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Show I LSDEPE.MJE.NT AND ALONE. I Twenty-tvvo years since the crime of I the cycied wi.8 committted. It was I eome years before the business men of j the country had the least idea that a 1 great crime against the prosperity of 1 this people had been consummated. I The number of the years had grown I materially from that until the farmers, 1 the laborers and the wage earners ! I found out that they were the special I victims ot the silent raid of the gold men j of England and Wall street. Of course I since the idea has been set up and re- I cognized the howlings have been loud j and incessant, enough io to have pro- I dnced the needed reforms if they I could have been secured by such v I means; but the people cf the west and the south have at last found out that in dealing with 6uch men as those inhabiting in-habiting Lombard and Wall streets the Chinese gongs are not available, and they are turning toward the weapons waich must win the light in the end, if indeed cold eteel is not sooner invoked. in-voked. Reason and calm discussion will prevail if only commerce and organization or-ganization will hang together for a few decades more. These are slow processes at best, but when leveled at such men as Rothschilds and his brethren in the bank of England, men grow old and gray and die and are forgotten for-gotten ere they see the first faint indications indi-cations of concession. However there is a way left by which the poor of the United States may be emancipated fiom this thraldom a thousand times woree than that which enchainod the negroes of the south if they have the manhood to pursue it. It is this: Let monster mass meetings be held all over the union and let each meeting draft resold ions calling for an xtra session of congress to remon-etize remon-etize silver without awaiting the too ted ioub process of international action. If a doi.en ol these meetings could be had in each state between now and August, congress would be called in September and the law would be in operation by January let. Let any clear-headed business man of the west sit down and reflect for an hour upon what would be the result of all this, and then let hin answer an-swer the question of "Why don't you act in accordancewiih the light such action ac-tion would produce?" and there would never again linger the shadow of a doubt as to the course for patriotic citizens cit-izens to pursue. While working up a sentiment in favor fa-vor of ultimate resumption of free coinage, we are not to forget that we gain nothing and lose valuable time by caeting longing eyes over the water to see what the gold barons of Europe are going to do with silver, or if they have concluded to do anything. We have it in our power absolutely to force free coinage and the double standard upon the world, and we will deserve chains and slavery forever if we refuse longer to use it. Europe can no more stand out against us than her great navies can navigate the dews which lie upon her green meadows mead-ows in the early dawnings. She will come in at first with angry frowns on her face, but when the sun of prosperity prosper-ity is again shining brightly ia consequence conse-quence of the restoration of silver, her frowns will be chased away, and instead in-stead of the fiendish yells of her anarchists, anar-chists, the machinations of her commune com-mune and the revei berations of her dynamite corps, the glad voices of her profitably employed people will prove tweetest music in the ears of her patriots. pa-triots. Independent and speedy action is the policy now. No more of finespun scientific finance, but plenty ol sound money, gold and silver, now, is the watchword of the silver fon-s of the great west as it is also ol the nation and every section of it. |