Show SENATOR F J CANNON ris his address to lo the tha labor laborne ng men of cf utah at saltair on labor day relation free silver bears to tie the az prosperity rf ef labor eloquent tribute to lo the democratic nominee by a hish republican official of utah coti uri recurring again to the eions I 1 used about wheat if the number of measures grow smaller every year as tle the the area area of wheat cultivation prows grows larger what an absurdity it would be Thatis that iagust just what ii in the markets to lay idy il w I 1 ere labor must present its product in order to live I 1 don t want cu u to think I 1 wish to spread I 1 a elms clasi distinction I 1 reco recognize nize that there can lie be no leveling of all the people gd almi Almia lity in the infinitude of his creations made no two leaves alike lie ile aiple made no two souls alike no two with the same understanding no tw two 0 N with ith equal capacity capa cand an perfect identity the co con ditont which would make one man happy would make another mig miserable erable equality ot position equality of hope equality of aspiration equality of results could not be enforced by law or cirz custom tom or if they could would leave the lift world to bink into a dead level from which would emanate no pro gres no advancement 1 van cement no rollin rolling a forward of events I 1 therefore havear q u ax re rel in behalf of labor with capital nor with the accumulators of the results of labor because of mere inequality of condition but lecog mccog mizing the necessity for that in inequality for that difference er crice in order that stimulus may may exist in the human heart I 1 still jill have a controversy which m I 1 fear must last as loom long as my brief remaining years shall endure with the char character acter of tb that a t iriti inequality lity economists con aud and upholders ot of the thiral ihirg 1 as it is believers in the thin thing that is are fond of telling us that t never before in the history of the world has labor had bail so many advantages vanta gee has the laborer been so well paid has his family been so eo nell ell housed well clothed well fed all this is iq in the main true but in return I 1 say esav never before has the laborer brodu produced ced so for the ease and comfort for the profi pronta tand ml security for the he luxury and advancement van cement of capital and audits its pos ise sors the wrong which appears is the relative wrong the elevation of al all I 1 the classes D dr BE EUAL EQUAL IS IN it is not to advance the accumulators of capital one depee and the producers of capital only half a degree that makes vo BO gret great a tension between the classes and masses es that if ion long continued the he relation must break suppose that I 1 am a farm renter and the capitalist from whom I 1 obtain my opportunity to produce for capital is the giver of opportunities for labor and should be recognized and respected in its great reat cap capacity shall arrange with me that for every even dollar of profit of the product 1 he e shall receive 75 cents and I 1 shall receive 25 cents lie ile s a greater gainer than I 1 A difference of condition exists exist but if the relative tion ment is preserved just so long as aa it is continued my condition is elevated proportionately with his own but if he shall by superior ingenuity so arrange that 90 cants of the dollar shall become his property and 10 cents only remains mine it is ia no answer to me when I 1 complain of injustice that I 1 am better my ancestors my just reply is that however much better oali mav mar be 1 I am not dot as much better off as I 1 should have been had I 1 received my just proportion of gain in stearl of having it acquired red by him we are told that the chumbl st laborer in bis daily employment can surround himself arid and family with luxuries unknown to a queen in the days before the discovery of america that is indeed true but who has made for all humanity huir anity the almost unattainable luxuries of i the past the easily accessible comforts of today capital no capital has helped bellied to make opportunities tuni ties and labor has performed OWE I 1 bopry OR ry BILLIONS my friends money is a debt payer the people of the united states owe one on e forty billions hil liona of dallara dal lars so chauncey depew ays and as he talks from the he other side bide I 1 dont think it necessary to contradict him as lie he is well reinforced by many writers on forty billions of dollars at 7 per cent per annum would be two billion eight hundred million dollars or a little over four hundred millions more than ill the money and all the alleged money in the united states it 1 t is 0 nealy nealy six times time all the actual gold money there is in the country now who pays the debts toil pays them toil pays them absolutely sol it does not make any ence how much you multiply the machinery how much you complicate it no matter how high you sell build tho the monuments of civilize tion right down at the bottom is the toiler who supports the whole fabric A man has a mortgage 6 on his block and he pays the interest inte iest on that mortgage 0 but where does he be get the interest money why lie gets it probably from the tenants in the block one is a lawyer one a doctor one a dentist one an editor where do they get the money