The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

reception IN the hotel parlOrS and
shook hands with a large number of =
callers. Nearly 500 were seated at the
banquet. Mayor Harrison presided
and acted as POSTMASTER.
Mr.. Bryan was received with cheers 4
when introduced and spoke in part as (
follows:
BRYAN'S SHEECH.
Mr.. Bryan spoke infpart as follows:
II is especially fitting that at this
time the American people should recall
the name of Andrew Jackson and
gather inspiration and encouragement
from his public career. We are en-
gagged today in a contest very similar-
to that in which he played so con-
spicuous and honorable a part. During
his term of Office the national banks
attempted to overawe the representa-
tiyes of the people and control the gov
eminent He grappled with It and
overthrow it. Arrayed against him
We're the very classes which have
forced a continuance of the gold stand
ard in the United States, in spite of
the almost unanimous protest of the
people. 1t seems that every genera
ton presents a combat between the
producers of wealth and the money
changers. The latter, conducting their
campaign in secrecy, fasten themselves
upon the body polite and prey upon
industry until their hold is broken by
an awakened and indignant public.
THEIR INSTRUMENT
The present secretary of the treasury,
Mr.. Gage, is eminently fitted TO be the
instrument of the fnanciers in their
efforts to complete the scheme CONS
menced "A years ago and continued
without interruption until the present
day. He possesses a sublime faith in
the superiority of money over man
e
the interests and the opinions of the
people at large. He knows that the
gold standard was adopted in the
United States without any party ever
asking for it; he knows that for %
years after it's adoption no party ever
dared to commend it; he knows that
in the campaign of 1896 the party COM
posed of boiling Democrats was the
only party which dared to declare the
gold standard a blessing; ne knows
that at the polls SO per cent Of the
voters registered their opposition to a
single gold standard, differing only as
to the means of securing bimetalliSm;
he knows that the president, to whose
partially he owes his position, sent
a commission to Europe to beg other
nations to help us get rid of the gold
standard; he knows that the senate
and house, with scarcely a. dissenting
voice, appropriated 100000 of the peo-
pies money to pay the expenses of
the commission while it was seeking
relief from the gold standard; he knows
that France by joining in the demand
for international bimetalism, con-
Gemned the gold Standard; he knows
that the farmers, the labOrers, and to
a large extent, the manufacturers Of
England, desire international bimetal-
lism; he knows that the maintenance
of the gold standard means unmerited
a Y1fc m the nd
the bondhOlding classes, is undeServed
punishment to the vast majority of the
people of this country and of the civ
ilized world; and yet in spite OF his
knowledge of all these facts, he is de-
liberately planning to fasten the gold
standard permanently upon the people
of the United States.
OUR PAPER MONEY.
Not content with advocating a policy
which places the destinieS of 10000 600
of free men in the hands of foreign
financiers and permits a few London
bankers to control our standard money,
he now proposes to give to the national
banks full and complete control of the
paper money of the nation. In NOvem-
Der, 1856, $500, 900 electors voted against
the retirement of the greenbacks and
1000, 900 supported q platform which
was silent upon the subject.
The Republican candidate for presi-
dent, in his letter of acceptance,
pledged the Republican party to keep in
circulation (and as good as gold) all
the silver and paper moneys now in
cluded in the currency of the country,
while only one party advocated the re-
tirement of the greenbacHs. and that
party polled less than 1 per cent of the
total vote. Mr.. Gage knows these facts,
and yet, in spite of that knowledge, he
is seeking to organize a money trust
more dangerous. not only to the indus
tries, but to the liberties of the people,
than all the other trusts combined. At
such a time and under such circum-
stances, the memory of the hero of
New Orleans ought to be invoked in
every state, county and hamlet TO
arouse the people to a sense of their
danger.
REPUBLICAN FAILURE.
Twelve months have elapsed since we
celebrated this day q year ago, and
every month has borne witness to the
failure of the Republican policies to
bring relief 10 the people, Just after
the passage of the Dingley bill our op-
ponents were bOiSterous in their an
nouncement that prosperity had re-
turned The Republicans were given
full swing. They framed just such a
law as their hearts desired and their
brains devised, and what is the result
Read the daily papers and you win ind
the items of news arranged under two
heads the formation of trusts and the