| Show t c J 3 1 2 0 f dB PntlURS 3 Below is given the great speech of Hon O W Powers of Salt Lnkej as delivered by that gentleman at the Provo opera house on Saturday even ng October 20th 1894 The speech was delivered with masterly skill and it was freely punctuated with hearty and loud applause ap-plause from the vast audience Mr Powers said JV Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen In this the Garden city of Utah with its valley of fruits and flowers and its clear crystal lake one ought not to be compelled to argue to any extent in behalf of the party of the people and against the tory party of these latter days Because you are a people of home nd the democratic party is a home loving party it believes in home rule it is opposed to special privileges and to the t rule either of kings or of aristocrats I always feel at home among iou and you always seem tome to-me my neighbors When I lived here I learned to like you and to like your town and I have never taken from my heart the flowers of metiory which took root whe wen daily met I is also a pleasure for me to address youbecause the Tirnpanogos tribe of the einocratic party of your city has joined hands with the Tuscaroras and unite thin evening to do battle against our common enemy under the leadership leader-ship of Hnwlins who has honored the democracy by accrpting its nomination for congress When I say that the democratic party has been honored by his acceptance i spaak advisedly RAWLINS THE MAN FOR THE EMERGENCY EMER-GENCY His record In congress is such that he ranks among the leading men of the land His services have been puch that lie is recognized as a statesman His sterling integrity and rigid adherence adher-ence t what is right independent of party expediency mark him as a leader of men His name adds lustre to the democratic banner and with him as our candidate we need no platform Those who have observed his straighforward course even though they disagree with him politically are obliged to recognize his worth and they are only able to ad vanes the argument that he is a democrat demo-crat as a reason for voting against him He has advanced himself to that position posi-tion that the strongest words that his opponents can say is that he is better than ho partv he represents That is the kind of a man whom the democrats have nominated and I firmly believe tbat he will lead the democratic hosts to a great and lasting victory His defeat would mean the defeat of the peoples cause It would mean that the voice or one ot the ablest and bravest advocates ot silver would not be heard m Its behalf It would mean that one of tue truest of Utahs public servants u uid be discharged in order that a repuuiiuan partisan might gain I would mean that in Utah a man who is brave enough to battle for the right no matter what the consequences is not appreciated by those whom bu laithfully served We may grant all tue arguments of the republicans to be true when they loudly declaim against the democratic party and yet Rawlms IS worthy of your votes for republicans day thiit ha i better than bis party and that they admit that he has never worn a bras collar about bis neck chaininK uiitji to the advocacy of anything tending tend-ing to the injury of his people In his public life he has been actuated by no mean nor unworthy motives He has pursued the right as he has been enabled en-abled t see the right and re has not knowingly permitted any injustice to be done even to the least lullatiitial and the lowliest of our people He has been tue servant of republicans populists popu-lists aDd democrats He has not lav ored the Catholic nor the Amormt he has not discriminated between the Mormon and the gentile He has been without fear and above reproach seeking seek-ing only to advance the interests 01 Utah and 1 her people OUR FIGHT AGAINST EUROPES MONEYcHANGERS MONEY-CHANGERS Such a man is needed in these trying times in the congress as our repre5enta ive The great issue before the American can people todayand one that must be settled betore we can have perfect and lasting prospeiityis tLe financial question ques-tion Under our present laws we are chained gagged bound hand and toot by a merciless Suylock Back of the thrones of Europe back of our financiers finan-ciers and legislators sits thu money power dictating terms and cracking its whip over the heads of the enslaved masses The elided coach of Dives every day rides over Lazarus Everyday Every-day new schemes are launched bringing bring-ing the working people nearer to the condition of peonage toward which we are tending The concentrated forces of capital which were mobilized behind the entrenchments furnished by the iurDshed republican re-publican tantf policy are constantly devising means to make the people their abject slaves What England could not do with shot and shell she is accomplishing by means of the money power and is making of America a dependency de-pendency to Lombard street Taking advantage of the cunningly devised protection laws she has invested in our stocks and controls many of our leading lead-ing industries She has enslaved us with debt She has purchased our securities until we are compelled to pay her each year 8200000000 in interest and through the craven policy of the east she has been enabled to compel its payment in gold Our capitalists at home united by the cohesive power of public plunder have by means of our tariff laws created gigantic trusts and monopolies that have the industries of the land by the throat and which sow the seeds of poverty among the masses The first ray of light that has greeted the people for years shot through the dark clouds when the Wilson bill crippled although it wasby the senate became the law of the land It came to the people like a rainbow of promise painted upon the heavens bythe hand of divinity I brought home to all the glad truth that the outer works of the enemy had been captured Like a liberty hell it rang out the tidings that the hosts of greed and of mammon with their money their lobby their in luence their vast political powerafter a legislative battle of a years duration dura-tion had been forced to a conditional surrender Our flag has been planted upon their outer works never again to be struck down and the life blood of trade begins to flow through the arteries of the nation and to warm into life the lopes of the people The victory which democracy secured in the last congress for the toiling masses is as great in its way as that which was wrung from King Lhu by the barons at Run Ymede THE BATTLE TO BE YET FOUGHT But the fight is still on and the full measure of relief which the people BO t > 1 I sorely need is not yet obtained Battle alter battle must yet be fought in the halls of legislation before there will be handed to the people the full measure of their rights The tireless and aggressive aggres-sive foe is not jet beaten to the death The people of this fertile and this fruitful land will never remove the usurers yoke until River is remonet ized and is placed UPLn an equality with gold The laws which favor capital and which debase labor must be repealed The privileges which have been given to the creditor class and which bear so heavily upon all debtors must be abrogated The policy which has increased the