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Show INDEPENDENT ACTION. Ever since the Tribune went to the Denver silver conference Thc Dispatch Dis-patch has felt that it has been the only riemi of the white ncetal left among the journals of Utah, and. as such, it has found it n eceeeary to have a good deal to say upon the great question, the question vital to Utah. J We do not believe for one simple mo- j ment that the German conference is meant to remonetize silver. We are of the opinion that it is called to still the clamors of the people for restoration ; as though a conference were the only way to secure the 'remonetization. It has never entered the German mind that there is any other way to eecure this boon save by and through a conference con-ference of the nations. We believe that the German government is too touch under the influence of that of Great Britain to permit any thought of independent action to enter its great big thick-headedness. Germany is conservative if it is anything and ;t is very likely to look at the euggest ion of independent action as revolutionary, if not incendiary. Now, people in the United States will be apt to look at it " this way: The Germans and the English En-glish are as near bone of one bone and flesh of one flesh as any two nations ever were. The royal families have so often intermarried and for eo many centuries that now an Englishman ias to think twice before he can determine deter-mine to whom he oweB allegiance, the king of Germany or the queen of England, Eng-land, and a German has need to think a thousand times before he can begin to arriye at any conclusion on the subject. It hasn't been so many years either since English gold hired German soldiers to head off oor aspirations for independent action as to our own form of government, henca we conclude that very little obligation rests on us to consult either government on a matter which affects us eo profoundly as this thing of remonetization does. It is only a matter of greater convenience to us that we would consent to await for even one day for the opinion of either. It would be better if the commercial com-mercial world went into remonetization remonetiza-tion by common action, by common consent, but failing that, the United States Is compelled to go into the policy alone and force, not only England Eng-land and Germany, but all other commercial com-mercial nations to come into the arrangement. ar-rangement. Nor would it be long until they did. The tide of trade which would at once set into us, would bring the Beer Drinkers and the Beef Eaters both hurrying back to the good old double-standard double-standard in a great hurry. 'British dignity and German phlegm would both go glimmering very promptly. Nothing is so destructive to dignity as the loss of money, and nothing touches the phlegmatic dutchman so quickly or so powerfully as the loss of his fair Bhare of trade. This, or these results would promptly follow this independent indepen-dent action of this government. We did not consult them when we wrote the declaration of independence in the Srst instance, nor need we consult them now in this latter and greater declaration. Great Britain held the reins oyer us in good shape until we promulgated our first declaration. Now she, with the help ot the other, is again holding them over us as effectively as then. Then we were compelled to battle for eight years with euns for oue independence. Now we will win with dollars and not a drop of blood will flow. In this later campaign there will be no Valley Forges, no Banker Hills, but the happiness of a thousand men will be secured to every one there. It is a big stake we play for, but we have the game all in our own hands and can only win and never lose. All that Is wanting in this last struggle is a very little of the good old '76 spirit. Had there been but & modicum of it left, John Sherman could never have been possible and of course the double- I standard would ha e prevailed yet, as it did for the first hundred happy and prosperous years of our national life. |