The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-26
CAGE SAYS BRYAN Will
BRING FREE Sill YER
Republican Secretary Of the Treasury Makes a Wig
OrOuS Assault on the White Metal as Money.
Appeals to Eastern Voters to Prevent Giving Silver Miners
a Chance to Profit, as Democrats Plan.

I of banker. and that the banker has a
| special interest in the gold standard; that
eOIu Is the rich mans money and silver is
itHe poor mans, and other rot of that
hl4II 1 want To speak a moment of the
banker position. 1 want TO show Won as
readlIy can, that the banker if he had
aoSeIu oilIy Tor an immediate and ILL
SOtIen prom, would himself advocate the
Tree coinage measure of the Democrats
Let's see how he could make it serve his
Assume that the free coinage law
would be operative in two years Know
ing this, the banker having saw S5OO 00G
in deposits, could buy AT the present mar
ket price, say, 100000 Mexican dollars
or an amount of silver EQUAL therein ~,
DuIlon, each one little heavier and a
nttie liner than the proposed silver dol
iars- The mint being opened. he could
gnu t receive IN return l,Ol4,0O0 of the new
American dollars With these in hand
anu al tley pelnE legal tender he could pay
oL us deposits with 100000 of the coins
ana Keep $4,000 Of them as the reward of
ms ShreWdness- Ills real profit would
LioI Dc $9lS,O0o they would be cheap
dollars, and. compared with gold dollars
would possess but half their purchasfue-
power, so we must divide the S51S 0G1 bS,
two, which gives him a net cold nr0fit ~
s-7J'vOO on the transaction. You will ask
thhen, why with such possibilities before
Ihen, the bankers oppose The measJIre
VIII ten you, and tell you truly. II is
,J,,5a ar9e tLIey IoFeSee, as every one who
Understands the matter must foresee that
with the adoption of the measure gold
Wouta disappear into private boards; the
in
SOtu, "oulo De drawn out; they would be
forced TO contract their loans: a general /
ana eNnaustlng liquidation would take /
80 merchants and manufacturers J
Idli' and in the general wreck and ruin (
me banker would not escape. But do nor ,
natter yourselves that YOU would he ex !
empt from the general Disaster Sbons
ana factories would be closed: a SharD !
halt would be called on all e1terDriSeePy
LdDOT would go into idieneSS: wages
would be reduced. and general misery
no I6,'tt 16ere would be resurrection.
resources too ulanifold to long re1nai,, +
III bankruptcy and idleness With the
! sam Inc new silver money would be I
the money standard. and the common /
Lnenlq I'M OF exchange, and after incon-
-S-V1ple disaster we would have the
chronic condition of a huctuating cur
-ency now enjoyed in our neighbours; re-
Bryan VIII Give Free Silver.
Don. Don't let let US worry about the alleged
Itiue OF 1855. Let us look in the face 3he
~ , 1al crime winch 1t Is proposed that we
=. But Mr. Bryan waves this all aside. He
- - -1i4dl sentiments are superior TO
nanceS and that man is above the dol r.
d, ar ltls metapho- is above the dollar,
Ie OuSnI TO be abOYe-in.tiniteIv above
MS half-dOllar fraud which the T)eroo-
ratio party espOuSes.
" e are menaCed by the opDositior viii, Z
III expressed tcTmInatiOn TO enter IN
N mat foolish and destructive exDeri-
nSIli. livery one of the three parties
nat programme The election of 1896 prov
~ tndt a majority of our people were
IN sane ana right minded. They then ,
: SSeII.s; theSe proposals by an over
yheImlng vote Warned by that exDe- ,
fence, the leader of the joint alliance
reserved II his declaration on rhe ! ,
money question He and his supporters
ave invented phantom thing they call ,
Imperialism.
1T is not d genuine issue. 1t is a wood .
II morse concealed in which the opDO-
itlou nope TO enter the city with a free .
at hpir
'hrenoer the gates to their unrighteous 4
lNsSlon ana thus contribute to your own
IlluolIS' OF VIII you aid TO bar them out?
he 9th of November awaits your an
wer." 'ONi an .