yalue of money and decreased the value of propertv must become a thing of the past Uolci must step down from the throne and manhood must receive the crown This war against power and pelf must be waged by the masses of the people The spirit which inspired your fathers atBennington and Bunker Hill must thrill you The determination to gather again to yourselves the privileges and advantages which have been stolen must be fixed ana immovableYou have entered upon no holiday campaign The press ot the east a powerful nnd influential force is almost eolid against you Pelf interest and the combined power of money will seek tc thwart your endeavors You will find the united republican party giving you battle ana the goldite democrats will traitorously fire in your rear There vill have to be a concerted movement by all nen who believe alike and it devoUes upon the men of Utah to take their first step in that direction by reelecting re-electing Rawlins to congress A HAN IS NEEDED WHO WILL EXECUTE OUR WILL I is conceeded that be cannot be movEd by expediency or party clamor It Is admitted that he is brave enough tortriticise any man no matter how great nor how popular he may be who is against us in this fight And what we want is a man in congress tried tru and fearless and not mere promises prom-ises which tickle the ear when made and which make the heart sick when they are broken A platform declaration is nothing uness you have the man who will carry it into effect The ringing declarations of conventions are forgotten for-gotten after the election has passed and unless the man chosen is a platform plat-form himself the wishes of those who named him are too frequently of no avail The strongest of our men and those who have been tried and not found wanting are needed to cope with the eastern financiers and the paople of Utah should act wisely anc for their own interests I was surprised sur-prised and disappointed the other day when 1 read in the republican organ of Utah that the republicans of Utah must make haste to put themselves them-selves in accord with the republicans of the east We all know where the republicans of the east stand upon the silver question They are against us But I Had hoped and believed that the republicans of our own territory would stand with us I they are to be in accord with the sentiment of the east then we must fight the battle alone for the battle must be fought out and the right must be made to prevail I republican candidate for congress con-gress is lin accord with the views of i eastern republicans then he is not the man to represent the farmers miners merchants and working men of Utah He is an untried man He is ambitious ambit-ious and anxious for preferment and the path to honor ir America today is unfortunately more easily traveled If one puts himself uin accord with then the-n of the east The republican can cthttejdnot yet pro en that he is better than his party a He promised us when he acoepted the nomination that he would not resign if elected I presume that by that remark he desired de-sired us to understand that no conduct of his party or his party leaders would force him to yield up his office in order to preserve his aelfrespect and his independence in-dependence Is he the man to take up the work which Kawlms has begun for our interests and carry it i to success Aud that is the question which you must ask yourselves when you come to vote SILVER 3IENS INTEREST WITH DEMOCRACY DEMOC-RACY You must also remember that the party whose standard he bears is under un-der the denunciation of the monied interests in-terests 01 Wall street In the empire state the republican party has nominated nomi-nated a London banker tor governor Hon Levi P Morton He has a bank in New York and he has a bank in LoEdon In no eastern state has the republican party sounded a word in convention for free silver On the other hand the democrats of Ohio of Michigan of Illinois of Indiana and other great states are for silver Enough democratic state and territorial territor-ial conventions have declared for silver to control the next denrcratic national na-tional convention I is safe to assume that the next national campaign will be fought with flee silver written upon the democratic banners unless the cause of the people before that time meets with the success it deserves The hope for silver men lies with democracy de-mocracy Here in Utah the democratic party has declared for free silver whether any other nation wan to it or not and that will yet be the slogan of thejjational democracy More than that the next democratic candidate for president will be a free silyer man The democratic party has always been the friend of silvei True there have been reverses just as there have been in tariff reform but in view of the record no reasonable man can complain com-plain of the demociacys record on this question Individuals have differed from the party but the party has always al-ways been right Senator John P Jones sajs Having become fully convinced that the republican re-publican party organization is unalterably opposed to uiu ii uu uuiuuxu ui buyer at mo ratio ol 16 to 1 or M all oxcont witn the con cant of foreign governments and at 1 ratio to be dictated by thHn I have to announce I cn no longer act with that part Speaker Crisp democrat says 1 am in favor of the free coinaio of eiver The Ohio democratic state platform says We believe silver should be restored to the position it occupied as money prior to its demonetisation by the republican party and t that end we favor unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 and with equal legal tender power The majority of the democratic statt platforms make the same declaration Franklin McYeagh democratic nominee nom-inee for Senator in Illinois pays Silver ought to be romonetized The coin ago of silver ought to be frre And in another speech says I believe as much in the benefits to bo derived de-rived under tariff reform as any man in the United statef hut I do not believe that final ultimate prosperity will come to this country ultmate through tariff reform alone Sliver must become a part of the standard currency and equal with gold because thero is no possibility of doing the business of the world with gold alone What hups have silver men from the republican party What indication is there that it will shake off Shylocks yoke and become the champion of the masses r McKiniey is their director general in matters of political economy and in his opening speech in Maine in his candidacy for the presidential nomination nom-ination he said not one word in behalf of the white metal ExSpeaker ReedY Reed-Y r T J l I I II I jsrwe 85 r is lanothef republi8ah candidate foi president and ne bag placed himself on I record as opposed to silver coinage without the consent of Europe Benjamin Benja-min Harrison is another and we all know where Harrison atands upon the silver question Levi P Morton is also siver queston in line for the high office and he is a gold bug of all the gold bugs Don Cameron of Pennsylvania i in disgrace with his party in that state because he said a few words in silvers behalf On the other hand the democrats of the souththe west and of the middle states are true friends of silver and they will dictate who the next democratic