The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-14
REPUBLICANS AS0 SILVER.

1
desire to know what the sentiment o.
the party on silver is There can bt
little douht but that the money ques
ton will be a leading if not the lead
ing issue in the campaign of 1896 L
does not down, it cannot be downed
but must be met.
Hon. Whitelaw Reid, just before sail
ing for Europe, is reported as saying
in an interview, in answer to the ques
ton whether protection will be the
great issue in 1896:
! Hardly. 1t has been great issue
| nut the people are settling it very fast
BY 20 YOU are likely to find the fight
ibefore the people on protection wor
ana the silver question looming up.
on that?
Where the majority of it has always
been-in favor of a rational bimetal.
lism.
what is rational bimetallism?
wei an international bimetallisn
would be rational, anyway But don't
ASK a man just sailing to enter on that
question,
Ihis is causing some comment The
New York Commercial Advertiser
commenting on it, SAYS:
The doom of silver in this country
as standard Of exchange other than
as subsidiary coin was emphatically
pronounced when the Sherman act was
Internationally repealed To attempt
rs resurrection at this time is worse
than useless. 1t is criminal. The YER
dict against it was final, and should
not, and will not, be reversed. This
/ republic has taken it's position in favor
Oh an honest standard of exchange OF
measure of values, and it will not re-
cede from it.
1t is true that this is only the view
OF Republican paper but still it is a
Republican view and one that is but
too prevalent BY itself it would not
count for so much, but other papers
hold the same view. The Philadelphia
Ledger, summing up the results of the
late elections and their lesson, has this
to say:
In the South and West, where the
! Tree silver heresy has had the greatest
| popularity, there have been effected
extraordinary changes. In West Vir-
ginja. Virginia. Maryland. Kentucky.
North Carolina. Tennessee. Missouri,
delaware and Texas, Republican con-
STessmen have been gained. Colorado,
Kansas. Michigan, Nebraska Wiscon-
| sin. Illinois-the latter the state Of
Tree trade and free silver Vice-Presi-
dent SteVenson-have all alike by their
votes condemned the supporters of dis
honest money In Ohio the Demo-
cratic state platform of this year siren
uously demanded free silver coinage at
the ratio of 16 to !, and the RenuhIican
majority against it is of overwheIn,ina
$4,000 - S'''eu' as
The Ledger evidently thinks that tho
ahti-sllver sentiment of the country
mad very much to do with the great
size of the Republican victory. If if
did, and it is possible, it shows as plain
~ as it is possible to that the RepubH-
can party is very hostile to silver.
A contemporary of the Ledear tba
enquirer, has something to say on
tne silver question. Its issue Of last
Friday contains an article entitled.
Let US hear no more of free silver
1t begins as follows:
After this let US hear no more of fraa
sllVer-certainly not from any Renubli-
can quarter. All such heresies belong
to the Democrats. Let them have q
monopoly of them. Protection and hon
est money will win in '96, and nothing
else will.
That is good beginning to the views
afterwards expressed. Further on is
this:
The East and West are solidlv Re
Connecticut would join Pennsylvania
in UNFOLDING honest money, and would
defeat any candidate for the Presi
dency representing anything else. The
western silver states have shown tha r
they are willing to go along with the
party. So let the Republicans in Con-
gress and the leaders of the party in
the various states make it understood
most distinctly that there shall be no
departure by even hairs breadth
from the Republican doctrines. The
policy of protection must go hand in
hand with honest money No more
free silver talk. No more fooling with
financial heresies.
'tNo more free silver talk. No more
fooling with financial heresies.'' Not
much encouragement in that kind of
talk for silver 1t is by no means GER
tain that free silver is financial
heresy. At all events it Will be neces-
sary for the people to pass upon it. |
and this is no doubt the very thing
these same Republican journals fear |
If it is a heresy, it is the duty of these
same journals as educators of public |
opinion to show in what the heresy
They Should show up all sides |
of the question that the people may |
form a correct opinion on the matter, |
one that will not be liable TO be chang
ed, having been formed with a full |
knowledge of all the facts.
It is true that many Democratic pa |
pers in the East are not favorable to |
silver, but the general sentiment of the |
party is far more favorable to it than
is the sentiment of the Republican |
party, and it continues to grow more |
favorable while that of the Republi-
can party continues to grow more hos
tile. Senator Jones was right when he |
said there was no hope for silver in
the Republican party.
DOES NOT PROTECT.
The statement frequently repeated |
that the protective tariff, that is the
nigh duties of McKinleyism, was worth
millions Of dollars to the people of