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Show St. Louis and Chicago boards of trade endorse the president's money plan as outlined by his recent finan-" finan-" cial message. This action will go far toward securing favorable action on the part of congress, and it seems now that our financial troubles will be settled set-tled very soon and on the basis suggested sug-gested by the president if that could be called a settlement which fastens upon tbe government the siugle'gol 1 standard forever. We fear that neither tbe president nor the future generations will relish this plan of settlement and it seems just a little doubtful even now if congrdBS will accept it. Something must be done and soon, seems to be the idea prevailing, As It seems utterly ut-terly impossible to get anything better bet-ter tor silyer than what the president offers so we must make a virtue of necessity and frame a bill which makes silver only a subsidiary coin. What democrat of twenty-five years' stand-ever stand-ever expected to hear such a declaration declara-tion from a democratic prssident? Thus fly away our moBt fondly cherished plans for the safety of our time-honored money. It seems that the southern Utes are still in Utah in large numbers and they are drawing rations from the agent just over the line in Colorado. In this matter it seema that Agent Day has played it upon the Utah and United States authorities very nictly. The poor Indians themselves are not to blame. Capts. Glbbs and Cannon's report to Governor AVeet is quite interesting inter-esting and as showing bad faith somewhere some-where is rather peculiar. It is not often that the U. S. officers practice prac-tice deception in official matters. The IndiaLS declare that they will remain, that they will no longer obey Agont Day, and also that they will seek a home with the Uintabs as soon as they can travel. Now we propose that both parties defer further discussion of the power of the Utah commission to act as a returning return-ing board until after the supreme court has Bpoken." A good deal has been said on both sides, a good deal that were better left unsaid; now wait until the law has spoken and we are of the opinion that little else will he found necessary to say. The Herald justly blames the commission com-mission for going ahead of the la- in issuing certificates to the members of the constitutional convention. That body has behaved with dignity, self-possession self-possession and due regard for the law all through the trouble and the Herald wants them to go through to the end unaffected by the clamors of partisan zeal. Bex- E. Rich iB chief mixologist for Sweet at Boise, whereat the Herald greatW marvels. The Herald should not be surprised. After a man has turned republican he is ready for any moral treason which pays, and we have no doubt at all tint Sweet pays well for all he gets. An out and out free coinage law, would stop the outflow of gold far sooner than the five hundred million, frold bond issue. Every one can see that. So if the president really wants to stop the gold outgo, let him favor tree coinage. Mb. Cleveland will gather ro laurels by his extraordinary financial policy. When the five hundred millions mil-lions of gold has found its way out of the country, why won't we be as bad off as we are now? Even Jjohn Sherman, arch traitor to silver, as he is, proposes to issue bonds payable in coin. John himself is becoming be-coming a little scared oyer the outcome out-come of his damnable system of finance. fi-nance. If the Tribune knows anything about who the Sanpete ballot fiends are, which we doubt, it should pack itself off to the grand jury without farther loss of time. Why should Secretary Gresham object ob-ject so strenuously to the war between Mexico and Guatemala? Let 'em fight. It is their normal function, anyhow. Let 'em go ahead. Dave Day has met his match in the Tribune. He has found as big a blackguard as he is himself. Will, any one now deny that the repeal re-peal of the Sherman purchase law was a great mistake? |