The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-16

and the letter of acceptance of William
]. Bryan. and then tell me where /
shall co.
The greatest applause of the evening
followed this sentence. 1t was mag
nificent demonstration; such applause
as is seldom called out by any speaker.
The story was told of the door plate
that was stolen and put on another
house. Would that justify the owner
from going to the second house for his
bed and board? p demanded the speak
er. No. he concluded; Il know where
my house is and shall not follow the
door plate"
Bryan Is Eu1ogized
The Democratic standard bearer was
highly eulogized and this pleased the
crowd immensely. No man has ever
been more severely tried" said the
speaker; the great corporations could
afford to pay well to silence the mouth
of William j. Bryan as the mouths OF
other men have been silenced. He is
looked upon as a dangerous man. Dan
gerOus to what? Dangerous to monop
oly to the trusts. to those who now
control legislation. They have taken
him up into the mountain and shown
him the whole world that he might
have if he would but betray the people;
but he has put all behind him and
stands today just where he has always
stood I am a partisan now; 1 am
Democrat
Again the applause Interrupted the
speaker and prevented him from pro-
ceeding for some time.
Il did not make this announcement
till 1 was sure" he continued; Il was
denounced four years ago for not max
ing the announcement by those Repub-
Hcans who had jumped to the support
of Bryan. and now that they are back
in the Hanna ranks they are abusing
me and the same people as before
Talk of Prosperity.
The prosperity issue was next taken
up with the cry that if Bryan should
be elected there would be dire distress.
There is more prosperity now than
there was under Cleveland said the
speaker; prosperity of a certain kind:
but it is not properly distributed. When
was in the senate / was making a
plea for the farmer in the making of
the tariff bill.
'''Oh,' said man of my acquaint-
ance, never mind the farmer. He IS
the mud sill of society; he has always
been such and will always remain such.
1t is the order of nature and let him
stay where he is -
From this point Senator Cannon de-
-livered a eulogy on the farmers of this
nation, and what they had accom-
plished that stirred the audience to the
highest pitch again. Then, returning
to the question of prosperity. the
speaker said that we would have our
present prosperity just as long as our
credit held out. He likened the con-
ditiOn to a man who got 800 900 credit in
the bank and told his family to spend
1T just as fast as they could. because
the faster they spent it the more pros
perity they would have. That is the
first act; the second is paying the debt
and the interest on the debt. This ma
ton has gone through the first act: the
second is certain to come. Would it
not be better to have a sufficient vol
ume of money to do the business of the
nation without running in debt at all
and have permanent prosperity?
Final Great Question.
Senator Cannon then came to what
he termed the final great question.
the preservation of the Declaration of
Independence and the constitution of
the United States"
THE republic is not a mere name,''
he said Il am opposed to any scheme
to force our system of government up
on any people I would rather conquer
the monarchies of the old world by a
glorious example. We are now trying
to conquer the first republic ever at
tempted to be set up in Asia. Behind
every man walks retribution and no
nation can dip its hands in the blood
of another nation without paying the
penalty in it's own time.
When we went TO the Philippines
the people hailed us with delight: they
looked to us for light and assistance
IN setting up their government, and in
return we are trying to shoot liberty
into them with a gun. This is the old
est trick of the tyrant, TO smother dis
satisfaction at home by conquests
a broad l say TO the people of Utah. |
Beware, Beware lest in conquering
other people across the sea you your
selves become the victims of a con-
querer at home
There was a wild demonstration
when the speaker had finished, and
every one present realized that he had
heard one of the greatest speeches of |
his lifetime The crowd pushed UP to /
the stand to shake the hand of the
man who had so thrilled them. and /
many Republicans told him that they /
were still with him in principle It /
was long time before he could escape /
to his hotel.