New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-04
BULLYING DOES NOT Pay.

There is one lesson TO be learned from the
discussion of the silver question which has
been going on now for nearly twelve months
flat ought not 70 be lost on the American peo-
pie. Especially ought it TO be needed by those
persons in public life who have done most of
the talking and have been laboring under the
most excitement. 1t is that. on the whole. bully
ing in this country does not pay. A majority
has no need Of it and never resorts to II, ana IA
minority can never accomplish anything except
TO make itself ridiculous by attempting 1t. Mi
noritcs are not permitted To rule in TINS conil-
try however thoy may strut and buster and
threaten Sooner or later they come to grief.
The angry and turbulent minority that con
strues the forbcarancr of patient majority
rs evidence Of timidiy or weakness makes
serious mistake The majority exercises Tor
bearancc because in the consciousness OF
strength and the certainty Of the result. II
can afford TO. A very formidable minority
undertook some thirty years ago To bully the
country and ride ronghshol over majority OF
the people Since the failure Of that enter
prise bullying and bravado have been some
what at a discount until the opening OF the
silver campaign which ended so ANONYMOUSLY
on Wednesday. The close of that caihpi'cn HAS
left its lesson and its moral
At the beginning OF il the Western and South
western skies seemed lurid with fOlkcd light
ming and charged with wraihful thundrrDoliS-
The ears of the puisSani Pcnnoyer rappe"
wildly over Oregon: the luminous llcwcliih"
brcathcl fire and birthstone over tn" plains
of Kansas: the two Stones Of Missouri ana MS
sissippi were in eruption all up ana down Tie
Mississippi Valley on the rapacity Of the mort
gage and the dreadfulncSS Of existing systems
of finance. and the wild-cyed Waite. of COT
orado. was bowling for blood to the horses
brides There were conventions in various
piaces nj which grown men. supposed To De- en-
lowed with ordinary intelligence ana not
hitherto suspected Of emotional insanity. rant
Cd and raved like madmcn about the money
power and threatened Il new secession OF The
silvcr.prOducing States Then. when Congress
| met in extra session for the proclaimed pur-
pose of repeating the Silver Purchase act. II
dozen or n score Of statesmen came to Wash
| ington blazing defiance and threatening To stop
| the wheels of Government and hold everything
| at a standstll Senator Teller announced ihnt
he had brought his winter clothes. Stewart
| threatened to talk till the end Of time. PETER
| was loaded with Language that he could put on
| tap and draw Indefinitely. Allen was good for
| a burst Of anywhere from seventeen to twenty
| hours Of continuous cloqucncc: and III" boast
was that no power Oh earth could bring me
| Senate 10 vote on the repeal.
| Meantime the country waited. Waited pa
tiently Through all these weeks 1t has en-
dured distress and suffered hardship and loss.
| confident Of the final result. Through all these
weeks the minority have clustered and threat
! cncd and bullietl. holding the Government still
by sheer wind power. impudcncc and audacty.
! And IL all ended on Wednesday. in their utter
defeat without so much as til" slIhdow OF
concession TO any Of their bullying demands.
There's something more in this than the asscr-
| ton Of purpose TO act honestly and maintain
the credit Of the Nation. important as that *.
| II is Il demonstration of tn fuiility of any
attempt of II minority To ride over the will Of
| the people The country cannot be bulllc'i