Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-16

bill calling nr the repeal Of law
which compels the government TO pun
chase silver In excess Of It's require
ments ut the expense Of ils gold con-
trolls, suppose We substitute bill
limiting wealth to 100000 pcr capita
aud oscheating all Of ones acquire.
mcnts above that amount to the gov.
eminent. We all know wha. an ut
terIy vicious, unreasonable, outrageous
aud indeicutibIc measure that would he
because, among other things, suhing
enterprise, checking ouiiays, retariins
growth, encouraging the unthinkIns
lnd lawles- rabole, doadlockiug the
wheels of progress and iuaugnmting
revolution ut once with chaos 20 fol-
low soon after. Yet there be those who
not only defend, but advocate such
law. Let No Imagine again thai these
have a good.slsod minority iu the
senate. A bill II previously pre-
sented looking TO the opening and
dredging Of some waterway prom
Icing 10 DO beneficial to the whole
country, and Immediately the minot.
10y spoken OF suring 10 arms, present
their measure uud declare that the
other shall never become law, pressing
aa It may be, unless the wealth curtail
mcnt bill accompanies 30 This would
be absurd, one may say, and 10 II
would; but absurd or otherwise
matters not, sluce Il illustrates the
point The advocates OF the rider are
Determines; they are also mus-
cular, long.winded and used u
deprivation. Among them are
some good aud some garfu'
luus speakers; there IL no Senate
rule shutting Of debate and they
determine 10 talk the waterway bill to
death n the other cannot accompany
Ii and proceed TO do 30. a tost u en-
junnco is applied anu the majority
find that VIII II u comes TO hat Kind OF
Legislation" they are noyiccs AMI
the minority are captains. The wheels
u legislation are at a sianIsiill, ami
finally tho majority 10 get
anything through az all, have
~ make compromise with
their harder associates. How would
such q victory be regarded, AMI would
II not be- likely 10 result in the retire
ment Of every one of those revolution.
airy senators "a soon o. they could be
got atg-unleis their constituents had
become sufferers by some such con-
dlll0n ~ that spoken Of by O,heilo;
"lt IL the very error Of The moon; she
comes more near the earth than she
was wont, and makes men mad"
OF course there Is no parallel be-
tween tho details Of the case la
tact and the hypothesis, but
tho similarity otherwise Is exact.
IL IL as improper to gain success by
bad means hs Il IL deplorablo to achieve
bad ends by good means, and Ia the
application Of this, real circumstances
and hypothutos figure In common ~
Arguments. rhc point ~ that any
compromise that may be- adopted will
be At the sacrifice Of tho Senate's dig.
nifty, as tho result Of practices more
honored In the breach than In the OBJ
servAnce. The NEWS favors the con.
tinued use OF silver as m jnoy, but II does
not look approvingIy upon the tactics
Of cowboy conyention-somewhai
modified by rule and sducatiOn-bcing
transplanted to tho United States
Senate. Meantime the question OF
whether It Is right or wrong to repcaI
the sherman law, ~ a moral factor,
remains exactly where u was; while
the majority Of that body being over.
ridden In the matter savors 40 strongly
OF revolutionary methods prevailing
that It Is difficult to see how any on,
can smile approvingly upon IT,