The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
THAT BRYAN MEETING.

No one who attended the Bryan
meeting last evening, who heard the
patriotic address of the great silver
champion, who saw the interest of the
multitude that hung upon every word
which fell from the orators lips, can
hold the opinion that silver is dead"
No one in that vast audience who
witnessed the magnificent reception,
who took part in the grand ovation with
which the hero of the first battle of
the standards was greeted, doubts that
he win be chosen commander-in-c chief
OF the bimetallic forces again; or feels
that silver has been eliminated from
the living issues of the day.
With Bryan reaffirming his allegiance
to the Chicago platform and every
Democratic convention in the country
reaffirming its allegiance to Bryan, it
is folly for the goldIbug press to say
that nobody is talking silver any
more" His audience gathered in from
all over the state 1t was composed Of
representative men and women. They
were more than pleased with the speech.
They were delighted. If a silver man
could leave that meeting and find an
excuse for seeking the Hanna fold, his
excuse is not such that he would care
to have it made public. If an imperial
list has any ground left upon which to
stand. it must be private ground.
Wherever Bryan has spoken this year,
whether in the farthest east or the
farthest west, the same unbounded en-
thusiasm has attended his utterances,
the same intense interest has been
shown in the man and his views. And
wherever silver advocates have held
meetings, whether in New York, in
Rhode Island. in Massachusetts,, in In
diana, or in kentucky, and in every
state of the east, south and middle west,
the indications are that the seeds sown
in 1896 are sprouting and that the sill
yer sentiment is spreading.
The great questions before the people,
the permanent issues which will abide
when others pass with the conditions
which give them prominence, are these:
shall silver be rehabilitated?" The
lican party says no.
shall credit, or paper money be is
sued by the government or by bank
ers' trust?" The Democratic party says
it shall be done by the government; the
Republican party says that the bank
ers shall have the exclusive right.
Shall all laws which discriminate
for or against either gold or silver in
the payment of debts be repealed"
-
mocracy; but according to the Repub-
lican doctrine, such laws should be en-
acted and enforced.
These are the questions that come
home to the people of this country. I'm
perialism win sink of its own weight
1t is incompatible with the idea of
popular government. 1t cannot thrive
in a democracy founded upon sthe con-
sent of the governed. 1t will ruin any
republic that adopts it. It will drag
down any party that espouses it. The
American people, as soon as they catch
its drift, will rise en- masse and repu-
diate ii, and the Republican party it
self viii be forced to abandon it. But
the money trust and the other trusts
win remain when our Quixotic notions
of shooting civilization into the Orient
are forgotten. The spirit of monopoly
which controls our finance and us fast
acquiring control OF industrial affairs,
which operates through the Republican
party and gains ascendency through
corruption and deception will remain
a menace TO American institutions, and
to the liberties of the people.
1t was a great meeting and a grand
speech. 1t was easier to measure the
audience by the acre than to estimate
by thousands. The city, the state,
the people who attended and the COM
mittee are to be congratulated.