The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-29


appeal to class distinctions and class In
terests than was ever done by any party
in the history of the United States. (Ap-
plause.) Out in my state the Republican
committee tried to array the school teach
ers against the people VINO pay taxes You
will see every day letters sent out trying
to array the wage Garner against the faI-
mer They tell the man who Is drawing
q salary that the free coinage OF silver
will hurt him, and that he must look out
for his sa.ary. They have not appealed
to the people and asked them to consider
the interests of the country. Look at the
applications which are furnished TO rail-
road men. (Appiause.) They are earn
estly requested TO observe their own inter-
ests by joining CLUB, and in the appllca-
ton you will find a statement like this:
L am opposed to free coinage because 1t
would injure me as wage Garner They
want those who join the sound money
clubs to assert that they have an
INDIVIDUAL, Personal REASON
for antagonizing free silver and yet the
great advocates OF the gold standard want
you to believe that they have no personal
interest for favoring a gold Standard. Gap
plause.) Do the members of the syndlcdtes
which nave been bleeding the country as
sert that they have pecunlary interest IN
bleeding the government and, therefore,
they don't want that right taken away
from them? Do the heads OF the rail-
roads say Cat they have any interest In
this campaign in trying to prevent arDl-
tration? No. Do they assert that they
are in this campaign for blood, because
they want to continue government by IL
Junction? Not at all. (Applause.) They
want you to believe that they are patrI-
otic people, who lie awahe at night Won
dering now they can do sonelA-ng for
toiling humanity. daughter and ap-
plause) They are not only trying. to ar
ray the wage earners against Tie farmer,
but they make d special appeal to the
depos1tors in the Savings banks ana tell
you they don't want free coinage OF silver
because II will enable them to pay their
depositors in cheap dollars. and they are
AFRAID that If they are enabled to do so
they won't ha=e the moral Courage to CO
SO, but viii pay you in gold dollars. Gap
plause)
Il know a little bit about the banking
business. ] will know more as soon as /
get my tax dividend on the amount L
had deposited when the bank failed.
bank who was afraid of silver and
wanted honest money, and was afraid
that the people would get o0-cent dollars.
They would have been glad to get paid
in 50-cent dollars. Great cheering and
laughter.) Mr.. Blaine, in 1875 said that
the destruction of silver as money and
the establishment of gold as the sole unit
of value must have ruinouS effect on all
forms of property, except those invest
ments which yield fixed return in money
and these would be enormously enhanced
in value and gain disproportionate and
unfair advantage over every other species
OF property. tCheers)
A QUESTION ANSWERED.
Would it not be as hard to change the
standard of money in the world as II
would to change the standard of weights
and measures IN the Worid? asked
voice.
MIR. Bryant will answer your question
by saying that in the first place the world
has no standard of weights and meas
ures, and we have been unable to bring
the nations of the world to agree to a
lflr .r.l
applause.) In the second place, why did
you not give that advice in 1873 you are
giving now? They changed our standard
of money then, and for twenty years they
rave trled % keep us from undoing what
they did then. (Cheers) Those who de-
MED the right of the people to use the
law to restore silver TO its rightful place
are the very ones who helped to pass a
law twenty-three years ago to destroy the
free coinage of silver and substitute
new standard after the nations of the
world had tried bimetallism, and after this
nation had tried it from the beginning OF
the nation down to that time. We can
not decide what other nations shall do,
but l insist that we shall decide what
Did Austria ask our consent when she
resumed specie payments on d gold ba-
sis? Did Italy ask our consent when she
resumed specie payment on gold ba-
sis? Did the other nations of the world
ask our consent when they changed their
standards? No, no sir. What man, what
man who wants to be an American, wants
to get down on his knees and ask other
nations consent when we want to do
what we please? Great applause and
cheers) l have gwen you, my friends,
what might be
"A SUFFICIENT ANSWER.
I want to give you more than sufficient
answer. My friend wants TO know how
that can change the standard of the
world l tell him that Prince Bismarck
has stated recently that if the United
bringing other nations to accept our sbi-
metallic policy. III my timid friend doubts
the ability of this nation, 1 beg him to
sit at -.4e feet of a foreigner and learn
confidence in American institutions.n
Great applause and cheers.)
George Fred Williams also spoke.