Show east and hon frank J cannon waa the honorary guest of the garfield Garfi ald club of Pawn R I 1 not long since in his speech to the club he told of the triumphs of republicanism in utah and finally closed by saying I 1 hooe that the time will abon come when it will be no farther from rhode island to utah than it is from utah to rhode island lauchter ani ap plau ae that ronnda a good deal like an irish joke but it is nevertheless full of meaning if people in the east did not think it farther to come west than we here do to go east there would bo more eastern visit the western empire it is a deplorable plo rable fact that most eastern people know more of england and the continent than they know of this bee section of choir own country A western man is subject to all sorts of ridiculous questions concerning life in the wild weal when visiting friends in thal ehat they judge na out there by bius wild west show or stirring novels on frontier fronti nr life that they may have read they fail to realize that the star of empire is westward and that the backbone of the american continent is the bocky mountain region it is the boast of seme of the friends of grover cleveland we believe that he has never bren west of the missouri river if ho and some of his friends were to visit the west study its resources and mingle with its sturdy people there would not be a disposition on part to put their heel on the throat of western prosperity as they are now doing they would learn we believe that it is more honorable to serve american citizens than it is to serve the bankers of england they could see also if they would look at home for financial inspiration instead of across the ocean a way to beep a surplus in the treasury they might find here in the west in natures own treasure vaults hard money enough to give this country control of the commerce 0 the world and make employment for all its people but natures great law of unity in the precious metals must be followed the experience of age has shown that there exists about sixteen times as anh silver as gold if all the gold in the world could be piled in a stack and all the silver in another it would be found that the latter stack would measure sixteen times as much as the gold stack that means that it would take sixteen parta of the white metai to equal one part of gold oa that ratio the two precious metals ought to be coined and then one would be just as valuable as the other there would be no valuation of one metal by the other the two would be of equal value at a ratio of 16 to 1 if that simple truth could be learned and it could once ba understood how much wealth den silver has destroyed we believe the east would gladly meet the west half way for |