The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-23

yer. He came back home and foundl
he did not know how the people OF the
east felt about it, The Democratic
party in his own state has declared
that 1T ullreservedly endorsed the free
silver plank of the national platform,
and that it is the best Democratic plat
form ever adopted in this country.
(Applause.) We never had convention
in this country which more correctly
represented the sentiment of the people
who sent the delegates than that con-
venfion which met at Chicago 1t Is
honor enough to be nominee Cd a co1ls
ventfon for the presidency. But 1T is g.
higher honor yet TO be the nominee on
tine most Democratic convention ever
held in this country. (ApplauseO 1t
is sufficient honor to be nominated by
the machinery of a party, but it is a
higher honor still to be nominated by
the people of a party regardless of the
machinery. (Applause4 Since that
platform was adopted, the people have
commenced TO study the money ques-
ton.
WHAT DO THEY FIND?
They find that the people Of the west
and south who have been asking for
the restoration of bimetallism, instead
of trying to ruin the country are try
ing to save it Great applause.) Your
people are producing manufactured
products here largely. Where do you
get your consumers? Wipe out the
farming population and where will you
sell the goods you produce? How are
YOU going to increase your markets?
By increasing the number of people
able to buy what You produce. VIII
YOU do that by making dollars dearer?
No, dollars do not eat. They devour
a great deal, but they don't eat
QAughter.) How are you going TO
create markets? By increasing dollars
in the hands of the few? No, you have
got to restore prosperity by stopping
the fail of prices, so men will sell what
they produce TO get money TO buy what
you produce" (Applause.)
Mr. Bryan then gave quotations from
John Sherman, James G. Blaine and
John G. Carlisle, showing them to have
formerly been in favor of the free coln-
age of silver.
Mr. Bryan continued as follows:
THE gold standard newspapers think
we won't be able to get silver into cir
culRtion if we had free coinage. want
to tell you THAI they will be mighty
glad to have subscriptions paid even in
silver dollars if these people, whom
they have been trying TO destroy in the
interests of the foreign capitalists wild
cont inue to receive their papers into
their houses Great applause) Our
opponents who are SO confident that
money can beat argument in CAM
paign are
GLAD TO USE SILVER DOLLARS
for a campaign fund" (Applause.)
Mr.. Bryan then quoted Prince Bis
mar1ck as being in favor of bimetallism
and as saying that the United States
should take the lead in adopting it
MIR. Bryan continued:
Against this waiting policy with
the twenty years of adverse experience
behind it, we offer an aggressive policy
by which the United States will lead
the nations OF the world to the restora-
ton of gold and silver as money. You
say it is American to brag about what
we can do. I reply that it is English,
you know to think we can't do amy
thing. Oaughter) We have reached
a great crisis, and the question pre-
sented to the American people is, shall
the United States have financial pol
icy Of its own, or must the people re-
ceive their finances ready made from
some foreign land? Cries Of mo,
never'') 1t is a question upon which
much will depend. L beg you, when
you vote, to consider the responsible
ity which rests upon you. and so vote
that you may tell your children with
out blush for which policy you voted
in 1896" (Applause.)