The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-12
POLITICAL INSANITY

An esteemed Denver contemporary says:
THE SALT LAKE HERALD objects to Colo
RADIOS fghi - free coinage" And we
ask when. Wn &c? How. THE HERALD
does not object % Of ybody's night for free
! coinage. 1Lis paper wants free coinage,
has advocated Tree coinage ever since the
| decentralization of silver, and proposes to
continue on that Jine to the end.
But THE HERALD, in its desire for
justice to the people and silver,
does not propose to take leave Of its senses,
and because it can't get what it wants and
get it right now. go off and butt its head
against q stone wall. We say the Colorado
newspapers are making a mistake in this
matter. They are leading the people
astray. They are taking course which,
if persisted in, viii wreck the old parties
and Put Colorado in position where she
viii he powerless to help the cause
of silver, or any other cause for
that matter. We cannot under
stand why intelligent men, leaders
IN community, should persist in doing as
the Colorado editors are doing. They Ger
tainly are not looking very far into the flu
tUre. They are not taking thought of
where they are going TO land or the position
they will occupy when they get there. Let
US suppose for moment that the Colorado
newspapers succeed in what they have set
out to accomplish-that they unite the
people upon the free coinage PROPOSE
ton and in declaration of
war upon men and parties that
do not openly favor the RECOMMENDATION of
silver. This IS what the Colorado press is
/ trying to DO and thousands Of Democrats
and Republicans are pledging themselves
to stand by the movement. If the papers
may be relied upon a majority of the voters
| OF the state have already "enlisted for the
war" Let Us suppose that all follow, and
what will be the result? 1t won't be free
coinage, for the people of Colorado
comprise a very small part of the
American community. Free coinage will
not be advanced peg; rather will it be
turned backward, for the great parties and
their leaders viii not be particularly well
disposed towards state which is desper-
ately and without reason fighting them
The outcome will simply be that Colorado
viii stand alone in politics, absolutely
powerless to help herself, without recogni
ton, having no voice that will be effective
in the councils of the nation, and de
spised rather than courted by the parties
We cannot regard the free coinage ma MIA OF
the other side of the range as other than {
stupendous blunder. There is nc sugges
ton Of wisdom in it, for were it successful
in the highest degree it could achieve roth
ing. The whole movement seems to be di
rected by fanaticism.
There is just one way to bring about thu
rehabilitation of silver, and that il
by the education and conversion o
the majority of the voters of thi
great republic. This must be done a
Democrats and Republicans, for to thes
parties must we look for the desired relief
While the world lasts there will be Repub
licans who oppose silver coinage an,
others who favor it; and there will b
Democrats for and others against the US
of the white metal as money. The ricl
viii oppose and the poor favor silver, n
matter what their party or their politics
Hence the work, to be effective, nus
be done within the parties, the support o
Democrats and Republicans being won
the cause of silver.
If our Colorado friends would look at thi
matter lntelligently and in the light o
, common sense they would know that moth
ing can ever be done for silver by indepen
dent action, and they would cease follow
: ing course which can lead only to dis
aster.