The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-01
THE SITUATION.
Reviewed BY Fred Simon, Who is Still
Hopeful.

In letter just written to New
York friend. Fred Simon says: While
by the repeal of the Sherman act the
government will cease to purchase sill
yer, there will always be a demand for
it, not only for the arts, but also as a
medium of exchange. While gold is
the standard of France, they yet have
four times the amount of silver in cir
culation which our country has; and
bear in mind, that France is but as
large as our one state of California.
Aside from our silver mines, we have
50 many undeveloped resources which
viii engage attention that what we
now may deem a serious loss will prove
a blessing in disguise.
Well, do you say yourself that God
viii not permit the downfall of a coun-
try which is possessed of SO much
energy and enterprise, and energy and
enterprise and industry mean strength
and manhood, such as make up the
element which loves liberty and free
dom, and would shed its life's blood to
maintain it.
The men who turned the deserts into
garden spots, who, from the barren
mountains sent forth daily the hidden
treasure, will find means to maintain
themselves now that they have much
to fail back upon, which, not so many
years ago, had to be produced with
nothing else but brain and Drawn to
make their start
Not yet can we apply the lines of
Goldsmith, which he applied more than
a hundred years ago. to those CONNER
cial centres which. through trade en-
riched. had lost sight of all the other
qualities which form the strength of
nations.
Thus while round the wave-subiected soil
Inpelis the native TO repeated toll,
Industrious habits in each bosom reign,
Ana industry begets love OF gain
Hence all the good from orulence that strings,
With all those Ills that superf1uous treasure
brings
Are bere displayed. their much-loved wealth
imparts,
Convenience plenty. elegance and arts.
But view them closer. craft and fraud appear,
E en- liberty itself is bartered here.
At COLDS superior charms sll fresdom flies,
The needy sell l., and the rich man buys;
A land OF tyrants, and q oen of slaves,
Her wretches seek dtshoDorsble graves,
And, calmly bent to Servitude conform.
Dull as their lakes that slumber in the storm.
Not that commercial centres or ports
of import are not necessities, but when
a handful of bankers can rule this
land and nation, and by their dictum
send blast throughout the land
which acted as a blight upon the fields
which caused distress. and went
throughout the nation, blessed as it
IS. with all that God gave to this land,
it is then tire that every thinking
man should use his wit, and by a con-
centrated move, break up the ring
which is the cause Of all this sorrow
It's not the west alone that suffers
now, as it is but part and parcel of
our nation. You cannot anputate your
hand, but that the balance of your
= ,,.iIx cal
you crush a certain part of our coun-
try, but that the balance must neces-
sa1ily feel it.
But, as I said before, the west can
not be crushed:
westward the course of empire winds
it's way,
In spite of laws against il. or delay
And it will not be for any length of
time when, with renewed prosperity,
we will set some Of the Shylocks to
thinking, whether even gold is not too
plentiful, and that diamonds should
henceforth become the measure of all
values.
Reports come daily to US that gold
mines have been struck in various
fields: other mineral resources, such
as copper and aluminium, are being
rapidly developed. Onyx beds, equal
ling and excelling the Mexican onyx
are being opened out near our city;
asphaltum. sulphur, gypsum and as
bestos will prove source of revenue
without end. Our sheep and cattle
should not be forgotten, nor do we
lack in fruitful dales and valleys, and
with a climate almost unexcelied,
which makes it possible 10 write this
letter on the last day of October, at
night time, by an open window, who
should complain, even though, at pre-
sent, the 1reans Of ready money are
all tied up?
It's darkest just before the dawn.
and every cloud does have its silver
lining. From ali this trouble we shall
rise just as the Phoenix rises from
the ashes, renewed in strength, in
vigor and in beauty. The glorious