nominee nomi-nee shall be I The only way that we haye of judging judg-ing as to what the republican party will do is through its past history upon the financial question The Bible says By their fruits ye shall know them Lat us see what has been the course of the two great parties upon this all important im-portant question By so doing we will party not do any injustice to the republican In 1S73 republicans demonetzed silver In 1875 republicans defeated a free coinage bill In 1876 when the democrats had a majority m the house i for the first time in sixteen years a free coinage bill was vjted for by 121 democrats I demo-crats and 36 republicans voted against it In 1877 another free coinage bill received nearly the same vote In 1878 a dem cratic > silver bill which restored the status of the silver dollar passed the house over the presidents veto 122 democrats voting for it and 52 republicans repub-licans voting against i In 1878 in the senate republicans tried to defeat the BlandAllison act authorizing the purchase and coinage of at least 2OOO 000 of silver per month 0a April 8 1886 record page 3300a bill was voted on in the house on the free c inage of shyer 96 democrats voted for the bill and 93 republicans against On the same day record 3300 an amendment was offered to suspend the coinage of silver 51 republicans voted in its lavor and 130 democrats against In the house on June 26 ISSo L3 republican voted for free silver and 130 against On April 8 1888 30 republicans voted for silver and 98 against In the same year on June 7th 15 republicans voted for silver and 127 against In the senate sen-ate on June 171890 15 republican voted for silver and 25 against On June 71890 record page 58i3 a motion was made to recommit the bullion bill or Slieiman law socalled and with directions di-rections to report a bill for the free coinage of silver 101 democrats voted for the motion and republicans voted against it On June 25 1890 record page 6510 MI Bland offered an amendment in favor of the free coinage coin-age of silver 112 democrats voted for it and 130 republicans voted against i In the house on March 21 189211 republicans re-publicans voted for silver and 64 against In the senate July 1 2 189211 republicans voted lor silver and 19 against In the house July 131892 9 republicans voted for silver and OU against In the house on August 23 Ifc93 on the vote to repeal the Sher lan law 111 republicans voted for repeal re-peal and 13 against On October 28 1893 record page 2920 when the Sherman Sher-man law repeal was before the senate a vote was taken on the question of the coinage of 2000000 ounces ot silver per month 23 democrats including Mr Allen of HeIrs a and Mr Kyle oj South Dakota voted for it and 20 republicans re-publicans against On October 30 1893 record page 2938the senate voted for the repeal of the Qherman law 24 republicans voted for repeal and 21 democrats against In the house in 1893 on the Bland free silver bill 15 republicans voted for silver and lit against In the senate on the same bill for it passed the democratic houae 18 republicanb voted in its favor and 20 against Whenever the silver question has been betore congress republicans have voted it down Had they jjiueo j with the democrats on that queauoii a any time during the past 20 3 tarssilvei would have been reuionetized coinage wouli have been made free ana unlimited unlim-ited at a ratio of l to 1 and piusperit would have blessed this peop By their fruits ye shall know them ano I do no injustice to republicans II charging that there is no hope iu silver through the medium ot then party As well might silver republicans republi-cans attempt to suspend the laws o gravitation as to attempt to brea r iht chains which unite them to tho goldet king FREE SILVER A NECESSITY TO AMERICA And s e must nave free silver coinage coin-age at the ratio of 1 to 16 i care tt free the slaves which the money power has made It is tht boast 01 the ie publican orators that their party nudt free tour millions or black men Grant this and yet the truth stares us in the lace that by means republican financial finan-cial more than ten white men have have been enslaved to ole black man madu freeAnd this is slaver most oppresdive and degrading The masses of the people have been bound ProinetheuShke to gold while the vultures of usury are pecking at their vitals Tantalus like the people are surrounded by the waters of lire from i which we may nol drink In the midst I of plenty we are in want with the bounteous provisions of u generous trod we build soup houses for the poor and pack about the burdens for the rich Tale nation should learn something from history As was said by the United fcstatea monetary commission ot 1878 At the Christian era the metallic me-tallic money of the Roman empire amounted to 1800000000 JBy the end of the fifteenth century it had shrunk to 200000000 Dr Adam Smith says that in 1455 the price or wheat in England Eng-land was two pence per bushel The monetary commission says that population popu-lation dwindled and commerce arts wealth and freedom all disappeared Tne people were reduced by poverty and insery to the most degraded conditions of serfdom and slavery The disintegration of society i so-ciety was almost complete History records no such disastrous transition as that from the Roman empire to the dark ages The discovery of the new world by Columbus restored the volume vol-ume ot precious metals brought with it rising prices enabled society to reunite re-unite its shatlereu links shake off the shackles c feudalism and to relight ind uplift the almost extinguished torch of civilization How did the new world in 1893 cele bratuthe great discovery of Columbus I invited all the nations of the word to come to our shores and display then productions I built the magic White City by the lake and astonished the earth with its enterprise and industry At the same time by its legislation it i gave the final blow to the white metal which had been to it such a faithful servant and which had made the woilds fair possible and added still more to the burdens which have oppressed op-pressed the people since 1873 At the very time that the millions were VIewing VIew-ing the wonders of that marvelous exposition ex-position honest labur seeking employment employ-ment that it could not find clustered hungry and shelterless about flat statute of Columbus on the lake front with no hope in its heart and with dis pair painted in its lusttrlesa eyes SOME SIMPLE FACTS ABOUT SILVER More than twenty years ago the r8rt crime against the people in the emoiietizsition of silver was perpetrated perpe-trated During all those years it has beau in the power of the republican party to give relief to the people for it has had control of the legislative branch of the goyernme t through its control of the senate Why if it is m favor of silver has it not rectified the terrible wrong By their Iruits ye shall know them and the frui given us by the republican party has been dead sea fruit which turned to ashes on the lips It is through democracy that relief will come It is the democracy de-mocracy that must make tbe tight Let us examine this silver question a Kttle and see if we cannot make plain the fact that silver should have restored re-stored to it the money