Show Q Qs s Q O i j iTO Q 0 TO Of RO r J I f a 1 e ef g MOUNTAIN STATES 1 i o op o p 8 TEN DAYS YOUR VOTES WILL CONTRIBUTE to the determination of an issue issue laden with weal or A 4 with woe for your our owin own local I cal interests ut for or the th future future of your our country for the commerce ce and nd conditions o of peoples v A 0 U of all nations na ons The Tle questions ques Ions involved ved are Shall the drones drone fatten faten upon the producers of the world Shall the t e 0 money of the United States Stat s the life lifeblood blood of the nation lla remain at t the mercy mere of a 1 selfish few Shall there be in m ini A Ayour i your own states a destruction or a revival of a industry V VIt y 0 It would not be needful to restate first principles pr excepting e for the conduct t of men en like C C Goodwin O 0 J Salisbury and an ande 0 0 e George Sutherland who had hd determined to stultify the convictions of a life time tune and support the gold standard long before it 4 was W IS known what action would be taken by bv the Democratic party We Ve are going through exactly the same same process said Editor O I 4 Goodwin which made every ever Roman unfit to be a soldier and made very every ever Roman woman unfit to become the he mother of soldiers 0 Y Yso 0 so that men m are now Ov easily forgetting what is their highest duty to remember The Herald will the therefore remind remind e eC voters of the A I 2 J I o 0 C DESIRABILITY OF BIMETALLISM The gold standard everywhere v makes the dollar dear and the products pr of labor cheap makes debts tl perpetual al and the people ri i j industrial in trial slaves It deliberately manufactures famines fam nes in India sa say s a well posted Englishman so that nothing that the th thi i i 0 Romans ever ev r did di at t the height of O f their heir power powe P over no injustice j t ce which bich the Spaniards ever inflicted te upon uron Mexico ico and a d South Sou America 0 I 11 j 0 was t so horrible in m its consequences to the subject population as ti at which we English are arc doing g in m British India today toda Q O I Four years ears ago Editor Goodwin thought that the scheme heme s to destroy half of the worlds t primary money was as devised in inv A iniquity m 1 ut and aud the carrying car n of it O out lias been be n the tits most gigantic wholesale i robbery rOber e ever eer v Ye r J perpetrated on n this his planet p net After ft i thinking t in a g 0 1 j 0 over ovar the matter he well summed snooped Up p the case against the gold g old standard sta dard Only two years ago by declaring it has disturbed order T k I 1 more than did the great civil war it has caused crimes insanity and pauperism to increase per cent cen and he entered a a A M 1 0 denial dental that there is ever a time when men should abandon a principle on the settlement of which the worlds prosperity 0 l 1 0 and civilization ci are to advance or retreat I 0 T ri fl c j o Eight Elg t years ago the Republican m campaign book declared e that tha th both money m mone metals are are used to sustain US the e worlds s commerce A i I 1 and detailed an elaborate argument to prove it every item of which wInch is IS as valid today as when written v di t 11 0 Q Ever Every ounce of silver now produced should be selling at and this too with th great ne t to every ever rr y industry in u y everywhere wJ v vt here re reI T t I Every E cry bushel bush l of wheat and every bale of cotton should be relieved from the competition c on of fIll India a on a silver rb basis sIs with w 4 its famine 4 t o 4 prices Price superimposed upon its I S system u by b an attempt to introduce e the h gold standard V c c ct 0 Ir t I O The question next ne t arises has an anything thing happened to diminish ther the theU 1 1 i i U r I 0 FEASIBILITY OF BIMETALLISM 0 1 i 1 Hi 0 On the contrary the conjunction of economic and governmental conditions con was va never more l auspicious The Thc ratio of Q production P n of silver stiver to gold averages for three years as twelve to one ene which has effectually disposed of the objection I I on n that a 4 ratio pf f 16 6 to i cannot be b maintained iIO k 0 v The increase Increase of gold in In this country the swelling favorable balance of ot of trade our growing a commercial prestige and power J A 0 especially facilitate e our