Show IN THE POLITICAL ARENA o The Scandinavian Americans Join the Procession BRYAN SEWALL SILVER SEND GREETINGS T THE DEICTIC DEI-CTIC STANDARD BElVREIU Some Nuts for the New York World to Craclc An Unfair Comparison of Gold and Silver Countries Republican Re-publican Will Form u Bryan Club Tonight The Scandinavians have fallen inline V line and are now organized to work for Bryan and Sewall and silver Last night 3 number of Scandinavians Scandinav-ians met at the office of Attorney C 11 Nielsen and formed the American Scandinavian Silver League J C Sandberg and others made ringing ring-ing speeches and were heartily applauded ap-plauded The following officers were elected President J C Sandberg first vice president C M Nielsen second vice president Fritz S Entman secretary Thomas E Vissing treasurer F S Fernstrom executive committee rl Eklund C A Erickson A W Win berg J B Vissing and F S Fern strum J a decided to send the following tele telegram Hon W J Bryan New York The AmericanScandinavian League of Salt Lake City Utah send greetings V We pledge ourselves for you and silver si + 16 to 1 Signed J C SANDBERG President THOMAS E VISSING Secretary To the Editor of The Herald Tttite treasury money circular shows that the United States has a per capita circulation of 841 in gold and 877 in silver This is pretty fair bimetailism Mexico the most favorable of the silver countries for comparison has only 4 cents per capita of goJd1 and 454 of sil ver Russia another silver standard country ha only 380 of gold and 38 cents of silver the money in use being paper The South American silver states have 111 of gold and 83 cents of silver the Central American states 9 cents in gold and 214 in silver Whats the matter wIth the United States anyway ayay The New York World is responsible for the above The comparison of this country wiilBi Mexico from such a source is a little strange in view of the repeatedly re-peatedly expressed dread O the gold standard papers lest this country by the adoption of a free silver coinage system should sink to the level of Mexico Mex-ico Why not make the comparison with China I would be just as consistent con-sistent and would make a much better I showing for the gold standard advocates advo-cates Had the desire been to be honest hon-est the comparison would have been made wit France or Great Britain or Germany or some nation more nearly I our own in civilization and productiveness productive-ness Now France has 2154 in gold I and 1285 in silver per capita of population I popu-lation Germany 1265 in gold and 433 in silver the Unite Kingdom 1418 I in gold and 288 in silver Belgium 887 in gcCd and 885 in silver These are more nearly the equal of our nation in I I civilization than those the World ha I sought through its statistics to utilize for the deliberate purpose of conveying a wrong impression to the minds of its I readers If comparisons are to be made let us make them with actual gold countries Greece is on a gold basis I and it ha 034 per capita in gold and 136 in silver Is it credit any better than that of Mexico And since a gold standard i claimed cam ed to insure am abundance of gold to the country adopting that standard will some gcJd monometallist kindly explain what is the matter wita Greece anyway Turkey also is a gold standard nation and it has 127 in gold and 102 in silver per capita Isnt that prerty fair bimetallism a the World says of the United States II I a gold standard ha wught wonders won-ders of civilization for Turkey and I Greece what may we not confidently expect it to bring to the United States There is possible limit to no lmi our national na-tional degradation once this country shall have decided to the decde adopt monetary mon-etary standard that has made such etr standar sch conspicuously con-spicuously civilized nations O Greece and Turkey Whats the maier with Turkey anyway I would also be p pleasing to learn when Russia adopted the silver standard stand-ard But granted that she has she need fear no comparison with such gold standard nations a Spain and Turkey and Greece and Italy Statistics show that under either sJhor eiher or both standards there are unhappy trade conditions and an absence cf higher civilization They also show that those nations are most prosperous in which the volume of legal tender coin in circu leg cru lation i greatest and growing France is an illustration Greece also is an iustaron Greee als i a illustration With a total circulating medium per capita of 2068 1906 is of paper The South American states have a per capita circulating medium of 1722 of which amount 1528 is paper But four governmental sections of the world exceed the United States in the use of paper as money Greece the South Americam states Portugal and Canada Of this pleasant list a associates asso-ciates all have gold standards save the South American states and of these i gold standard countries the United States and the South American istates alone deliberately conspire to debase the produce of their own people Says the New York World C any dollar be too good for the man whose entire capital is his day wage and his scant savings No dollar ca be too good But it can be s good that the man whose I entire capital i his daily wage and scant savings cannot get It That is what troubles the workingman about the gold dollar and the silver dollar too for that matter T R The club rolls of the Republican Bryan club whic have been circulated for signatures sig-natures for some days are now sufficient ly full to b ahead with the organization organiza-tion of the club and n meeting will accordingly pose cordingly be held today for that pur C Cs The Republican women of the Fourth held a meeting yesterday to take the preliminary steps toward organizing a Bryan club and today another meeting will be held at the residence o Professor Stewart corner of Fifth and J streets to perfect organization The club will be known a the Ladies Bryan Social Republican Re-publican club C Cs Senator Bacon of Georgia arrived in Zion Salt Lake yesterday for a brief stay in |