Show SEEN IN THIS EAST M L snow of brigham city east iu may and has been through the middle and eastern states ever since he waitea a letter to the brigham bulletin from new york his style is entertaining yet conservative and he tells of wonderful changes taking place in parties in that section of the country we make a few excerpts from his correspondence my mind was a little dark on the silver question and I 1 found it advisable to stee clear of argument with even the meanest gold bug this so nettled me that I 1 at right about reading up on the question both the gold side and the silver side light came with information doubt and insecurity were soon expelled from my mind in their place came an honest conviction that the cause of silver ie the cause of richt in my travels about new york state I 1 have made a point of questioning nearly every man meet on the financial subject among the poor class and particularly the banners I 1 bave been astonished at the large majority of silver men many times I 1 have exclaimed to them in surprise what on earth makes allver men of your people when all the papers in this country are for gold and every paper that comes into your house is a gold paper their reply is about as follows yes these are all gold papers but they occasionally sio nally have a little silver argument and that sometimes goes right home we anew eore ething is wrong somewhere when our crain and other fetch half of what they ought to and in twenty years the value of our farms hag gone down over half while taxes remain about the same we never see a gold dollar the silver dollar is good enough tor us we are willing to try a change it cant be much worse anyway and it be better party is being laid aside for principles a creat step forward in our politics parties become dangerous dan cerous when the masses become so attached to them that they knowingly docu rights in order to kive party supremacy scarcely more grievous ie it for a religious denomination to sacrifice principle for power than for men to do so politically right is right and wrong is wrong whether found i or party thousands of democrats will vote for mckinley this fall because they trust in cold on the other hand silver cans and there are tens of thousands of them hereabouts will support bryan in indiana alone a silver league has been formed called anti british at the start it had over bembera all for bryan I 1 will now but mention the most serious aspect of the impending contest this 1 a struggle mainly between the rich and the poor on the one side you find nearly all the millionaires and other corporations and as the new boric world gold say g every trust in the united states on the other hand are tho poor men the farmers and nearly all the na binnal labor organizations and the like it appears as though the poor man had suddenly awakened to the fact that be has been ground down and hocus focused just twentythree twenty three years too lone and Is rising in bis might to assert his rights but the rich man will not give up his hold without a bitter struggle though insignia cant they have myriads of fawning lackeys and the field to buy the votes of many an almost starving father |