which will go
down in the political history of the ma
ton as
AN EPIC OF THE TIME
when the hosts of greed were battling
for the control of the nation. Cannon
said: AT this parting of the ways we
cling to the faith, let the name go