The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-11

HYRUM, Oct. 1O.-Judges Powers
and King carried the gospel of silver
into the settlements today and spoke
to enthusiastic audiences at Provi-
dence, Paradise, Millville and Hyrum.
On the trip they spoke to over 1900
people, and everywhere the speakers
were given a hearty reception.
AT PROVIDENCE.
Providence has a population of 1000.
Judge Powers spoke first, and among
other things said:
We have a new system of voting this
year. We have the Australian ballot,
and while it is well calculated to pre-
vent fraud and to give true expression
to the voters will; while it is secret
/ ballot and enables the wage worker to
vote as he pleases without coercion
! from his employer. it is also somewhat
! complicated, and the man or woman
! who starts in TO vote mixed ticket
! will, if not very careful, make marks
thereon which will vitiate their vote.
! Voters can be assured of one thing,
/ and that is, if they vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, they viii vote a straight
silver ticket. They will vote for Bry
an and for King and they will help
to vote out of sight the chance of Ar
thur Brown going back to the United
States senate. Therefore, if l may give
you advice, l will say TO you in all sim
cerity: Put your cross mark on the
ballot opposite the rooster and let it
go at that.
Judge King followed and the keynote
of has speech was in the following:
He discussed the cause. of agricul-
tural depression. He referred to Cache
county as one of the granaries OF
Utah, and argued that a financial pol
icy which produced falling prices in
ali Of the products of toll, so generally
and with such continuity, was disad
VantageouS to the wage-earner and all
who were consumers.
The speaker showed the relation of
agriculture to nations, and contended
that prosperity could only be realized
when the farmers were prosperous and
received an adequate compensation for
their labor.
Prices of farm products in the middle
ages were shown. Judge King said:
when by an imperial edict of Rome in
22l A. D. silver was demOnetiZed, the
independence and prosperity of the
Roman laborer and farmer commenced
ton, agriculture f1ourished Because
OF the lack of money, prices fell, and
between the years 1899 and 1860 wheat
brought but about 80 cents per bushel.
When the silver and gold from the
new world was poured into the lap of
the old, prices rose, prosperity came,
the long night of darkness closed. The
average price of wheat between the
years 1861 and 1901 was about $1.46.
Measured by wheat, the precious
metals had deprecated so per cent"
Judge King then took up the tables
OF DR.. Sootbeer and Professor .Sauer-
back and showed the fall in prices af-
ter the decentralization of silver in 1873,
and argued that the mortgages on the
farms, the dearth in agriculture and
the stagnation in business resulted
from this legislation.
AT MELVILLE.
The campaigners reached AIillville at
the noon hour, and another warm re-
ception was given them.
Judge Powers in part said:
The battle for silver will not be
ended by the election of William ].
Bryan to the presidency. The great
battle of the standards will then be
transferred from the speakers plat
form to the halls of congress. There
viii be waged the battle royal The
gold standard men will contest the
ground inch by inch. They viii be
aided by skilled lobbyists and by all
the power which is ever at the COM
mand of wealth. Nothing will be left
undone to destroy the effect Of a silver
victory at the polls. No argument will
be left unuttered, and no opportunity
will be overlooked. The silver men
viii need their strongest advocates.
They will need their most earnest and
eloquent debaters. They will need to
send men of trained inteIlects to meet
the wary and INSCRIPTIONS advocates
of a gold standard Utah should send
as her representative in the great in
tellectual tourney the nominee of the
Democratic party, Hon. w. H. King.
He will make the halls of the house
of representatives ring with argu-
ments for financial freedom. He will
make the voice of Utah heard and win
fifty represent this young and growing
state. Utah should also send a Dem
ocratic United States senator, and you
should see to it that there are no votes
lost for your members of the legisla-
ture. This is a pretty good year to
vote a straight ticket, provided you
vote a silver ticket. You will take no
chances if you vote the Democratic
ticket. 1t is for this reason that
advise the voters that when they go
d
cross mark on the ballot opposite the
rooster and let it go at that.
Judge King spoke at length upon the
functions of money and its influence
upon mankind. He then answered
many of the arguments of the gold
men as to the instability of silver. its
cheapness, etc. The speaker showed
the falsity of those advocating gold,
and Quoted from Chevalier and others
~ ad ha a4s of
gold because it was debasing the cur
rency. Gold, it was shown, was con-
stantly approaching, and the reason of
England's antagonism to bimetallism
was attributed to the fact of it's being
a creditor nation. If England, to whom
the people of the United States pay
more than $40, 000 600 annually IL inter
est alone, can. by MAINTAINING The ~C'
standard, obtain our wheat for so
cents a bushel, and all other farm
products for a like low price, 81 never
win consent to international bimetal-
lism.
It was shown that the gold. standard
operated as a tariff to the silver coaa-
tries, and enabled the yellow man
with the white metal to compete with
the white man with the yellow metal
In conclusion. Judge King said that
if this condition of falling prices con-
tinued, the yoemanry of our land would
become the serfs ana vassals of tvrants
and our country would become a nation
of landlords and tenants. This con-
test was for Home, sweet home
AT PARADISE.
At pm. the party reached Paradise
and for an hour poured silver facts into
the eager ears of the people. In the
course of his remarks, Judge Powers
said:
There is great worriment among the
great financiers Of the world. the loan