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Show TIT ULTIMATE SETTLEMENT. "We s well done for the Salt Luke srub f commerce, say we; and tie; will Le said heartily by eve y we6terc pri- .'ilv-r man in the union. Indeed, p.-f .1-" of financial reform j which Uiia Vi i : Mde for the remoneti-zation remoneti-zation of si ver ill not meet the views of the lareet half of the people of the United States. The Baltimore plan does not do thia and the Salt Lake chamber of commerce at its late meeting meet-ing addresses a set of resolutions to the advocates of the Baltimore plan in congress which is simply a restatement . of those passed by the recent trans-Mississippi trans-Mississippi congress, lately ia session at St. Louis. This is the very strongest strong-est expression the chamber of commerce com-merce could have given to the strong determination of the business men cf the west to stand by the metal of the poor till the crack of doom, if necessary. neces-sary. This action will go far toward opening the eyes of the east to the fact that here in the west there is practic- ally no division of sentiment among the people on the subject of Bpeedy remonetization ot the white metal. It is charged every day by the gold papers ol'NewYorkandBoston,tbat even in the mountain states all the people are not in favor of remonetization. This argument ar-gument has staggered many men in the east who otherwise would have been acting with us for the rehabilitation rehabilita-tion of silver. In this action of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce a competent reply has ben given to the slanderous and dangerous charge. It cannot fail to carry conviction to our friends in the east that the west as one mighty and unanimous whole stands by the money upon which the nation has grown great and rich. The dispatches yesterday announced the withdrawal of the Baltimore Bal-timore plan and the preparation of another an-other bill to be offered before congress adjournB for the holidays. The substitute sub-stitute will fail as hasjthe Carlisle bill, unless it provides for the free coinage of silver or something tantamount to that. Oh that the business men, boards of trade and chambers of commerce of eyery state in the west would meet at once and take such action as the Salt Lake board has taken. If this move could be extended to include every commercial com-mercial body in the states friendly to silver it would prove such an educational educa-tional move as they have not yet had in the east, and the position of the people peo-ple of the west would be made too plain ever to aea in be successfully misrepresented misrepre-sented east or anywhere else. This eternal tinkering ought to cease. The people of the United States should soon develop the necessary statesmanship statesman-ship to enable them to solve the one problem before which all of her intellect intel-lect has stood awed and amazed now for twenty-one years. The mine owners and business' men of Utah will undertake to solve it in a month's time if coneress will agree to adopt the bill they would draft without amendment or charge of any kind, and they will guarantee that the measure will not only fully meet the difficulties of the entire situation but will re-establish the prosperity we lost when Impious Im-pious hands were first laid upon the white metal money of time. We must consider what more we can still do to hasten thia necessary action. We must get down to the work. The necessity is vital. It is a grave duty placed upon our western shoulders; we must meet the requirements and perform per-form the duty without any further waste of time. |