function In arithemetic the figure one is a unit All sums are multiples oi that unit It is the necessary basis from which to start And so in creating money a unit or starting point essential At the beginning of this government congress con-gress declared silver and gold to be money In 1792 the silver dolhr of 371 > grains was created the unit of values All other money counted from this dollar Gold money Counted from that Silver was the basis and the eagle was equal to ten silver dollars The ratio between gold and silver was at first fixed at 15 to 1 That is the silver dollar was just fifteen times heavier than tbe gold dollar In Ib3l the ratio was changed to 16 to 1 but the silver dollar was not changed The gold dollar was made lighter The silver dollar remained the same containing con-taining 37H grains from 1792 until 1873 In 1873 the unit clause ot 1792 was changed so that it read Tlmt the gold coins of the United States shall bo a one dollar piece of the standard weight twenty live and eighttenths grains shallb3 the unit of value At the same lime free coinage of sil ver was abolished by stealth and fraud The bill vent through congress like the silent tread ot the cat Silver Sil-ver was no longer upon an equality with gold and all values were measured by the gold yard stick Gola grew in value and silver depreciated The argument ar-gument is made that the commercial value of 371J grains of silver is not equal to a dollar The reason is found in the fact that there is no longer the unlimited demand for silver which free coinage creates The commercial l value of any article is governed by the law of supply and demand Free coinage coin-age means unlimited demand and the supply of silver is limited England demonetized silver in 1816 but a Germany Ger-many Prance the United States and the Latin Union had their mints open to silver tho demand was sufficient to maintain the equal value ol the two metals at 16 to 1 The United States closed its mints to silver in 1873 Germany Ger-many the same year France and the Latin Union in 1S74 and silver rapidly declined in commercial value As is shown by the United States statistical abstract for 1892 page 50 from 1687 to 1873 the commercial ratio of gold and silver was never in any year lower than I to 1 and never higher than 1 to 16i which tor almost two hundred yeaH was a variation ot only about two points Up to 1873 the coinmexcial value of the two metals was kept at a parity notwithstanding the varying supply of tile two metula But when eilyer was demonetized toe hgorcs Clanged From 1873 to 1893 the value of gold jumped rapidly until it reached the point where one pound of gold was equal to thirtytwo pounds of silver In 200 years under free coinage there was only a yanation of two points In twenty years after silver was demonetized demone-tized there was a variation of 16 points There i in the world according to the report of the diiector of tbe mine 5727018b69 in gold money anu 553biO5713l6 in silver or a total 01 75 7590215 The deinonetizetion 01 silver has reduced the redemption money of the old to a little lese tuau onehalt the origin amount Silver now circulates thu same ae paper money Bath are itdeemable in gold bilvtr is only money in the nettle that certified checks are money ocrickly speaiug tuere is no money uut leuemption money IS OW leI us go a step further The primary pri-mary value ot property ia its exchange Baltle l there was no money barter jud trade would 01 necessity be tht rule Unwieldy articles wouiu have tu JB pa std irooi one to another Hence Jia ueceasuj for money I has two iiuahtiea l has v lue in and of itseii the gives it an government i exchangt alue The government stamp is a crthcate ot ua quality and quantity the tree coinage of money does not increase in-crease its exchange v luo but it giveb to it 1 fixed value Actual money being be-ing cumbersome to handle in all trtna actions there was conceived anothei kind ot money represented by checks back notes and the like all of whicii are redeemable in gold 80 long ab there is sufficient redemption money to meet the credit money there is no danger of financial disturbance The demonetization of silver destroed one hall the redemption money As a consequence con-sequence there was a steady decrease ol values New and greater debts were contracted to pay old ones From 1873 to 1893 tailing prices continued until the indebtedness of this country in notes bonds mortgages and accounts reached the enormoia amount of forty thousand million dollars The indebtedness indebt-edness of the railroads alone was five thousand millions Iu 1890 there was the great Baring failure in Europe which shook the world As migut have Jden expected in 1893 the grand crash came TIlE FINANCIAL TROUBLES NOT DUE TO DEMOCRACY The troubles financially that we are now and have been suffering cannot be charged to democracy They date back to the republican financial policy in the sixties to its uncalled for and terttlic contraction of the currency in order to resume specie payments to its legislation in favor of capital to its cruel and unjust tariff policy and to its demonetization of silver That it is not due to tariff reduction but it IS due to the scarcity of money is shown by tie fact that it prevails oyer the entire en-tire world The Salt Lake Tribune the other day said saidThe The American Grocer tells how the tariff adds to the burdens of the people I supplies a table which makes a beautiful beau-tiful object lesson and we commend it to the tender mercies of Judge Powers I gives the wholsale prices of some of the leading articles in 1869 and 1894 as follows 1869 1894 Flour per barrel i 662 i 330 Sugar per pound 13k 041 Coifee 151 181 i Ta 59 20 Rice 06J OH Mess beef per bbl 1111 819 Mess pork I 3104 1380 I Lard jer pound 1SI 071 Butter 251 25 + Uhtve 1 10i Utilised tomatoes No3 per doz 210 95 Canned Corn No2 per doz 275 80 Canned peaches No3 per doz 350 1 SO Canned salmon No1 per doz 3 75 155 The Tribune says hIt will be seen that only one article la higher and that I = is coffee Now the republicans Have claimed that the tariff keeps up valuea and keeps up the price of labor This tables table-s offered to show that I has an opposite oppo-site effect Whin the products of farms tall in value labor falla in value The articles enumerated are nearly all prolucts of the farm I proves that all the while that the farmers have been paying tariff taxes to manufacturers manufac-turers and to trusts and syndicates the aricles which he has to pay with have been falling in value I is true as the Tribune save that the tariff has reduced re-duced the value of the farmers products pro-ducts But m addition republican legislation leg-islation bas added to the decrease In 1869 values were almost up to war prices The republican policy of contraction con-traction had just been entered on During the contracion policy fourteen hundred miiliona of greenbacks were called in and bonds issued This cruel poiic decreasedall values and caused fortyseven thousand iaiitiresi After the contraction policy vas carried to an end these republicans uemouetizea silyer and values were reduced still sul more I thank the Tribune for this table I To increase values we must increase the redemption money ot the land We must aJd the silver to