The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-16
plause) and not to get their hands into
other peoples pockets"
REPUBLICAN STATION.

plause) and not to get their hands into
/ other peoples pockets"
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION.
After reviewing the various planks OF
the Democratic platform of 1896, Mr..
Bryan spoke briefly of the Republican
! legislation under the present admins
tration, speaking especially of the war
revenue legislation, the stamp tax and
she failure to reach the incomes of the
rich corporations. He said:
One of the things stamped is a tele-
gram. Wherever you want to send a
telegram, you go to the telegraph Of
nee, and you find that the Republican
party has so made the law that the tel
egraph company can transfer the bur-
den from its shoulders to yours.
The Republican party. in all of its
politics, is putting the dollar above the
man, and in that is departing from the
doctrine of Lincoln, its founder, for in
1883 he said the Republican party be-
lieves in both the man and the dollar,
but in cases of conflict, the man before
the dollar
The Republican party is putting the
dollar above the man in all its legisla-
ton, and nowhere is it more apparent
than in matters of taxation. The Re-
publican party is not trying to restore
justice in taxation. The war has
shown that when this government deals
with an individual, its power is unlim-
tied, but when it deals with property,
its power is limited. 1t can draft the
citizen, but it cannot touch the dollar
In the hour of peril the nation can take
the son from his mother and the hus
band from his wife, and stand them up
in front of an enemy's gun, but it dare
not lay its finger on the wealth of the
rich and make them contribute their
share"
Mr. Bryan discussed the question of
bimetallism at length, repeating we'll
known arguments, and said:
I have been asked why I am not
willing to drop the money question. 1
reply, Because the money question
won't drop u.s.
II know not what others may desire,
or what they may be willing to do, but
L am not willing that our declaration
against the gold standard shall be
dropped as long as a handful of Eng
lish financiers can determine the finan-
cial policy of seventy million of Ameri-
can people. And some say that if we
will not drop the money question, we
ought to drop the ratio of sixteen to
one. When you find a man opposed to
sixteen to one, inquire and you will find
that he was never in favor of it, and
then inquire again and you will find
that there is nc other ratio that he is
in favor of. We denounced inteTna-
tional bimetallism as a delusion and
snare in 1886. 1t has been proved to be
SO since 1896. We declared for the
ratio Of sixteen to one in 1896, and no
party has risen to advocate any other
ratio but sixteen to one.
THE SAME RATIO WANTED.
Until some other party proposes
some other ratio and tries to secure
bimetallism at some other ratio, there
is no reason why we should discuss
ratio with them. The ratio of sixteen
to one was decided upon, not at the
Chicago convention, but at the prima-
rieS which elected delegates to attend
the Chicago convention. The ratio of
sixteen to one had been submitted to
the people, and those who wanted it in
1896 are in favor of it now. And they
know why they are in favor of it. The
ratio Of sixteen to one is the ratio at
which our gold and silver coins now
circulate. We simply ask reinstall-
ment of the law that was on the stat
ute bookS-where it was before the act
of demonstration was secretly passed.
When people ask US to drop our fight
on the money question and fight the
trusts, 1 remember that the Republican
party is today preparing to organize
trust more potent for evil than all the
industrial trusts combined. There is a
bill now before congress reported by
the Republican committee that turns
over to the national banks the absolute
control OF the paper money of this
country. It provides for the retirement
OF the greenbacks by an issue of bonds
drawing ~ per cent; it provides that
banks shall be permitted to issue up to
the par value bonds and with the per
cent tax on circulation, and this shall
be reduced to d small fraction of l per
cent.
Here is your evidence Of good Re-
publican policy. They want to issue
bonds in place Of greenbacks, and tax
the people to pay the interest on the
bonds, and then they refuse the ta-,
that banks now paw on the circulation
that they have. Why pile up the taxes
on the people and lower the taxes or
the bankS2"
In conclusion, AIR. Bryan declared
against the increase of the standing
army, denouncing it as an unnecessary
burden upon the people. He urged that
he Porto Ricars should be given their
choice between annexation and a re-
public of their own.
THE GREATEST ENTHUSIASM.
\ reference TO the United States as a
bully for striking down the Filipino
of the night. There was a mighty
demonstration when ne said that ii was
this country Cdac had inspired the Fill
pino with love of liberty. The Ameri-
can government of the Filipinos is
despotism, he declared, and this was
loudly applauded. 1t was no. surprls-
ing. he said, that q country that should
send to England tor a financial policy,
as it had two years ago, should now
send there for a colonial policy. This
was received with wild applause. When
he minated that he wanted to stop, he
was told to go on, and many requested
him to talk more on imperialism When
he said: I'VE may fail in l900,' there
was tumultuous cries of No. never.
When he concluded another hurricane
of applause broke forth Men and
women acted wildly. Men again threw
up their hats and women waved their
cloaks and handkerchiefs and shouted
and jumped up and down. Mr.. Bryan
spoke one hour and nine minutes. He
was in as good voice when he finished
as when he began.
When Mr.. Bryan had finished there
was a great rush to him on the plat
form. He was almost suffocated in the
crush 1t required five policemen to
force a way through the crowd for him.
He shook hands on all sides. He had
few minutes reception in the inside
room. where he shook hands with a
number of persons, and then, with great
difficulty, he went down stairs. There
was a very large crowd here, and Col
onel Bryan had to make short speech
to the gathering. He was enthusiastic
cally cheered as he got into a carriage,
which started for the Hotel Bartholdi.
OF the dinner Mr.. Bryan said:
This is the greatest dinner ever at
tended. l think it is the greatest ever
held in the United States The hearts
of the people are all right"