The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-23


The proposition OF the Populist govern
ors Of Kansas and Colorado 10 hold con-
vention Of the states west of the Missis-
sippI to consider the policy of secession
from the East is treated with too much
respect By the San Francisco Bulletin.
which predicts that the Mississippi river
will one day divide the country as Mason
divided II into slave and free territory,
with sntagonistic industrial and domestic
interests. The bulletin makes too much Of
the silver" fight in congress. which is
purely question of sound business and Is
sure to be settled soon or late in accord
snee with sound business principles.
Apart from silver the industrial inter
ests Of the region west of the Mississippi
in mining. manufacturing and agriculture
are such as TO make them act in harmony
with the states having similar interests at
the East. The American Union may not
be perpetual, but the American people are
not yet become 30 cheap and frivolous
people that they are ready to resort to Sc
cession in order 10 settle questions OF
business that can only be settled and
settled right from the broad view of ma
tional welfare.
lfany thing is indispensably necessary
to national welfare IL is q sound national
currency, and we are bound to get that
ultimately, because we cannot afford to
cruelty the nation for the real or fancied
interest Of Colorado any more than we
could afford TO cruelty the nation in 1861
because of the arrangement of South
Carolina.
The American people did not fight four
years to uphold the flag against the South
over mere paltry question Of dollars and
cents. Presented in that form yoa could
not have made even South Carolina secede
or shoot ut Sumter in 1881. The South
made its fearful fight. not over question
OF dollars and cents, but over question of
sentiment and constitutional construction,
and in broad sense IL was the inevitable
conflict between two antagonistic systems
of labor. 1t could not be settled by debate
and the debate was closed by the sound Of
cannon shot agaist Sumter.
The mere question whether the people
Of this country shall enact free coinage Of
silver for the benefit of few silver pro-
ducing states, which means that we sh all
pay % an ounce for silver that has not
been worth that price in the market for
the last twenty years and is today worth
only IA cents in the. market, Is not oues-
tion that can ever possibly break up this
Union. If so petty question as this can
break the bonds that bind the transmits
sissippi states 10 the rest of the country
then the American Union Is but house
built OF cards, for the whole silver BUSH
ness OF the country does not exceed
SOC. coo 900.
When we consider that we have mani
fold national interests that exceed this in
value we cannot afford to demoralize the
whole currency and financial interests of
the nation in order TO pay silver miners
the price OF twenty years ago for their
silver. Ii our refusal to wrong the whole
people for the real or fancied benefit of
the fraction of the people prompts the
silver producing states to ruin themselves
because they canno. unjustly longer rule
the nation then let the town poor revolt
against the town until the town poor have
had enough of il.
The earmark of Porulists. socialists and
anarchists IN this country is an aosoluts
want of patriotism; they all want the
earth; they all want their own way, with
out any regard 20 the wishes Of the major
ity of the American people. and their utter
lack OF patriotism is the chief cause OF the
present state Of utter contempt in which
| they are held.