Show Slamet hiag new kew under the sun verily utah is a groat great and a peculiar country t f y and one lived all of life until he be has spent a season here in this land we have a people who albeit they have considerable humanity about them are nevertheless all 11 saints professing republican republic in institutions and within the realm of the constitution we have exemplified a system of absolute one man power such as the world has never seen certainly since the days of mohammed then we have some other institutions domestic the other acetic which would to say the least be novel in in any other part of the world although it can hardly be called singular we have annual elections after the manner and form of other communities but without any of the real essence of free suffrage 0 we have recently had a convention ostensibly of the people but with which the people had nothing to do and the members of which even 0 while voting 0 to carry out the pro gramme confessed that they could not see the end of their action but blindly submitted in full faith that the lord or somebody else would bring it out all right then wo we have a place of public amAi amusement ement a ma magnificent C temple of the drama where every body is invited by advertisement ti yet whose patriotic doors are slammed in the face of a designated large class of its former paying patrons in fact every tb thing here is sui generis and in some cases rather a bad sort 0 of generis at that but it was of none 01 of 1 these peculiarities we proposed to speak ahen hen we commenced this article what we intended to say and we nye will get to it pretty moon was waa that in our money market we have ril an anomaly presented the like of which we never heard before our banks we have several good ones bare actually y suspended burrene currency y payments miny many a time rind and oft have we heard of the ht tf 14 ff f f ti i i i i it 4 banks bank suspending specie apcie payments but ve here re W nile we have banking institutions with safe and vaults full of dust and coin yet without a dollar of currency greenbacks Green backs are in demand by everybody but they are not forthcoming in fact it is i cs as we have said the T banks have absolutely suspended currency payment and as legal tenders are arc the currency I 1 of the country and coin of very little use ite our market is almost without the medium of exchange everybody is on the hunt bunt for greenbacks green backs now and then we see sec 11 a distracted banker rushing up the street in quick pursuit of some chap who is rumored to have a greenback or two for sale bale he farmer comes to town bent on selling his flour at convention prices for gold but lie he dont want any gold lie he too is after greenbacks green backs twelve dollars in gold the convention price has bas no charms for him for he be must have 24 in le legal leal al tenders ars a albeit gold has gone down in price tl ane other day we saw a man with sack of flour who demanded the convention price for it ft A dealer offered ered him 12 in gold but it was declined the seller insisting 0 or on 24 in greenbacks green backs I 1 lle lie was decidedly in favor of a gold basis as tong long as gold was up to but when ihen it fell he eschewed both convention and gold basis ife he was it a better fin financier dincler than another cove whom we saw in town vending melons for which lie he asked twenty cents a or two for a half bair dollar an acquaintance who heard his terms was therefore compelled belled to make two trips to the w wagon agon in order to buy a couple of melons and save ten cents on the purchase As ag gold is going down so rapidly it will be necessary neo essary to call another convention shortly io t rise raise the gold basis prices in view of th scarcity of legal tenders we hope that rome borne of our enterprising bankers will take ady medy measures to import some currency to net the wants wanta of the community which as it a peaceful p rind and loyal people should still stift hanker alter after uncle sams greenbacks green backs notwithstanding the late lusty cry for gold currency |