The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-11-21

THE SOUTH AND SILVER.

Silver is all in all to the west. With
silver monetized she becomes at once
one o ne richest and most prosperous
sections Of this vast country. With re-
mon "a lion accomplished upon an
endraue an and the fear of par
tisaL action gain putting it to hazard
fully dissip ipatel. the advance in values
would be normous all over the land,
but be e IN the vest the advance would
simply oe supendous. Few of US
could now fOIm anything like a iuat
conception OF what the real result
would be. The best thought in con-
nection with the resultant advance is,
it, instead of inluring any other section,
would benefit all alike only differing
in degree, and that only because the
west would have the local advantage of
having her every idle man proftably
employed. In other words, in addi-
tioD the common advantage of more
money and consequently more busi-
ness, she would add the profits of pro
ducticn. Now about the only section
of the United States which is not jeal-
Gus or looks upon this advantage of the
west, in this connection, without envy,
is the south. The south is really and
truly a double standard region. She
is, in the first place, really and truly
democratic, hence she comes by her
silver sentiments honestly. Her man
hood is naturally democratic because
it has been raised that way. The
order of democracy prevailing there is
conservative, rational and reas-
enable in all of it's phases.
For nearly an hundred years
it has prevailed and is today
as it has been all along, devoted 10
the entire creed OF democracy, includ-
ing the free and unlimited coinage of
silver and gold both. Hence, if the
west is, like intelligent and rational
people, looking for allies with whose
help she may hope to restore silver,
allies who can be depended upon in
every emergency, whose political and
moral sentiments in other respects are
In accord with her own, in fact and in
short, allies who will make her cause
their own and who are strong enough
to decide the fight in her faYor-then
indeed is the south her best hope. her
only hold on the future.
There ought to be some broad based
means speedily adopted by which the
eouth may be taught that the west is
in full sympathy with her, that she is
not selfish or narrow-viewed. That
she does not ask it all, that she is ready
and more than willing to divide the
advantages, many and great as they
are. with the section which comes up to
her help in this her time of sore and
pressing need. Let thinking and pat
riotic men formulate a proposition
which, by Its breadth and scope, Will
strike the southerners as fair and rea-
sonsble by which there could be es-
tablished a reciprocity of interest as
well as an equality of advantage.
Whether we like the south or not,
we need their help, and if we are wise
we will court help where help
is most likely to be found. 1t
has been fully demonstrated that
it is not to be expected from republi-
can states. We can only find it in
democratic states, nowhere else. No
where is there to be found sufficient
number, or a sufficiently united de-
mocracy to furnish the amount and
character of help which we require,
save in the bright Sunny south, save
among the democrats who are taught
that no jot or little of the true faith
can be parted from without impairing
the strength, grace and usefulness of
the whole structure.
We need allies, we must have allies,
let us seek them where they can be
found, among the brave loyal demo-
Gratis of the souther states.
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