with which to pay they get it from the nien men who come and employ them finally when you jou reduce it down they get it from the toiler who produces the commodities which humanity must the man mail who ones on es a mortgage has to pay the interest by the money which conics comes to him from rent of the property and the th men who pay the rentals are first or last the toilers boilers toi lers so it is of great importance to every man to know something 0 about this question of debt every man who toils carries his share of it WHO PAYS rhe ME INTEREST on the state bonds of utah the bankers the merchants filose whoso names are on the tax rolls bolln for vast quantities of property oh no the men who in the last reduction of this great question pay the interest on the state county municipal and school district bonds bonda of utah are the men who toil then it is highly important to them that there should be something with which to pay the debt rAp applause gradually little by little it is ia coming so that there is nothing that is accessible to pay tills this debt all the debts of the world are being written in gold and the gold of the world is going into hiding in the coffers of the people to whom the debts are due oh what a beautiful arran arrangement ement for confiscate confiscating lug the whole world demanding gold and having the gold in pocket where humanity cannot get it applause 0 01 GOLD my friends never was in all the history of this thia world so powerful an arrangement for the en enslaving slavin of the world and the domination of one class as this thia single gold standard what I 1 said with regard to the quantity of money necessary to measure the values of human production and the quantity of money necessary to pay debts would apply equally to gold and silver if they but equal in quantity to tile the amount of gold geld now in existence except for this that silver is riot not accessible solely to one class it is far past the physical capacity and theaoa the conditions prevailing in this world to get all the silver in one place but it is practically within the power of one class of men to put all the gold in one city inside of ninety days do you doubt it thercie there is more due to or through one great banking firm in this world than there is of gold money on the face of tile the eione and that firm can ask aek for it any hour it wanti wan to I 1 am ain not going to criticise criticism critic ise that banking firm some of my friends look sneeringly it at the jew and say fray that lie he ii stealing broili humanity the product af human toil I 1 bay that the jew is pay paying ing back the d debt abt of ages that he owes to tile the christian for centuries the jew was hounded iram pillar to post locked in dungeons his finger nails torn from him that he might I 1 yield his wealth i to christian Chi istian kingsland kin gsand feudal lords and now the he descendants of the people who robbed the jew are are paying back a part of the debt with civilization owned them once but now the they own nearly all of CiVili civilization Lation who says when there shall be peace or war not bismark not the german war var lord they send to frankfort they send to berlin they send to paris pans and london and ask mr rothschild whether they may have peace or may have war and he tells them applause whenever he be gets ready they make a holocaust of temples temple 4 and homes they sacrifice hundreds hundred of thousands of human creatures and when he gets bets ready peace sheds sheda her benignant 0 light over christian lands arid and we thank got god for it whenever the get reedy ready they can ask from this world every piece of gold there is in the world and ASK IT ALL AT ONCE by recent reports we learn that there are of gold money in all this world now quite a portion of that I 1 11 merely estimated it cannot be found perhaps one half of it has gone one into absolute seclusion and cannot cannot be drawn out by any process and the remaining hall ball is largely in the treasuries and in ia the banks of people to whom the gold debt is owing but if it were all accessible it would take a demand of only about one tenth of all the debt that is due in gold to exhaust the whole hole amount how is it that the product luct i falling lower and lower all the time lime because debts baleto have to be paid on tile the gold old standard and because there is not a sufficient measure of values because all the time we have to go with multiplied and coro complex plex productions production of human hands and human intelligence to be measured by the people e whose inte interest reit it is to have the product at the very lowest point the united states is the chief sinner in this thin thing because she is the greatest 0 doar debtor and because she is the greatest greatest producer we take our two hundred millions of bushels of wheat abroad to do what to pay interest on a debt we owe there and we deliberately pursue a system which enables our creditors tu to buy our wheat at 50 cents a bushel instead of a bushel the we produce the more we owe them the more we give the more w we e are in debt they buy our silver horn us and deliberately fix it so 0 that they shall pay us but 01 64 cents an ounce instead of an ounce which they ought to pay us loud ld ap the more silver we send them