Show AND she editor ot the salt lake tribune takes a narrow view cf the dilver question or more correctly speaking the booey question when he says that free coinage without protection would not bo a benefit it the editor lias given twenty years to the subject and has written in defense of bimetallism during that period as he occasionally relates without a clearer conception of alie good to be derived from than he gives evidence of in the above statement he has trifled with time and toyed with a problem worthy better efforts he treats of purely in the light of biving a market at an bunco for t alty or seventy mahion ounces of silver bullion mined in the united states and to offset this he tells of the j dissipation to follow if democratic doctrine is coupled thereto true bimetallists contend that the of silver in 1873 destroyed lau of our money units of ultimate redemption demp tion that in consequence liala of the pr perty values of the united slates hae ben dissipated that all debts of old standing have doubled that the national debt though reduced in dollars to less than a gi eater burden today than it was immediately after the marthat war that all farm produce seeking a foreign market has in value in a ratio equal that of silver and the price in foreign marts regulates the price of aj farm produce in the united states except in isolated spots that in consequence ot the of half the money of alio world the half which is gold is appreciating at the rate of 4 per cent a year that conditions are an encouragement to board gold and a discouragement to investors in anything but government bonds we might enumerate naif a dozen other attending evils yet wo arc informed by a professed silver man that a remedy which would correct the above unnatural conditions would be of no benefit unless accompanied by krotec tion for instance a mckinley protection the farmers forty live per cent of the inhabitants would receive a bushel for wheat or nearly so the cotton producers would get the old time price for cotton or nearly so the laborer on the farm be paid better wages and everybody would be a greater consumer of the necessities and luxuries of life the man in debt would be given a reasonable opportunity of freeing himself from the clutches of the usurer etc still we are informed that democracy would inflict such a curse upon the country that all the benefits thus to be derived w be equalized it is fair to presume that the democrats of the land vi ho are almost if not fully as numerous as republicans are not fools it they are our country is the indigenous home of the imbecile im becil if aliey were in power and saw this terrible sacrifice of american energy and this wrack and ruin of which the tells as a result of their national policy they would be free to confess the error of their modus operand because the loss would be so evident and come so they could not deny nor conceal the injury ahey were inducting indicting indic ting upon their country Personal lythe editor of tu a STANDARD believes bimetallism and protection would do more good than bimetallism and tariff for revenue only but the difference would not b appalling nor even pronounced ape overwhelming assue is bimetallism |