The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-12-26
CHICAGo's OPPORTUNITY.

CHlCAGO'S OPPORTUNlI1.
Anyone who jumps to the conclusion
that Chicago is behind or stupid in any
case where her own interests are in the
least concerned, will make q vast mis-
take. That she is completely capable
OF taking full care of herself no one can
doubt for a moment who has observed
her wonderful career Yet the circum-
stances evolved by the financial policy
prevailing in this nation for the last
score or SO of years has given to Chi
cago an opportunity which, had she
the wisdom to avail herself of, it would
have moved the Eceptre of commercial
supremacy from New York and crowned
with it the fair western city of which we
are writing this evening. 1t is not too
late, even now, and it is by no means
dead sure thing that she will not yet
avail herself OF it. She is western, in
head, heart, Drawn and muscle. Her
sympathies, her hopes, her aspirations
in fact and in short her very future
are bound up with the men of the
mountaine-the men who delYe
in the silver depths of the hoary
old Rockies. 1t is true that SO far she
has coveted only the countenance of
lhe wheat farmers, but wheat without
SILVER is but poor predicate for the
City which has on its card engraved
deeply and indellibly, rivalry with
New York for commercial supremacy
The wonder only is that Chicago
stops at wheat, why she does not 60
for all the underlying means of per-
petusting her one great interest, why
she does not pitch herself in, soul and
body, for the money of the ages, the
money which before its degradation
held wheat up to $1.00 per bushel,
and which has kept step with the de-
scending scale. until now, with our
silver at sixty cents. she sells her
wheat at As = s.-lThis drives away
Gne general western sentiment that
Chicago is worthy to become the COM
mercial and financial center of the west.
With Chicago working daily and in
earnest for free silver we could conf
emily count on remonetiZatiOn, and
$1.00 for wheat, $l.29 per ounce for
silver, and the full quickening of the
entire west while still the two un-
reeled years of democratic administra-
ton remain to US.
1t is wonderful responsibility
which she totes in this matter. Her
possible four millions of people and
all that that implies hangs on it. What
will she do with it? We are of
those who still believe that with sll of
the memories and prejudices OF the
past Joined to her plainly indicated best
interests, she will vet throw off New
York methods and prejudices
and become what she alone
can become, the true, queenly
and all unapproschable, queen of the
queenly west. To do this she must
lead in this great work of restitution
the reconciliation of silver. She
owes it to the bare-armed, strong
chested men who are now, and who
have been for forty years, standing
Loyalty by her side building her up
with palaces and colossal fortunes.
while they have been satisfied with
their novels and their scanty crusts,
and wretched pinching poverty. 1t is
time for Chicago to wake up, to look
out upon this matter from a broader
standpoint than yesterdays margins
for wheat. Come in with us and place
both wheat and silver where they we're
twenty years ago, or before John Sher-
mans impious hands were laid upon
silver at the command of the Shylocks
of Lombard street and New York,
An hours loyalty to the great west
would be worth more to the business
interests of Chicago than an hundred
years of fealty to the New York
bankers. Let her think of all this.
Let her act and yet will the great west
dominate and forever pour into the lap
OF her fair patron the wealth that is
far greater than that of Inde.