OCR Text |
Show jsEMTTLIXG SILVER, In tbeir efforts to excuse the eilver situation and to gather what comfort they may in the present dark outlook for the monev metal of tbe ageB, niny papers, even some sound democratic papers, are saying practically, Oh! pshaw! the world can get on without Bilver, it was never much of a money anyhow. This is like dishonoring your own father. Such policy is unseemly and unbecoming in ar.y state of this union, but more so in a silver producing produc-ing state than in any other. With all their long continued hostiliiy to eilver, . it may be said truly that the people have never for one moment accepted i the idea that silver has been really demonetized de-monetized forever and all. The great masses of the people think, and truly, that the present cloud resting upon this favorite money is but a temporary one, and it will pass awav one of these fine mornince, n3 suddenly and as promptly as it arose in 1873. It is really touching to note the numbers and respectability of the men of the west who hold these views. The num-baris num-baris daily increasing. The logical ! v result must be inevitably some sort of competent restoration which will restore, re-store, in part, if not in full, the old time honored money metal of the masses. In western parlance, we say, gold has got ''the butee" on silver. That is so, but silver and its friends have been asleep for twenty-one years. They are awakening The effect of the awakening can only be restoration. restora-tion. It is only "Freedom's battle, once begun is bequeathed from oleed-ing oleed-ing sire to son. Though often lost is ever won." The fidelity of the masses to the white metal money Is notable and - it must result in bearing the strong arms of the people in its defense ultimately. ulti-mately. It illbecomes a western, especially a Utah paper, to seek to withdraw from its support at this time, the time of its greatest need. It is true that Grover Cle eland, the head ot the silver party of tha nation, is in-faithful in-faithful to this money metal; but is that sufficient reason why the masses or any one else should abandon the faith and go over to the enemy? Is it not rather a reason why they should gather all the more closely to its support? sup-port? When Benedict Arnold in the dark-eet dark-eet hour of our national life, left the ranks of the patriotic continentals, no one went with him, but all drew cleser about the standard of freedom, and ultimately the cause of the people wen. So it will ever be, so it will be with silver. The New York bankers, Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Gorman Gor-man and many other democrats have MriMMMOBteM. ,. - , "-rro.-'ered to Ihe JWnSbermjiv . v fcsTiouoB," but, tor au that we maintain that the rank and file of the democracy of the nation are true to the money of the democratic party ;they are also to the other fundamental doctrines of the party. Now is the day when we need and must haye the undivided voice of the party on this matter. We must lop off the half-way democrats who ignore the silver tenet of the faith. The party which will yet restore Bilver is the party of which it is still the chief tenet of faith, tht redeemed and restored free silver democratic party of the nation. The fight is likely to be long, severe and hotly contested, but it will, it must be, ultimately successful suc-cessful because it is right, and the six thousand years of experiment with it has fully demonstrated its adaptability to the uses and behoofs of mankind. ' Never ft ar for silver. It will yet be fully restored and never to be again dishonored by John Sherman or Grover Cleveland. |