The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-02

money owners: but they conspired to-
gether TO destroy half the money Of
the world 10 increase the value of the
other half.
Consider the undertaken. When
death comes we are glad there is an
undertaken, and ne is a useful man;
but If the Undertakers would conspire
together, thinking people were not
diellS fast enough, and spread the
germs of disease. it would not take
society long 70 deal with them Yet
that's what the money power has done.
SELFISH AND UNsELFIsH PEG
PIE.
a selfish man is TO be admired when
be admits it The farmer rells you
he wants bimetallisrl bScause it would
benefit hin, because he wants TO stop
falling prices. and others would be
benefited ~ the same time.
The lahorer tells you he wants bl-
metallism because il is good for him.
Idleness means desperation and crime,
and he can't understand how he can
be benefited by increasing the number
OF idle men. The business man needs
bimetallism because he makes money
out of his customers. not cut OF the
men he borrows money from These
people are selfish.
l5ut ask the capitalist and he tells
you ne wants the gold standard be
cause. he says, il is good for the Ia
boring men, the farmers and the busi-
ness men. How he does love the far
mer, and he says when ne gets dol
lar it ought to be the best kind OF
doIlar-that is, if he ever gets dol
lar. Laushter) These philanthropists
want to force the gold standard on
the people for the good Of the people.
We don't believe we ought to accept
these favors all the time and give no
return to those lovers of the people.
We have been doing that for 20 years:
let US give them bimetallism now and
we will grin and bear the ills it will
bring for the next 20 years.
WANT MORE DOLLARS.
We now have unlimited coinage of
gold and we want unlimited coinage OF
silver at Is to / We want more gold
and silver dollars to do the business
OF the world. We want independent
coinage. The time was when we made
our own laws without going down on
our knees to other nations.
In speaking of the ratio Mr.. Bryan
said The ratio was q matter OF law,
but the ratio of IS 10 l was the proper
one Platforms should he made spe-
cific in this regard: Free and unlim-
tied coinage at IS to I without the con-
sent of any other nation
SIXTEEN TO ONE.
That is a platform that means some
thing that cant be misunderstood. Six
teen 10 one is the ratio we now have
and there is no reason to change It.
II we made the ratio % to / or made
any change in il, it would put US out
of harmony with other nations and
s. 000. COG goo of silver would have to be
recoined into larger dollars and the en-
largement of the dollar would be half
as bad as gold monometallism. To
change the ratio to 30 TO 1 would IN
crease the debts of the world and would
depreciate property.
We ought not to increase the burden
of debt and depreciate property with
out some necessity. Legislation, not
natural laws, has made the gan be-
tween gold and silver Raise the value
of silver and it viii draw down the
price of gold and the parity will be
restored as it existed 20 years ago.
Why do they legislate for gold? To
keep it Up. And yet people talk about
silver finding its natural level. We
" ant TO give silver a monetary use IS
well as gold. Charge cents for coming
a gold dollar and every time you melt
it down you lose ) cents The reason
gold stands the melting pot test is be-
cause it is coined free: that's why gold
can be melted without loss but silver
is refused a mint value. (Applause.)
GET TO WORK.
The difference between buying silver
under recommendation and coming it
under bimetallism must be recognized. /
People will not sell silver at 30 cents
which they can have coined into 81 at
the mint. Let the farmers go to work
instead of talking. Can there be over
production of food When people are
hungry, over production of lOthes
when people are naked. overprodlctiOn
Of coal when people are cold in the
winter? 1t is not overproduc it is
the inability 10 buy and consume the
good things that are produced. Over /
production OF silver is talked of and it
is said that that is why il has deore-
lated. In the last five years gold has
increased in Quantity more than sily err
yet gold has gone up and silver has
gone down. It is legislation that has
deprecated silver. Others tell us with
free coinage there VIII be a food Of
money. l want 10 be around when tat |
flood GENES, so do whole lots of others. !