The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-18

IN america, but armOred in right
eous cause, he bids defiance to the
ried his state for Democracy. He will
do so again this year, only the ma
jority Will be larger. / have now nucn
pleasure in introducing to You Cover
nor John P. Altgeld OF Illinois. "
Governor Aitgeld came forward as
Mr.. Sulzer spoke, and the entire au-
dience rose and cheered for fully five
minutes. AS soon as quiet was re-
stored, he spoke in part as follows:
i have come TO bring to The pat
riotic people of New York and of the
east the greeting of the great Missis-
sippi valley; of that hardy yeomanry
of the central and western states that
has always rallied to the support OF
the American flag in times OF danger,
and that supports and maintains our
institutions in times of peace. These
great toiling and producing masses who
make our civilization possible, feel that
their destiny is linked with that Of fle
sons Of liberty who inhabit the east.
We are unwilling to believe, out west,
that patriotism has died east of the
Alleghenies. and that Mammon is the
only god at whose shrine eastern pso-
pie bow. We are unwilling to believe
That the few men in your large cities
Who use government as a convenience
to make fortunes; who use our repub-
lie as a mere fora ging ground to amass
Wealtn; who cringe 10 European ar S -oc-
racy and who wave the American flag
With one hand while robbing the pub
tic with the other. represent the senti-
ment of that section of the country
that was the cradle of American lib
erty. We do not believe that because
you have in your midst men who value
the privilege of taking breakfast with
the Prince of Wales more than they do
the blessings of free government; that
because you have in your midst men
VINO are ready to undermine and to
overthrow republican institutions in
our land in order to gain temporary
personal advantage for themselves,
that, therefore, the fires of liberty
Wnlcn Tor more than a century burned
upon your hill-tops and illumined the
world are extinct We believe that
the hearts of a majority of your people
are loyal to the institutions of the
fathers, and that they beat in unison
with the hearts of the great people of
the south and west, who believe that
the time has not come for converting
this republic into an oligarchy.
A QUARTETTE.
AT present there is, in addition to
the gold standard, a quartette of Sis
terS IN our land, respectively called:
Federal interference in local af-
fairs"
Government by Injunction
Usurpation by the United States SUI
preme court" and Corruption"
All four are clothed in phariseeism
ana pretense, and all recognize the gold
standard as their natural or foster
mother. We believe that these blight
ing sisters, whose smile means paraly-
SIS and whose embrace means death,
nave no more admirers among your
people than they have among ours.
RMS campaign is to decide not only
whether we shall perpetuate the estab-
nshment of this English system, which
IS prostrating our nation, but also
whether we shall permanently adopt
these four sisters into our household
ana make them the ruling members of
the family. The mask has been torn
from the gold standard. Our people are
beginning to understand that the at
tempt to introduce it throughout the
commercial world Is a disastrous ex-
pertinent; that down to 1873 the world
used not only all the gold and all the
silver as money, but so great was the
worlds business that every dollar was
loaded with twenty times as much
credit; that all the great achievements
of mankind We're accomplished under
the bimetallist system; that under this
system everything that makes the civil
lization of this country was dJrg, and
that since the Introduction Cf the uni
versal gold standard the wheels of pro-
gress have stood still.
FALLING PRICES.
Our people are beginning to under
stand that formerly there was added
every year to the worlds stock of
money. nearly all of the gold and sill
Yer that was mined, which, in a meas
ure. kept pace with the increase of
population, but that since 1873 only
the gold has been added, that is, only
one-half as much has been added each
year as there formerly was, while the
population has increased more rapidly
than ever, and that this fact alone
must produce a continuous fall in
prices. Our people are beginning to
understand that making money scarce
makes money dear; that dear money
means low prices for property, for the
products of the earth and for the pro-
ducts of labor. They further under
stand that as taxes and debts were
not reduced low prices have DESTROYED
the purchasing power of the farming
and producing classes. so that they
can no longer buy the products of the
factory and the mill as they formerly
did, in consequence of which the fac
tory and the mill had to partially OF
wholly shut down. thus in turn DESTROY
ing the purchasing power Of the labor
ers, and that in this manner the gold
standard has spread paralysis, not only
over America, but over Europe and the
civilized world.
DOUBLING BURDENS.
Our people understand that when the
governments of the earth forced the
world off of the bimetallic standard OF
prices down onto the low gold stand
ard prices, they practically doubled the
burden of all debtors. and that, strange
as it may seem, none of the pharisees
who now cry aloud against making
money cheap and injuring the creditor
ever uttered a word of sympathy 70,
the poor debtor. They understand that
the bullion of the so-called ''fifty-cent
dollars '-treated as bullion with the
stamp of the government erased-has
substantially the same purchasins
power, and will buy as much property
as much of the products of the eartf
and of labor. as had or did any of the
dollars which the Englishmen gave Ms
! for our bonds. They understand thai
the gold dollar has been forced IN Il
where it will buy twice as much prop.
erty and products as it formerly did
that the governments, by DESTROYING
silver reduced the worlds supply O.
money, and by making gold alone d.
the worlds work. they increased TIL,
demand for it, thus interfering with tn,
law of supply and demand: and tina
/ as soon as this legislation is wiped on
! gold Will Of necessity come down to it.
| former position. Our people under
\ stand that it will be impossible t,
open the mills and restore prosperity t,
the world until the purchasing powe
| of the farming and the great producin,
classes Of the earth is restored, an,