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Show GOOD BYE SEIGNIORAGE. We grow Insensibly into the habit of estimating the worth of national legislation legis-lation by its probable effect upon our local interests. Now the yalue of the seigniorage bi'l to the west, or to the silver producing etates and territories, per Be, would be small, but as an indication indi-cation of the growth of a sentiment more friendly to the white metal it would have been of almost inestimable worth. Probably yery little of the fifty-fiye fifty-fiye millions would have found its way to the west because without silver we have little to sell to the east for which it would pay us cash. But it is clear that if the measure had been suf-ferd suf-ferd to become a law there would have . been a great reyivaL of our silver mining min-ing operations in anticipation of ultimate ulti-mate free coinage. For this reason the veto becomes a disaster to the silver sil-ver states. But the result does not much surprise any intelligent man who has studied the situation and kept a steady eye upon the eastern expression since the Eenate concurr ed with the house on the measure. New York at once flung herself into the breach. All our later politics haye been so dominated domi-nated by the New York bankers that it seemed certain to us, as soon as Wall street had spoken, ail hope was gone, the entire west was thrown back upon her old condition of sickness which coaieB from hope long deferred. We have seen some of the disastrous effects of sectionalism. -Those of us who felt and actually saw the horrors of sectionalism worked out on the battle fields of the late w ar, especially deprecate it. But how can one stand by and see his own section reduced to abject want, when, erstwhile, its mines, it3 mills, its forges, in fact all of its industries, busy in the vain effort to "catch up" with the orders on hand, now silent and deserted by reason of the divergence diverg-ence of interests in the east ana not entertain a feeling of sectional hate for those who Belflshly oppiees us. Men would have to become angels if they did not resent the dominance of the populous east over the sparsely settled and ruined west. Now it muet be plain to all that the origin of this state of things dates back to '73 when the fell dragon of unrest, degredation and poverty was unchained un-chained by John Sherman, It has been continued by every national ad ministration since. It is true that the first inception was republican and it is equally true that the republican party has been steady in its unbending opposition op-position to remonetization or anything resembling remotely an approach to it. The largest majorities against the remonetization re-monetization of silver have been thrown by that party. Until this veto I was signed tbe responsibility for the destruction of silver has rested with that party, but hereafter the democracy will have to share it with them, We must f ice it like men and now fall back UDon the general excellence of demo-! cratic principles in other respects. We can only claim supremacy for the mass oi uie party e views on tuver ana leave the piesident out. It is a great misfortune mis-fortune to the west but it must be borne patiently until the scepter of the certain gold bugs has been dropped from democratic hands. A good many people in Utah have heard of Gov. Hogg of Texas and will probably be interested in knowing what kind of a man he is. We clip the j following as telegraphed by him to a Dallas paper the other day. It speaks eloquently as to the character of the man. lie is a great big hearted man and just as sound as gold. Political empirics may induce men to follow in---! nimi... i a ' them but Hogg will not permit injustice in-justice to be done if he can help it. Nor does he Beem to be very much afraid of the great corporations: "Yon can truthfully Bay that neither the Cormorant nor the Commune can disgrace Texas while I am governor. When a railroad company hanls tramps or unemployed penniless men into this state it cannot dump them into a barren bar-ren desert and murder them by torture and starvation without atoning for it, if there is any virtue in the machinery of juatice. Nor will I permit them to be . shot down on Texas soil by any armed force whatever, ro matter how much the Southern Pacific and other enemies of the state may howl about the commune. J. S. HoGG." We are delighted to note the change in sentiment in congress on the subject sub-ject of the completion of the Nicar-auguan Nicar-auguan canal. The government should at once take hold of this great work and complete it without loss of time. It would be cheap at one hundred millions. mil-lions. The nation is rich enough to build it and it ought to do it at the earliest practicable moment. We can never afford to see any other nation finish the work. The friends of the enterprise should work as they have never worked before. The Herald rebels against the practice prac-tice of misquotation, garbled quotation quota-tion and mistatement so often resorted too by dishonest and unfair papers.The evil always was, always will be and there doesn't seem to be any adequate redress within reach. It is all dependant de-pendant upon the man in charge. If he is honest, truthful and fair his paper pa-per will show these traits. If he is a rogue his paper will show all the above traits. If he is a blackguard his paper will reek with filth. It was the leased lines and out of-the-way branches of the Union Pacific which pulled the main line into trouble. That has always payed and is now making money. It proposes to I lop off those extensions which are found to be unprofitable and operate only the lines which can show a clean way-bill and a profit on the expenditure. expendi-ture. Yellow Jack is getting in his work at Kio de Janeno and he is saving about seventy-five of them each day. It seems that he has made it his business busi-ness to atone for the bloodless character charac-ter of the rebellion. The correspondent of the Tribune says that the Woolen MLls shut down because the hands insisted upon being paid one half CBsh. There is never a word of truth in the statement. The Breckenridge nastiness still goes on. It is taking on more offensive offen-sive features day by bay. It was bad from the start, now it is horrible. It seems that Waite has a severe cinch oh Colorado just now, and the old fellow is ueeingit Cor all it i worth. . J |