The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-05
we can wage battle next fall that will
be an event in the history of Utah.
BEGIN THE WORK At ONCE.

sionaries, both men and women, in each
precinct. The missionaries should visit
from house to house and make fire.
quent reports to the chairmen of the
precincts, who should communicate
with the chairman of the state COM
mittee. SO far as possible, the circula-
ton of that staunch Democratic paper,
The Salt Lake Herald, ought to be eX-
tended in every neighborhood. Docu-
ments must be placed in the hands of
the doubtful, and after Democrats have
read their Democratic newspapers,
they should hand them to their Repub-
lican friends. Hold neighborhood
gatherings, afternoon teas and evening
assemblages and talk and preach De
mocracy. Utah must be converted. Re
publicans must be shown the error of
their ways and every Democrat must
work without ceasing. We cast over
10000 votes last fall despite the most
serious obstacles cast in our way. With
consistent and persistent effort we will
make Utah a Democratic state.
THE GREAT ISSUE BEFORE THE
PEOPLE.
Events have so shaped themselves in
this country that the great issue before
the people is that of finance. All other
issues are dwarfed in comparison. Those
who favor a single gold standard are
endeavoring to align the people upon
the question of the tariff. But the time
has come when we must determine
whether gold shall be the sole standard
Of value or whether we shall have gold
and silver as money. Here in Utah the
Democratic party has declared over
and over again in favor of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio
CT 1e to / independent of any other ma
ton. We have been honest and sim
cere in thus declaring. We believe that
the poverty and distress, the stringency
that exists and the commercial depreS-
sion of the times is due to the striking
down of silver and the advancement of
the purchasing power of gold. We have
deplored the policy of the adminiStra-
ton in issuing bonds and borrowing
money to meet the demands upon ma
ton which has more resources than
any other upon the globe. The time
has now come when we must impress
upon the nation the correctness of our
views and demand that the Democratic
party stand steadfast for bimetallism
and the interests of the great mass of
the people. We must refuse to yield to
the cry of expediency. We must repel
any suggestion of compromise. We
must keep the faith, and although we
US raise aloft the banner of true De-
mocracy. Last fall we declared in no
uncertain words that we preferred de-
feat and the preservation Of the polit-
icaI freedom of each individual to
victory secured by the abandonment of
that right. Let us send our ablest men
to the national convention. Let them
be directed to make a fight for silver
that will be remembered, with full
power to resort to the most extreme
measures, if it appears necessary so to
principle Of Democracy regarding
finance.
THE REPUBLICAN POSITION.
We have declared time and again to
the people of Utah that the hope of
those who favor silver is with the DEM
ocratfc party. We have warned the
voters that the Republican party is
party of false pretences, dangling its
silver promises before their eyes, in or
der to continue it's spoliation of the
people by it's pernicious policy of So
called protection. When the test came
in the United States senate, the Repub-
lican senators from Utah abandoned
silver that the manufacturers of the
east might be aided. One of our sem
ators has since repented and now prom
ses to decline to aid legislation upon
the tariff unless there is also legisla-
ton for silver. The other senator, De
traying the interests of his constituents,
has become indirectly an alder ana
abettor in the unconscionable scheme
to advance the single standard and
make gold the sole measure of value.
There are few instances in the history
of this country where there has been
such a glaring betrayal OF trusting
people as the course of Arthur Brown,
who through the inscrutable ways of
Republican legislature, is permitted to
misrepresent this young common
wealth. Let the people compare him
with Joseph L. Rawlins, as man, as
a statesman, as true representative
of Utah, and then let them answer
whether they are proud of their vote
last fall which sent Brown down to
Washington to betray them and re-
tanned Joseph L. Rawlins at home. Sem
ator Cannon says that had the Dingley
bill, which Brown advocates, been
passed, that the friends of silver in
the senate might as well have tried to
whistle down whirlWind as to obtain
a respectful hearing from the poll
ticianS and the manufacturers. He
also says of the Infamous bill which
Arthur Brown voted for in preference
Il.
"seizes all the substance for the east
as right divine and offers the shadow
to the struggling west" Out of the
mouth of the senior senator from Utah
comes a condemnation OF Arthur Brown
and at the same time it is an indict-
ment of the Republican party which
should cause the men and women OF
Utah to hesitate before they rivet still
stronger the shackles which they have
heretofore worn without a murmur.
Nevertheless, though one would
think that Browns course and the
course of the Republican leaders would
cause an open rebellion here in these
mountains, the argument is whispered
among Republicans every day that
the silver men should yield if it be-
comes necessary in order to preserve
harmony, and abjectly lick the hand
that smites them 1t is argued in SUBJ
stance, that even though the Repub-
lican party, through it's mills. grinds
out poverty that it must be sustained
and continued in power. The hand
writing is on the wall. The Republi-
can national convention will declare
for a single gold standard. It's candi-
date will be the puppet of the pluto
Gratis, and men and women will be
urged to belle their past principles and
acknowledge that they are political
serfs, without principle and utterly de-
void of independence of character.
THE DEMOCRATIC PROBABLE
TIES.
From the information that 1 have re-
ceived from leading Democrats of the
east, 1 am confident that the Demo
cratic national convention will declare
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