The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-08-18

ard, and upon every basic principle
it was conceded that we were right.
In the end we obtained, not the we ak
est, but by far the strongest enuncia-
ton in favor of silver ever made by a
convention in which all sections of
the country were fairly represented.
| The Populist party, it is true, has
declared positively for free coinage at
16 to l. But that party has virtually no
strength east of the Mississippi river,
and very little east of sthe Missouri.
The great bulk of its votes come from
States containing not more than one
tenth of the population of the country
States, moreover, in which the sill
yer sentiment strongly predominates,
and it Is essentially sectional party.
Therefore, It's resolves, appeal to but
few people comparatively, however
favorable they may be, can do us no
good. On the contrary, they have
thus far done us much harm, for the
Populist party is welded to SO many
impracticable theories, as Mr.. New
lands aptly puts it, that its advocacy
of any measure arouses a prejudice
against it in the minds of conserva-
tive people everywh er. In fact, the
persistent cry of 16 to by the Popu-
lists was one of the moa serious OBJ
stacles in the way of obtining such
declaration at Denver. Men from
east of the Rocky Mountains with
visions of the grotesque figures of
Waite, Lewellyn and Pennoyer con-
stantly before them thought that they
could do the country no better service
than by "coppering" everything that
had Populist sound. There is not
the slightest ground for the belief that
the Populist party can ever carry this
country upon the basis of it's present
creed. At all events, it ought to be
apparent to every thoughtful person
that to educate the fifty-fve millions
of people living east of the great
Father of Water up to all of the vag-
aries of that party is going to take
long, long time. While that educa-
tional process is going on Nevada will
be depopulated.
Our hope, and the only hope that
can be realized in the near future, lies
with the Republican party. On pro-
tective principles, if none other, it is
bound to help us. 1t is at least thor
oughly awakened to the great truth
that silver mining is an important in
dustry to be fostered and encouraged,
and it also begins to realize that the
whole country has suffered from the
destruction of silver as one of the
standard money metals of the western
world. The whole past history of the
party precludes the idea that it will be
guilty of the monstrous absurdity, in
consistency and dishonesty of declar-
ing its belief that there can be no per-
manent return of prosperity to the
country until silver is restored, and
then refuse to restore it. When it
admits that the welfare of the country
demand certain thing it cannot, and
we believe that it will not, haggle
long over details and methods. Some
thing will surely be done.
The ratio is a matter over which
we need give ourselves but little con-
Germ. The g restoration" of silver
being once determined upon, in our
Judgment the ratio will take care of
itself. There is about $4,000, 900,
600 of silver coin in the world, all
struck at Ia, 10, 15k ORIG to 1. When
the statesmen of the country enter in
earnest upon the work of restoring sill
YER, it will very speedily be made ap-
parent that it will not be wise for us
to depart materially from the coinage
ratios of other countries. If we act
alone 16 will be the safest to adopt.
If we act in conjunction with Europe
an nations, we will probably land up
on the French ratio of 151, which
would make our silver worth nearly
| ST.. 33 an ounce.
The Denver resolution declares that
it must be restored to it's ''full use and
highest position" If that be done we
can ask for nothing more. The sill
YER champion who attempts to weak
en- the force of that declaration by CIV
ing it an extreme "gold bug" inter-
pretation, may not be exactly traitor,
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