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

GINA, ana when a Republican tells you
that Grover Cleveland recommended
the repeal Of the Sherman law, you tell
him that the bill that passed congress
TO repeal the purchasing clause of tho
Sherman law originated with that Re-
publican of Ohio. John Sherman, who
controlled the policy Of the Republican
party on the money question for nearly
a quarter of a century.
So If the Democrats did wrong, or Mr..
Cleveland did wrong, he did wrong in
following the lead of the Republicans.
But want 10 tell you this, which the
Republicans may not tell you, that
there was a larger percentage Of the
Republicans in congress voted for the
repeal of the Sherman law than there
were Of Democrats. and then remember
that when the Republicans in congress
voted for the repeal of the Sherman law
the Republican party in its national
convention approved Of their act, while
the Democrats repudiated their presi-
dent and had the courage to go down
to defeat rather than endorse the action
Of that president.
Mckinley Roasted Cleveland.
The Democratic party could have
held within it's ranks the gold Demo-
Gratis if il had been willing 10 indOrse
the financial policy Of Grover Cleye-
land, but the Democrats had the moral
courage to risk defeat rather than al
low the Democracy TO be made an in
strument for the oppression of the
great mass OF the people. In 1891 Mr.
Mckinley in a speech at Cleveland. o..
denounced Grover Cleveland. He said
he was discriminating against the in
fiuence OF money; that he was trying to
make money Scarcer and therefore
dearer, among the masses, and the Re-
publicans said 'Hurrah, for the man
who has the courage to denounce Gro
yer Cleveland for trying to make money
the master and all things else the ser
want, am then when MIR. Mckinley
did exactly the same thing, they all
said, 'Hurrah for Mckinley for hav-
steps of Grover Cleveland in making
money the master and all things else
the servants" (Applause)
l repeat the Democratic party re
pudiated the policy Of its president,
| turned him out and made a fight for
the immediate restoration Of the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and sill
yer at the present ratio Of 10 to l,
without applying for the aid or con-
sent Of any other nation on earth. And
in that fight the Democratic party lost
a
platform opposed to it's real cOnVic-
lions. And as soon as the election was
over, those who had voted against the
party offered to come back if the party
would modify its platform, and then
the bankers and the newspapers and
the corporations again played with the
Democratic party TO modify its plat
form, but for nearly four years the
rank and file Of the Democratic party
has stood true TO that platform and to-
day there is no doubt of the reaffirma-
ton Of that platform. Today we know
that when the Kansas City convention
meets there viii not be enough Oppo-
sitiOn to that platform to demand the
roll call on the question Of the adoption
Of that platform there. (Applause.)
II aStOnished me TO find people out
here in Utah saying that the silver
question is dead. Why, down in Ne.
braska they have been saying that
right along, and We had an election last
fall The Republicans declared that
everything was prosperous and the sill
Yer question was dead and the assist
ant secretary of war came all the way
from Washington to tell the people Of
Nebraska how necessary il was TO in
dOrSe the Republican administration
and show the silver question was dead,
and AIR. GroSvenOr, the Republican
mathematician from Ohio came out and
other Republicans came out TO point
TO the prosperity of our people and tell
them how necessary il was 10 bury
silver; and when the election was held
we elected our candidate by 1900 ma
jorzty and gave the Republicans the
worst whipping they have ever had in
the state Of Nebraska. (Applause.)
Silver is Not Dead.
want to ask you VINO live in the
immediate vicinity Of the silver mines,
are You going to declare the silver
question dead, when the farmers Of Ne
braSka who haven't a silver mine in
their whole state are not willing 10 lay
II by? Are you going 10 say that you
are willing to go back on bimetallism
and in9onse the gold standard when the
farmers and laboring men Of Nebraska
are still fighting the battle that YOU
did? We are not fighting il for your
interests. We believe that bimetallism
IS good for the tOiling millions OF this
country. not only good for our people
but for the masses throughout the
world, and we are fighting our battle
on the hilltop where the struggling
people OF all the world are watching US.
and if YOU Republicans OF Utah are
willing TO betray the cause of human
ity and cast in your lot with the Re-
publican party, why, we Will fight YOU
still and save you from your own fol-
ly. (ApplaUSe.)
Do they tell you that you have a good
deal of money coming in from your
mines? Why, the Republican party did
not give You the mines, and I want to
warn you that if money becomes plen-
tiful enough through the production of
gold to make the dollar cheap, the Re-
publican party will be in favor of clos
ing your gold mines. The very people
who have for a quarter Of a century
been trying to demOnetiZe silver. tried
to demOnetiZe gold between 1850 and
1860, and if the output Of gold becomes
suinclently plentiful 70 permanently
raise the supply OF the world. YOU win
find the same men who fought against
silver for quarter of a century will
be fighting against gold, and if the Re
publican party today felt assured that
the production of gold would continue
TO increase and go beyond the prOduc.
ton Of silver, you would find the same
men who have denounced silver for
twenty-five years would be telling Won
that silver was the only metal that was
thoroughly honest and gold was q dis
honest metal. II was so in 1860.
But you find now that men say wa
nave 50 Hlucn more money th2n we had
IN 1896 that we do not need bimetaIIism.
Why, these people said we had enough
in 1886, but We now hear them tell that
we have 500, 900. coo more Of gold than
IN 1886, and Yet they confess that money
Is so scarce that the secretary of the
treasury has TO loan money back tn
the banks without interest in order 10
avoid contracting the currency and dis
turbing business.
More Money Needed.
You viii find that Secretary Gage. in
a letter TO congress explaining his con-
duct, defended it on the ground that he
had TO give the money back 10 the
banks as soon as 1t came in from taxa
ton in order to prevent the dfst7,rb-