The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

er proportions by remembering that it
is Just the modest way they have OF
expression their own ideas which they
see reflected, in me. (Laughter) L
would hate to think that / was as big
a man as some of them think am.
DO claim credit for one thing, and that
is that never advocate a thing unless
L believe in it. Voice: That is right
And when I do believe in it, 1 don't
care whether anybody advocates it or
not; l will advocate it applause and
cheers), and that is what drew me TO
the silver Republicans and the Popu-
lists when they had the courage to
come out and support candidate nom
mated by another party, because they
believed in the principles for which
that candidate stood. 1t is because l
have admired honest conviction and
moral courage that have lost no OPP
portunity to praise those silver Repub-
licans and PopulistS who, in 1896, came
and helped to make that magnificent
army Of six millions and a half.
When Frank J. Cannon walked. out
of that convention at st. Louis and
wrote the declaration signed by the
silver Republicans, 1 admired him, and
| should feel sorry to know that any
man who approved Of his course in
Utah in 1896 would go back to the weak
and beggarly elements that compose
the Republican party today. (Applause
and cheers.) 1t is because l have seen
your candidate for congress, Mr.. King,
advocating these principles in the
house of representatives and outside
of congress, thatI feel interested in his
election.
Government is a great corporation,
and every citizen is a stOckholder, and
the stockholders meet from time TO
time to elect the directors, and if the
stockholders want the affairs Of their
corporation conducted for the benefit
of all the people they must select di-
rectors who viii guard the interests of
all the people I believe that today
the reform forces in this nation stand
for the rights and interests Of ninety
nine out of hundred of the American
people, and / believe that the Repub-
lican party stands for the other hun
dredth man, whose money and whose
will coerce where he cannot persuade
and corrupt where he cannot teach by
reason. loud applause and cheers-)
The Republican party was so bad in
1896 that ii drew out of il hundreds Of
thousands of men whose convictions
were stronger than party ties, and il
has been the boast Of silver Republic
cans that they thought themselves out
of the Republican party, and assert
that no silver Republican can ever
think himself back into the Republi-
can party.
If he goes back he viii not go back
by process of reasoning; he Will go
back because Of influences that he will
not disclose to his neighbors. A man
cannot think himself back into the
party of Hanna who still loves the name
nr- hor, I
and cheers.) Abraham Lincoln wrote
a letter in 1859, and in that letter. he
said that the Republican party be
lieved in the man and the dollars, but
that in case of conflict it believed in
the man before the dollar. Notice the
between money and man. God
made man; man made money. And
Lincoln thought that the works of God
came before the works Of man, and
Abraham Lincoln adhered 70 that doc
trine all through his life. 1t ran
all his speeches; the man frst
and the dollar afterward.
And early in his administration he
sent a message to congress, in which
he warned his countrymen against the
of monarchy. What fright
ened him? Why, he said that IT was
the attempt to. put capital upon an
equal footing, if not above, labor in
the structure of the government IT
frightened him. If Abraham Lincoln
was frightened at what he saw in the
early COS, what would be his alarm
today if he could see capital en-
throned and labor debased in every
policy Of the Republican party! Gap
plause and cheers.)
Tide Toward Reform.
Talk about a silver Republican going
back TO the Republican party Why,
no. my friends; the tide is not from
the silver Republicans back to the Re
publican party; it is from the Repub-
lican party outward to the reform
forces of today There We're men in
1885 who did not realize what was gong
on; men who adhered to the Republic
can party in 1896 when your silver Re-
publicans left; but it is realized now;
and there are thousands and hundreds
Of thousa r16s today who did not realize
when they examined their Republican
party that they we're looking at the
shell of the egg without knowing that
a change had gone on IN the contents
Of the Republican egg since the time
when Abraham Lincoln was the
man who guided the destinlea OF
the Republican party. And those
people who did not realize the change
that had taken place realize il now
Republican party. All we ask is equal
fly before the law. We want 10 have
a government built upon the lines laid
down by jefferson, a government that
will guarantee equal rights TO all and
confer special privileges upon none
(ApplauSe) We want a government
such as Lincoln pleaded for, q govern
rneut by the people and for the people.
We want a government in which some
Of the huInblest citizens can aspire to
the highest reward of business, social
and equal living without getting down
on his knees and asking a corporation
for permission to be a candidate for
Office or TO do business, Cloud applause
and cheers) and believe the great ma
jority of the people are ready 10 have
this change take place.
. We want equality in taxation. Isn't /
il strange, isn't il strange that men /
who are paying more than their share /,
Of the expenses Of the government car (
hurrah for the Republican party know /
ing that that party is responsible for I
this inequality. ] can understand how !
q man with a large income derived |
from legislation that gives him special |
I can understand why such /
2 man can vote a Republican ticket, /
but how can an ordinary man who asks I
only the chance to labor and to live 4
and desires not special privileges, but /
simply equal rights, how can such a I
man vote the Republican ticket today? |
My friends, If you viii examine the I
question: OF taxation You viii find that i
the republican party is making the |
poor man pay more than his share and /
the rich man less than his share And /