The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-28
ARE The
REAL ANARCHISTS?
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be able to do it until other nations
join US in the act. That is the doc
trine-we must know the gold standard
not for few months, but for an in
definite duration Of time
Here Mr.. Bryan quoted from Mr..
Carlisle's speech on bimetallism in 1878,
to the effect that the destruction Of
half the property of the world, includ-
ing houses, ships and railroads, would
not be felt more sensibly than the per-
manent humiliation of one-half of the
metal money of the world, and he
commented upon it by saying:
WHO ARE THE ANARCHISTS?
''Who are the anarchists? Are they
the ones who are to restore the gold
and silver coinage of the constitution?
Are they the ones who want to re-
instate the financial system which had
the endorsement of all the statesmen
from Washington through Jefferson
and Jackson down to Lincoln? Or
shall we find the anarchists among
those who want a financial policy that
would do more than destroy half the
houses, sink half the ships and tear
up half the railroads of the world?
(ADDlauSe.)
1--WE propose a financial policy. Our
opponents propose nothing. Without
daring to defend the gold standard they
preach the doctrone of grin and bear
it, and they offer no hope to the hu-
man race. (Applause.) We ask for I'M
limited coinage. We have had it in
the past We ask coinage at 16 to 1.
We have had it in the past. And we
ask that the American people shall
do their own legisfating for themselves,
without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation. We have done it
in the past. (Cheers.)
Under the free and unlimited coin
age of silver, the United States stands
ready to take the ounce of silver bull
lion brought from any place in the
world, and convert it into $1.29 of
American money. If you say that it is
not fair to take away a part of the
purchasing
POWER OF AN OUNCE OF GOLD,
tell you that it was fair to have put
into that gold that part which the law
placed in il. The reconciliation of sill
YER will not take out of gold any more
than the decentralization of silver put
into gold. They tell us that because
Mexico has failed to maintain the par
ity between gold and silver, therefore
we must fail There is just one kind
of a. man who can think that and that
is a man who knows so little of geog-
raphy or history as to think that Mex
leo is as large as the United States.
When they argue that the failure of
Mexico proves that we must fail they
simply argue that the United States
cannot do anything that Mexico has
not succeeded in doing. Not only that,
but they argue that the United States
and Mexico together, can not do any
thing which Mexico has not been able
to do alone. My friends, there is one
way of taking the government out Of
the clutches of those who have been
bleeding fit is for the government to
resume its legal rights, and use its
silver or its gold whenever it pleases,
whenever it has a dollar to pay. L do
not want to be called extreme but I
want to state my position with such
emphasis that it will not be mistaken.
'I believe that the people have a
right to have the treasury department
administered in behalf of all the people,
instead of in behalf of syndfcates, for
eign Or domestic. Instead of permit
ting the financiers of Wall street to
call before them the officials of the
government and to tell them what they
must do. I believe that the time has
come when the officials of the govern
ment must call the financiersr before
Them and tell them what they must do,
and make them do it. (Cheers.)
"Wqlen the creator made man, he did
he made financiers," said Mr.. Bryan,
in conclusion, and this remark was
greeted with applause and laughter.