| Show AN IMPORTANT GATHERING if the trans mississippi congress co agrees which convened at ogden today Is nut not a grand crand success as to all the features which called it together then la Is there ignorance as to why it shall be so a at t this end of the line the peorl s of the vast illimitable bounding west as it used to be called in the early days by reason of their peculiar experiences products and conditions are quite as pistil distinctly a section unto themselves as are re the people of the south in either to a vast family whose case aee I 1 it t amounts dissimilarities are personal but whose welfare is largely common and whose and feelings go out to each other first to other people next perhaps we are reaching a ett stige ge of 0 things beyond which the father oi ot waters will become a line of demarcation more pronounced and distinct than is mason and Dixon tf line alfr the latt latter jr being imaginary anold only he be maintained by the perpetuation pet petua tion of a sentimental condition while the mississippi is a a physical and at times and in places an impassably barrier between the sections while just now there is a more pronounced fe feeling elinAr one against the other on both sides ldes of that mighty stream than has existed between the northerner and southerner out herner for a decade at least we all know wat causes it wid and the congress at the junction city so f fr ar from being an agitator or a nullifier milliner will doubtless prove a barmo nizer at least Us its bent ought to tle be in that direction we believe another rebellion not a prolonged fierce and bloody one like the bast but one in which the brain and brawn of men would be the factors and the instinct of self reser breser the incentive could be worked up between the northern and southern sections of the country if the principal product of the latter were 40 0 o be e so legael legislated abed against that its value would thereby 8 shrink brink fifty per cent in the markets of the nation and be so hampered with conditions that it could not go abroad at all suppose Oon congress gress were to decare by enactment that cotton should no longer be used for the chief purpose for which it was wag designed by nature that of belog the warp and in many instances the woof also 0 21 the lighter fabrics thus practically driving it out of the marts of trade at home awl were to place an inhibitory tariff upon that those who ube it most in their manufactories manu factories in this country would bave things in their own hands and could give much or little for the product as they pleased thus thug placing the southern sou bouthern ou thern producer entirely at the mercy g of the northern dealer would n not 0 that precipitates precipitate a crisle crisis we think iao 0 o and it would not be as an ephemeral and inconsequential as those semi periodical affairs in france either it may be add a id that the cas a are not parallel par alel would oot not be even if the condition imagined above were a reality the only point curtailing the tha similarity that we can see gee is thai the articles referred to are different and have different differ eDt functions oue one belongs in the vegetable the other in the mineral kingdom one is for the manufacture of the other to be the medium by which such shall be produced and circulated among those who require them in a certain sense neither is a necessity since bince baans necessities when reduced to the lowest proportions at which he can live jive and get around are few indeed but both are indispensable auxiliaries to man in a higher and more generous ne nerous life and by means of diff diffusion ailon have a direct tendency to make all of others hers as well as the immediate producers prosperous Pro a educated and happy we dont want any separate arrangement on this side the mississippi nor would we have the people further apart in any sense than they now are we would rather have them closer te but they must be male to see that we cannot permit the selfish interests of a few men in the extreme east to dominate the money situation to our continued an aal I 1 increasing disadvantage the way they have been going on for some years makes it look as if only ther the swelling of their own coffers and not the welfare of the outry country was wag the design as if more and more is to be added to their mountains bains of weal bealh h at our immediate expense but in a general way atiat of every workingman working map and limited producer in the country they demaud demand that a constitutional dollar of the united states have the power of 0 paying only 65 cents ot of Indebted indebtedness nests because it is white and thus cutting down proportionately the value of everything which the debtor produces for the market actually more than doubling what be owe it I 1 is this inequitable arrangement this legalized robbery we might say that is weighing heavily upon the western mind that to is causing the western man to ask if it would not be better to have a separate commercial arrange ment one in which we can return to the state of things authorized by the constitution and make both goldi gold and silver full legal tender for all obligations public and private let the east such man Is prone to saying maintain its gold standard in defiance of the constitution we prefer to uphold it and the time has come V do so it will nut not then be long before the east will be in the condition of england with its business prostrate money scarce aud and hard to get idlers swarming in every corn com mercial center and the only activity being at the mousy money changers headquarters while the west with an equable and legal system by means of which au all its products will be utilize I 1 to the best advantage will become all that every part of the country might be independent sul and prosperous the trans mississippi congress has j many qu questions estline of importance to consider and dispose of but none we think is entitled to more profound consideration than theone herein outlined the NEWS wishes the members the fullest degree of success in all lars lara and h pes deliberations may be harmonious and ing resulting in honor bonor and profit to themselves and these who fedt them |
