The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-22


they declared would be unwise.>.
In an interview which | had with the
President. he also expressed himself m
favor of increasing the value OF silver
and gold until international action
could be reached. When suggested
to him that the administration alone stood
between the people and the passage OF a
free coinage bill, and that II free coinage
bill were passed, | predicted that silver
would. within three months. be restored to
It's old value of Sl.29 per ounce he smiled
and said that if he could have my conf
dence as to the effect of. free coinage, ne
would be in favor of its immediate adop-
ton, but he claimed that mons oil US could
know absolutely what would occur and
that the best way of adv ancing wae TO take
progressive step and not reach outimme-
diately for free coinage. He declared nlnlSe1
friendly to silver but insisted upon 1t that
his duty to the country demanded that lie
should maintain our money as the best
money in the world and that he would not
assume the responsibility of imperllllng 1t.
During all this discussion a Senator was
engaged in endeavoring to get the Repubh-
cans of the Senate to unite in favor OF the
purchase of 100000 ounces Of silver per
month without bullion redemption and
only the day before 1 left Washington, the
President sent for Senators Jones and
Stewart and announced to them that he
would withdraw his proposition for bull
lion redemption and would favor bill Tor
the purchase of 81 100000 worth OF silver
per month, the certificates to be legal
tender and redeemable not in bullion but
in lawful money.
Messrs. Jones and Stewart saw me i'm
mediately after this interview and agreed
with me that this proposition ought TO be
accepted with the modification of 4,5OO,OOO
ounces in place of $500, 900 worth. This
bill could have been passed IN hve
days and would have received the sane
tion of the President Immediately. 1t was
understood that almost all the Republican
senators, who had been in favor or bullion
redemption, would vote for such bill, but
as it was necessary 10 secure forty three
votes in order to pass it as a party meas
ure, the votes of the senators from Colo
RADIO, Montana and Kansas were essential.
Subsequent events have led me to believe
that under the leadership of Senator Tel
Ter they refused their sanction, and de
clared they would vote to the end Tor free
coinage; hence the vote which resulted in
the adoption of a free coinage bill by large
vote in the Senate composed largely OF
Democrats, only fifteen Republicans voting
for it.
Whilst the Senators from Colorado,
Montana and Kansas are to be commended
for standing against the great pressure that
was put upon them, it is a question as 10
whether they will be successful, as the
House Republicans are well disciplined and
the majority of them are against free coin
age. The bill will go into conference, but
SO much bad blood has been genel ated by
compromise suggested by the President is
approved there may be no legislation.
There is one feature of this contest t
which l wish TO Call attention; that is, the
unanimity of the northwest upon this sub
ject, and the power of the northwest wEeI
it acts as a unit upon measures affecting it:
interests.
When the bill providing for bullion re
deption passed the House, Representatives
and Senators from the northwest wert
stormed with kilograms from the Repubii-
can state committee calling upon them tt
! hold up the tariff until the favorable silver
bill was passed This brought to the at
tention of the narrow minded eastern men
whose vision does not extend beyond then
localities, that the industries, to the pro
lection of which the Republican party was
pledged, werein danger. The aggressive
bold and defiant attitude taken by the
northwest has had a most salutary effect
of bringing the administration to the
abandonment of bullion redemp
ton and of opening the eyes
of the east to the imposibility Of
conciliating the west. And this opens thf
inquiry why the northwest should not res
urrect itself and be the northwest of Ben
ton and of Cass when it had controlling
influence in the councils of the nation. Our
northwestern states are constantly increas
il G in population ana in numbers All leg
islation is a compromise. The west car
only get what 1t wants by fighting the east
ana what it wants. and thus securing
compromise. The west should continue tC
be self assertlve and progressive; it should
never go into the national Democratic con
vention or national Republican con
yention without candidate foi
of right to this Office will ultimately Sc
cure recognition, and meanwhile secure
, concessions In the matter of cabinet posi-
, tions and foreign appointments which will
add to Its influence and dignity.
| hope to see this question agitated unit
a unttication of the northwest takes plac
both in the Republican and Democratic par
ties on all matters affecting its interests
= 1t Is safe to say that almost all the import
ant legislation of the country should nov
. be directed toward the development of tn
3 mountain states and territorities and i'm
provementS of the arid regions and tn
q building up OF the towns on this good so
: and under this favored sky.
There is another thing to which wish (
( cali attention and that Is the impOrtanC
/ of continuing and extending the discussio
:, and agitation of the bi-metallic question
q The bimetallists of America are emergin
e from national silver commit ee to a bi
v metallic league; while support should /
given to this league in the way of contrib
8 tons to the campaign of education which
n to be entered upon in England, Franc
| Germany and Italy.
p In England, the BIZ metallic league nun
: bers among its members one hundred mel
= bers of Parliament. in France the Theo
n lists are in favor of b-metallism, so al.
e in Germany and Italy. But the power
n the money loaning class is there suprem
and agitation should be commenced in the
IS countries at the home of the money pr
70 ducers, wage earners and agricultur
O. classes, who when they assert their pow
le as they will do under continued agitatio
IS will unite with the theorists, philosophe
w and political economists and right d
.. wrong of 1873
In this work the Bi-metallic league, &C
,e ing as the national silver committee h
G. done, can be of great service in plannil
st the organization, an energetic work can
n done with little expense in collecting fac
at and information addressed to the countri
l. in which they are to be disseminated al
le in whose language they are to be printed
v. MIR. Newlands closed by expressing
1t hope that Utah would join in the work
IL the Bi-metallic league, and that when
TO became a state, it would join in the plaE
Id unifying the northwest in matters pertai
Nv ing to politics and legislasion.