The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-18

thusiastic meetings ever held in Spring
vile. The city hail. where the meet
ing was held, never had it's capacity
more severely taxed to accommodate
all who desired to gain admittance,
and the speakers were given the clos
est attention.
The principal speaker was Hon.
Fisher S. Harris of Salt Lake, who adj
dressed the meeting for over an hour
and gave his hearers much food for
thought Hon. A. C. Smoot Of Provo
and George E. Blair of Salt Lake were
the other speakers. Like Mr.. Harris.
their arguments were strong and log
ical and were well received.
Mr.. Harris popularity in this section
of Utah was evidenced by the recep-
ton he was accorded when he made his
appearance on the platform. He was
cheered heartily, and at considerable
length. He stood bowling his aeknowl-
edgements till the applause subsidized,
and then he began his speech. He was
in his usual happy vein, and was never
heard to better advantage. AT inter-
walls throughout his speech he was
interrupted by applause, which at
times grew to high pitch of enthusi-
asm.
Mr.. Harris started in by saying that
with the permission of the audience
he would discuss on this occasion the
principles involved in the present cam
paign, rather than the statistics, for he
remembered that when the statistics
having application to the present con-
ditions had outlived their usefulness,
the principles would remain and have
the same vital force they had now. He
then referred to the fight of 1776, and
i ~, H. To- A1.1,
serted its intention to remain free from
foreign domination and to build up in
a new land a system of government
that should truly represent the will of
the people.
Thoughtful students of politics, he
said, agreed that the failure of this
experiment in popular rule would prove
a death blow to the idea that all gov
eminent should derive it's powers from
the untrammeled consent of the gov
erned. The speaker told Of the re-
lentless and shameless coercion of en-
ployeeS by eastern gold standard inter
ests-railroads, factories and other cor
porations-and contended that this in
dicated a determination upon the part
of the few to rule or ruin, regardless
of the rights or welfare of the many.
Deprecating anything that looked like
an effort to array one class against
another in a country where all inter-
ests should be mutual, he nevertheless
believed it to pe the duty of every
patriot to warn the people of the dan
ger that now threatened the free insti-
tutions bequeathed to them as a sacred
legacy by their fathers
Passing to the money question, Mr.
Harris asserted that the currency of a
country bore the same relation to COM
mercial and social prosperity that the
blood of the human system did to the
health of the individual. Take from
a. healthy man half of the good red
blood that runs through his veins, and
while he may continue to exist" said
he, sit will be but as a wreck. totter-
ing to an untimely grave. Destroy
half the power of the circulating me-
dunn of nations commercial life, and
the same result must follow
Directing his attention to Senator
Sherman. Mr.. Harris said: "The sub
ject of finance is the strong point of
the distinguished Ohio senator, but
we may be Dardoned for not consider
ing him infallible even upon the uues-
ton which he has made hobby. for
the casual student of recent legislation
will recall that Mr.. Sherman has twice
advocated the enactment of monetary
laws which lie assured the people
would prove of benefit to them and
twice we have seen him earnestly adj
vocating their repeal on the ground
that they were failures and that he had
| been mistaken
| Mr.. Harris next called attention TO
the fact that gold standard orators of
! the east Were pointing to the denlone-
tlZation OF silver by England in 1876
| and to the present Prosperity of that
nation as a proof of the efficacy of the
| single standard. He asked how long
the Republican party had been going
to England for arguments with which
to support it's policies. He proved by
reference to historical facts, that the
condition of England for twenty years
| following the decentralization OF silver
was the most deplorable most lament
able in history. He added that England
had now only the appearance of pros
| perity because she was the creditor ma
! ton of the world
Repelling the oft repeated charge
thaf the advocates of bimetallism were
anarchists and repudiationists who
were trying to lower the standard of
| the national honor he said: Ladies
and gentlemen. we are the children of
our fathers. They were the creators
Of the nations wealth in times of
peace, its defenders in times of war.
when they went down into the dark
ways OF death we took up the burden
and responsibilities left by them at the
brink of the grave as they had done
for their fathers before them.
through the heat and toll of their
day they bravely discharged the du-
ties of the citizen, the neighbor and
the patriot. They upheld the national
credit. maintained the honor of their
country and when the life of the re-
public was threatened, made a bull
| wark of their breasts against the foe
and shed their blood that a govern
| ment of the people, by the people and
Tor the people might not perish from
| the earth.
I'VE are the inheritors of these obli-
| cations and of their glory, the lega-
tees of their patriotism and by the
! heip of him Who doeth all things we'll,
we intend to keep the standard of the
national honor at that high mark
where they left it,
Following Mr.. Harris Mr. Blair
spoke briefly and Mr.. Srnoot closed the
meeting. The big audience attested
its regard fer their former representa-
tive in the legislature, by giving him
a hearty. Spontaneous greeting and by
applauding his remarks throughout.
Mr.. Snoot touched upon national is
sues but lightly, preferring TO address
himself to the local campaign. The
meeting could not have been more
successful and will undoubtedly have
a marked effect here.
! KENNETH DONNELLAN, stock
and mining broker, 10 West Second
South. Telephone $40.
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