The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16

nent: he maintained the honor OF a
flag imperiled by q like aristocracy. Ee
+ is TOO poor to see the country that ne
saved. 9
When silver was at o premium over
gold, when 1t was serving better than
gold itc function of money, it was de-
based Who did II? Why was it done7
There lives no human being who can
answer, other than that it was the first
/ step to contract the volume of money
4 to be followed by other contractions,
until gold should be absolute 1t
took the people years to get this in
/ fanny through their heads. 1t was the
! prologue to the play now on the boards.
II the owners of gold can dwindle the
money into their hands, they have the
/ earth, its fullness, its fairness in their
grip. They can dictate not only prices,
but terms of existence. They can de-
stroy commerce. PROSTATE business and
imperi the very flag for which you
fought $
There is a common purpose here. In
I that purpose there is neither philan-
/ thropy, mercy nor humanity 1t will
I be pursued as the court executes it's
4 sentence. Silver is not to be restored
( The silver coin now in circulation is
to be debased. The paper money is TO
( be Withdrawn. and if successful, the
every prominent Republican, in
shackles and gives on the limbs of the
great millions of our country Think
of it, The very silver that we seek to
prevent being made money, was once
too valuable to pay to soldier for his
valor in fight, or his suffering in hos
pital, or his agony in death. The past
is a precursor The future is luminous
by the experience of the past. The
I cha will fo1loxv until h0O1x
closes on a scene that never entered
into the brain OF a soldier as a pos
sihle destiny of the republic. It's Gull
mination, gold the only money, in the
hands of few resident in q. metropolis
on our furthest verge, of questionable
citizenship, and then watch for the ex-
ercise of a power, greater than wizard
or necromancer, which has restored
slavery and calls the roll of its slaves
beneath the very shadow of Bunker
Hill. 1t is not passion; it is not politics.
It is existence and battle for the very
prime conditions of life. Party ties are
ropes of sand in this supreme hour, and
we appeal to old soldiers everywhere,
after battling for others, to come at
last to the rescue of themselves.
The same Republican party that is
appealing to the veteran to vote
against silver refused. when he was in
the field with his life in his hand in
defense of the flag, to pay him in that
coin which it now denounces, dis
charging the governments obligations
to him in deprecated greenbacls.
Those greenbacks, after they had
passed out of the hands of the soldier
in exchange for necessities for himself
and his family, were exchanged for
bonds, and the bonds are to be paid
in gold. Yet the soldier is asked to
vote against the coin which it now
suits the purposes of the money sharks
to debase.
Fl is the glory of the Unicn veterans
that they were the instruments through
which chattel slavery was destroyed in
this land of freedom; and they are not
now going to be led by specious ap-
peals to self-interest to vote for
policy that means slavery for the sons
of those who fought with them in the
ranks of the nations defenders.