| Show POWERS GREAT SPEECH When one sits down before the great speech of Hon O W Powers at the opera house in this city Saturday night one is lost bewildered and amazed at the array of facts presented no less than one is charmed by the beautiful language in which they are couched The masterly arrangement arrange-ment of the subjects treated the evenness even-ness which attended the flow of the I argument On the silver question his argument is unanswerable It is the tersest clearest and most logical we have yet seenand the deductions made are correct and startling Such a scarification of the goldites was neyer before undertaken goldites in both the republican and democratic parties The traitorous unfaithfulness of Americans who are hired by the golJ men of Europe to befool mislead and manipulatethe people of this nation so that they will stand still while Rothschilds chains are securely rivited upon their limbs was most clearly and convincingly shown up While there 1 are individual democrats including the president who have gone over to the gold bugs yet the great masses of the I j party remain true to the silver tenet in the democratic faith and cannot be shaken from their allegiance While I this is true of democracy it is equally trie that the leadership and the masses I of the republican party are by faith instinct and tradition equally the servants and strikers of the European Euro-pean gold standard policy The causes of the hard times preyaling are to be looked for not in the tariff change but mainly in the vast contraction in the volume of the money of ultimate redemption of the world The proof of this is found in the ex ceeding stringency of the times in Europe Eu-rope in the far east as well as here in the United States The downward trend of prices in sympathy with the fall of silver vas traced with a master hand and shone out with such force and clearness that all save the blindest I blind-est partisan of gold must see it as we seeit The horoscope of a happy land a prosperous people and safe and trustworthy trust-worthy government with restored silver was depicted in words which send the blood leaping to the ho rts of patriotic i people The part of the speech referring to the tariff was equally strong logical and clear The disastrous results of the one single trial of the McKmley robber tariff enough to forever sicken our people with that form of wicaed epoliation Judge Powers is a profound pro-found student ot the tariff qustion and Ms speech shows him a fearless enemy ene-my to the trusts combinations and corporations it is designed to build up I guard and protect Judge Powers is simply a bighearted patriotic western man and one too withal who cowers not bfore the power of the gold men ofthe entire world with intellect enough t make good the battle of reason A iinst the fallacies of John Sherman Ben Hdfrisou and even Prof Tanner The fact is he must have his quarrel just who measures swords with the Knightly Powers either on the silver question or on the tariff Judge Powers will in the future enjoy en-joy the true and devoted friendship of the people of Utah county for this great effort in behalf of those who are downtro3den and distressed by reason of the cruel policy of the government gov-ernment wLich not only destroyed their prosperity by robbing them of onehalf of their money nd which to get the other half piled the McKinley tariff in addition upon their bent and tired shoulders |
