The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-27
AN OPEN LETTER.
To the Employees and Other Creditor
of Hilton Hughes & Co:

TO the Employees ana OIner CreQllOTS
of Hilton, Hughes & Co.:
News has come that Judge Hilton
has had 10 assign because he found it
more than inconvenient to raise
enough money 70 pay all unsecured
claims, although they only amounted
to $500, Co.," We out in the glorious
west cannot exactly comprehend this
serious Inconvenience, as we are con-
stantly told by the press Of the east
J.-st there is plenty Of money in Cir
culation, but, nevertheless, feel for
you in your financial eXtremities.
You who are employees Of this great
establishment viii get your pay in
money, and it will probably buy food
for one week. but You will lose your
positions without chance to obtain
another until better times. You can
not become employed gain because all
people who employ your kind of labor
are on the verge of the same ruin that
has overtaken Judge Hilton.
Your other creditors will have to take
his notes and wait until he can sell
some property, for which there is no
present market, and until his assignee
can sell some goods at a big discount,
with no purchasers at that. You were
expecting to get paid by Judge Hilton
for the goods he purchased of you, as
the bills came due, and you arranged
the payment of your own obligations
accordingly. You are, therefore, Grip
pied in credit by his failure. if not on
the verge of financial ruin.
1t is all because the customers of
Hilton, Hughes e Co. could not buy
as much as the firm thought it could
sell; because the customers found that
those who dealt with them did not
have the money to do business any
longer, and these in turn had failed to
get remunerative employment sufficient
to live as formerly, and so on from
the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard,
through all classes of people except
one-that which owns, controls and
locks up the money of the country.
You have been disappointed, not only
in failure to do the amount Of bust
ness your purchases obligated you to
do, but those who did with you what
little business they could. have failed
to meet their obligations and conse-
quently you must fail to meet yours.
And vet you are told that there is
sufficient money in circulation with
which to do business
Can you not see that the common
people of this great nation are broke;
that they cannot buy but half the food
and clothes which they could formerly
buy with the same amount of labor;
and that they cannot even pay for
what little they are compelled to get
to keep their own and their depend
ants bodies and souls together?
You, in New York City and the far
east, are the last of the people Of a
great continent to feel it; but we of
the west have been assuring you of
the coming of the day of judgment
for the past twenty-three years. We
told you that half of the money of the
world had been wiped out and made
Of no account in settlements of debts
Pvt II icyr
given long enough ago to put you on
your guard, did not attract your at
tention because your minds were
drawn to other and fictitious issues
which were constantly dinned in your
ears when you were busy with the or
binary affairs Of daily life; but the fact
that you had notice and warning does
not in the least alleviate your present
distress.
You are Just beginning to feel the
effects Of what you have been led to
believe was all right; but you will get
ii worse before you will see any
change for the better.
We are sorry we cannot help you: we
are broke ourselves. 1t will cake the
common people at least five years to
recover under the best conditions and
you VIII not begin to recover until they
are set at rights.
= That your thoughts, words and votes
IN the past have put us on the verge
OF starvation does not anger us against
you in the least, because the same
thoughts, words and votes have been
your own undoing
If you will now turn in and vote for
Bryan and the common people, of whom
you are only a small part, you will
double the money of ultimate redemp-
ton; you will double the volume of
business; you will restore prosperity to
a nation; you will send all kinds of
property on a rising market: you will
make a market for the labor of every
person whose brains and muscles can
labor: and last, hut not least, you will
get an indiscriminating tariff sufficient
TO maintain the government, which will
be the only honest protection.
Do not forget yourselves and YOU
cannot forget to vote for Bryan and
his friends. the common people. In true
friendship. T. H. E. WEST.
Judge C. c. Dey, chairman OF the
Democratic judicial committee of the
Third judicial district, yesterday issued
a call for meeting of the committee
to be held in Salt Lake next Tuesday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock. The call an
nounces that the meeting is for the
purpose of issuing a call for judicial
convention to nominate candidates 10
NIL the vacancies caused by the resig-
nations Of Hon. LIE Grande Young and
Hon. Andrew Howat, and for the tran
saction of such other business as may
come before the meeting