New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-19
GOTERNOR WAITE IND LIEUT. I0IIEN.

GOTERNOR UiIIL AM LIE'i' i'''".''
Governor Davis H. Waite, of Colorado
Now 5hat YOU are of the perch and the hcV.
Myron H. Reed, of Denver. Is lett Ill charge OF
"our National liberties" for a few hrci mo-
ments while we consider together me dTeadIul
tcrrblcncss of Il situation IN which the cl'lrc
civilized world is engaged in an infamous con-
spiracy 10 get silver for less than ~ - an
ounce. suppose we tIkc up the millennium a>
= tonic that may possibly relieve our minds
and take off the tension - which We nave
been subjected by the thought that nothing less
than blood t. the brides will ever bring silver
nm 70 IFS normal price We can trust the Rev.
Mr. Reed to take care Of things for lew MIN
utcs For nothing Is more certain IMAM mat
if during our discussion silver drops an! iur-
thcr he VIII proceed t. the won. OF coniiSca-
tion and redistribution. Il which he Is COM
mttcd by several years OF devotion 10 the
host interests of the race. He may have been
= little slack i'm productive labor but no man
between the two oceans has WIgglcd more
ucllituous chin 10 the ultimate objective OF
keeping in sight, and little ahead, OF a large
congregation of earnest men. whose sole asrlia-
ton has been to keep the metal OF which one
of the Disciples received thirty pieces at It's
normal price" We may trust Reed 10 keep
things going until agree upon the precise
dcpth If blood in which the cavalry that do
the scouting i'm the van of human progress
have got 10 swim Reed can be relied upon
- stand of the civilized world if necessary. at
the roint of the contribution box or any other
measure of con>cation which hits his fancy
Reed is if he will permit Us 10 use word not
A ,l...t $50.
Reed being left in charge, we desire t. call
youI attention. Governor, t. the rather lmpor-
tant circumstance that your remarks, taken
in connection with other current conditions,
have had the effect to draw Lieutenant Tot
fen from of his perch. Lieutenant Tottcn, as
Won probably know. has been for several years
making a study of the Prophet Daniel i'll par
ticuar and the Old Testament Prophets gen
crallv and he has reached the conclusion, by
some mathematical processes very convincing
10 people who understand mathematics, that
ce,tain premises being granted, cataclysln OF
considerable consequence is impending IL Is
nropcr to say that in none of his mathematical
calculations does the price of II 20 an ounce
for silver cut any figure. He has been for
some time prepared to prove to any body who
end of all things And do YOU know, Gov
crnor. that since You proclaimed Your purpose
70 lad ycur 80. OOO cavalrymcn into blood up
to the horses brides he has, apparently with
out knowing that You yourself were i'll erlp-
ton. broken out freshly himself? He says, in
a late letter t. the newspapers, that we are
nearing the sound Of the eleventh stroke of
the midnight hour: that " It's nature is APP
narently financial, but in reality The confusion
of affairs enters into every order of human
policv." lie adds that " the human race has
sovn to the wind and is now about to reap
the whirlwind" that the autumnal equinox
will mark the twelfth stroke. Thereafter it
is Low Twelve fully come, and the consc-
oIenccs will follow in an orderly anachrono-
locical manner" The Lieutenant is in dead
earnest about it, though he makes the mis-
take rs il scans to us, of leaving out the
nrcsent price of silver as one of the factors in
his mathematical processes.
Now. it has occurred to us that possibly if
Won should modify in some slight degree your
reousiton for bOod-for YOU must be able to
sec Yourself that condition OF things whca
calls for blood to the brides must have quite
intimate relations with the mlllennium-if Won
could let up little on it-say as we have al
ready suggested. blood to the fetlocks or even
to the saddle grths-it would 90 Tar t. upset
the mathematics by which the Lieutenant
proves that wc are " in the eleventh stroke of
the midnight hour" and might give Ms a little
leeway on Glow Twclvo": after which. if we
correctly understand the Lieutenant. it will
make very little dffcrenc, whether silver sell,
at 20 cents or ~ % That is. very little
difference to anybody except Russell Sage who
undoubtedly at Low Twelve" will be holding
some casual bank clerk between himself and
the cataclysm. What do you think about it.