The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

WATERLOO, Ia, Aug. pa large
crowd gathered in the East Side Park
in this city this evening TO listen to
ev-GoveTnor Horace Boies open the
campaign in behalf of the Democratic
party
=. E. Pollans, Democratic candidate
1cr county attorney. presided, and
after making a short speech, presented
the ex-governor
Inopeniug his address, Mr.. Boies said
that The subject which called the
meeting together was one which over
shadowed every other since the great
war. It is d subject, he continued,
which interests in the same way all
classes Of people. The leaders of the
Democratic party are denounced for
the alleged attempt to appeal 10 class
Mr.. Mckinley has taken the pains to
adlege that an appeal has been made
&c the classes and an attempt made to
divide the country on the silver issue.
BY the very nature of things there
must be classes. The speaker then
said that we
ARE AFFECTED DIFFERENTLY
by the money question The man
whose wealth is money, naturally
wants the gold standard for that makes
his money more valuable, but the man
who produces what must be sold for
money will, if he understands it, favor
bdnetallisTn. cheaper money; money
which they call ii You please, de
precieted currency is the best for the
people, because it tends to raise the
price Of products.
Il said some time ago to a reporter
for a New York paper continued the
speaker. that the condition of the
western farmer is deplocable; that the
prices of the products Of the farm are
so low that if a man was given the use
of the land and was required to fur
nish The capital to run it, pay the
laiborer the same wages he could get
in other kinds of work, keep up the re-
pairs and pay the taxes, and 10 do this
had to sell the products OF the farm
for present prices he would find him
self
WITHOUT A DOLLAR LEFT
at the end Of the year. I said that,
and now 1 find certain New York
capitalists declaring that greater
amount of falsehood was newer in
cllded in the same amount Of language.
Now / did not make that statement
1ron nv own experience aaone, but
several years ago the Iowa commits
sioner of labor made inquiry of over
500 Iowa farmers of the cost of raising
one bushel OF corn. They sent him re-
ports and from them he found that 1t
cost % cents per bushel to raise corn
in Iowa.
To-day in over one-half of the states
corn is selling for IA cents per bushel.
ito1i Stc heard
of instances where farmers have sold
for Increased prices during the past
five wears. That is true, but farmers
have not sold for higher prices since
the repeal Of the Sherman act. They
viii not sell for higher prices as long
as oats sell for 10 cents per bushel
and corn for "a cents"
The speaker then took up the ques-
ton of prices and said ii was all
A QUESTION OF PRICES.
The honor of the country was involved,
for the reason that the government
obligations were payable in coin. They
bear no promise to be paid in gold
alone. With the gold standard prices
depreciate. The speaker said that,
compared with the value Of the pro-
ducts Of labor, one dollar in silver bui-
lion would buy as much as it would in
1873 while a dollar in gold bullion
would purchase twice what it would
tnen. What was the true standard of
comparison? He showed that while
gold had doubled in value, silver had
remained the same as it was in 1873.
IT is the man who must borrow who
has been wronged,
CRUELTY WRONGED.
One-half of his money has been taken
away. while the money of the money
loaner has been doubled in value. The
speaker said that he approached the
platform with fear and trembling be-
cause of the claims that coinage at
she ratio of is to / would drive gold
out of circulation. but he accepted it
because it seemed, to be the only way
In which the friends Of free silver
could agree. If it resulted in silver /
monometallism, congress could remedy
it.
of we wait, as The Republicans ask
us to. until we get the consent Of the /
other nations to free coinage. we will
fasten the gold standard upon the
neclSs of our people FOR all time to /
come"
In closing his speech the ex-governor |
said that the gold standard was the !
standar> Of England. He said that if
we adopt this measure Of value we can
not help nut expect that our agricul- |
tural lands. sooner or later. will come
into the hands Of the landlords. as
among our own people, as among the /
people of England, there will grow up
an aristocracy of wealth on one hand. /
and a democracy of poverty on the |
otter.