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Show THE SOUTH AND SILVER. Si.'ve.' is all in all to the west. Wi'li silver . .monetized she becomes at oace - one o ; '.'te richest and most prosperous sectio.-.i of this vast country. With re-mon re-mon ' za. ion accomplished npon an en. dt i.r.p r la and the fear of par-tisaL par-tisaL .m tiou ?ain putting it to hazard fully cii3-ips.Jk..", the advance in values would l'B - ioi:nons all over the land, but be e i. ti.r, vest the advance would simply Usi i- i.pendous. Few of ub could now Jo) n anything like a iuet concevti' n of., what the real result would be. The best thought in con- nectiou with the resultant advance is, it,inetead of injuring any other section, would benefit all alike only differing in degree, and that only because the west would have the local advantage of having her every idle man profitably employed. In other words, in addition addi-tion the common advantage of more money and consequently mare business, busi-ness, she would add the profits of p'o Auction. Now about the only section ; .of the United States which is not jeal- : ous or looks upon this advantage of the west, in this connection, without envy, is the south. The south is really and truly a double-standard region. She ia, in the first place, really and truly democratic, hence she comes by her silver sentiments honestly, lier manhood man-hood is naturally democratic because ' it has been raised that way. The order of democracy prevailing there is conservative, rational and reasonable reas-onable in all of its phases. For nearly an hundred years it has prevailed and is today aa it has been all along, devoted to the entire creed of democracy, including includ-ing the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold both. Hence, if the west is, liKe intelligent and rational people, looking for allies witn whose help she may hope to restore silver, allies who can be depended upon in every emergency, whose political and moral sentiments in other respects are in accord with her own, in fact and in short, allies who will make her cause their own and who are strong enough to decide the light in her favor then indeed Is the south her best hope, ner only hold on the future. There ought to be soma broad based means speedily adopted by which the eouth may be taught that the west is in full sympathy with her, that she is not Belfish or narrow-viewed. That she doeB not ask it all, that she is ready and more than willing to divide the advantages, many and great as they are. with the section which comes up to her help in this her time of sore and pressing need. Let thinking and patriotic pat-riotic men formulate a proposition which, by Its breadth and scope, will atrika the southerners as fair and reasonable rea-sonable by which there could be established es-tablished a reciprocity of interest as well as an equality of advantage. Whether we like the south or not, we need their help, and if we are wise we will court help where help is most likely to be found. It has been fully demonstrated that it is not to be expected from republican republi-can states. We can only find it in democratic states, nowhere else. Nowhere No-where is there to be found a sufficient number, or a sufficiently united democracy de-mocracy to furnish the amount and character of help which we require, save in the bright sunny south , save ' among the democrats who are taught that no jot or tittle of the trae faith can be parted from without impairing the strength, grace and usefulness of the whole structure. We need allies, we must have allies, let ub seek them where they can be found, amone the brave loyal democrats demo-crats of the souther n states. |