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

scUssEs SILVER QUESTION.
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cause of the agricultural depression in
England, and pointed to bimetaIlism as
nhe only hope of the farmer If there
is a silver Republican, who wants tc
go back to the Republican party, ask
him to find out why Mr. McKinley's
commission failed. Why the English
government sent our commission home
and put an end to the hope of interna-
tlonal bimetallism. 1t was because, on
the END day of September, 1897 the
bankers in London met at the clearing
mouse and declared the gold standard
was all right, and those bankers, meet
ing in secret, controlled the policy of
the English government, and that gov
eminent controls the policy of Europe,
and Europe is controlling the policy of
the United States through the Repub-
lican party.
To Silver Republicans.
And if there is a silver Republican
who wants TO go back to the Repub-
lican party, / want to tell him | shall
continue my fight for this nation and
to put it in the hands of the Americans
But people say things have happened
that now make the silver standard I'M
! necessary. When did you find it out ?
John Hay, Republican secretary OF
state, wrote letter on the 25th of last
November-two years after the last
presidential election-and two weeks
after the last congressional election,
and that letter, written by Secretary
Hay to Lord Oldenham of England
was published as part of the investi-
cation of the English commission into
Indian finances, and if you will read
that letter, you will find that Secretary
Hay says that Mr.. Mckinley and ma
jority of his cabinet still believed in the
| great desirability of International
agreement. If the gold standard is sat
isfactory, why want an international
agreement?
Foreign Domination.
you tell me we have got to submit
to it. Who said so? / deny the right
of English financiers to settle the finan-
cial policy of the United States. This
nation took up arms to help the people
of Cuba rid themselves of foreign domi-
nation. and if we are willing TO go to
war to help a neighboring people free
themselves from foreign domination,
shall we refuse to go to the polls to rid
our own country of foreign donina-
tion?
ton rest, the Republicans would not
let us, because they are now going for
ward and proposing to carry the gold
standard a little further; they are pro-
posing to make gold the only legal ten
der; to retire greenbacks and place this
nation more securely in the clutches of
those who own the gold, by saying thar
all debts must be paid in nothing but
gold.
Question of Trusts.
81 want to call your attention to two
or three other things that the Repub-
lican party has been doing We were
fighting the money trusts in 1885, and
great many people did realize what the
money trusts meant, but when the
same principle was applied to the
toothpick and match trusts, they be-
gan to see ii.
And trusts have been organized one
after another until today. A man came
to our town some time ago. He was
called before an audience and said he
was glad to see so many people. It
looked like times were better and that
confidence was restored and speaking
of confidence he had been looking the
matter up and found that according to
Webster confidence was defined as trust
and then he knew that confidence had
bCCii lcSlCiSO MUTE lTuclS nave .DSen
organized in the last two years than
were organized in all the previous his
tory of the country. Why? Because
the Republican party secured success
in 1896 by the aid of contributions
wrung from the great corporations of
this country and these corporations
have a mortgage on the party and are
now getting back out of the people
more than they contributed to the
party.
You tell me that the Republican
party is doing what it can to destroy
the trusts. I deny it, 1t could destroy
the trusts if it wanted to.
Republicans Shield Trusts.
81 believe a party can do something
if it wants to. But the Republican
party don't want to. The attorney gen. /
eral wrote a letter and said: If there |
was any remedy at all for the trust it !
must be found in the state. He GER
tainly meant you could not look to him
for any remedy. The party should not |
tolerate an attorney general who has |
that opinion. Let him enforce the law
that is. 1t is weak enough.
We'll you say if he does it is not |
sufficient. Then why don't we recon- |
mend one that is sufficient? You say
that the supreme court might hold it |
Well, you can't tell I
until the court meets what it's deci- |
sion will be, but why don't the attor-
ney general propose an amendment to /
the constitution that will be sufficient?
IT am going to spend most of the
time this evening on the new questions
because know what you think on the
Did questions.
And if a silver Republican goes back
to the Republican party you will have
to place it on the ground that some
new question has become more import
ant and therefore want to talk about
new questions.
Increase In the Army.
..In 1896 we had standing army Of
IS, 900 men; that is all. That was
enough, because the Republican party
lid not ask for any more. and I have
such faith in the intelligence and cour-
lge of the Republican party that
must believe it would have asked for
more in 1S96if we had needed more.
We do not need any more for domestic
purposes now. Will the Republicans
Jay that during that time. since which
We have had Republican administra-
ion. that fact makes more soldiers