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Show NILVRR AND PARTY. Firmness Is a great virtue but patriotism patriot-ism surpasses it. There Is really no reason why the free coinage men should surrender an iota of their rights except on the broad ground of party loyalty. They aro in the majority and they are in the right, and they could therefore dictafo and enforce their demands, in congress at least, but would it not be at too grent a cost? Would it not be at the peril of splitting the republican party in twain ard compromising the administration which it has chosen? There was a timo when Wall street exercised ex-ercised so potent an influence upon legislation and when tho voice of the west was so impotent In congress, that no silver bill favorable to this section had any chance of passing. It is different differ-ent now; but is it prudent to use our advantage to the discomfiture of tho dominant party? Realizing our strength and beginning to comprehend our cause, the most persistent enemies of silver aro now relaxing their opposition and tendering a compromise that gives them the shadow and us the substance of the resulting benefit. A complete surrender involving tho faith of the administration ad-ministration cannot bo expected of them at once. Wo are moving toward the goal of free coinage with rapid strides; and it is not too great a sacrifice sacri-fice to pause now and then for the stragglers to come ut) rather than lose them entirely. That wouldn't be politics. The gravity of the situation is realized by those having tho best interests of the party at heart and whose patriotism prepares them for any sacrifice Thus the New York Mail and Kxpress. hitherto hith-erto a gi)ld paper, says: "No senate committee for many years past has had devolved on it such a fearful load of responsibility to the country coun-try as that, which Is now anxiously considering all tho expedients for adjusting ad-justing the currency to tho demands of trade, now immensely larger and more pressing than they were ten years ngo. All the republican senators are united as regards the imperious necessity for speedy and effectual action. Unless it is had before the session closes tho dangers of financial trouble all over the country are greater than they have been since the panic of 187;) swept the land like a cyclone, and should these doubles come the republican party will be held responsible1, and its defeat in 1H!I' would be crushing aud might bo irretrievable. Tho republican senators who have demanded de-manded freo coinage of silver should be satisfied with tho liberal concessions that have been made by this administration. adminis-tration. These concessions provide for the purchase of all the silver product of American mines that can bo offered for many years to como. Within a few years our g iverument is likely to come loan agreement with tho European governments, if not with Oreat Britain, as to the exact relations between silver and gold. And in Oreat Briuin the bimelallists nre gaining ground constantly con-stantly ami will finally win. Concession aud compromise have been esential to all legislation for a country so great as this and with so mauy rival, if not conflicting, interests to reconcile. The east is not hostile, but friendly, to the interests of the western states that so earnestly demand freo silver ooinnge. The west requires vast volumes of eastern money for the development of .its vast natural resources, re-sources, and the condition of eastern aid is a financial system that will sup-ldy sup-ldy the country with abundant currency cur-rency without endangering tho withdrawal with-drawal of gold from circulation and paralyzing our trade with the rest of the world. We trust that the republican majority majori-ty in congress will recogni.o the solemnity sol-emnity and tho pressing nature of the financial emergency that has only bee delayed by the struggle aud co-operation of New York banks, which have saved the nation from a panic that would have brought calamity aud ruin to every city and town in the land, that would have paralyzed enterprise, that would have stopped the development of the west, and that might have brought in Its train riot and disorders of the most appalling character. Tho dangers havo been greatly lessened. They can be postponod for a long series of prosperous years for all sections of the union, if largo views and the disposition dis-position to make necessary concessions conces-sions prevail with the responsible majority. |