the gold We pay England annually SlDO 000000 as interest and we pay it in gold Mt sued s-ued by bimetallic prices it takes 400000000 of the product ei I the land to pay this There is nt money enough in tus world upon u cold standard to do the business of the world There is thirtynine hundred hun-dred million dollars of gold in the world and this is only 250 per capita When the Tribune talks of the tariff reducing prices why does it not call attention to wheat cotton and silver In 1872 silver was 132 per ounce wteat was 140 per bushel and cotton 18 cents per pound In 1882 silver was 113 per ounce wheat 119 per bushel and cotton lI cents per pound In 1893 silver was 72 cents per ounce wheat 63 cents per bushel and cotton 7 cents per pound Did the tariff do thip I it it Jid then the sooner joa wipe out the tariff the better FREE SILVER INDEPENDENT OF EUROPE The great question today lathaiinan cial question and it has been bravely mat uy the democrats in Utah In their platform they declared for tree silver whether any other nation wants it or not This should be the policy of America Amer-ica Those who hesitate bcause financiers finan-ciers of the east say that it cannot be done should remembei that in 1776 business men of New York passed strong resolutions against the declaratIOn declara-tion of independence just as tney pass resolutions against an American policy now We have got to polcy Iave come to that policy or remain slaves Ihe indebtedness in-debtedness of the United States Jnied approaches ap-proaches forty thousand million dollars The interest on that at uveper cent is two thousand million dollars per year We havo have about 1600000000 of all kinds ot money and only about 3600000000 ot this is told The terrible interest which we pay like a great sponge soaks up the fruit of our labor There is only 8165000000 of gold produced in the world annually and we haye to pay England alone 00000000 as interest ± ree silver would double tIn value of all property It would create prosperity and u would furnish work lor the laboring man Free coinage would establish the parity pari-ty of toe two metals We are big enough and strong enough to take all the silver that would cone com it and give back merchandise and products m exchange France and the Latin Union did this with England on a gold basis and the ratio was kept at 15 > to 1 We would have the aid of Mexico South and Central America and the Asiatic governments France would also tali in line We would nays all the silver countries to aid us that there were in 1873 except Germany and Austria Aus-tria It after a trial gold should appreciate ap-preciate in value leave the silver dol ian as it is and put less gold in the gold dollar We have done so beiore and we can again Free saver would not drive out gold any faster than it is going now If you diyide the number of JUUCKS oi silver money now in the world by the number of ounces of gold money m the world you will find that there are 15 ounces of silyer to one oi soid One to sixteen is the natural uitio and america can maintain it Why wait for capital to consent to yield up some of its illgotten privileges privi-leges Why not lead the way for the diiifering masses Why not speak as iiranklin spoKe when he war our minister min-ister to Kuglaud He attended a banquet ban-quet in London and toasts were responded re-sponded to by the representatives of irunte England and the United States England came first and her premier took his glass and said said Now drink with me again to England the sun that gives light to the world France came next The French min idter closed an eloquent speech by saying say-ing Now drink with me to France the moon that controls the tides of the world Franklin came last He lifted Tiis glass and said iSow drink with me to the United States the Joshua that commanded the sun and moon to stand still and they stood still We need the spirit of Franklin Let us say to the European usur erd Stand still And if Arner ICH thus speaks they will stand still That is the policy of the democrats of Utah Tbat is the policy of Rawlins That is what silver men demand Why not then vote for Rawlins and democracy demo-cracy The only answer that is given is that the last congress partially relieved the burdens of the people by the reduction reduc-tion of tariff taxation Republicans seek to beg the ssue by crying hard times and decrying the prosperity which democratic legislation is making possible Sincef the new tariff law putting wool on the free list went into effect the price of wool both in this country ana m Europe has advanced between 7 > and 10 per cent The explanation ex-planation given by the New York wool merchants is that the new tariff is responsible for the increase Thomas L Gill manager of the New York Wool Warehouse company says Manufacturers hays not understood the situation They are beginning now however to appreciate the advantage ad-vantage of having theWools of other countries admittedfree The importers import-ers have madesdrrangements to handle I Australian tffia South American wools direct froof tlie growers through one source in New York The idea is to bring the foreign wool into direct contact con-tact not competition with domestic wools so that the manufacturer can nee which cf the two is best suited to his wants The reason why the price has advanced in other countries is that many American buyers are there competing com-peting with the trade that the growers formerly controlled It has increased in this country from natural causes The price of wool in foreign countries coun-tries is always higher than here and the grade is higher Therefore the free list will not affect the domestic growers grow-ers but will give the manufacturers an opportunity to make another grade of gqols The future of the wool trade will be governed by the law of supply and demand I would rather have that mans testimony tes-timony than all the ashen colored ora JI1 I y ft I ONTINUEn tory of the desperate calamity howler who haye been turned loose upon us by 1 the republican committee THE TARIFF AND THE WOKKINGMA One reason that republicans advance why we should return to that iniquitous in-iquitous av the McKinley high tariff bill is that the worlin man would be 1 1 benefited It is wonderful how close to the heart of the republican poll icianare the interests ot the workin man during a political campaign Tlle laborer may live in a hovel at other < times his children may want for food and become pinched with hunger and he is no more to the average monopolist than the dog running in the stree But let a campaign open and the reo publican politicians constant thought is the poor workingman who cries out for high tariff that the workiugrna may enjoy high wages Nine timfS out of ten it is the manufacturer or monopolists the men whom the tariff tar-iff really benefits It is the Pullman who cut down wages onethird and continues his enormous dividends on watered stock If these men are li bors friends why dont they raise wages If they are the friends o labor why do they reduce the wages of old and faithful employee whenever when-ever men come along who will work cheaper The monopolist demand the McKinley law because it help himself He uses the hand of labor as the monkey used the paw of the cat to pull tho