The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-03-13
SILVER
r Black, The Washington correspond.

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ent OF the New York Rorld says:
| Let Us see to what extent this cleaning
silver wedge which but recently was cal
culated upon 10 split the two naiiona
PARTIES and 10 feeast congress and the elec.
torIal college will likely operate.
| II VAS generally accepted as true thai
the west and the south were bent upon the
passage Of a free and unlimited silver bin
and upon the slaughter Of presidential can.
didaies and all otners who should say tlren
nay. Il tllls truei What evidence have
we Of The iaeti II has been assumed that
the farmers, and especially the mysterious,
farmers alliance, were determined 10 rush
on 10 ttis single object, tranpiIpg every
thing else under their feet In the mad
tumnit All this was taken foi granted
Nobody stopped TO inquire upon what the
assumption was founded. Some ncwspa-
pefs and some representatives loudly pro-
claimed that they were sthe people, and
were taken at lhelr word. But time and
discussion are gradually putting another
face upon Il. The hurricane passes by and
The dust and chaff Il blew up are disappear.
Ing. When We get clear view Of the
south and the west and they get . clear
view Of The tasi, Il viii be seen that their
interests are identical, .ha. no sec,ioa can
AFFORD or Will press experiments which are
clearly dangerous, and that even II Tree
aud unlimited silver coinage reasonably
promised all the rclIefio the debtor classes
which few Of them expected from II, II
would still remain minor and unImport-
ant question Ia comparison with the ques.
tIon OF ,axatIon In the west and the south
and Of home rule ln the latter.
The silver question may be safely LETT to
The discretion of The democratic majority
Ia the next congress for settlement. As
the Worh has pointed out edItorially, the
party has grappied many times with more
difficult subjects. While gold and silver
are the constitutional cur eney which the
democracy hss maintained from time I'm
memorial, no member OF that party has
ever desired or ever will desire coinage Of
either metal Of less intrinsic value than
coinage Of the other metal. The next
congress will assemble after six monlns'
further deliberallon and discussion. Both
the publis and The parry will have learned
sone,hing In the mean time. ut Is con-
diiion, not theory which confron.s US
to-day. The condition Is the di.tress Of
ahof and agriculture In tho west and
the south only but erywhere-produced
by excessive and unconstitutional fnonop-
oily taxation. This Il Is which d nj the
bottom OF the unlvessai cry for relief aud
which induces men to jump at the silver
theory or the warehousing or any other
which pfesen,s llseli. Win the conditi3n
change In six monthsi win II change
until the monopoly policy Il reversed and
nnhl lighter taxes and greater freedom Of
exchange afe accorded the peoplei II the
condition does not change. when the DEM
oeraiie party comes together by its repre-
senta,ivcs Ia congress or By IL representa-
lives In national convention. will II agree
that silver Il ans question al all In eo,npaF.
son With tariff taxation In the west or free
government 10 the SOUTH Thosc who
conceive that silver will spiif and wreck
the democratic party, or even that Il will
shape the next presidential ticket and the
next national platform. forget that the deep
wrongs and the vital interests OF the sec
tons relied upon to push silver to the place
heretofore occupied by the tariff. When
tie west shall be asked 10 jeopardize the
presidential ticket in the east by the sub J.
sil,uiion Of the tritiing silver controversy
fer the rnomentous tax battle. Its material
conditoa. not iesa than its patriotism, win
furnish the response. II canno, be done.
The west must have relief, and II can have
II only by the restoration Of the tax reform
party. When the south Is put to the same
test her answer will be that tariff reform,
hcme rule, domestic liberty, are infinitely
greater TO her than any of the alleged and
doubtful advantages of free silver. There
viii not be In . national convention q del
cga.Ion from any state In the union which
has recently cast democratic electoral
vote In favor OF endangering the presidency
and the country by unreasonable persist
cnce on the silver line II there shall be
silver plank 10 that platform Il will be
one upon which any democrat, from New
York harbor to the Golden Gate, can
stand with perfe Il consistency.
| The negotiations preceding the defeat oi
the Force BILL; the natural gratitude ol
patriotic democrats for the splendid service
to constitutional liberty which the silyei
men then rendered; the sudden intrusion
into the political world Of the colossal
ms sierious and unmcasured force knowr
as the farmers alliance, together with III,
able and adroit management of the silve
producers, making every political advant
age of the extraordinary circumstances
have given the silver question an advent
tiens prominence which Il Is net likely I
hold.