Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-26
WHAT VIE CAN Do,
# Congress Fails 10 Do Something
for Silver
We CAS RESORT 10 ISGOrs,
A. the Caliiornlaus Did in the Early
Days.-An Idea that is Gaining
Grouud and Taking Shape.

The language used by Patrick
Henry in the Virginia convention is
Of use for other purposes than being
the wool intermingled with the warp
Of a Fourth Of July Grafton. For IN
stance. where he says-"5iri we
are not weak n we MAKE
proper use OF the means winch
the God Of nature has piaooi
within our puwctp he delivers
secular sermon, gives birth to poem
in prose, inculcates principle when
carefully studied and properly iol-
lowed will enable every section TO
maintain independence while making
the most Of those resources by which
Mi are surrounded.
1t such thoughts a. the foregoing
TINT are finding expression Just now,
with the most beautiful Of oil the
metals debhsUd, disgraced anu us
hunOred. Az u the situation AZ u u
were not enough, the cuh1 OF shouts
over the prospective complete over
throw Of silver by the coming
Congress are already borne
10 our ears from aiaT, and more
and more every day ATE we made -
underaland that out here con the
lfniriesO and sin the gorges" we are
timtly colony OF tribute.pnyers TO
the East and those beyond the At
luntic.
Naturally, heroic messufea are sug'
rt tied. We can't make laws AMI We
uunt propose to break them but We
con mRks rules not In conflict with
laws anu by observing such rules
uive them the force and ~ some
extent the dignity Of laws. II we
cannot make our eastern broth.
rtu come TO ua we eau and viii
have TO get along without their COM
uauy, for by their own Hcliishncss,
shoftslghtedness aud greed they have
weli.nigh made II impossible for US 10
20 TO them.
The NEWS some limo since an.
nounced its belief that, In the absence
e an arrangement by which our
principal Industry anu chief money
metal could DO returned 70 tue place
vhOrc they belong In tho economy OF
the republic, we would have 10 have n
tupafale commercial arrangement west
OF thp Missouri river an AT.
could utilize our resources 10 their foil
worth aud maintain NJ far m section
could the provision OF the Constitution
Of the country creating a double stand.
ard OF metallic coins ior financial com.
putntiOns anu settlements. This idei
IN now rife and IN gaining ground
every day. In the absence OF relief
measure by Congress II Is dest.ned TO
become a fixed ana recognized iIatitu'
ton OF the West.
II is now suggested that ingots oou.
tanning say nn ounce Of pure
silver, with no device Indicating thRi
they are money or u legal tender, be
the conventional dollars OF this region.
That only those who are willing 10
receive such tenders do ~, there
being nothing compulsory IN the
matter nj oil. The fineness and weight
ofeuch ingot could DO stamped upon II
by any nsaayer or refiner who puts II
Into shape, anu being only 10 much
merchandise under our laws could be
refused In payment OF debt and the
debt stu remain. But there aru vast
number-almost unanimiiy Of the
people-whO would accept II anu
make II n circulating medium of tho
locality receiving II as n fair and prop.
or exchange for anything they nave
% dispose OF, whether labor or products,
and trusting 10 providsntial intvTyen-
ton and the bstter judgment Of the
country 10 the east 10 eventually rec
ognize the metal as entitled TO occupy
the royal station from which tue
schemsra and usurss have driven II.
IL Ia feared by some that this plan
might be In opposition 10 law or even
the Constitution Itself They may
rest assured that II IL not. The Con.
stitutlon provides that nothing but gold
aud silver shall DO money and reserves
TO tho government the right 10 col n
such money; but 1t does not forbid nor
does any law prevent the interchange
Of commodities. In the early day.
California had In circulation golden
"slug0 which passed current for
money everywhere ON the coast,
though lacking the government stainp
II was not money; We can do likewise.
Our stores that are disposed
TO receive silver "sluga" at q
certain ratio can pass them along tt
others, or II not can AZ well afford e
keep them awhile and walt for the
dawn that IL sure to come. as they CAT
sAord to keep idle goods upon theiI
shelves; while the mines and oihel
great Industries would start up again;
llhors would increase their productive
sras,and under stimuluB Of oontidnce IT.
ttoh other and determination TO dc
tpe best we oan with what we have
iuyic would be an immediate improve
mental along the line. ~ We canno
lBye national money we must have
pumelhing to do business with, aat
ghu, token more appropriate than one
fgmud from the metal which did duty
ps money from the beginning OF oui
Institutions