The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-03-02
PROVO CITY. MARCH 2. 1884
THE GEORGETOWN RESOLUTION.

A few days since a petition or res
olution was circulated by the mayor of
Georgetown, Colo, asking or resolving
that the silver states of the west secede
and join Mexico. Now The DISPATCH
is a staunch advocate of the free COIN
age of silver, of full restoration of silver
to its old n ~ functions, and that
right speedily ihut the editor of THE
DISPATCH was Unce upon time
participant in tile matter Of seces-
sion and c. speak by the cord on
thing of that zin3. His recollection of
the beauties 0I sece ION in settling
difference of opinion between a section
of the country ard 9ur Uncle Samuel
are lot of such uatuI to induce him to
again revert to tnat means of settling
differences with the somewhat noted
individual named. We fought some-
thing over four years. Had fully fifteen
millions of people with us in the enter
prise, besides about four millions Cf
men and brethren worth about eight
hundred dollars apiece. We went in
tooth and nail. Won about a thousand
victories, first and last, and then had to
give it up. They are simple words
which chronicle this experiment with
secession as a remedy, but when you
add to this the 81, 200, ,OOO, 900 that 1t
cost us in slave property alone, besides
the almost total destruction Of our
farms, railroads, commerce, mills, ETC.,
you will soon be able to figure out that
a burnt child breads the fire." that
an old original secessionlst isn't in love
with that mode of redress for federal
injustice.
We want free silver for the west, the
south and the poor of all sections. We
also want it for the re-estabIishment
of mine owners, and all who are inter-
ested, but with an experience such as
We have had with that means of re-
dress, for the good Lords sake don't
ask US to go into another secession es-
capade, especially when Uncle Sam is
on the other end of the see-saw. We'll
stand and vote with you till the COWS
come home. Well petition, remon-
strate, beg, threat en-, talk and write
till doomsday, but that other dernier
resort, secessionl don't speak OF it.
The very suggestion makes the heart
stand still, the blood grow cold and the
teeth chatter. We can tell you Mr.. |
Mayor of Georgetown, it's no joke.
viii be 10 joke even to man as high
up in the political scale as mayor of
mountain mining village, and if you
can possible see any other way out of
it, take it, for Gods dear sake,
Nothing makes our dear old easy-go-
ing, placable and genial Uncle Sam
hall as bad as to whisper the word se-
cession in his ear. The old fool then
has not the faintest resemblance of
sense. He calls two or three millions
of braves about him, arms them with
improved implements of war and
then the dance of death commences.
W HSA4 JON bAAhh VI k1flUS IudI |
kind Of tea party you can save.money,
trouble and stationery by not in viting
any old seceSsionist of experienc to
the ball, especially this particular one.
Let us combine, vote like the devil,
petition, demonstrate and threaten, but
always stop before you get to the seces-
ZION pitch. -Four years Of hard fight
ng, starvation, ragged wretchedness: r
o be reduced from af1uence to beggary, I
% say nothing of the agonies of recon I
truction, is paving far too much for
what little fun there may be in tussle b
With your own dear, venerated but in a
nitely foolish Uncle. Take our word n
or it and take our advice also, don't u
ecede. Do anything else. T