taking the lead in the restoration of bimetallism l i 0 t The increased i price e of silver is due to conditions in the Orient Oriet which argue that dat England and w would l retreat from her 11 refusal ref s J Jil Y il 0 to open the Indian nn mints ts if assured of the cooperation of the United States India alone consumed for the year ending Sept t it d i t t i 11 ounces curves of silver slIver more than our product for 1899 i l f A 0 A AThe 0 tJi The bimetallic argument has been strengthened because the gold men concede all all l that bimetallists ever 7 r claimed when n they ey 0 11 t J i O 0 2 assert that the sudden increase of the worlds stock of gold has brought about prosperity 4 i iI 0 I v Ft a t I O p WHO WILL BRING US BIMETALLISM s 0 g gNot 0 Not the Republican Re party which declares unanimously ly We V e renew r ew our allegiance all giac to the de principle of the t gold standard r rJ V 1 J o 0 Not the national bankers whose purpose in m in the words of ot Editor Goodwin is 15 is to make the treas treasury ry nt of the A 0 United States subservient sub to and a creature of the banking syndicates of the great eat cities citi 0 Not a Republican congress c which has alread already struck from of silver slIver its rights as a primary money noney so that 1053 Ia a 3 Y Q e 0 1 in gold now bears the burden of of government g obligations whereas prior thereto the latter e equalled equal 1 O 0 Oj j r by the money of redemption rea L 4 I 1 0 Not a secretary of f the treasury like Lyman L man Gage who with President Preside ji J inlets consent stabbed ed the silver commission cOI n in in v 0 J O Q the back whereby Utah lies has lost over otter Idaho Montana l nt a Nevada N v da 2000 C O 0 1 4 all of which and much more would have been een saved under a bimetallic c president preside t in iiii the d last Jast Ja t tJ sC e ju ear g O g Not Boss Hanna who regards silver slIver men as anarchists nor Roosevelt who thinks that th t the payment of creditors according a 0 o 0 to contract is a dishonor disho or nor McKinley who once charged Cleveland with dishonoring ring one of our own O great products p to t Q 1 make money the master master everything else its servant and now himself worships that same master because as s Editor E Goodwin o 4 says he is under such su h obligations that he could not if he had the wish summon the will to disobey the financial dictators of j I 00 this great American republic r j 0 d 0 Who VIlO will bring us us s bimetallism Those same people who rescued the th Democratic organization from fr m the clutch dutch of f the bond bondholders bondo Q Qt Qc t c 0 o holders in n 1896 The same Democratic P party ar which declared then and now for the free coinage co nage of silver and honors h rs and 0 reveres its same great leader kader 0 0 just Jurt JU as Theodore Roosevelt exercised e his is prerogative to choose hooe his own subjects to the he exclusion of f silver for fo his speeches ches chesIn 0 I 4 0 In in n Montana Idaho Utah T and Colorado without rendering himself liable hable to the charge of at abandoning the gold standard so has 0 k tW W V J T Bryan Bran conducted his speechmaking tour to suit himself and not his enemies 0 0 tp All the world except a few suborned liars in Utah acknowledges ac that W V J Bryan as firm as the rock roc of Gibraltar adheres 5 o 0 to his faith in bimetallism I have hav never had one moments doubt douht about the correctness of the tl e position taken b by y the Kansas 0 y 0 0 City ity platform on the money question q said he lie earl carl early in i August at a South Bend Ind I favor th the free fr ea and d unlimited n coinage of 0 silver stiver without waiting for the consent of any other nation was his recent Ann Arbor declaration Right in m the heart of 4 0 Mr lir Shepherd chairman of the Madison Square meeting himself a a goldbug stated that th the he disagreed with Mr Bryan 0 o 1 as to his financial opinions but supported him on 01 other grounds Q i 0 Substantially the hope of the Hanna campaign camP aign is is 15 based on the fact that lIr Mr Bryan is IS a silver stiver man manone one ne who does not 1 chaug chaugA his mind on an income tax over night does not reorganize his conceptions of plain duty every four months does docs not Q falsity falsify his prior s as to bimetallism like many valiant