The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-04
SILVER AND SECTIONS.

While all the people Of this country
ought to know that calling names is not
argument, there is a large section of the
press which persists in poking fun at the
west because of its views on the tinan-
cial question and clubbing it a section
with offensive insinuations accompany
ing the term.
In a late issue the New York Tribune
devotes a column to what is intended as
a very funny story about the 'Gyascu-
fuses" which it thus explains:
The gyascutus, it will be remembered,
was the fierce, %ferocious, untamed, blood
thirsty animal which two ~impecunlous
persons of inventive minds advertised
for exhibition a great many years ago IN
a western town. At the hour OF open
ing the show, when the house was full
and the receipts had been gathered at
the box office, there was a great clank-
ing of chains and tumbling OF furniture
and shrieking and bowling behind the
curtain in the midst of which one OF the
proprietors of the show rushed to the
front in a dishelleved condition, crying:
"For Gods sake, save yourselves! The
pyascutus is loose The audience
tumbled over itself to get away-and
did. So did the proprietors of the show.
And no one in that town ever afterward
saw any signs of the gyascutus or the
shoWmen or the good money they had
passed into the box office.
OF course the inference is intended to
be that the west is trying to play the
"gyascutus'' game on the east, and that
the whole movement for the legal recog-
milton of silver and its rehabilitation as
money is a fraud ard a delusion.
We submit, with due respect to the
opinions of a great American newspaper,
that the story does not fit and the point
is not we'll taken.
In the present case the 'gyascutus" is
an entity which nobody can question,
and it is fastening it's fangs upon the
people of New York as we'll as on those
of the west. 1t is not at all likely that
the Hon. Whitelaw Reid mas any knowl-
edge of the beasts existence. Neither
has Russell Sage or the other tender
spirited m%illionaires who look on SO com
placently while the helpless little people
are being devoured by the i'll omencd
animal.
The New York Tribune and the other
big papers that work for the c~lassHs. and
not for the masses. may as vol look this
matter squarely in the face. The peo-
pie have seen for Il long time that some.
thing was wrong and they know now
what it is. They have learned that cur
rency contraction places the many at
the mercy Of the few. and as the theory
of the republic is that the many shall
rule instead Of the few, the many have
made up their minds to have the reality
in future and not the theory alone.
The first step must needs be the elias
tic expansion of the currency and thu
placing of the monetary system of TIT
government on Il basis that will maxi
us entirely Independent of all other ma
tions in our commercial and fiscal affairs
Then it will not take US long to cast OF
the chains OF our plutocrats.
Any fool can see that the universalit
of this necessity makes this question
national and not a local or sectional
> one. and we advise the y. y. Tribun
/ and other highly respectable NEWSPAPER
to look out for this particular "Gyascu
, tus."