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Show , HOW IT REACHES. In the adoption of national policies for the future the west can no longer bi ignored with safety. One has only i to reflect that to the west the Eouth is linked as "with hoops of steel" both commercially and socially, to enable one to properly estimate the gravity of the situation. It Is certain that the ! orders sent annually from the south have fallen off thirty-three per cent, this season, thoBe from the west over forty-eight per cent. This, in the aggregate, ag-gregate, amounts to nearly or quite eighty per cent, of western and southern south-ern patronage. Need any one longer , wonder at the closed factories, the email importations, the armies of idle men and women to be supported by charity this winter throughout the east and north? It amounts to a sum of suffering before which the largest i minded philanthropist of the age may well stand aghast. It is not only that our silver mines are idle, our southern enterprises are crippled, that crime, murder and suicide are rampant v here, but that the same conditions exist ex-ist all over the land, aye! in Europe, the far east as well as the isles of old ! ocean. There is practically no limit to the fearful sum of misery occasioned by j the stagnation, the result of the demon- '.! etization of silver. Some of our. good friends tell us that these evils are the result of McKinley-"I McKinley-"I ism, but McKinleyism does not directly fiffect industries in India, China and Japan or these distant lands would not have been prosperous up to the very day of the closing clos-ing ol the. mints o India and then have been plunged at a mo ment's . warning into the financial abyss where they lie helplessly dying , now. McKinleyism is without doubt a great evil here at home. "The tariff McKinley was the father of was de-sicned de-sicned only to pinch our own poor, but it did not reach those other and distant dis-tant lands was not so intended, indeed. in-deed. But this silver evil is the product pro-duct of a combined resolution formed bf the Bxthchilds, the bankers of Frankfort, of Berlin, of Amsterdam Amster-dam of London and of New York,to raid ' ! the poor still further and increase the power, riches and luxuries of the rich men ol the world. Kestore silver and this entire land from one end to the other. England, , France, Germany, Ruspia, the Indies, China and Japan, would feel the impetus impe-tus of renewed hope at once in a day, indeed. Continue the policy of demonetization de-monetization and all the free trade, all the protection and all the tariff com-' com-' promises which have ever entered the brains of men cannot lift the load of misery from the over-burdened shoulders should-ers of the poor and . the working men of the world. Two bold facts stand out in full relief re-lief in this connection. Tnere is not enough money of ultimate redemption without silver. There is too little money of any kind and even if there were enougn the middle and lower classes with our crippled and worse, destroyed industries, these classes , have nothing to trade for it. 't The armies of idle despair ing and suffering men must ; grow larger and larger as the i days go on. There is no help for the Bituation and no help for the future ; unless we return tojthe financial pol- i -y which favored all instead of . a single class. We suffer here in j Utah and ia all the wide west, if it would lessen our burdens to know that all the world suffers similarly, they would be light indeed. But un-j un-j fortunately the suffering of the world 1 but increases our own; ours in return but increases theirs. The bankers' experiment ex-periment has been a costly one, indeed, but if it is not very soon abandoned, the peace of the world, the law and order forces of Christendom will succumb suc-cumb before the ever advancing tide of anarchy, which is richly fed by the distresses dis-tresses of the poor. |