Show ABUSE IS NOT ARGUMENT it has ha always alwaes been a natural result of an all argumentative discus discua s on ion that the person worsted in the debate tu to try to even the matter up bv resorting to personal abuse or ti threats of vio violence lenee it is the tyrant s lat t argument just now tins this avle ty ie of the defense of a bad cause IS i noticeable in the eastern press in tile the discussion of the money quest question I 1 on the single gold standard advocates have abandoned the field of lo loic logic n ic in defending za their cause and are now taking up the weapons of sarcasm abuse and threats threat the free silver men of the united states are characterized as populists lists anarchists cranks 1 I fanatics repudiators communists munis ts 1 11 socialists barbarians and every other degrading character that their imagination ran r an invent they are also just now diadul indulging m lii in the threat that the donled men of the em east it will withdraw the their 1 r capital from the 11 west et and south and refuse to make adiv any investment in in adv any section where the free silver sentiment predominates on the 0 ground round that adv any business enterprise in these localities cali ties fies would be unsafe and extra hazardous A recent number number or of harper s g weekly contains two editorials t or 1 als which furnish a striking M example of this sort of imperious argument aument 3 all the epithets named in this article are applied to the adherents of the chica chicago n o convention a aid aad ad the silver men generally is s well as the threat we have alluded to one would almost believe that we had bad returned to the antebellum ante bellum days when the press and negro drivers were defending their unholy an and d sectional ional institution of slavery by bv a I 1 line of argument there is an undue and unfounded degree of prejudice in the east toward the 11 est they are jealous of our growth in wealth population tio n and enterprise and they feel that we in the wet west and south are uncouth ini unlearned learned and immoral this was exemplified by a recent utterance of president cleveland at a new york ork church mc meeting eting wherein the substance of the remark was to the effect that the benighted 0 west was in in need of missionary ary work owing to its immoral and ignorant condition this sentiment was applauded I 1 and endorsed by the eastern press and people almost anani unanimously i all we have to say in re div pl v to all this is the people who say v such hard things thing 9 about the avest est and south either dont know what they are talking about or else the dont care for their statements are positively untrue people who formerly livecy in the east but bat now live in the west know better and those in the east who have never lived in the west or south know nothing of which the they y speak out of the west came lincoln whose wisdom and P patriotism saved the union oat of the west came orant ant the leader of the union aminy iwho who alone was i able io adb atie e the confederate i all the eastern generals geniana hac Lined and failed and in 1861 the homes of lincoln and grant were as far west as the he home of W J bryan is ia now after all there is n nothing to fear from thi this Is sort of tactics in in the arese prese present it campaign reason cannot be bucce successfully afu ily answered by bv i ridicule nor n 0 r lo 10 logic tic with lies ill in this fight we have the right on our side and are bound to succeed in the end in the meanwhile let the eastern gold bugs remember that westward the course of empire takes its way ay |