the more we owe them we ive can never catch up with our debt it is running faster than we are a g great reat deal I 1 and wo we are getting discouraged because men will only toil so 0 IOD long as there is hope LALOR CARRIES THE BURDEN my friends do you think it is to the interest of labor to have bimetallism tall ism my dear friends labor will never be ba free from this awful burden of debt until a means is devised to pay it it is increasing with its ita interest cery en ery year and labor is carrying the burden the step discharge charge is to get a restoration of the gold and silver of the constitution making them full le legal al tender for all debts public and private loud applause it should lie be required by law that all contracts written in the future shall stipulate only for tile the legal money allowed by the rt statutes atutes of the country applause we ive must pay all the gold debt that exists today in gold anything else would be a technical repudiation repudiate lon we ive have that to pay and the so sooner oner we fix it so BO that we shall not have to ply pay tiri all more in the future of that kind the easier nie e can discharge disc harga what we owe at present applause J if a plain every everyday daV farmer owed a debt in wheat of bushels and only wised bushels of wheat per annum but bul bad plenty of oats lie he would say rho cha lems leis wheat heat i I 1 promise to tn pay and the more oats I 1 pro promise ulise to pay on oil what I 1 shall contract in future the sooner I 1 shall pet ept this ineat debt dis barged that is ig what a coni com nonsense mon sense farmer would say eay of f farmers do not dot know kno anything about finance the financiers tell us ua the more wr we multiply our promises to pay gold the sooner and easier we will be atle able to pay tile the vast gold debt we now owe AS TO confidence it is the strangest philosophy that was ever attempted to be perpetrated pet rated by iniquity on a free people to teach that the way to get gold is to make it inaccessible that if we promise to ply in gold which we have not the who hold the worlds supply of gold or control it will grant us ua gold hut but that if we promise to pay in silver which we have they will withdraw draw their confidence from us their confidence is always ready to lie be withdrawn the ax is going goin 0 to fall pome forne time do you know what richelieu said to de Mau prat beware of the ax a TN enill ill fall one daiy diy dt y if this ax is going to fall some e lay day I 1 would rather that it would fall on rny my own neck than on the necks of my m y children loud applause let us try to do lor for them a little of what our forefathers did for us there is one thing more my friends there are lour courteen lo arteen teen go gold lil countries in this world fifteen bimetallic countries and seventeen silver countries the faur fa urleen teen gold countries are buying one billion dollars dollar more smore every year than they sell I 1 would like to know what the situation of labor is in those countries super induced by that fact why the gold countries have to give away one billion of dollars worth of work out of their lauds lands to the bimA allic countries does that do labor ibor in those countries any good how do they get along there they have to get their money out of interest on debts from all over the world and the people in the bimetallic and silver countries are paying their product as interest upon that borrowed money and who gets it 9 does labor in the gold cou country the man who has nothing 0 but his toil i does doea he get et any portion of the interest returned by civilization to the holders of gold the interest gatherers do not divide with the toilers boilers in their own lands they take unto theirl themi ch hes es all the lie profit and their ap pp people ople are deprived of one billion dollars worth of toil labor therefore in those countries goes begging on the contrary vont I 1 all the bimetallic and all the silver countries sell one hundred rail noil lion of dollars more than they buy every year and small email as is the percentage percenta e the advant advantage aRe is on their side eide the gold countries counti ies of af this world owe an average of 19 0 per capita for every man woman arid and child in their countries the silver countries ox owe e per capita and wo we talk about them as barbarians ba rians perhaps they are but the barbarians of the past have carried warfare to the gates of ci i liza bation li tion and have set up their own gods to be worshiped let us beware that the pagans of the silver lands do not overrun us and our high and selfish civilization find and taie take from us the heritage which rightfully belongs to us and become ci e in their t turn urn the loaders leaders of the ages f applause is one step toward the amelioration of labor there are other things many other things it is only one small step but I 1 think as the first I 1 it will greatly hr h lp to give us stability of prices and when we have got stability of prices no ire n o will have granted canted to man mail tile the right to toil the right to existence as the french philosopher says the time is ia coming it is very near I 1 when society will pay its duty to the individual by permitting him 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