chestnuts out of the lire The truth will bear frequent repetion and it is the truth that the price of labor like coiuuuditiea is goverened b > the law of supply and demand Labor is not protected Labor must compete with all creation It mus meet the Chinaman It must meat the crowds of people who are continuall coming from out of the darkness ot the old world into the light and prosperit of the new The argument that the monopolists must be allowed to tabby tab-by taxation more money from thi people in order that he may pay his men more is ridiculous Pullmai makes enough money to pay his boot clack 5l00 per day but does he do it Nol 1 Ho even compels the public to pav the wages of the pOI tera on his Bleeping Bleep-ing cars Capital does not divide Its profits with labor The tariff is not the source of goood wages wages are higher here than in Europe because our men mingle brains with muscle Our woriingmeu produce more in a given length of time Jiesidea labor is t scarcer The fact that wages are hicher here tuan in England where there is free trade is nu more of an argument ar-gument in favor of the McKinley bill than is the fact that wages are higher in England than they are in Italy where there is protection If protection makes high wages then the laborers in Russia should be contented and happv for Russia has long enjoyed a high tariff If protection protec-tion makes wages high then the Chinese ought not to ba compelled to work for two cents a day ror China has protection with a vengeance It will not do to say that w ges are low in China because tile Jhines3 are igncr ant for you never saw a Ohinaman who could not reaa and write the Chinese language The tariff gives no protection to labor The tariff builds marble palaces for capital gives it Silks and satins and diamonds while it throws to labor a crust of bread The tagff furnishes trips to Europe and palace cars to capital while it hands to labor lock outs and strikes and oppression Democracy would strike the shackles from laoor and give it a chance It would take the laborers labor-ers children from the factory and coal mine and place them among the books of the school room It would take his wife from the field and place her by the fireside Democracy ia the friend of labor the tariff is its oppression Why should the democratic party be the enemy of labor when the great urn of democracy has ever been borne upon the shoulders of our workingmen Why should the democra ic party be charged with being the enemy of labor la-bor when it has always battled against the aristocratic tendencies of its opponents The calloused hand of honest toil rocked the cradle of the democratic party in its infancy and from the ranks of labor it has drawn its warmest defenders The charge is falsel The democratic party has cJiinijuntd the cause of labor la-bor and it will nover cease the fight until the masses who toil with brains and muscle shall be redeemed from the thraldom of soulless and grasping monopolistic creations of repubican legislation It was left for the last democratic congiees and a democratic president to write upon the statute books the national a requiring contractors 14 con-tractors to give bonds to secure laborers labor-ers and material men in ail cohtracts of the United States Equally false is the charge that the democrats party would do anything to injure the nation or the people Democratic Demo-cratic comprise more than onehalf the population They have homes They are a home loving people Their firesides fire-sides are cheered by women as grand and graceful as that radiant example the uncrowned queen of the White House Democrats have little children as tender and as fair as any that God ever sent into the world Democrats have bear and about their hearts their wiv8 ad children have woven tte tendrils of love that bind them to their homes at with bands of steel Can you believe V an that they would be so insane S to advocate a policy that would < ng misery and distress into their ho JM and plant grim want by their he MistonesV The American people m bo crdulous but I doubt whether tt r believe that TilE FAHMEU O TIlE TARIFf Next to the wrkugman the farmer is the particU fqirge of the high tariff advocate T H protectionist says he has been riven L the tariff a priceless price-less boon He liau been jiven the precious privih e of paying high prices for all he buys and of selling his crops year after year for jess The protection protec-tion orator pulls the wool oyer the farmers eyes and makes of him the family dray horse The history of the nation bears out the statement that the tariff has been u foe to the farmer It is the baetle that takes the profit from potatoes It is the large sized rat that makes way with the treasures of the granary It is the small mouse that destroys his fleece of wool Jt is the worm that injures his apple crop It is the cvclona that twists all his hopes into fragments It is the power of all the pests of the farmer combined into one huge blight making low prices hard times and yielding a large and ever increasing crop of mortages I I What farmer made as much money under the blessed McKmley bill as he i made ia a single year between 1850 f and 1869 Show me the farmer who became rich by reason of protection and I will show vou a man who is I wanted by the dime museums The I mortgages on the farms have not been paid and new ones and larger ones have been put on as a 1 result of republl 14 ii < o J 5ii tiatt rule Agriculture thH king of all I industries when fiee and unchanged has become a mockery and a delusior to its followers The rariner is nol protected He sells his wheat at pauper prices He buys his goods with the tariff tax added He exports his products pro-ducts and me sts the grain of India grown by paupers and that fixes his markets The farmer who votes agairst Rawlins and votes for Cannon because he favois return to the McKinley Mc-Kinley law is the worst deceived man in the world if he hopes thereby to better his condition lie will use his ballot to Etill farther enslave himself and his children He will vote to still farther decrease the price ot his land and to increase the cost of living He will voto to sell his birthright for a mess of pottage and he will not even receve the pottage THE RESULTS OF 1KOTECriON I A high tariff destroys the business of small towns and small tradesmen and concentrates trade in the large cities The mechanics who once owned their own houses and their own shops are no more These men and tho small tradesmen made many a village nw gone into decay a selfreli ant contented and prosperous community com-munity We have in their stiad great factories nnd mills The workmen snowing but one part of their trade living in crowded an unhealthy tenement tene-ment houses no one master of the or the trade as a whole and all ot them restless and dissatisfied fearful of a strike or apprehensive of a lockout Few of them are owners of their homes all of them are at the mercy of the millionaire lionaire Gamblers and sharpers toy vith the wheat market and the stock market and render prices unstable Glgantio corporations form mammoth poois and leviathan trust companies and juggle the business of traueporta tion usurp the telegraphs and railroads rail-roads run up the prices of the neces aries of life and