The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-13

Sirly mdue TOT the reception OF
change without serious results exists
in the natural condition Of things as
they are today.
Another plank in the Chicago plat
form declares that all money should be
issued by the government and that ma
tional bank notes should be retired and
the bonds upon which they rest paid
at once. The national bank note as it
stands now is secured by government
bonds; the only value that it had and
only thing that keeps it at a par is the
fact that there are government bonds
back of it. Thus the government prac-
tically issues the money. Why should
not the government issue money di-
rectly and pay off the bonds with
which the banks secure their circula-
ton? The Democratic party is now
again demanding what it demanded
before-that wherever a non-interest-
bearing debt can supplant an interest
bearing one. the
CHANGE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY
BE MADE.
form about which the people are very
solicitous is that with reference to
permitting the money power to stipu-
late that their contracts shall be pay
able in gold. Just stop for a moment
and think of the enormity of the
wrong. Everybody except the money
lender is compelled to take any kind
Of money which is legal tender in the
United States; but in this law, passed
by Republican congress, the right is
given to the lender of money to stipu-
late in contracts that he shall receive
payment in nothing but gold 1t has
come to that point that the legal ten
der laws Of the country are good
enough for the laboring men, the far
mer and the masses generally, but
not for the money-lender
"One Of the most fearless and right
eous planks of the Chicago platform is
the declaration in favor OF maintaining
for the laboring man the cons titutional
right of trial by jury. By this plank
no reflection is intended to be made
upon the judiciary Of the United
States, but claim is made that the con-
stitutional right of trial by jury
belong to the laboring men as
well as to others shall remain
inviolate We charge that this is the
deliberate attempt of the advocates of
the gold standard, combined with the
corrupt influences of corporate power,
TO ENSJAVF, TAROR
and deprive laboring men of any part
in the management of the great free
country of the people in which we live.
There is another plank in this plat
form, and only one, upon which l de-
sire to speak further, and that is the
plank declaring against federal inter-
ference in local affairs. I should never
perhaps have made a pubic utterance
upon THIS subject had it not been for
the report of the committee appointed
BY President Cleveland himself, and
headed by Carroll D. Wright. In that
report it was SHOWN that nearly fifty
railroads centering in the city of Chi
cago had entered into an agreement
to fix scale Of wages for the laboring
men upon all these different systems.
There is, think, abroad in the land
belief-and I believe it to be we'll
founded-that when labor organizes
against capital, fearing that they
might not be able to carry to entire
completion the subjugation OF their
laboring men, the railroads in the
combination determined to bring to
their aid the government CT the United
States, both in its military and judicial
powers. It is believed by the great
masses of the people that an oppor-
tunity was sought in the strike in Chi
cago to exercise that power, and it is
against any attempts of that kind
which our platform is directed.
II firmly believe the attempt was to
go further and to break up organized
labor. Against this the Democratic
party is firmly and strongly arrayed."
His reference to W. j. Bryan and
remarks on the financial situation
were not loudly cheered.
The district caucusss this morning
named the following as district cleo
tors:
First, A. Kuhlemeier, Burlington;
second, Thomas Stapleton, Marengo;
third, T Green, Butler; fourth, Andrew
Ranile, DEBORAH; fifth Louis Metzgar,
Marshalieown; sixth, Perry Engle,
Newton; seventh, c. LOOMS, Polk
county; eighth, D. Bradley, Centerville;
ninth, J. Shea. Council Biuffs; tenth,
]. Butler, Fort Dodge; eleventh, F. Roe.
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