The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22
PANIC SCARECROWS.

The local Republican organ says that
the election of Mr.. Bryan would para
lyZe business. fall on labor. then on the
men who employ labor. and generally
on the men who. with some capital and
by their own exertions, are forginS
ahead to try TO make an inheritance. -
1t is repeating, parrot-like, every witch
tale circulated four years ago by the
educated idiots" and ACCOMPLISHED
blackguards" of "the subsidized press"
How did it answer them then? When
the goldbugs predicted a panic in the
event of Mr.. Bryan's success, what did
the Tribune say? What was it's re-
Spouse when the money power threat
ened disaster in those days? When the
organs of the money trust said the tri-
umph of silver ticket would bring a
CRASH what was our morning con-
temporary's comment?
Who will bring the crash? Would it be
tue money loaners of New York? Ii thew
We're 10 try II they would simply have to
take the farms and city houses and lots
on Wnlch they have loaned money. They
would not realize 80 cents on the dollar if
ehey started q panic. That is simply put
business
not, as rule, cut OFF their noses to spite
somebody else's faces.
This is the way it treated the panic
scarecrow before Mark Hanna fur
nished it with a small bag of pros
perity.
For some sinister purpose the subsidized
| press mas imposed upon people an out
ISse0us scare that in case our nation
.-n fllr 70.
! should be overwhelmed by a deluge of il,
/ when the fact is clear that if there could
J De given to us all that has been saved
| rom the work of all ages, it would not
| StNe US per capita, any more Than the
/ nation needs to carry on its mighty work
/ OF completing the development Of the re-
/ sources OF the land we are in. Another
! fact is just as manifest and that is thar
mere is no surplus silver in the world.
II Is all being used as money and at a ra-
/ tho which would absolutely prevent IFS
purchase and transfer to us.
The foregoing excerpts are from the
editorial columns of the local goldbue
sheet which is now pursuing the very
tactics it so bitterly denounced a few
months ago. 1t said again:
The most wonderful spectacle ever pre-
sented 10 man is to see a great array OF
/ SuppOsed-to- be- learned editors filing ali
/ the cities of the land and holding a club
/ over the heads of the people every morn
ing and threatening if, by any arrange
lnent, or al any time, the original pri-
mary, perfect money which served the
/ world for 5000 years can once more be re.
stored, it would be the ruin of the people
The free coinage of silver is a sacred
/ principle. and the country never will be
free from financial bondage until it is Sc
1 cured
What a transformation What
complete somersaulti What a aitiabl,
betrayal of a sacred principle" Wha
a cOwardly retreat the ex-champion hal
! begun! Up to and including that da,
in April of last year when Boss Lamar
had his conference with Mark Ham;
| at Washington our morning con
temporary was shouting for silver a
the top of it's voice. 1t wasn't afraiC
of the threats of the money power then
But what whining plea it makes TO
the people not to antagonize the gian
of greed for fear he will cause the eartl
to tremble.
Are the American people to meeki,
submit to the bondage of gold and keel
the seal of silence upon their lips 70
fear of offending this monster? Ar
they to vote to keep him in power an,
his agents in authority because h
threatens a flood of silver or a crasl
of business institutions?