Show THE PIONEER SILVER PAPER because the standard editor k came out in favor of the free coinage of p silver at any ratio obtainable even f 22 to 1 or 25 to 1 it nothing better could be secured has caused some of the eleventh hour converts to the cause ii of silver to demand that the standard pull down the headline the pioneer silver paper of utah the standard claims the honor of being the pioneer i silver paper of utah because it was the first paper in utah to come out tor the tree coinage of silver regardless of v what party it supported in obtaining silver that right was never denied or challenged tor three whole years but now because the standard said the pa hope of obtaining the tree coinage of silver at 16 to 1 by the united states alone had flown some silver advocates for office or for money perhaps both say we are no longer a sliver advocate in another column we publish a letter from moreton frewen one of the greatest silver champions in the world it not the greatest in which he says that the only immediate hope is 22 to 1 and that the only hope tor that is through the consent of the republican power at washington mr frewen endorses the standard in full and again proves that the standard Is the pioneer silver paper ot utah the editor of the salt lake tribune endorses mr frewen and in doing so endorses the standard again showing that the standards title pioneer silver paper is guaranteed by one of tho ablest silver advocates in the whole west namely judge goodwin that which the standard advocated tor over a year the tribune endorses now will some one cry goldbug at judge goodwin why did senator cannon refuse to meet the standard editor in joint debate on the silver question ratio of ac to I 1 did he see the handwriting on the wall did he sec that he could not maintain even the shadow of an argument in favor of the tree coinage of silver by the united states alone true the standard editor could have been triumphantly elected to office as an advocate of ac to 1 last fall but is it not a greater victory to know that you are right in the cause you espouse and to know that within CO days of the repudiation of your cause the repudiators must admit they were wrong in the words of henry clay we would rather be right than be president of the united states |