The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-21

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was 81. SOC. 49,, $3.50. on July l, 1900 it was
2,062. 425.496, and on Sept. 1, 1900, ST.
096.6S3, O42." And the president also
says: Those things which are pro-
duced on the farm and in the work shop
and the labor producing them have
advanced in value. Thus the ReDubli-
cans themselves now recognize that the
increase in prices and the prosperity
of which they boast was caused by an
increase of the circulating medium
among the people and not through the
necromancy Of legislation upon their
part.
DEMOCRATIC ARGUMENT GOOD
Republicans in 1896 argued that 1.-The
dearer the dollar the better the dollar"
They claimed that falling prices and a
low price level was an advantage, be-
cause il enabled the people to buy the
things needed with less money. Demo-
Gratis told you that cheaper money
would raise prices. That il would make
more work The truth CT the Demo-
cratic position has been fully demon
SUrated. and now the Republicans say:
We filled your dinner pail; vote for
us"
Suppose. in addition to the increase of
our gold supply cur silver was being
coined free as We demanded in 1896, and
as we demand in 1870, and suppose that
it had been remOnetized, then labor
WOuIu nave It's Qdyf humanity WOULD
have a chance. and the trusts and COM
bines would so TO thu wall. Our present
relief is but temporary. 1t viii last
until the fields of India are again gOl-
den with 81 ain, until the wars cease
and governments are no. borrowing and
distributing money among the people,
until the new gold fields are beginning
to be exhausted. The financial prob
lem Is yet a living issue. The silver
question is not yet settled. The prin-
ciple for which we contend is right.
No lasting prosperity can be secured
until the white metal is placed upon an
equality with gold. Therefore. / APP
peal to you:
'Oh. man. bowed down with labor,
Oh, woman, young. vet old.
Oh, heart, oppressed in the toiIer's breast
And crushed by the power OF cold.
Keep on with your weary battle
Against triumphant might
For no question is ever settled
Until il is settled right
The Republican party is for the gold
standard They cringe behind the de-
claratlOn that silver is not an-isSue and
dare not come out into the open and
announce their purpose to debaSe silver
Tor all time and to turn the control of
our finances and our money system
over TO the banks Silver is being muir
dered here in the Rocky Mountain re-
SiOn. Its cause is being betrayed in
the very heart of the mining country
Why don't Republicans tell YOU the
truth? Why don't their orators tell
you that if their candidate for congress
IS elected that his vote will be cast TO
perpetuate the gold standard or if he
didn't so cast it he would be recreant
70 the principles of his party. and
would no longer be d Republican? Why
don't they tell you that if they carry
the legislature they will send TO the
senate man who viii vote to perpetu-
ate the gold standard? The president
says that he favors that financial pol
icy, and that the election of Mr.. Bryan
means success for the silver cause.
RoosEvELTs DOUBLE DEALING.
After Governor Roosevelt reached the
east, where he was no longer toneue
tied and there was no reason for trv-
ing to fool the voters. he boldly an
nounced at st. Louis, Oct. O. THAT the
Republican party is for the gold stand
ard upon the seaboard and in the
Rocky mountains alike
He is telling the people in the east
OF the calamities that VIII come to the
country by reason Of the renonetiza-
ton of silver in case of the success of
the Democratic party. He gave US no
warning here. II Z talked of the flag
and of his battles. and Of the glory of
this country and of our Indebtedness
to those who had offered their lives in
behalf of our principles. Were we nor
worthy of salvation? If misery and
suffering Will he caused by the rp-
monetizatiOn of silver, ought we not to
have been warned? Should he not
have cried aloud in the wilderness here
and begged rs to sever ourselves from
that body of death2 If he had been as
sincere as he claims. if he had been
like William ]. Bryan. who carried the
issue into the enemys country in 1895.
ne would not have hesitated to- have
advocated the gold standard here as
he advocates it elsewhere The truth
is that the Republicans are trying 10
fool the people: to sneak into power
under false pretenses. They argue 70
you here that Mr. Bryan has abaDd-
oned the principle of silver and vet he
insisted that il be placed in the Demo
cratic platform He re-announced his
fidelity to the principle in his letter of
acceptance and the only hone that
country lies in the success of the Dem
ocratic party. And there is hope, for
there is always hope for a cause that
is Just and for a principle that is right
What would have been thought of the
abo1tlOnlStS. what would have been
said of those apostles of freedom If in
the early days when slavery. seemed to
be entrenched behind the provisions of
the constitution. when defeat first came
if they had abandoned the black man.
to his fate and to have said. The oI1es
ton of slavery is no longer an issue ~
We of the west may not be able to do
much for the silver cause. but we can
at least be true; we can at least vote
for Bryan and emphasize the fact that
We are honest and have been honest.
We can at least reward with our votes
those who have been faithful TO us and
we can send down to defeat the men
who have sold their birthright for a
mess of pOttage. and who are clamor-
ing in concert. coyote like. that silver is
dead and are shouting with one voice
all hail the men who sTnote it down.
CLASS LEGISLATION ROBBERY.
I shall rot weary you with statistics
shall spend no time in the comparison
of prices, but / call your attention 10
the fact that the things which you have
to purchase have advanced in price ont
OF all proportion to the advance in the
price of the products of the farm and
out of all proportion TO the advance is
price of labor Day by day and year
by year the vicious class legislation
with which we are cursed takes a lit
tie of the wealth of the land from each