The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-13
MESSRS. PALMER
AND BUCKNER
Continued from page u

silver money aggregating over $500, 000,
600, should fail.
The war on the standard Of value
opened with the bill to repeal the pur.
chasing clause Of the Sherman act
1t was bat a sl1irmish, the silver forces
making a show Of resistance by occa-
sional sorties and boldly challenging
the sound money men to battle al
the polls. The battle is now on us, and
we must meet it like honest men and
patriots
The nominee of the Chicago platform
proDounds that the free coinage in the
United States alone of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 with gold will take
away from gold Just so much Of its
purchasing power as was added to 1t
by the decentralization of silver by the
United States.'
He further says: eve contend that
free and unlimited coinage by the
United States alone viii raise the bull
lion value of silver to its coinage value.
and thus make silver bullion worth
Sl.2S per ounce throughout the world. y
We have here two propositions which
together form the keystone of
TILL BIMRTALLIC ARCH.
Take away from gold in the United
States just so much of its purchasing
power as was added to it by the de-
monetization of silver. and still the
Utopia is not realized. With silver
worth $1.29 per ounce, throughout the
world anc with gold lowered in the
United States alone, bimetallism is
funther off than ever. AS the enhanced
value given 70 gold by legislation for
the last twenty-three years stia exists
in Europe, and viii beyond all ques-
ton continue to exist, the mighty Ne
1o1-o eli far~ M
values, proposes to give US a fifty
cent gold dollar in America for a one
hundred cent gold dollar in London
He does not extend gold depreciation
beyond the United States but, strange
ly philanthrophic. gives 20 silver
throughout the world the gold value of
$I.29 per ounce. What a singular med
ley? There is a line in Pope that
might assist to describe the scheme:
What mighty contests arise from
trivial things" And we can eXclairn:
what trivial results from mighty
causes spring.
Is it possible our gold is to be de-
based and silver take it's place merely
TO satisfy a theory shown by its au-
thor to be false? Silver. according to
MIR. Bryan, is to be kept at $1.29 per
ounce IN gold + -oughout the world.
This makes it precisely equal to
THE PRESENT GOLD DOLLAR.
This standard is as wicked as the
detested gold standard. 1t is exactly
its counterpart AS Mr.. Bryan makes
no claim to a worldwide halving of
gold, and confines the power of the
legislative fiat Of this country against
1T to her own borders, he gives up g.
200-cena silver dollar and 100-cent gold
~
ted States gold by half and raising the
worlds silver to $1.29 per ounce, meas
ureG in the worlds gold price.
HERE IS ANOTHER PICNIC
for the Rothschilds, the syndicates and
the crowned heads OF Europe. They
will corner silver as easily as gold,
since their Vaccinations are rendered
easy in the United States by thus de-
gold for them to begin
with. But the British and European
powers and conspirators may have d.
few battered remnants of conscience.
They may object. They put in mo-
ton the legislative fat of their coun-
tries, which more than equal in po-
tency the legislative fat of the United
States. In order to protect themselves
from a 200-cent silver dollar they might
illuminate thus:
I'VE CT dain and establish that here
after a gold dollar shall be legal ten
der at 100 cents and a silver dollar at
80 cents Then let opposing jur'isdic-
ton clash. Then would values rise and
fall with the appearance or disappear
ance of the British lion and the Amer
Ican elgle.
When the old Titanic battles of
THE GODS OF OLYMPUS
we're fierce enough to shake the earth,
luw fearfully would the war OF giant
iaa against giant fat convulse and
rend it. OF course, Mr.. Bryan knows
hat gold will take fight to countries
where legislation adds to its value and
Dur devoted country will be turned
over to the silver standard, which will
be as oppressive, as crushing, as grind
ng as the gold standard ever was al
eyed to be. Silver recommendation will
-eigh supreme. The mine owner will
'ejoice, but the poor people viii find
heir dreams rudely broken, and their
dolatry OF the silver goddess sudden
Y disturbed. The Mexican peon, the
Chinese coOlie, the ranchero of Argen-
ina. VIII rejoice in the possession OF a
silver dollar of double IT'S present pur-
chasing power. Everywhere throughout
he globe viii be the apotheosis of Bry-
III, the alchenl;1t, who disregarding
he claim of his own people for his ben
faction, scatters his gifts to the silver
Universe.
Further on Mr.. Bryan says: "a dol |
ar which increases in purchasing pow !
r is as dishonest as a dollar which
decreases in purchasing pow He
means to say by this understanding ex- !
,ression that both an approaching and /
dollar are dishonest. but +
lie has pushed his silver dollar 10 the |
HIGH APPRECIATION OF GOLD.
The different stages of wicbedness
ave been passed, the eliminating !
Ioirt has been reached, when silver is I
aised TO the bad eninence" of a. gold /
Ioliar. At one bound, he has leaped /
,ver all minor evils and reached the f;
hrone where silver exalted is SUI /
,ceme in it's baneful excellence and |
'uweT." And as gold is always appre-
Eating, according to the new dispen- /
alton, 50 is silver to be always ap- /
and Mr.. Bryan stands forth |
ne upholder Of the standard Of the !
and money changers. who /
-Idro the faces of the poor" 1 will not !
iotice the imprisoned appeals made by 1
Er. Bryan to infiane
The POOR AGAINST THE RICH.
Whenever a presidential candidate |
an stoop to the arts of the dema-
,ogEe. the cause which he advocates |
must be poor indeed. He gives no |
eason and produces no proof for the /
old position he takes, but makes UP /
n assertion what he lacks in reason or (
roof. It is assumed that prices have /
and that the cause of the /
depreciation is the appreciation of gold. /
prices have not deprecated abnorm-
lily. The decline in the prices of all |
commodities from 1873 to 1891. as found /