Show A GLOOMY MOMENT ENT IT IS a gloomy moment tn in history not for many years not in the lifetime me of most men who rend read this paper liaa has there been so EO much grave and deep app apprehension re hension never has the future seemed so go incalculable as at this time in our own country thousands of our poorest fellow citizens citi zeng are turned out against the approaching winter without employment in france oe the political caldron seethes find end bubbles eulth uncertainty tal t no russia afa irk and lianes ss as usual like a cloud clond dark and ilent upon the horizon of europe nhyle all the he energies resources re and influences 1 if the british empire are sorely tried led 1 this has a familiar ring it might I 1 bave appeared yesterday in any one of a landred I 1 publications probably something like it did but the particular n nuo notation quotation tation comes front harpers weekly cited lilted october 10 anty 1 idars cars ago there have been other depressions in fix ct cr c T r history there will be other depres on ons it jio doubt in the future they all be survived exactly as 89 those of the arst hale balie been survived and ana the bengt h of time tt it takes us ns to come out of them f dictated by the fear or courage of our people if they attack our institutions rut government in competition with business sanction exorbitant t taxation roll cles and tax deficits it will vill take it a ping ling time but it if they live normally do fiey best to carry on their work and sound and constructive governmental policies depression aill give vay ay to normal conditions with the least loss end and suffering sulT cring mann manufacturer fae DEFERRED FOLLOWING a conference with president hoover senator reed smoot of 0 utah itah announced that lie had reiterated ian urge for an international silver conference tor for a discussion ot of the silver pro I 1 lent leni lie he added that the outlook was rot not promising tor for an immediate conference because in ills his opinion england and arance have not changed their attitudes toward award such a conference and there the matter rests the american public not so thoroughly informed as the administration may not have hare full and complete understanding of the french and the english attitudes it nevertie nevertheless ne less courts frank direct way of recording the of arial ial viewpoints which it must regard r ri infinitely more acceptable than the 1 I 1 adful course which Is now pursued I 1 the mere invitation to a conference I 1 would remove all the uncertainty that now attaches to the attitudes of the french and the english governments government as well as that attaching to the government at washington the fact of 0 the matter Is that such a course would definitely dissipate a lot of concerns concern I 1 it t would not only establish a degree of 0 open diplomacy on the question but it would remove the doubt dolbt which now exists as to administration sym patty pathy it would have a tendency to establish in full view ot of the public the basic reasons for resistance to a siller conference england Eng lanil france and mr hoover may lattio their own reasons reason s to sa rde string to 10 lo do nothing about sliver silver but this itself docs not justify the unwillingness to put the silver claims before the world in art an open discussion discus lon it if those reasons are well founded the conference would but emphasize and justify their conclusions it if not the conference at least would result in departures designed to relieve the distress of the world the public concern Is not with bilter but with th the dl distress tress of humanity silver Is regarded only as a medium to relief front from a condition which shiell lias has become intolerable to millions ot of people the antithesis ti of 0 sliver silver Is gold and gold has done little or nothing to dissipate the condition which makes this clamor tor for subsidiary coinage the only road to action Is through an international conference and understanding quarters will not lot he be inclined to accept the problematical attitudes of france and england as for delay and friction sundays salt lake tribune |