The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-14

mean @ greatly increased ana SIedQy eIIF
pioyment of labor in all branches of bust
ness; and this means q large increase in
the business of the bankers, the mer-
chants. the farmers, and every class and
kind Of business in which our people are
engaged. And It further means home
market ct good prices for all the products
of the farms and mills, not only of Utah.
but the whole country. IT means very
great increase in the business of all our
railroads, and the immediate return of the
most prosperous times that we have ever
seen.
Should Bryan be defeated and the party
of Wall street and the gold monometaIsts
win, 1t means a continuation OF existing
conditions, or perhaps greater distress ana
shTinkage in the value of all properly, a
curtailment of labor in every branch of
business and a consequent decrease IN
wages; and should they be successful they
will endeavor to take such steps as VIII
forever prevent another contest for the
restoration of silver, and one OF them VIII
be to depreciate the price of silver to SUCH
an extent as viii effectually close the Sill
yer mines, and at the same time greatly
diminish the output of gold, lead and cop
per usually existing in combination win
the silver ores. and thus destroy the lead
ing industry of our state, which Will mean
utter ruin TO all our business ana agrlcul-
tural interests, and the throwing out OF
employment of many thousands OF our
workingrnen.
ton against the unlimited millions which
are backing Mckinley and gold monomet-
alisYn sufficient money must be secured
to continue VITA renewed. vigor the edu-
cational work which has been carried on
up to this time in behalf OF blmetalllsm,
by putting IN the field competent speak
ers, and by largely increasing the distrl-
button of silver literature. ana thus as
sist Bryan in his almost superhuman e.
forts to educate the voters of this coun-
try upon that issue.
| Since the moneyed wealth OF the east
ern and central states is arrayed on the
side OF gold, the time has now come when
every man who would save his business
from destruction and prevent the pau
perization and starvation of his children
must make last supreme effort to carry
| this campaign to q successful conclusion.
1t is not a question IS to what each OF you
can afford to give, after years Oh failinS
| business, depreciating property and unre-
munerative products, but it is what you
can give to prevent the utter destruction
of all the business and agricultural inter-
ests OF Utah.
OCCUPATIONS OF THE SIGNERs.
! r. c. Chambers, mine owner; j. j.
Daily, mine owner; Joseph l.. RaWllns,
| lawyer; j. @. Packard, mine owner;
w. S. Mccormick. banker; John Beck,
mine owner; H. A. Cohen, superinten-
dent of mine; Frank Knox, banker; ..
j. Salisbury, banker; George a. Snow,
merchant; e. A. Wall, mine owner; j..
i A. Bamberger, broker; z. L. Farms
worth, Superintendent of mine; a. g.
! Campbell mine owner; Thomas u.
Merrill, broker; D. c. Dunbar, news
paper man; H. w. Lawrence, real es-
! late Samuel Mcintyre, mine owner;
| James McGregor, railway superinten-
dent; Thomas Kearns, mine owner; G.
| P. Hough. physician Simon Bamber-
| ger. ralloau manager; j. r. Walker,
banker; George NJ. Scott, merchant; J.
| A. Cunningham, mine owner; w. ii.
| Dickson, lawyer; Z. G. Goodwin, edl-
/ tor: A. f. Holden, mine owner; w. M.
Bradley, lawyer; c. S. Varian, lawyer;
j. w Donnellan, banker; w. W. CHS
holm, mine owner.
If you will spend fifteen minutes with
the latest city directory of Salt Lake
you will find that this classification OF
! occupations is fair, and you will see
that this list is made up of merchants
professional men and bankers, as well
! as mine owners. Some of the latter
are interested in mines only in a I'm
| tied way, and some are interested
partly, if not chiefly, in gold MINES
| The following large mining corpora
tions have given to the Bryan cam
paign fund not a cent: Ontario, Eu-
relza-Hill, Gemini, keystone, Daily
West, Horn Silver, Anchor, Ajax, Al :.
Nance, Mercur Dalton-Larll, Utah, Ca
lena. Sioux Consolidated, Silver King
Sunshine, Northern Light and Tetro
Seven mining corporations have sub
scribed a total of SAFES, which repre-
sents all of the money which the MN
| ing corporations of Utah have given
to the Bryan fund. The reason why
these subscriptions have not been
larger and more numerous is obvious
Many of the mines are chiefly Sold
producers or are owned or controlied
either by eastern men who are at
! tached to the cause of Mckinney ana
the gold standard, or by local Mckinney
! men, VINO are often influential enough,
with their boards of directors st least,
to prevent any action favorable to the
cause of Bryan and binetallism.
mere have been made in Salt Lake
city eleven subscriptions to the Bryan
fund by individuals who have property
in mines. The total of all these SUD
scriptions, $3.50, represents all OF the
money that individual mine owners IN
scribed to the Bryan fund. l may add
that with the other individual sub
scriptions the total subscribed by min
ing CORPORATIONS or by mine owners
or other individuals in Salt Lake city
and Utah amounts to $15.3262O
COMPARATIVELY SMALL SUMS.
These facts and others pertinent to
a truthful understanding of this Dues
ton were given to the Salt Lake cor
respondent of your paper more than
week ago. The situation then was that
the Bryan non-partisan campaign
finance committee had secured sub
scriptions amounting to nearly $4,000
and had sent to the Democratic ma
tional committee at Chicago $4,000, and
that this was every dollar that the
committee had raised at that time or
had sent to the national committee.
This was shown by The subscription
list itself, which was freely given to
your correspondent for his inspection;
and he saw and knew that all of these
subscriptions with the exception OF two
were from individuals, and that at
that time only two mining companies
had made any subscriptions at all. Ii
was also explained to your correSpon-
dent that no hopes were entertained
by our committee of getting subscrip-
lions from large mining companies fol
the simple reason that nearly all OF
them were either controlled in the east
bv persons unfavorabie to Bryan, OF
that some local officers and stockhold-
ers. being supporters Of Mckinley, OBJ
, jected to any subscriptions by the com
panies. For that reason we did not
. expect, and, as above pointed out, have
not received any subscriptions what
!. ever from the Ontario, Horn Silver
Daly-West, Eureka Hill and nearly 6
score OIL OLu9IS. 1Sluety pei CeIiL VI Liz
money that Utah had contributed a
that time to the Bryan fund came from
private individuals, and of the $1,000
: or thereabouts which the COMMITTEES
; has been able to forward to the ma
tional committee to date not more thar
third has been received from min
ing corporations. These facts were al
laid before your correspondent here
and all our lists and remittance sheet:
were inspected by him; and he prom
ised to forward to the World for pub
: liza ton comics Of the address which