crush out the smaller interests No man of small capital can commence business In their lines and liye They water the stocks of thhir concerns until dividends grow small and then the works are cooly shutdown shut-down and the workingmen turned adrift in distress until their places are filled with cheaper labor or congress comes to the rescue and levies a fresh tax upon the public to Keep up dividends divi-dends Through it all there is main tamed at Washington a great and permanent per-manent lobby for the sole pumas of continuing this oppression The tariff has destroyed our commerce shut us out from the markets of the world and placed every farmer and workingmen at the mercy of arrogant rings that control each branch of business And this sum total of the iniqiitiea of bad legislation is called protection to American Am-erican labor The man who has asked that it be reduced is called a frea trader and an enemy to his country Can it be that we have departed soar so-ar from the teachings of the fathers that we are willing that there should be two classes one very rich and the jther very poor Has our blood become be-come BO weak that it no longer boils when our liberties are in danger Have ive become so iffenimate that we can io longer think and thinking set Can it be possible that we will sit aupiuely jy and see our land puss entirely under the sordid rule of money Are we Killing say that the declaration of independence meant nothing when its it-s id that all men are created free and equal Do we wish to weld still mono securely the galling fetters of industrial I indust-rial tyranny which even now bind uj to the wheels of wealth If so vote sos Cannon and a reopeninc of the tariff agitation Vote for Camion and s restoration of the lucKiiiley law 1 Make more perfect the policy of uouinter course with other lauds Fetter the feet of commerce and clip once more the white vtmira of trade Take the school books from the workingman and tear the maps of Europe from your geographies Burn your bridges tear up your railroads and cut down the poles of the telegraph for ail this and more too is the creed of the robber tariff THE REPUBLICAN FjMLADEEN The republican candidate for congress con-gress spoke in Salt Lake last nightand but a short time ago he spoke here in this very hall In each place he depicted de-picted the suffei ing of more than five million men now out of employment but the only remedy he offered was protection The result would be like furnishin more and more whisky to the drunkard it ends m death With all due respect Mr Cannon reminds meol those two noted and ancient citizens citi-zens of India Fadladeen and Fera morz He is a combination of the two And there is to be noted that like Feramorz here in this valley as beautiful beau-tiful as the vaie of Cashmere Mr Cannon Can-non met his Lalla Eookh The poet Moore says Fadladeen was a judge of everythingfrom the penciling of a Circassians eyelids to the deepest questions ot science and literature liter-ature from a mixture of a conserve of rose leaves to the composition of an epic poem and such influence had his opinion upon the various tastes of the day that all the cooks and poets of Delhi stood in awe of him His political polit-ical conduct and opinions were founded I found-ed upon tlat line of SadiSnould the prince at noonday say it is night declare that you behold the moon and stars And his zeal for religion of which Aurungzebe was a munificent protector was about as disinterested as that of the goldsmith who fell in love with the diamond eyes of the idol of Jaughernaut And of Feramorz the poet says He was a south about Lalla Rookhs own age and viika I Mr Cannon as graceful as that idol of women Cushna and auh as he appears ap-pears to their young imaginations heroic he-roic beautiful breathing music from his very eyes and exalting the rehgio i of his worshippers into love His dress was simple and yet not without som marks of coatlinessand the ladies 01 the princess were not long in disejverius that the cloth which encircled his higli Tartarian cap was of the most delicate kind that tha snawl goats of Tibet supply and that his hair was of the voluptuous color which midnight furnishes fur-nishes and lucked the rich tinge with which God paints the heavens at dawn You remember undoubtedly how that estimable lady of your town in her speech to Mr Cannon here at Provo presented him with a platter of rosy female hearts for his delectation and wove from maidens dreams a mantle of love to enwrap his form while in the name of Provos ladies she pronounced him our man whose hair she liked letter than the hair of Rawlins because it is black Liko the Princess Lulla Rookhhad once in her life seen a poet from behind a screen of gauze in her athers taU and she wreathed about Sir Cannon the imaginings ot poetry It was an incident as touching and as eautiful as loves young dream But in all candor I ask if womans choicj is governed as Mrs Jones Atkin says by hair and its color what in the world vill the bald headed candidates do vhen the JonesAtkin club begins to vote MB CANNONS SPEECH And after this pleasing incident was oyer Mr Cannon still as suffused pith blushes as the republican party i fits f-its platform declares I over Hawaiian affairs proceeded to address you Hi made tLe startling ana unfounded statement that not one pledge made bi the democratic party had been fulfilled by the last democratic congress H declared that it had increased the appropriations ap-propriations over the last congress when the truth is that they were red re-d ced nearly twentynine million He moaned the tax on sugar but omitted omit-ted to State that the tax on whisky had been increased and that capital will be forced to bear some of the burdens of government by paying a tax of two percent per-cent on all incomes above four thousand thous-and dollars per year He bewailed the fact that there is a tax on sugar but he failed to state that the democratic house placed sugar on the free list and the democratic senate would have agreed thereto if the republican members mem-bers had not prevented action He denounced the issuance of 850000000 of government bonds by the Cleveland administration but he did not state that which istrue that it was through republican ruismanasement that the bond issue became a necessity Things had gotten in such shape that before the cloauof Mr Harrisons administration adminis-tration his secretary of the treasury declared that an additional revenue of 50000000 per annum would have to be i provided in order to meet the expenses I I of the government Then again Mr Cannon denounced the sugar trust but I opine that his denunciation de-nunciation was about as sincere as are the tears of the crocodile I put some questions to Mr Cannon at Soringville the other evening They were printed in the Salt Lake Herald bat as Mr Cannon has not yet eeen fit to answer them I again repeat them as they refer re-fer to a subject upon which the people of Utah have the right to have some information Mr Cannon is the manager man-ager of a corporation called the Utah company I want to ask Mr Cannon whether that corporation is a Utah concern in anything except it name Have Utah people any interest In it than to tilt extent ot the Saltair beach md railway property and the