The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-09
TERRORISM AND COERCION

I question, it has the right to control il
on every Other question" Cries of
Right You ara" and applause)
/ Continuing. Mr.. Bryan said: My
friends, do you think you are under
a government of the people? 1 want
to ask you wha you think viii be the
result II We get 10 be a government
I by the banks. (Applause) If we could
trust our affairs TO d New York banker,
/ we might endJ re il for a time but
/ when you remember that the New York
/ banker Is under the control of the Lon
/ don banker. l ask you TO reflect be-
fore you submit the destinieS of a free
people TO few financiers. (Appiause.)
! We had failure in this city last win
ter, a failure, which, in my Judgment,
was largely due to the sale of bonds
and to the fact that the eastern bank
was drawing in money from circulation
from business, from the channels of
trade, to invest in government bonds.
If, my friends, you have a financial
policy which permits a few financiers
TO close your banks at will, and swal-
! low up your deposits and impoverish
your people, l want TO ask you if it is
not time for you to consider whether
this cannot be stopped (Cheers) We
have been tod that we cannot borrow
money from abroad unless we have q
financial system that is satisfactory to
the people abroad. My friends, you let
them control your financial system, and
you will never see a time when you can
get out Of the clutches of those who
are dominating your financial policy.
Great cheering)
Talk about arraying one class
against another. want to ask you why
1T is that every Democrat who is in
tereSted in a syndicate or a trust or
has salary from railroad corpora
ton. that is more than his other prop
erty-I want to ask you why they are
all arrayed against the Democratic
party? (Cheers.) Why IS it? 1t is
because the Democratic party has de-
clared against the issue of bonds in
time of peace and the trafficking with
syndicates. ("That's right" from the
crowd) 1t is because the Democratic
party is
OPPOSED TO THE TRUSTS,
instituted. 1t is because the Democratic
party believes IN the control, the reg
ulation and the restriction of all cor
porations, so that they will serve the
purpose for which they were allowed to
exist. Great cheering.) If those con-
nected with trusts are fiocking together
in the Republican party. may we not
appeal to all the smaller business men
who have felt the iron heel of the
trust, and who have been driven out of
business by its unlawful competition?
(Cheers.) If we are to lose all the at
torneys of these great trusts "a cry of
Let them go'), may we not appeal
with confidence to the support of the
people who have been pIundered by
these trusts while their attorneys have
received a part of the plumber? CHEERS
and shouts of ''yes.") We are not re-
sponsible for the arraying Of one class
against another These people have
defined the business men to be a few of
not the producers of wealth, but the
exchangeTs of wealth. or those who
try to corner our wealth. and they are
trying to array them against the rest
Of the people The Republican plat
form in the state of New York said
that we ought to have a business ad-
ministration conducted by business
men in behalf of the business interests
Of the country What do they mean
by that? Do they call the farmers
business men? Cheers and cries of
"no.") Oh, no. simply
PRODUCERS OF WEALTH.
But if a man goes on the board of
trade and makes more in an hour bet
ting on the price of what you raise
than you make in a year, he becomes a
business man. These people who have
attempted to array a few of the peo-
pie against the rest of the people, and
who have insisted that the affairs of
this government should be put in the
hands Of few when we have COM
planned, what euphonious names they
have given to US. They have been call
ing up diSturbers of the public peace,
and they have called us anarchists. my
friends. Great applause.) My friends.
these terms simply express the con-
tempt which they have for the great
mass of the people of this country.
(Cries of They've been doing it for
twenty-five years.
These names they call US simply
prove that they are not willing to trust
the destinies of this republic in the
hands Of the people who have created
its wealth in times of peace, and who
have fought its battles in times of war
CApplause.) Show me those people
who now call US anarchists, and I will
show you a class of people who, if we
had a war, would never go to the
front; but they are the very people
who SANDER those who would
FIGHT THE BATTLES
to save their property" applause and
cheers.)
Mr. Bryan said that when he was
called a disturber of the public peace
it is gratifying to meet the toiIers of
his own city who endorse h4m as one
they were willing to trust He said
ne expected a majority in this Gan-
caster county. and a majority of not
less than $4,000 in Nebraska. He
thought even this majority was not
large enough. Continuing. he said:
My friends. gentlemen down in New
York called attention to the fact that
sentiment was all on our side in this
and one man said that a
man could now write q poem in favor I
Of syndicates running the business of /
this country. (Applause.) Do you /
know what word rhymes with 'syndi- !
cate? 1t is hate, and you cannot /
write a poem and you cannot sing a
song in favor of The syndicafes con-
rolling the financial policies of this
nation, because while their policy aT-
olies to hate. the man VINO thinks and
he heart of the man who feels the
orce Of the financial policy that has
1een forced upon this country which
hey want to continue until foreign ma
ions come to our aid and assistance. It
S a sentiment that appeals to the
pocket book and Overshadows the an
zeal to the best feeling of man CAP
,lause)
Now, 1 must stop or will make a
peech. (Cries of GO on; we haven't
lalf enough.") You know that
would hate awfully to have the New
FORK papers say that 1 had driven an
audience away in my own town"
Prolonged cheering followed the con-
fusion OF Mr.. Bryan's speech. He was
ollowed by Mr.. Groot anu the assem-
'lage dispersed.