Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-28
CALIFORNIA; SHAME.

One cannot read except with indig-
nation of the action of the California
Democrats in Convention on silver.
The growth of San Francisco and
of California has advanced and re-
coded just according to whether the
silver mines were in bonanza or bo-
rasca. The product of the silver
mines has materialized in thousand
beautiful structures in San Francisco
and throughout the State, and at this
very moment California is suffering
more under the calamity which came
with the destruction of silver as a
full measure of values than from
any other cause. And yet that con-
vention meets, and, to show its abso-
lutte subserviency to Grover Cleve-
land and the will of the Democratic
majority in Congress, it refuses to
join the otherwise united cry of the
West that justice shall be done to
silver. 1t hurts the silver cause
more than any three States in the
East can hurt it, because on going
East one is met at the very threshold
with the statement tEat California
herself does not believe in free sill
yer. 1t is an old characteristic of
that party in that State. Sixteen
or seventeen years ago, when the
Democrats were in control of San
Francisco, they sent on a resolution
demanding that California delegates
in Congress should vote against a
free silver bill which was then pend
ing in Congress. The whole Demo
cratic party as an organization In
California has always been controlled
by chumps since 1860. Whenever
they have won a success they have
broken down in utter impotency in
execution. 1t is natural, too, that il
should be so, because when we see a
party of State, the fruit interests
of which, the wool interests of which,
the infant manufacturers of which all
need protection, in the face of their
own interests and in the face of the
advancement of their State, losing
their reasoning powers and falling
down sbjectly before a power in the
East which knows nothing of theil
wants or of the capacities of the
State, legislate ruin to their foremos!
industries, what wonder that, wher
given the chance, they always fall
When one of the old States in thu
East, in convention, resolves against
silver, the excuse is that the people
do not understand the question
They read 10, papers except goldit
papers; the fail to realize tina
money of ultimate redemption is diff
ferent from ordinary property, ant
with an imbecile look of injured in
tegrity, they talk about ''hones
dollars" and about being opposed t
giving the silver miners bette
price for their product than TIL
wheat raisers receive. They are eS
cusable on the same ground that tn
Savior prayed for forgiveness for hi
enemies-they know not what the
do. But there is no such excuse fc
Californians. About two-thirds {
the fortunes that the men have
San Francisco they made from silve
mining. The State went into il
great decline when the Comstoc
went into borasca. The best trac
the State has had has been from IL
silver States, and the need which
utmost with the people of that Sta
is that silver shall be restored. I
see such men, representing such
people, refuse to join the cry whic
has swept from the Pacific to beyor
the Rocky mountains with unbroke
harmony, is discouraging and di
gushing, and the only comfort th'
can be obtained from it is that the
do not know any better.-Salt Lal
Tribune.