gentlemen hereabout in order that thrift may may follow foll w fawning O n 0 H 0 Q o MANY M NY ADVANTAGES TO THE CAUSE OF BIMETALLISM LI M Mf 0 If f a silver congress should ho Id be he elected d with Mr Bryan the situation is simple But even if the congress ss be adverse a verse vers the c cf 0 f t r 0 election tion of the first bimetallic president since SInce 1873 18 will of itself stimulate the courage of bimetallists the world over over v r it fit rt will lay la lathe 4 O 0 the foundation deep anti and broad for the bimetallic edifice subsequently to be reared 0 J t Q Mr says sa s i it would mean such a strengthening g of the foes of honest money forsooth as to powerfully p ov f impress 0 every cery wavering g mind in the senate so that free silver legislation could probably pass both houses h 4 i The prestige a of the office the sheer sh er momentum of success the unity of all Democrats on some son some e questions q would tend to make 0 lI k J f some gold Democrats yield on all questions 6 1 0 Bryan could next March larch grasp the opportunity that McKinley missed and in m cooperation with France Franc or Q 0 ii ever even compel England land to open opeil op the Indian India mints mint and bring br ng about that bimetallism which 11 no r I o decent American could oppose t 0 other oth r hand the reelection of McKinley means the 0 Q C j 0 DESTRUCTION OF BIME BIMETALLISM 0 t I means the permanent perma enrollment of the United S States tes among the th gold gol standard s countries of the t world vod ti with vt i all its power ts 1 t d l influence upon the side of the cormorants to crush ush silver stiver forever and with it the hopes of the dIlIng millions It means m hat with the addition of the man and the man to our population our producers will not only have halle to h 0 compete with pauper labor but with prices based on a silver dollar fhe Elie value of our own The only alternative to this 0 G is to te force for e a gold standard s along with the theother other blessings s in S of civilization ci in which case cas it means m ns that the United States will join Jom England Russia Germany and Japan in Ul restricting in the Orient that demand for silver Sliver wInch which now enables our silver mining industry to exist It means the thee consummation con of a crime already lr dy begun which was graphically grap described EdItor Goodwin October 14 0 1897 It Il 7 when he said sand Is it not clear that they the bankers are arc now zloty working work ng g to compel the government g to issue issue bonds for forill h ill all th the greenbacks silver certificates and tr treasury notes nearly in in all There have been millions of men hanged 4 c t s 0 for a less les crime tha than 1 those san same e thieves are contemplating now The first steps of that come have he been n taken They have hae F been ratified eQ by b EdItor tor Goodwin who reby become an acce accessory sory The consummation means not only a perpetual P e e inter 0 aring debt but the unloading of the silver upon pon the market and the retirement of the greenbacks THE DUTY OF BIMETALLISTS i S IS PLAIN No matter what issues are arc to eastern tem people who have hae been bu prevented by gold go gocI cI f from understanding u tid d n the f silver q question bon there is IS no excuse e for us to falter falte r The issues issues have not changed since since 1896 except as IS the greed gr ee dOf of f some s gold g ao ld men menas h has arced into th t imp questions touching colonial al r 2 F t f ak k God not aU all gJ li important Pansio Q 6 But have you any ny right to throw over bi l m b c eca ca se Mr Bryan BIan proposes to treat the Filipinos as President Mc lIc t is pledged to to treat the Cubans because the DemocratIc party intends to gIve Porto Rico the same rights and blessings blessing O that Utah enjoys x Pon de these things well ve yewell 1 Let not your y Ur ancient J faith h be dulled by the sophistries S soP trI and an d lies of those se early earl companions who O 0 according g to the tile prophetic words of Editor r Goodwin have sold sol out and gone Vote ote for your firesides vote for your sour country countr t 0 Il GIl L vote tC for that t great reat glorious a good to the die worlds world toiling tailing humanity that will follow Collow the removal of some of o its unjust burdens 4 0 c g f t c 4 |