The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
FOR ONCE.

member this, that there is not in this
! land a single advocate of free coinage
\ who is not willing to abide the de-
cision of the people without complaint.
| (Cheers.) You do not find among the
! silver men those who say, as a dis
tinguished Republican in New York
said, we may not abide by the result
You do not find among the silver men
| persons who will stand up and express
! doubt as to whether the will of the
J American people is supreme Those
I people who say that. you find among
! the great corporate interests Of this
| country. which are entrenched behind
the Republican party, and who threaten
not to abide the decision of the election
unless they could continue to represent
! the American people. Among the men
who called us anarchists you find the
ones who limited at possible means by
which the will of the people could be
defeated.
THE PEOPLE RULE.
Il am proud that in our ranks we had
men who loved this form of govern
ment, that no matter what the people
saw they rule and we bow to their
supremacy. But my friends bowling
| to a decision, accepting without COM
plant the result of an election, does not
mean that we shall surrender our con-
victions, or that in the future We shall
| fight with less earnestnesS than we
| have fought in the past
You must remember that in the his
/ tory of this nation some party has al
ways been defeated, and yet parties
have not gone out of existence be-
cause of defeat. Remember, that the
! Democratic party lived for many years
| without ever having won presl-
Dental election, and it lived after 1t
won presidential election and then
| failed to get the presidential election
! because it is the opinion of the Demo-
Gratis of this nation that Samuel j.
! Tilden was elected president of the
United States-and yet the people who
supported him were willing to abide by
| decision of the tribunal instituted for
] the purpose of settling that dispute L
say, the Democratic party has lived
through defeat; the Republican party
/ has lived through defeat; all parties
! have lived through defeat, if they had
anything to live for, and when our OPP
! ponentS tell US that this defeat means
the humiliation of those who believe
| in free silver, they take counsel OF their
hopes instead of their Judgment.
| (Great cheering.) / believe that we
have made great progress in this cam
paign. We have not made the pro-
gress which we except to achieve. We
have not achieved the results which
we expected to achieve, but, my
friends the cause of bimetallism was
stronger the day after election than IT
was at any day during the. campaign
| want to say this and your obServa-
ton will bear out my remarks. that
we went into this fight disOrganized,
we came out of it a mighty force-such
| a record 1 have never known in his
| tory. (Applause.)
AGE OF ARGUMENT.
Now we have passed through the
age of argument. When you discuss
public questions, you present your
arguments to the people. They ask
YOU why you believe in bimetallism or
! in the gold standard. You ask them
why they object to them. You tell
them what you believe each pollcy VIII
do They say that is prophecy. They
may refuse to believe YOU put Wnen
the time comes for action, then the
successful party must put its policy
| into operation, and when those policies
are in operation, then you can judge
the effect which they produce. If the
Republican party can make this coun-
try prosperous under the gold standard,
it will have to reverse the laws Of
nature and give points to all the writ
ers on political economy. (Applause)
If the Republican party can bring pros
perity to this country by making
money dearer, it will do what has
never been done by any other party in
any other country. But, my friends,
see the arguments that experience has
to disprove. The Republicans went be-
fore the laboring men, and told them
that low prices We're great blessings
because then wages would go farther;
and they went before the farmer and
told the farmer that agriculture was
depressed, and that prices were down,
and that the gold standard and con-
fidence. especially confidence applause
and laughter), would restore prosperity
and restore prices to the farmer.
A SUGGESTION.
Now / want to suggest TO those VINO
are going to continue the organization
of these clubs, that they meet at stated
times. say once a month, or at such
times as the members Of the club may
decide, and that at these meetings they
discuss public questions. | believe that
the public servant ought to live con-
tinEally under the eye of the master
whom he serves. | believe that when
the people elect a man to office they
should watch his every act and discuss
his every vote, that they may know
whether he is the man to be en-
ployed in that business or not. Gap
plause) And, therefore, I say to you
that these clubs can find annie en-
ployment of their time if they will
discuss from month to month, from
meeting to meeting, the various ques-
tions which arise and interest the
American people. You tell me that is
agitation. I say to you that when you
go into a nation where there is no agi-
tation of public questions among the
people, there you will find nation
where a few can prey undisturbed upon