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Show I The JoneB bill would be no bad solution solu-tion of our financial troubles. However, How-ever, the west is in for the war, and will demand ultimate free coinage at a 16 to 1 ratio. We are pretty nearly in a condition to force that and we do not very greatly blame the chamber of commerce for the strong free coinage resolutions passed Monday night. The policy of the Jones bill cannot be gain said. It is a sound financial measure and if passed the relief experienced would be felt to be very great, and yet no one can very greatly blame our western business men tor standing for absolute free coinnge. Especially when we are in condition to bo nearly force it, our watchword should be entire free coinage, or the Jones bill. Tnit Standard apparently has great confidence in the incoming congress. Better wait and see. Once we were young, now we are old, and never yet have we Been confidence in an ' incoming incom-ing congress or an outgoing one either, . for that matter realized. However the present congress would have done well enough but tor the lact that the shadow of the man at the other end of the ayenue was ever thrown across the hearthstone and that chilled the . financial marrow of the west and south, until now, at the close of the session we have nothing to hope for, absolutely nothing. Never was the nation so slaughtered before, not even in old Buchanan's day. A law passed in 1857 has just been dug up. It has never been repealed and if it is enforced, the price of silver must be fixed at $1.00 per once, and Xhe government is forced to pay that i j price. This beats the Sherman pur. chase act all hollow. Of course the goldites will seek to promptly repeal re-peal the law, but the silver men are strong enouzh to defend it, which they will do until the cows come home. What a grand thing it would be if this old neglected law would yet prove to be the touch which would Bave the country from the gold standard. It is by no means an unlikely thing. Every straw is eagerly clutched at by the friends of silver. The Advocate Publishing company has recently bought out the Pric Telegraph. Tel-egraph. The first number under the new arrangement came to our table today. It is a bright vigorous first and we hail it with genuine pleasure. The politics are to be democratic. The new paper has a field in eastern Utah and we doubt not will fill it creditably. credit-ably. We trust the largest measure of success will crown the effort. Whatever else may be said of the Pope, yet he has a keen sense of the eternal ntneBa of things and a great idea of propriety. This was never more perfectly illustrated than when he lately Interdicted the use of the bicycle by the priesthood. The Salt Lake chamber of commerce and the business men of that city are now and always in favor of fre coinage. coin-age. They talk with no forked tongue either. But with this old law of '57 revived and enforced we need but little lit-tle else. That is ample. The debate between McClay and the Herald seems to be interminable. The Herald is giving this lippy churchman rather too much prominence. Permit him to subside. The world has heard quite enough of him. The new government of Hawaii has already sent one American home with a flea in his ear. We doubt not a good many more could be sent back with advantage. The cable to Hawaii is an assured fact. A few preliminaries in congress and the bill will be triumphantly passed. A great Bigh of relief rises from the kindly heart of the world at the safe arrival of "La Gascogne" on Monday. The Wyoming legislature has been wrestling with a railway rate bill. The bill was defeated in committee. |