The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-18

publican party is in words pledged to
maintain bimetallism, but in which it
seeks TO hide it's real meaning behind
an international subterfuge We quote
as follows: We are opposed to the
Tree coinage of silver, except by inter-
national agreement of the leading ma
lions OF the world, which we rIedRe
ourselves to promote How different
reads the Republican platform of 1892
The American people from tradition
and interest favor bimetaIlism, and the
Republican party demands the use of
both gold and silver as standard
money. while in 1900 it's PhiIa-
delphia platform shows the managers
have become bold enough to throw off
the mask of 1886. and declare for the
gold standard alone.
The constitution says: No state
snail make anything but gold and sill
Yer coin tender in payment of debts. >
Here the sO-cailed Republican party of
today discards the constitution in the
interests of its pet banking trusts and
STOCK gamblers. taxing the masses Of
the people to sustain them.
LINCOLN FOR SILVER.
How different LincoIn's parting
words, when, on April A. 1865. the dav
OF his assassination, he said: During
the war, while we were adding a couple
or million dollars every day to our debt
1 did not care about encoursgi ng the
increase in the volume of our precious
metals. We had the country to save
nrSt- But now that the rebellion is
oVerthroWn, and we know pretty near
~ the amount of our national debt, the
more gold and silver we mine. we make
the payment of that debt so much
easier Now, l am going to encourage
that in every possible way
To US it is no wonder that all of the
political parties split in 1896 on the
.
the oigarchy of money changers in
opposition 70 the rights of the people.
PEOPLE WITH BRYAN.
AT St. Louis the aristocracy con-
trolled and kept the party name
without IL the campaign of 1896 would
have resulted differently. At Chicago
the people controlled and kept the party
name We believe the rank and file of
voters in all parties are faithful to the
true Americanism embodied n the De-
claratlOn of Independence, and when
freed from party surroundings will
support and vote for the man repre-
Senting the rights of the masses. Not
only was the St. Louis convention. as
representing the Republican party, false
to the party's history, but since that
time, having been controlled by the
HeTods who seek gain and rule for
the few, il has been led still farther
away from its early nc Orings. The
growth of trusts under its sway; the
reducing Of the peoples money rights
TO a banking privilege to be paid for
by the peoples labor, while the product
is harvested by the few; the concentra-
ton OF the nations wealth in the hands
of the few to the detriment of the well
fare and happiness of the many: the
subjugatiOn of the people striving to
maintain mans GOd-given rights-the
right Of elf-gOvernment-aIl these are
subversions of Republican democracy,
ana not merely tend. but actually takes
part and assists in esta blishing an i'm
perialistic power that will, if fOstered
and developed, cause to exist in the
near future. upon the ruins of our once
fair republic an empire, the product of
its greed and ambition
LINCOLN ON MILITARISM.
In 1913, ma letter to Herndon. Lin
coin said: ALLOW the president to in
wade a neigh boring nation whenever he
shall deem it necessary, to repel an in
vasion, and allow him TO do so when
ever h may choose to say he deems it
necessary for such an invasion. and
you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Study TO see if you can fix a limit TO
his power in this respect, after having
given him as much as you propose. If
today he should choose to say he thinks
it necessary to invade Canada to pre-
vent the British from invading us. how
could you stop him? You might say
to him; I see no probability of the
British invading u.s.. but he will say to
you: BE silent; see il if you don't
when we think of the recent agree
ment with the pOlygamous, slavehOld-
ing MOhammedan, sultan of the island
of Zulu, who is paid to be known as the
subject of the present administration
we are led to exclaim:
Indeed from the patriotism of the
Republican party of 1856 and 1860. to
the greed of the Republican party of