New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-27
THE vote on SITTER.


The especial significance of the vote in the
House on the Silver bill lies not in the fact that
a dstinctively Democratic mcasme-One for
which no other considerable party that ever has
existed would vote-has bare majority in
House more than two-thirds Democratic. The
Dutch usually succeed in taking Holland. The
bill would have passed at once had not the Re
publicans taken the lead in fighting for honest
money The vote is significant chiefly because
it was dcfiantly cast in the face of the loudest
ind most earnest warnings ever uttered by
Democrats against any Democratic measure. IL
marks in tho most striking way the radical and
irreDnciable hostility between the forces which
control the Democratic party and the practical
business. the productive industry and the honest
trade Of the country.
Last wear Congressman IIarter disturbed his
party sorey by declaring that it would commit
suicide in Ohio If it adopted frcc-coinage plat
form. The result proved that he knew Ohio.
This year equally earnest and positive warnings
have been uttered by the foremost Democrats Of
New England New-Yorl, Chicago and other
Western cities and Of the Pacific States. They
have told their party that IL would make is de-
feat certain and well deserved IL i affOnted the
entire business world with measure so reckless
and ~ dangerous. Yct the forces which CON
trolod the Democratic party in Ohio, and made
il dcSpise the warnings Of Mr.. IIuter have
shown even more rrSistlcss power in Democratic
councils at Washington. and have made it throw
down tho glove Of insult and defiance to the
business world. For without straining or ex
aggeration there Is all the spirit Of hatred and
of battle against the commercial interests OF the
country in that fierce clamor for free coinage
which the Democrats in Congress answer with
the worst financial measure ever passed by either
house. n is tho spirit Of those who hate cred
itor, railroads tclcgraphs, banks and all the
methods and inStrumentaities of modern COM
merce. 1t is tho spirit Of IN age VIII \ the
world has outgrown. It magincs that Andrew
Jackson is vet alive and is fighting the Bank.
Mr. Bland spoke more wisely than he knew when
he said, in opening his speech for the Silver
bill, "ths bill proposes TO go back hundred
years."
Going back hundred years is not what bust
ness wants. II il not what the keen and enter
prisng merchants of both parties will tolerate.
Il il not what the swiftly advancing industries
of the Nation with their millions Of sturdy work.
ers, will permit Elsewhere Mr.. Bland said
"Tho whole fight is between capital which wants
interest and the people who want money" Tho
whole business world has learned, though Mr..
Bland and the Democratic majority have not,
that the money which does not satisfy and in
vite capital cannot reward labor and cheatst those
who have it. Tho bacllwOods and the bygone
ages find in the Democratic party their voice.
The commerce and the progressive industry Of
the Nation must lock elsewhere for their de-
fence. as the ant-sver Democrats in the House
had to look to the Republicans for leadership
and for votes.
The so-callcd Silver bill, which in simply a
bill for unlimited issues and unlimited dcbasc-
ment OF paper currency, will probably 60 to the
Senate, and there will expose some men also.
II is doing good work. If il goes to the Pies
ident at last the country will hear from him
that the Republican party represents the nine
teenth century and believes in honest money