The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-29
REATuRT OF THE LAW.


THE CREATURE OF THE LAW.
CCries of "Right.') If you want more
wheat, you so right out and raise It.
II you want more of any kind OF manu-
featured goods you can produce them,
but if the people need more money
they cannot produce more money. II
a man attempts TO add dollar 10 the
volume of money by the creation OF a
dollar they put him in the penitentiary
for counterfeiting if they find him out.
Great applause)
The government that will not let
the individual bring a. dollar into ex-
istence assumes the solemn duty OF
bringing into existence enough dollars
TO perform the duty that money is
called upon to perform. If by leglsi2-
ton you make money scarce, then you
make money dear, and if you make
money dear, you make money hard TO
get. You compel the man who needs
money to sell more OF the products OF
his toll in order to get it. You make
money dear, and the man who owns
money can let that money lie idle and
gain on the increase of the purchasing
power of the dollar; whereas If you
have a stable currency, then idle money
will do no good 10 anybody and the
owner of money will have TO invest and
employ labor and develop enterprise
before he can get any profit out OF IL.
(Appiause.l
Of the miser. The gold standard is the
standard which makes it more profit
able to hoard money than to invest II.
1t is a bad thing for any country TO
have a financial system which raises
the value of the dollar and lowers the
value of all property. That is what
we have been doing and the people
are so tired OF a scarcity of money and
Of a rising dollar that they cannot now
be terrified when they have under
taken TO secure a larger amount Of
standard money by adding silver TO
gold as money of this country. Cap
piause.)
Now, my friends, 1 have talked all
the time and / regret exceedingly that
I am not able to discuss this question
longer in your presence, but l beg
you not to take somebody else's word
on this money question, but find out
for yourselves what is right, and when
you vote remember your vote is your
own, and use it according TO your
conscience and judgment, and we viii
abide by the result. Great applause)
Mr.. Bryan's address consumed
twenty minutes. He was picked up
bodily from the platform by a dozen
policemen and escorted to his car
rage. 1t was with much difficulty
that the carriage made its way
through the sursing mass of people TO
the depot. Mr.. Bryan left at 1881 for
Newark.
In the course of his speech at Gale
donia Park, Mr.. Bryan said:
WHAT IT MEANS.
1--WE realize what it means to lose
this campaign. We realize what it
means to declare, as this nation has
never declared before, it's inability to
conduct its own business. Year after
year, the two great parties have de-
clared for bimetallisIn, and if the peo-
pie have not seen their hopes realized,
they still have been permitted TO hope
again, but in this campaign, for the
first time, a great national party has
determined that the influence of this
great nation shall be thrown against
bimetallism and on the side Of gold as
the national standard money. Our
opponents say that I am q. dangerous
man. Q1aughteT.) My friends, there is
no danger in me as an individual.
am like other individuals, but small
part Of the population of this country,
but any man is a dangerous man who
plants himself upon a truth and dares
to defend that truth. (Applause)
T AM OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE; :
whether I live or die is a matter of
small moment, but the truth for which
l stand viii go marching on. (Cheers
and cries of Good good-") You ask
me why I know that bimetallism will
succeed. I tell you have two reasons.
The first is, that l believe it is right,
and that which is right viii prevail.
But l have other reasons why 1 know
that bimetallism win succeed. It's sue
cess is as sure as the rising OF tomor-
rows sun. You ask me how / know.
/ tell you that the gold standard makes
the rich richer and the poor poorer;
tell you that the gold standard lessons
the number of those who are happy and
increases the number of those who are
in distress. We have the poor and dis
treSsed on our side, and if we have not
a majority now it is
ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME
when we will have it if the gold stand
ard continues (Applause.) Our op-
ponents have deified gold until they
have forgotten the main and best
quality of money. They have worship
ped it so long as d thing to hoard, that
they forget the necessity for money to
serve as a standard of value and as a
measure of deferred payments. They
are so anxious to have a great deal of
value in a very small quantity. that
they have raised the value of the dollar
until it is almost beyond the reach of
the mass of the people. Soon they will
have to use their magnifying glasses
to see it, as it goes through the coun-
try (Applause) Ny friends, we are
tired, tired. tired of this balloon dol
lar. Oaughter.) It must come down
to earth again of it is going to be used
as q medium of exchange. Instead of
being the medium Of deferred pay
ments it is now nothing but a medium
of deferred hopes. (Applause.) You
can have a dollar as dear as you want
it dear; you only have to make it
scarce. Ii the dollar is not dear enough
today, you can make it dearer by maxi
ing it scarcer. There are two ways in
which the government may do wrong.
The government may do injustice by
means OF legislation, which Expresses
the many for the benefit Of the few.
"a voice of "Hurrah for Mckinley"
with loud cries of Throw him out.")
My friends. leave that man here. lie
seems to be the only one here who
really needs talking to. Laughter.)
a Half Hour ut Lynn.
LYNN. Mass, Sept. 2S.-Wnliam ].
Bryan reached Lynn from Bath at $50
o'clock this morning. Five hours of
sleep had been his preparation for to-
days hard work. He reached New
bury Port al 4:45, where a reception
committee from Lynn boarded his train
and at the station other local delega-
tons met him and led the cheering
for a knot Of sleepy-looking people.
who awaited his coming. With Mr..
Bryan were Arthur Sewall, who will
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