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Show PUBLIC DISCONTENT. Ten years eince, on a line north and eoufri, the center of population was east of the Alleghanies and the oney center was within one or two degrees of the same place. Up to that date national politics were formed and carried car-ried forward with reference alone to the fact that the east having the votes and the money was tbe only section of the country which- national conventions and platform makers need consult. ! This has been the policy evre since the government was founded, is the case today, notwithstanding that this center has moved within ten years very nearly, if not quite west to the Mississippi river. All legislation, all national policy has been predicated upon the clamorously stated wishes of the east. The west was not is not in it. It was boasted in New York often and again, openly and shamelessly, shame-lessly, that it mattered not which, Harrison or Cleveland, .was elected, the financial administration would be the same formed to forward the interests inter-ests of the bond-holders who insisted upon the privilege of cashing bonds bought at a double standard value, at a Eingle or old standard rate. Into this heartless policy no thought of the Lntereet8 of the trembling and distressed west was allowed to enter. It was arranged on this basis, it is being be-ing carried out faithfully. The west is indignant that her industries have been brought to a stand-still by the closing clos-ing down of her silver mines by the scarcity of money, by the policy of contraction to which the demonetization demone-tization of silver was but the firet stepping step-ping stone. Discontent? We should say so. It is unfortunate that the fell force of this wretched policy should break on the country during a democratic demo-cratic administration. '". The policy is and has ever been one of the republican republi-can contractionists of the Sherman stamp who inaugurated it in fraud an 3 carried it forward ruthlessly to its logical logi-cal sequence of panic and public distress, dis-tress, discontent and despaire. We have not at best a Eixth of the money necessary in conducting our enormous commerce on lines extended as ours are, and the proposition to still further reduce re-duce the per capita money of tne peo pie seems heartless and cruel to the last degree. We regret, we say, that this storm with all of its black consequences has broken upon us of the west, during a democratic administration. We must face it as men. The west must assert herself and while it is yet possible, or the democracy may as well crawl off into the mountains and quietly see the black consequences unfold themselves as they are now doing in Utah, Utah a democratic state, now being run by the republican party, with a republican republi-can senate and lower house democratic demo-cratic in nothing save the majority of the people and the few offices filled by democratic appointees, doled out apparently ap-parently with a niggardly reluctance by a national democratic administration. administra-tion. The people are discontented. They become more and more so as the days flit by. Is it wise or well in anyway to continue this policy? We must reverse re-verse ere long or a single democrat will soon be hard to find and a democratic demo-cratic majority will exist only as a dim memory of the past. The time has come to talk plainly and to act descis-eively. |