The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-29
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sorting that business men ought to
take an interest in this campaign in
order to protect their business inter-
ests. It has always made me indignant
that few people in each community
, should assume to be the only business
people in it, and should always insist
upon entrusting their business inter-
ests to anybody else's business inter
ests. have always believed that any
one who contributed TO a nations
prosperity, who added to a nations
wealth, or to nations greatness, was
business man. (Applause.) Some
times our opponents try TO array the
wage-earning class-they who work in
factories or by the day for an employ
er-against the farming classes. L want
to show you that you
CANNOT SEPARATE THE INTER
ESTS
of the wage-earning classes from the
interests of the farming classes. You
don't produce shoes for ornament, but
for wear. People cannot wear shoes
until they are able to buy shoes, and
they cannot buy shoes unless they
have the money TO buy with; and they
cannot get the money to buy shoes
with until they sell something they
have and get that money. Now you
sell shoes to the people of the west and
south. If you drive down the prices
of all those things which the farmers
produce, so that when they sell their
crops they cannot more than pay their
debts and interest and taxes, what
money will they have to buy shoes
with? Are you going to add to the
prosperity of Lynn by making more
people go barefoot (Cries OF mo,
never) The wage-earners of Lynn will
be idle unless there is a demand for
the products of the factories of Lynn,
and there can be no demand for that
product as long as you drive money
up and property down.
! FALLING PRICES MEAN HARD
TIMES,
and hard times have never been adj
vocated in a platform by any party,
although the Republican platform this
year, without directly saying so, prom
ises to continue times hard and make
them harder. (Applause.) Do you
deny that proposition? l want you to
look at that platform. 1t declares a
gold standard is not desirable, because
the party pledges itself to get rid OF it,
If the double standard is not more de-
sirable than the gold standard why
does the Republican party want to
make any change? If the gold stand
ard is good, we ought to keep it, but
when the Republican party attempts
to get rid of it, it admits it is not as
| good as bimetallsm. But they prom
Use you, Notwithstanding their desire
to get rid of the gold standard, that
they will keep it until other nations
help us to ger rid of it. Until then
they say we must maintain the gold
standard "a voice, Yes, but we
won't.'9 No, I don't think we will
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standard, we must maintain those
things which are necessarily attached
to it. We must maintain the
system of issuing bonds to buy gold
whenever We want gold. When we is
sue bonds and buy gold, we create a
demand for gold and raise it's purchas-
ing power throughout the world, but
we are
CONTRACTING OUR CURRENCY
by piling it up in the vaults at Wash
ington, when it ought to be out doing
business among the people. (Ap-
plauSe) You manufacturers and mer-
| chants go to the banks for money.
The banks tell you they are very
sorry-they cannot loan any more just
now. There can be no more money in
this country than the people permit.
If you make your laws so you can
draw a part of the money out of cir
culation and lock it up, you cannot
use it in your business and have it in
the vaults at Washington at the same
time. That looks plain enough, yet
there are financiers who go on the
! theory that the more money you take
out of circulation, the more you have
left in it. (Applause) There are finan-
ciers who actually rejoiced at the issue
Of bonds and said it would restore
confidence. They are trying to run
-fs III
and larger percentage Of confidence 10
the amount of money on hand Qaugh-
teri, and If they go on, the people viii
have all the confidence and no money.
Qaughter)
There is only one place where the
confidence game won't work. You go
to one of these men who is all the time
talking about confidence and ask him
to borrow money. He says What Sc
give you an the confidence you want
He will tell you he is not loaning on
confidence this year. NaughteT.)
Why is it the
FINANCIERS ARE so ANXIOUS
for you to have confidence in them
when they don't have any confidence
in you? They want security and tell
you to get a good name on your note
or put up something that is saleaible-
The trouble is things that used to be
saleable are not any more. Security
that used to be good is not good Sc
curity any more They are driving
down the value OF your security by
driving up the value of money. There
is only one way to restore confidence,
and that is to give confidence q, basis
to rest upon"
Mr. Bryan returned with Mr. Sewall
and the other members of the party to
the Boston & Maine railroad station,
followed by big crowd, which cheered
him repeatedly. The party took the