The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-05
AFTER THE BATTLE, LET US
HAVE PEACE.

We do not propose to discuss the silver
question but only some of its phases. A
few leading organs of the goldocrats, like
the New York Times and Tribune, not
only exhibit great deal of indiscrction
in discussing this subject, but display a
degree of sectional acrimony towards the
West and South that the journals of the
country have been very free from since
the late war. Were those sections of the
United States unanimously in favor of
the measure now agitating the country,
and the small sections of the Union stu
ated northeast of the Allegheny Noun
tains unanimous in opposition thereto,
worldly wisdom ought to teach the mer-
cenary organs of the latter that it is ex-
tremely indiscrete to vilify and denounce
the people of the former.
A few brief quotations from late num-
bers of the two named newspapers will
illustrate the subject. The Tribune sees
fearful "cloud in the West"-the chief
danger from which we suppose is caused
by its having silver lining. The cause
Of "free government is in peril" "The
widest doctrines of socialism, commun-
ism, repudiation, mob-omnipotence, de.
niaa Of the fundamental principles of right
and wrong, upon which alone free gov
ernment can possibly be established, have
been preached in the Eastern States, and
we seem to take it for granted that such
propagandism which has wrought de-
aruction in every other civilized coun-
try, can be of no effect in ours" The
West is charged with "tampering
with morality - with encouraging
theft and robbery, and with at
tempting to plunge the country into a
desperate course of financial debauch-
ery;;" and we are assured that the aurif-
erous and virtuous East "have to deal
not only with the vagaries of this Con-
gress, but with terrible uprising of pop
ular ignorance and passion" Thus war
bles on the Tribune of the 25th ult. in
kind and quality for about column.
The Times of the same date, and. evi-
IDENTIFY by concert of action, and the
same Wall-street motive-power, dis
cusses the dangerous harmony
that exists between the West
and the South on the financial
question. 1t would fain save the South
from such an alliance. 1t thinks that
the Southern constituencies are more in
telligent and virtuous than their repre-
sentatives, and implores them "not to be
dragged beyond retreat into the mad
movement against property which has
begun in the West" And again, that
such an alliance would be "a combination
Of ignorance and demagoguery among
their representatives, and of ignorance
and want of honor among the constitu-
encies. The West is strongly in favor of
the partial reputation involved in the
Silver Bill, because majority of its peo-
pie are in debt and hope for some tangi-
bic advantage and relief from its en-
actment." And in such a vein the
Times discharges nearly column OF
philippics.
The attempt to sectionalize this and
kindred questions is both unfounded and
injudicious. Neither are the West and
South in favor of reputation, in the
remotest degree, or are their people
unanimous in support of the Silver Bill,
although large majority favor the
measure, as do many of the most
intelligent men of the Eastern
States. II the West is in