| Show r j > I TIlE FIRST BLUNDER I I Presidentelect Cleveland has been guilty of his first disappointing act and i itis so grievously disappointing that it 1 j will from this time henceforth array I i r against him the great mining industry I of the west with all its votes its influence jl in-fluence and its money In his letter published on Sunday taking grounds I I against the continued coinage of silver Ii dollars we believe he has been honest I and conscientious but not right his I i view being that of the goldbug of the bondholder and money leIder and 1 not of the digger and toiler whose 41 venturesome labor is yearly adding millions h mil-lions to the wealth of the nation by t the creation of actual money If Mr i 1 I Clevelands ideas were carried into i effect the result would be disastrous in II I the extreme not to the class on whose i side he has unfortunately fallen I 1 but to the larger and more needy class I i of laborers and to an industry which S is recognized as among the leading ones of the nation There is today but oneS one-S mine in Utah that can be worked at a profit if the value cf silver is depreciated S depre-ciated 18 per cent asis would be the S j i moment that the coinage of the dollar r Sv of the daddies was suspended and the I S J I i silver mines of Nevada Arizona Montana l Mon-tana Idaho New Mexico and Colorado a would be in no better condition than J I t those of this Territory Without its I I silver ledges what would the great I west be today If these ledges were to u be made nonproductive what would If the great empire west of the Missouri J S be tomorrow The thought is sickening 1 sicken-ing in the extreme S J a However there is as yet S I little cause for alarm President I 4 t Presi-dent Cleveland may adopt the S 4 Wall street idea but fortunately Congress Con-gress is not under the control of the 1 money lenders nor is it compelled to S I I adopt the suggestions of a misguided 4 1 President The popular side the sideS side-S 5 5 I of the people is that of silver and the S 5 people are yet strong enough to make t j their influence controlling in the legislation S 5 t 11 legis-lation ofthe natipn Clevelands action j is regretted on his own account as it will array against him a large element i II I of strength that he might have con I trolled |
