The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-30
At midnight Mr. Bryan left Tor Wash
ington, en- route to points south.
At Other Points.

At Other Points.
JERSEY CITY, ". j., Sept. 29.-In his
trip through to New York this after
noon, Mr.. Bryan made a brief speech
at the Academy of Music here, and q
briefer one to the crowd outside the
building. In the course of his speech
he said:
"One of the reasons why, in this
campaign, l have departed somewhat
from precedent and have gone over the
country myself, is because it has en-
abled me TO reach the people them
selves, whereas if we had more daily
papers we could reach the people
through them. If my going around re-
suits to my disadvantage, IL is better
for the people TO find me out before
election than after.
The trouble is, our opponents are all
the time talking about
MAINTAINING THE PARITY
between the two metals, and neglect
ing tine fact that under the gold stand
ara we have failed TO maintain a par
ity between dollar and property. they
entirely ignore the effort OF legislation
when we desire Legislation, although
they are very conscious of the potency
of legislation when they use il on their
side. Ii in 1873 they had proposed a
law such as was passed in that year,
closing the minis 10 the free coinage OF
silver, and we had said TO them: Why,
law can do nothing on this subject;
commerce regulates the value OF these
things what would they have said?
They would not have been content TO
let commerce regulate them. Then they
wanted the law 10 step in and strike
down one of the money metals and
give TO gold the monopoly of mint
privileges, and when they have done
That they have biossomed out into be-
levers Of non-interference On the part
of the government. applause and
laughter) If they tell you law can 90
nothing, that commerce is everything.
remind them Of
THE Law OF 1854.
The advocates OF the gold standard will
tell You that from the beginning of our
financial history down to 1884 gJid was
at premium and silver the money in
common use among the people. They
will tell you that after 1884 silver was
at q premium and gold was the money
in circulation among the people. What
changed the habit Of our people and
made them stop using silver and COM
mence using gold: Was IL commerce?
1t was a Hide law OF but 81 few words
that changed the ratio from Is to
TO Is to l, and by so doing gave the
advantage to silver. (Applause.l That
change put silver at a. premium, be-
cause there was q demand for silver
in France at a higher ratio than ours.
And. therefore, our silver either went
to France, where it could be coined at
the ratio of l5I2 to !, or if it stayed
here 1t stayed here at its commodity
value
When these people tell you COM
merce is above law, You
POINT TO THAT LITTLE LAW
that changed the customs of the peo-
pie and money in use among them in
g night. (Applause.) You say law can
not affect values. Suppose a public
building is to be located in this city.
Why is it everybody wants the build
ing located near his land? Because 1t
raises the value of his land. * new
harbor or the deepening Of a river, or
the opening of a port, brings business
to that locality, and that new business
brought there by law, creates a new
demand for property and that property
rises by act of legislation. 1 have told
you Of this because l want you TO I'M
5erstand when we speak of the power
Of law to affect the value Of silver, we
are simply applying to silver the same /
principles which we recognize will APP
ply to every thing else. Some people !
think silver can be purchased without
limit | know one way to cure a man
# that idea Let him so out and try
10 find the silver mines, and prove by I
MS own experience how easy it is to /
Increase the supply of silver. Cap :
olause) 1t is true of silver as it is Of (
sold-that
MANY SEEK AND FEW FIND.
They talk about the cost of producing
silver. There is no basis upon which
you can calculate the cost of produc-
ion. No TWO mines III the United
states produce silver at exactly the
same price per ounce, and no ore mine
produces silver at exactly the same
price per ounce year after year in sue
,ession. Mining is gambling. and the
nan who gets the winning part makes
money; but a great many buy paddles
IND never make anything.
You think it is so easy to find sill
-er. Remember the people of the world
lave searched for il since history be-
ran, and vet if all the silver now exist
ng in the form Of coin were melted
Town into one great lump that lump
would only be sc feet each way. That
5 that great overwhelming product OF
liver which people are afraid will run
n upon us and overwhelm us if we
'pen our minis to the free coinage of
liver. Our opponents tell US we are
rying to
CHANGE THE YARD STICK.
We tell them that they have been
hanging the bushel measure and are
farmers to put two bushels
# product into one bushel. Instead of
hortening the hours of toll. they are
rying to shorten tie number of days a
nan will find work in week or 4 year.
IS the gold standard goes on doing its
eadly work it simply means there will
'e more idleness and more suffering
We can say of the gold standard that
II its ways are wretchedness and all
f its paths are ruin to the masses Of
he people. (Applause) There is no
anger of foreign coin coming here and
US because it is worth
core at home. There is no danger of
II the annual product coming to us
ecause all the other nations that use
liver must have their share. The arts
aust have their share. We simply have
o use what other nations and the arts
o not consume. Instead of having too
ouch, 1 am afraid we will have too lit
lie money then.
In the development of the resources
{ this country, we can utilize more
honey than can be utilized by a SINH
ar number of people in any other part
f the world. But Instead of having
n increased amount of money to carry