Coalville coal mines Does not Joseph F Smith is well as some others hold shares for the benefit of outsiders Is not the corporation a sugar trust scheme and loes not and is not the sugar trust to urnish the money Was there not a representative of the sugar trust in Utah when the papers were signed here In Provo a few weeks ago Is not J K Clarkson a sugar trust man and vas he not here in the Interest of the rust a short time ago Is it not a part of > f the scheme that the sugar trust hrough the Utah company shall lease the sugar works at Lehi and close them downt Is not the sugar trust to keep he republicans of Utah in campaign funds and in the event that the repub ican party controls our first legislature ire not irauk J Cannon and Col Isaac Trumbo to be elected United States senators as the friends aurl agents of the sugar trust If these things are true then the re mbicaus democrats and populists of Jtah slioud know it They should nov whether the republican candi iato is engaged in a conspiracy with he sugar trust which in three years indsr the McKinley law cleared 75 00000 is preparing to place its hand ipon toe throats of our people and hoke them into subjection Let us declare clare to the world that Utah and her people are not for sale Let us not walk into tho wob that Mr Cannon is wea ing CONCLUSION We must not enter the union other than free Our constitution must protect pro-tect all the rights of the masses You shouid elect your democratic candidates candi-dates to tile constitutional convention Tne republican party is the party of intolerance and it teaches and breed intolerance Mr Joseph F Smith a i man who is a follower of Him wno was all charity declares that the republicans republi-cans were right in refusing us statehood state-hood from the simple reason that we are democrats If it was right to refuse re-fuse us statehood on political grounds It would equally be right to refuse us on religious grounds Mr Smith say that he is lioeral in his veiws but his declaration upon political affairs was more illibaral than anything ever proposed pro-posed by the most ridical liberal when that party had an existence hereUnder here-Under the protecting wing of republi canistn are huddied like chIckens under un-der a hen ail the radical and illiberal elements of our politics The republican republi-can cmventions many a time this all haye been controlled by a secret and Oithboundorderthatostracises men foi their religion The democrats have denounced de-nounced tills in their platforms Democrats Demo-crats do not belieye that the cross of Christ should be dragged into the mud and mire of politics Democrats believe in equal rights to all whether one believes be-lieves in the virgin Mary or the revelations revela-tions of Joseph Smith You who have read A Conan Doyles gieat romance The White Company remember how that glorious company went out from England in the olden days to fight its countrys battles in the lands across the narrow seas You remember re-member that last great stand when the leagued armies of two nations were about to hurl themselves upon that gallant band Sir J Ni igel Loring who commanded the company called to his heroes Stand where you are my men I Our souls are Gods and our bodies are our kings And so says democracy and it declares de-clares that every man has the right to hoi 1 office without reference to his creed or station or tj his place of wor hIp Let us strive to drive all intoleran ce fr m Utah Wo who in the past so bitterly contested here over matters of religious belief should unite and demand de-mand the utmost freedom to all And we should vote down all that is uairjw and selfish in our politics Let iur vote this all be like the sign which God paints on the skies in the morning over our mountain tops to herald theo the-o of the king of dav Lat it aid in changing the theory of legislation in America Let it be the forerunner of the dawn of enlightenment freedom and prosperity If I could picture in words the horror and the misery that has been the result re-sult of republican legislation the people peo-ple would arise aa one man and scourge the money changers from liber tys temple Hungry children freezing from lack of fuel Desperate mothers > ffenng virtue upon Molochs altar in order that innocent babes may live Famine like a silent ghost stalking into a million homes manhood reduced re-duced to misery pulling the trigger of the murderer and shocking the air with the maniacal laugh of the suicide The passions of thousands by the alchemy of want changing them into beasts who quarrel and fight in gutters ver a crust of bread And all the time Shylock rubbing his hands with lendifh delight is gathering more aad nore from the peoples substance Turn from the past Turn to the rising ris-ing sun Free yourselves from gold L uk your fortunes with democracy Democracy has ever said Shylock take then thy bondtake thou hy pound of flesh but in cut iig It if thou dust shed one drop of f Christian blood thy lands l and goods ire by the law couflgcate unto the is s state The misery suffering and crime which has resulted from the jugglim with our financial laws and par icu larly by the dishonor to silyer can never be painted in words It lit with insane glare the suicides eyes and nerved the fingei of the murderer mur-derer as he pulled the trigger It tore the school books from the childrens hands and snatched the t bread from their very lips It organized the great army of tramps that marched across the land to the music of despair It carried the torch of the incendiary and lighted great cities with anarchy bonfires bon-fires It made famine the nations unbidden guest anu blew out the fires on the hearths of the poor Suffering last winter O tho lonjr and dreary winter O the famine and tho fever 0 the wasting of the famine O the blastinA of tho foyer 0 the anguish of the women AU the world was sick and famished Hungry was the air around them Hungry was thu sky above t em And tho hungry stars in heaven Like tho oyes ot wolves glared at them In many a home there stalked like ghosts two unbidden guestsBehold me famine 1 13ehold me fever I It would seem that the experience of twelve months vast would be all suffici i eat to cause the people of Air erica to I arise strike off the stfackles of Moloch Mo-loch and to write in our statutes the principles of democracy The picture of our little starving babe its frozen fingers telling in mute language the unspeakable wickedness of legislation ngainst the poor and the weak should be enough to cause the people scourge the money changers from libertys temple Go with me to yonder parrot If your heart is strong tc bear it Mark tho half bent shadow s here it Darks the bluofc wall scarcely more There tarnished womin sitting Works with patience unremitting With her wearv ceaseless stitching Keeps the wolf just out the door While demon still enriching Self with stealing from her store Robs her pittance lower lower Shall this demon reign eternal Oer this blessed land fraternal Shall enchantments so infernal hold us ever math its spell No by all the powers of heaven From this land ho shall bo driven Usury bo hurled unshriven To the lowest depths of hell Then a mighty shout be given Hear tho hosts their voices swell Labor c nquers All is well I |
