| Show THE WRONG AND HOW TO RIGHT IT 4 the law of retaliation is ia sometimes a necessity in civil BB as well as aa in military caroles oi ci rulee roles indeed we think it more justifiable justi ti flable under certain circumstances in the former than it can be in the latter where its ita purpose is ia not as aa in the other for elf preservation but generally tor for revenge ReCe recently atly the NEWS con bained a brief editorial illustrating this subject quite well ope one of our met mer evanto replied to an eastern offer of bargains that as aa the silver we produce Is ie not noi wanted there the goods they have to sell are not wanted here if ever words were apt and exactly timed to the occasion those words sent to our eastern brethren were they revive somewhat the patriotic self denial which the revolutionary forefathers eil when they would no longer buy England se 8 tea not that they did not nos feel themselves in need of the tea and would have been glad to have it on honorable term but the terms were not honorable they were distinctly dishonorable because humiliating and oppressive prelve op so bo let it tie he with that numer dumer ut u independent and thrifty people whose chief occupation for many long years yearn has been first overcoming stubborn and rebellious nature west of the missouri river and then compelling it to yield of its treasures not only that the toilers boilers themselves but their friends and dependencies might enjoy improved circumstances and the happier lives which come it took a long time to fight the battles and make the soil capitulate but they were fought out and the victory was won the golden sands of california were well nigh depleted of their treasures the ruddy stream flowing to tho east had bad changed from a vast steady and ceaseless one to the reverse in all respects pet ts and threatened to subside altogether war was upon the land and the nations eyes were turned where ahert to germany or england or any part of the fast east for the means to prosecute the conflict no to the sagebrush plains the trackless mountains the precipitous cliffs and the adamantine caverns of the far west where civilization had established itself and was plodding along toward eminence and wealth without even so 60 much assistance from the other side of the continent as a company of soldiery or a stand of arms with which to overawe the more ruthless of the neighboring savages no matter the union must and should be preserved preserve a even though the westerners were practically living jiving in a foreign country the loyalty of the land that cradled them and the fellow feeling for their brethren left behind were paramount and thus the gollen tide had bad no sooner ebbed than one of silver began its flood and its move more was also to the fast east there was no caviling as to terms no question as to what shape the precious cargoes were to return tu ru to them in if they never returned at all very well they were needed there the nations life the peoples peo pless prosperity thereafter hung upon money in abundance going beyond the great divide not money called into existence by the aid of that false crucible called credit but money which spoke for itself which carried its values with it in its atoms abi th money authorized by the founders of our gold and silver that was wag the treatment of the solid east by the speculative west Ps and jt it was effective it is IB not proposed to make it a sentimental question at ai alj we are not asking the money centers for gratitude by ony any means we are asking them for justice based upon reason they have not only seen but felt the power of silver in the land when given the be place which the laws of nature and the necessities of man require it to occupy it if there were any valid reason any cogent logical pertinent circumstance calling for its dethronement aud and abase ment we would not be so unreasonable as to demand that it be continued as money but there is nonesuch none such the procedure resulting in the stripping from silver of its royal attire has haa been a network of trickery having in view the aggrandizement of those who 11 feoff the products of others the west and the south were becoming two vast and growing empires an empire their products were and are indispensable to the commercial world and silver is ig the money upon which they chiefly rely by which the values value of nearly all their staples are gauged with silver continued as money these two to sections would have dictates dicta tea their own terms instead of having terms prescribed for them as la is the case when gold in the hands handa of eastern and foreign rules the market what other object than controlling the substance of the land on such euch conditions as the financiers saw fit to prescribe could the members of congress have had bad when they hoodwinked the law ot oi 1873 into existence silver was at a premium over gold and western and southern products stood correspondingly high in the markets there was waa no such chance for speculation then as there would be with the principal money of the country itself a marketable product so BO that thai the entire scale would bo be within their control and besides the great money centers of london and frankfort fran ki ort on abe main would have no correspondence with american con cerns cerna except those that were transacted trane acted gold only and these living and growing as tuey do on the interests gathered from the peoples af the earth were all too willing to aid in arresting rr esting the onward progress pro grees of the th united states from HB an indebted to a financially as aa well as ae otherwise independent power and they did so aid it if not lot let us hear some rome other explanation we have shown the apparent cause of and none other appears now if appearances are illusive in this thia case and the real reason la is not shown hown why nut let us have it until this is in done and done to our satisfaction we shall continue to bold bola that the attempted destruction of our greatest industry and it the crippling of every other was done to keep the west and the south in debt in order that the money changers at home and abroad may live in ease and affluence from the profits of the labor and enterprise of those sections the longer it to is continued the low less there is in to pay with aud and the note more stringent the money market becomes making higher rates of interest a mat ter of course there seem at present but two avenues out of the calamitous condition the rehabilitation of silver or the complete discontinuance ot of eastern traffic revolution to is talked of by some but while these are right wrathful and have much justification fi for threatening violent measures their sober second judgment will not permit them to do anything morein more in that direction than just talk am an i even that much JS is foolishness liet lei us pos sew men our souls soula in patience until the ex tra session of Cou coutress greSS convenes and haw has an opportunity to deal with the question it if it shall not embrace its ita opportunity or embracing fail to secure a just juat and reasonable enactment act ment then than will be the time for heroic measures wed we do 0 not mean such heroism as is displayed in hostile warfare but the kind that is first herein spoken of the exercise of self denial and doing without those things that we cannot produce in A policy of this thin kind unanimously upheld will work all the reformation upon our eastern bre brethren that is needed and that too before another summer solstice falls upon the land |
