| Show THE ONLY TRUE POLICY one week from today the most important extra sessions sessio nf if congress ever held with the single exception of that called together by president lincoln Liin colo shortly after his inauguration will convene at washington in some respects it is equal to any session or of any kind within the history of our country and the people cannot too deeply realize this important fact the baube of the gathering at a time when senators and representatives are usually either at rest betit or attending exclusively to private affairs its ie the financial A nai acial condition of the country all parties and every interest conceding that we have reached a point at which something prompt and decisive must be done and as aa congress wields monopolistic power in the monetary matters of our national system 3 stem it needs must come together the body politic Is in suffering ering from a stagnation of the lifeblood life blood of trade and a reduced circulation to cure these ills and establish sound and lasting goo i health again to is the question 0 questions and but two leading sob smog of relief are now being actively discussed jibe repeal of jhb bullion pur chasing clause of the sherman jaw without condition or substitution of any kind and the reverse of that proposition namely to hold on to the law as am it is unless something more favorable to the silver interest is offered in lieu thereof both cannot prevail of courbe churbe and their respective champions may be so stubborn and unrelenting ting that no compromise can be off effected acted meaning that the extra session deslon would have been called in vain so far as the financial question is concerned it reems to us that too much of the talk especially that of the repeal advocates if suggestive of arbitrary methods without refe reference reace to either cause or effect the country must do thus and so 90 20 congress will be compelled to adopt this and reject that thay and nd so on while calm and dispassionate elucidations of the situation as it 1 what brought it about and the reasons why any plan advocated are likely to be just and effective are rare indeed we believe in other words that the extravagant at aid d at times revolutionary talk ot of the silve rites has done more to contuse confuse than clear the public mind min d with reference to the great question at issue that overpowering part of the country which to is considered as opposed to unrestricted silver coinage has not been approached in A spirit of conciliation and calmness aur our utterances have been dogmatic our logic has been usually one sided our hurling of epithets has bee been always noisy and at times ribald we have made no new friends bathis by ibis course and bava estranged many old oleo oi es As ae a matter of fact the line has been more sharply defined and more closely drawn than wee was eat r necessary anil and instead of a policy of education and mutual concession we are ourselves ou reel yea largely to blame for having precipitated a conflict where arbitration will have but a small email voice and threat and recrimination will be the weapons most moat employed the NEWS that the good dauee of silver should have been thus wounded in the house of its friends we have lamented the absurdly impotent course that some of our fellow citizens have pursued it could have had but one effect to disgust those whom there might have been some gome hopes of converting and injure our credit and character in those places where those qualities stand us in the best stead there has been too much of a disposition to discredit utterly the motives motive of the east and to speak of and treat eastern people as enemies whom nothing but our complete ruin would satisfy how ridiculous this tie assumption Is will be apparent to any person of sense the prosperity of the west contributes t tile pr prosperity ty of the rest ot of the country if we fall the rest must most t uffer suffer with us those who look at the silver question through other eyes than ours oars and see its effects from a different point of view kleiv have as good a to their aono fusions as we have to auna and at leat least think their conclusions as sound as we think ours are has it cume come to thip phlp that we cannot give an opponent credit for honesty that because he ha differs with us he be must needs deeds be a conspirator a cutthroat a foe to our interests As already stated we are fearful that our chaler aud indignation have hurt our cause we shall hope however that it is not injured beyond redemption and in bruer that out ot of the seeming darkness may come some gleam of light the NEWS sounds this note of warning against excess it urges conserva conservatism tiem calmness consideration aeration for the rights slid and opinions opinion swe we may even say the traditions thus shall we maintain the honor more precious than even silver and gold that has always been ours oura the honor of being patriotic safe unmoved by clamor by repudiation an industrial and financial bulwark to the country and a strength and sure comfort to all who have any ady kind of dealings witti us tn |
