Show THE VITAL QUESTION from the attitude of the so called sound money forces viz the gold buas and their atrocious denunciation of all those who dare differ with them one would naturally suppose that they were the defenders of the masses and against their own interests are spending sleepless nights and buffering great mental torture through fear that the laborer farmer and other producers of wealth will not receive for their pay or exchange an honest dollar we are told that wall street and other of wealth were not a little alarmed after the chicago convention and continued so till hon W J bryan delivered his speech in madison square garden since then the honest dollar is assured and sound money forces rest easier and the bug barometers indicate activity and better prices the silver craze will be over before election day that a care full review of the important papers of the country show they are sound with but few exceptions for gold new york has but two advocates for the silver cause and those papers of little weight and chicago none at all intelligence and good sense and business judgment are universally arrayed against the silver movement etc etc and one thing that ought not to be lost sight of is that in no former cam caien has the press been so all on one side etc this is all smooth talk and the flatteries of major mckinley to del gallons for diligent work done in the and victories won are nice compliments to old veterans and the major cannot say too much for defenders of liberty for they have earned and desire it all and more whenever a co gra there are always men equal to the occasion and while not unmindful of the past are men ot today freemen men fresh from the people who say off your crown of thorns tear down your cross of gold you have been there long enough 1 it remains yet to be seen who are the dis aurbers of law and order and what is an lionnet dollar right is it to possess it certainly no right thinking man more than what rightly belongs to him reasonable and fair exchange baerd upon principles of equity the mechanic artisan farmer and laborer are largely this class they want lo 10 live and are willing to let live they time nor patience to make politics a business or profession all tho time though this year they will take hold and all be in the business I 1 am satisfied that if cold can prevent it the vote of many a man who should be free to cast a freo mans will will not be cast in his own interest but in the inderst of trusts and monopolies stange it that all tho broat monopolies and holders of idle money should bhend EO much time and money to help the poor wor kineman just now into a position whereby his wages and the products of the farm will go up to enable him to pay his debts heavy taxes and other heavy burdens the laboring masses have to carry and is diametrically opposed to their own interests strange it rest assured that all the intelligence good sense and business judgment is never all on one side of a great qu cation as some people assume I 1 must congratulate at least one man the people foghis in his recent speech in new york to the gold forces it was manly and full of good argument from a yellow metal standpoint though he had it in for the owners of gold mines no I 1 should eay silver mines and the debtor class many of whom never saw a gold dollar in their lives and dont care to silver dollars stamped one dollar by the U S government and backed by the people a dollar that is a dollar in its bullion or coined form a dollar of the constitution one that is bood to pay all debt at home and among our people is good enough for them the common people prefer to use both gold and silver and our mines are producing much of both mr harrison in his closing remarks says now who will get any benefits will the man who owes a debt that he contracted on a silver basis and ia able to pay it with a fifty cent dollar he and the mine owner mined their gold and silver mines who gets an exaggerated ance for the product of his mine are the only two people or classes of people that I 1 can see that would hare any benefit out of it admission from the mp bet to admit all of his argument would be admitting that when the colonies declared and gained their independence a fres and independent people they were only free in put or else it means that the colonies were indeed the free people which they were but we are not masters now of the situation and must not legislate for ourselves nor take the initiative among the great nations of the world bof the greatest good for the greatest number without the consent of the powers eliat would bind us forever shall wo pay our honest debts or be owned forever shall we legislate for ourselves that is the question we must answer and answer it right like fearless honest brave tree men or shall we admit our inability to free fifty millions of while slaves n our own commonwealth nol god forbid the plain cimmon honest people will meet the issue they will meet the enemy with force the shields of gold will be pierced and broken arid the enemy will be oura terror need not seize them tor they will be safe in our hands we will be kind and merciful to them they will realize that to the victors belong the spoils but will we despoil them no but like the gallant grant at the surrender of general lee when of black slaves were made free and the whole south were humiliated we will bo equally humane and say to them take your shields osgold home with you melt them into coin for legitimate circulation among the whole people not a few there is no east no north no south no west but one united and common people which can and shall be freel talk about the rebellion and national honor of GO that was preserved by the toiling masses and is a pleasing plea eing recollection of the past no man knows better than president ex harrison chati the tariff is not the issue and bays he that debates has been won waa won when mr harrrison waa retired from the presidential chair and he admitted it then to the press in unmistakable terms talk about the national honor of today who is the nation and who is the honor referred too by tho calbes how can that honor be maintained when it is within the power of a few raen to contract gold a as circulating medium at his pleasure at any time with a moments notice and strike down all other forms of prosperity from one half to two thirds ou the slightest protest of alarm and plunge individual honor into the dust drive t bem from the factory work hilop and other places of honest employment into mai ching armies jn a time of peace and plenty in search of the scant necessities of life Is that honorable ie it just Is it right to continue such a policy would mean ultimate absolute slavery of a free people the consequences are terrible to contemplate the people will not consent to it persist and the golden imagine will be a a stricken and broken to pieces and relegated to tho arts where it belongs and milvor too it need be and other adequate mediums of exchange will be enough for all honest people then if any man wants to buy a golden image to hide away in rusty corner where he alono may go and worship wora hip grant him that privilege but conj in diat the mareea doing likewise they will not do it all abo people may bo fooled part of the time part of the people may be fooled all the time but all of the people cant be tooled all the time take warning that lion W J aryan is fresh from the people and will not consent to despoil your houses your lands your gold nor your silver the common people will not nor will they consent to bedi spoiled gold and silver is the money of the con and ie legal for all debts the I 1 people want both but if either metal depreciates by hoarding and the holders of the depreciated metal in this country i will not circulate it except at a premium I 1 because they have rot a corner sn ft they should not cry dishonesty repudiation anarchy and kindred phrases if they are desecrated by the masses As sure as they persist in it so sure will the people who always gain victories I 1 consent 0 o a retirement of the gold in the hantle of any who desire to retire it and make silver the standard of value and not gold and vice versa no man nor set of men need fatten themselves with the idea that the masses will always and all the time swim against the current and towards the eign no hope no hope no hope written as plain aa the hand writing on the wall no in their struggle egle for golden shores they will discover after a while that the silver shore was their starting point and will return in safety to it a great question the common people have taken it up they are masters of the situation and will render a just verdict the honor is safe in their hands they will maintain and preserve it yours for peace and prosperity f WM ogden utah |