New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-15
SOFT UORDS NTH 4 DESPERdIE MN

/ SOFT UORDS NTH 4 DESPEEdIE MIN.
Davis II. Waite Of Colorado. If You can
trust "our National liberties in the hands of
some other Colorado person for a few minutes
TIE TRIBrNE would like 70 have you come
off the perch for little conversation. HE
TRIBUNE appreciates the importance OF Colo
RADIO to the Union and Your own importance
as Governor to Colorado The state cast up
ward of 80. 900 votes AT the last PRESIDENTIAL
election, or nearly onc-third the total vote of
Manhattan Island, and you received some
80 900 votes yourself for Governor, which are
about what it takes here to elect member
of Congress The older States are very fond
of Colorado They would hate very much TO
have it sccede and set up as separate ma
ton, with currency Of It's own and large
and powerful navy and thin, red line OF
"roostcrs" doing sentry duty on the border
warning off invaders in "A lurd dialect and
impassioned language. This is what Eastern
people have been led to fear by the action Of
some of the influential citizens of Colorado
who assembled themselves together not long
ago and socmnly resolved that they had stood
this sort of thing long enough The thing
they complain of, if we have correctly UNI
tangled the proceedings, is that they get only
about 20 cents an ounce for silver notWlth-
standing the law of nature that fixes tho price
at 81 30. We shall not deny that this is Il
state of things calculated TO stir the indigna
ton of free people and perhaps rouse the
rcd-headcd part of them To something like
frenzy. And we say here and now that if the
citizens of Colorado can remedy 1t by setting
up for themselves and buying silver of each
other for 81 30 an ounce they Will be justified
in erecting themselves into an independent re-
public, even if they have to tunnel their way
out.
But within the last few days the feeling has
been growing that Colorado will not be salts
fed with that concession. And this, we say To
YOU Governor Waite, in all franlincs>, Is OWING
10 YOUR remarks in the silver convention at
Denver last Tuesday. Do you know, Gov-
crnor. that what YOU said about blood flowing
to the horses brides has struck the whole
civilized world with awe? Are YOU aware that
when that speech was cabled abroad the whole /
Eastern Hemisphere quivclcd with emotion?
That for the last three days princes and po-
tcntates have kept the Atlantic cables 50 hot |
with questions about You that the sea has fair |
" bubblcd, and parboiltd whales are lying |
belly up all the way across? That the I'm |
pcrOr William instructed the German Minister /
to inquire AT once whether il was likely that /
the whole 80 900 who voted for you would |
take up arms because if they did Caprlvl |
would have to increase the army estimates? |
That the Emperor of Austria, conscience strick- |
en- at the part his Government has taken in |
the great conspiracy against silver, has shut |
aud daniel himself Ia nil call |
crs. saving. with distincncss and emphasis:
- shall not venture out until Governor Waite |
feels differently toward the rest Of the world"?
No. you are probably not aware of this state
Of things. Wrapped in gloomy contemplation
of the danger to which "our National liberties
are exposed by the unwilllngncss Of mankind
10 pay 81 30 an ounce for silver, You naturally
forgot everything except the necessity for
teaching the civilized world even at the cost
of "blood to the horses bfidlc,' that ~ 80
an ounce is fair price. We are not blaming
you, Governor, for feeling that way. Con
WINGED as YOU and "thc Red Headed Rooster
Of the Rockies" are that the whole world is
in conspiracy to get silver for less than - 30
an ounce. we are not surprised that YOU should
have thirst for human gore.
But what we would like tmidly to suggest
TO you is, that YOU should not insist on so much
blood BLOOD to the horses brides" is when
YOU come TO think of it. great deal of blood.
II would be even if the horse a mere
shetland pony and You probably had i'll mind
/ horse at least seventeen hands high. We
of course, that You have had great
,rovocatlon. We freely admit that many East
,rn people who had accumulated capital by
Intention to the loathSOme details of trade and
business have sent money 10 Colorado and
,thcr Western States for the OStcnSlblc pur-
,ose of assisting the noble Sclf-SacriccrS en-
aged in developing the country, whcn as
natter of fact, at heart they hoped to get some
# it back. The mean and dcviSh motives
# these persons have been discovered by the
- 900 thoughtful and intelligent citizens of
colorado who made YOU Governor. They have
ScOvcrcd moreover that these money lend |
RS are engaged in the Infamous conspiracy 10
et silver for less than > 20 an ounce. In
our present state Of mind we would not vent |
re any defence for these criminal conspiratorS 4
,ut we do take it upon ourselves to say that q
you could bring yourself to be content with (
lood somewhat less than bride dccp-if for $
lStance, YOU could see your way to save our u
,ational liberties" by riding in blood say. up !,
D the saddle girthS-it would afford great re-
eff to "A very much agonizod people and 90
ar toward quoting quaking world.
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