The herald., 1896-09-03
TO THE EDITOR

tThe Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sronsibility for the sentiments expressed
Owing to the very large number OF com,
on the currency and other political ques-
tions. correspondents will understand that
ssere ee some eey m rs
uucsted to cultivate brevity as far as Is
consistent with the proper expression OF
their views.)
Last ssfurdav's n-eti,g
Editor Herald I attended the meet
ing at the pavilion last Saturday night
and / heard the entire proceedings. and
am in favor of fair play. If remember
right, and l think l do, there were no
cheering or remarks in favor OF Bryan
until his name was mentioned In
disrespectful way and 1t was hissed by
the gold men present,and then their his
ses were drowned by the cheers OF those
In his favor.
AS it was a public meeting and all
were invited to attei d. thi. the silver
men had Just as much right to cheer
when their candidates name was men
toned as the Republicans had to cheer
for Mckinley. and although the ora
tors complained about their remarks
being interrupted by the cheers Of the
Bryan men, l notice that they did not
complain about all the Interruptions In
favor of Mckinley, which were more
frequent. and they did all they could to
encourage It,
There was no cause for any Of the
speakers to refer to the silver men as
backguards and hoodluns," and I
think that any man who makes such
remark is far more one himself, and 1t
was not until after this that there was
any real disturbance and do ot great
ly blame the people for resenting 1t as
any man would.
I have attended a number of Demo-
cratic meetings and / must say in all
of them the mention of McKinley's
name was received respectfully and
never heard hiss against 1t. l myself
was one of those that cheered the name
Of Bryan for reasons mentioned above
and l am still Republican, although In
favor of silver. ! wore Mckinley but
ton and voted for his nomination at the
polls, believing from all he had said
in the past that he was in favor OF silver.
but when Mr.. Har mas platform was
adopted declaring for the gold standard
l took it off, because 1 stood for "prin-
c.ple first and party afterward. ana l
believe it is for the best interests of the
country to have silver as redemption
money as as gold.
Such epithets as the orators then pre-
sent used Is about on a lire with the
other arguments" the gold advocates
use in calling all those that disagree
with them "cranks, anarchists, revolu-
tionists, repudiationists, ETC." Surely
they must feel very desperate when they
descend to such line of talk. / would
like to call the attention Of the people to
the fact that all reformers in the his
tory of the world have had just such
names applied to them and they sur
vived and am glad to be counted among
them. Our Savior himself was the great
est "revolutiOnist" the world has ever
had and yet now we all follow his doc
trines.
I am a true American to the back
bore and so are all my people and be-
lieve in the right of free speech to all.
My father was q colonel in the United
States army during the civil war; my
uncle q general; my great-grandfather
was colonel in the war of 1872; and
have reasons for believing that am re-
lated to Thomas Hayward, jr., of South
Carolina, one Of the signers of the De-
claration of independence, and it strikes
me now that what we most need is
second declaration of somewhat SIM
liar sort. We do rot consult England or
the rest of the world in regard to what
tariff we should have and see no rea-
sons why we cannot dictate our own
financial affairs equally well. gold
standard is undoubtedly to her inter-
estS because she Is y creditor nation and
by other nations adopting 1t she can buy
more with her gold, but as we are a
debtor nation our interests are direct
ly opposite to hers. How long can we
continue to pay cut s200,000,000 year in
gold to her as interest on our public and
private debts when we only have total
of 1861, 100000 in gold In the entire United
States, according to the report of the
director of the mint in 1894, and only
produced $39 500, coo in gold, and much
of this was used in the arts?
Our opponents say that the silver
dollar will be only worth SO cents II
free coinage bill is passed, but In 1890,
when free coinage bill passd the house
and a poll of the senate showed 1t was
likely to pass there, silver advanced on
Lombard street. London, from "a cents
an ounce to $1.20 in twentyfour hours,
and in New York city 1t went to $1.21.
and IL it did this then ! believe it will
do so again, and as soon as silver bill
is passed the very people that are fight
ing against it now will be the first ones
to come to its rescue, because they will
want to protect themselves from loss af-
ter having received it.
would advise any doubter to get
World Almanac, which costs but 25
cents; and study out the official statis-
tics given therein. Yours respect
fully. WIN. H. b. HAYWARD.
Los Angeles, September 1st.