The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-13
THE LADIES MEETING


THE LADIES MEETING
at the Lyceum came next. Nine o'clock
was the hour set for Mr. Bryan's APP
pearance, but he was more than an
hour late Mrs. Bryan was there. The
meeting was presided over by Mrs q
NJ Shaefer whose husbands father
was the law partner for twenty-one
years of Mr. Bryan's father at Salem,
Ills. When she presented the candl-
date the ladies shrieked and waved an
enthusiastic welcome.
The last address was at Yale place,
where another big crowd had gathered.
The speech of the evening was de-
livered at the Auditorium. There was
little new in it, except the answer 10
Senator Washburn. After returning
thanks for the inkstand presented MN,
Mr.. Bryan said that he advocated OIL
metallism because he believed it was
good thing for the laboring men of the
country, and continued as follows:
4 have received a letter, dated Oc-
tober Y, and signed by w. D. Wash
burn, who is, l understand, an ex-
senator from this state. (Hisses and
groans.) In this letter, he asks me
certain questions about my vote and
action in the house of representatives
on the tariff bill, for which l refer him
to the Congressional Record. But when
he asks me to enter into discussion
on the tariff question, 1 tell him that
there is a question before the American
people which is far more important
than the tariff question. There is
question which can be settled now,
the tariff question
CAN BE SETTLED ANY TIME.
If he wants me to discuss tariff, I tell
him to join with me in a prohibitory
= Il nd
then / VIII discuss the rest OF the
schedule. Great cheering) Or, if he
is not willing to discriminate against
that foreign product by a prohibitory
duty, l will ask him to wait until he
has settled the money question by in
ternational agreement, and then sub
nit the tariff question to international
agreement.
,Laboring men. / want to ask you
why it is that every goldbug says that
you are selfish, and that you are in
tiuenced by selfish considerations, while
every goldbug pretends to be a philan-
thropist, who simply loves honest
money because it will help other peo-
pie? daughter and cheers.) [ want
to know why ii is that these goldbugs
are so sorry that everybody else will
be Influenced by personal interests, and
so positive that personal interests can
not affect them? (Applause) Why is
it? 1 will tell you why, if man be-
lieves a thing is good for himself and
also good for Others, he will admit that
it is good for himself If he thinks a
thing good for himself, but bad for
others. he will never admit that it is
good for himself. (Cheers.) That is
THE RULE THAT l LAY DOWN
and you can examine it and apply it
to every day life. You will find that
men never deny that thing is good for
them if they also believe it is good for
others. 1t is only when they believe
that they prosper by others adversities
that you hear them standing up and
denying that they have any pecuniary
benefit" (Applause.)
Mr.. Bryan then spoke of the reasons
which laboringmen, farmers and bust
ness men gave for wanting bimetal-
lisn, comparing their reasons with
those OF the advocates OF the gold STAN
dard.
The rest of Mr.. Bryan's speech was a
Federation of his former arguments on
the money question.