The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-28
WERE THESE
MEN ANARCHISTS :?
PETER COOPER oUTsPoKEN For
BIMETALLISN.
Wendell Phillips and james G.
Blaine Are 10th Entitled to the
AppeIlation If 1t Is Made to Fit
Bryan.

Mr.. William j. Bryan has been
charged with anarchy because he adj
vocates the adoption of the double
standard OF gold and silver, says the
New York Journal. Peter Cooper. a
man of large wealth, but of larger
humanity and philanthropy, one of
those rare and estimable characters
who regard it as right that the riches
they have made out of the people
should be shared by the people, will
scarcely be branded as an anarchist
and revolutionist. Yet Peter Cooper
was outspoken in his advocacy of BIZ
metallism and severe in his condemna-
ton OF the single standard gold policy.
He wrote to President Hayes in this
manner:
THE demonstration of silver was a
trick of the enemies of the poor mans
currency. The RECOMMENDATION of silver
will be a great relief now, in the de-
preston of all business, if not the final
and best measure. = There is
fast forming in this country an aris-
tocracy of wealth., the worst form of
aristocracy that can curse the pros
periry of any country"
Mr.. Cooper further emphasized his
confidence in the wisdom of silver COIN
age in these remarks:
With regard to the characterization
Of silver, every, Intelligent man must
see that as silver, now forms more than
one-half of the coined money of the
world, the effect of demonetizing sill
yer must not only lessen the value of
the worlds money, but must appreciate
the value of gold in proportion as the
value of silver has been reduced. The
plan for demonetizing silver is said to
have been just presented to the great
bankers of Europe at the great Paris
exposition. 1t required but little ex-
animation to show them that the de-
monetization of silver would appreciate
the value of gold and thus add hun
dreds of millions to their wealth"
AT another time Mr.. Cooper who
spoke his mind with directness, said:
Corporations are fast becoming the
curse. of modern 4 tte.-- They usurp the
powers that belong Of. right to the
community and the government and
actually threaten the liberties of the
people"
THESE predictions of the great philan-
thropist are now being confirmed. Cor
porations are usurping the powers that
belong to the people when they aid
Hanna with money in his attempts to
buy up the electoral votes. of states
and defeat the free will of the people.
They usurp the right of the community.
to the government when they success
fully disregard the laws of the country
and make laws for themselves. Said
Mr.. Cooper:
THE rich of the world are welded to
gold, the poor to silver 1t is to the IN
terest of the rich and moneyed kings to
demonetiZe silver and make gold the
sole currency because they own the
gold.'
No truer words were ever spoken or
written They tell the whole story.
Wendell Phillips, too, the eloquent
champion of human freedom will
scarcely be considered an anarchist by
Republicans, although some Democrats
might have so regarded him in the
slavery days. Wendell Phillips thus
spoke Of the money issue:
This tyranny of money which breaks
down our stoutest men and makes
bankrupt our strongest merchants, is
something to be feared. The slave
power we defied and perhaps have
killed it, but this tyranny of money
has always been the death warrant of
republics. Forgetting this, the
Republican party ordered the bonds
which Sherman said in the senate in
1869 were payable in paper, to be paid
in COMA swindle of some s3000OO,O 900.
Then they demonetized silver and left
| the bonds payable in gold, which
robbed the people of hundreds of mil
lions more to fill the pockets of the
'Rothschilds. y
After the record left by such distin-
guished and philanthropic men as
Peter Cooper and Wendell Phillips on
the money question and the methods
of the gold advocates, will the Repub-
licans continue to denounce Mr. Bryan
as an anarchist because he advocates
free silver coinage in the interests of
the country and of the working peo-
pie? If so, let them recall the words
of James G. Blaine:
Il believe the struggle now going on
in this country and in other countries
for single gold standard, will, if sue
cessful, produce widespread disaster
in the end throughout the world"
Was Mr.. Blaine an anarchist? Or
was he great Republican statesman?
HARD ON TELEGRAPH POLES.