The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-08
THE SILVER CAMPAIGN.

THE SILVER CAMPAIGN.
The campaign for silver ought tn he
vigorously carried on in both beri-
spheres. The sentiment in favor of the
white metal IS growing everywhere
! But there is no need for its advocates
IN this country to depend on what shall
De done in Europe or other foreign
parts They should apply themselves
10 the task OF educating the people in
their own land to the necessity and adj
Fantages of return to the bimetalIic
policy prevailing previous to 1873.
Senator Stewart is quoted in the dis
patches as urging the silver men of the
old parties to unite, as the only means
OF obtaining success. He has no con-
fidence in either Of the great parties of
the country. That means, Of course
that he has entirely done with the Re-
publican party, with which he trained
for many years. AS to. the Democratic
party, he had no love for that any
how.
In letter to ex-Congressman Hen
Dirk, replying to some remarks of that
gentleman at recent BANQUET in
Brooklyn, New York, Senator Stewart
says:
Il am glad that those for whom Won
speak are at last willing to abandon
their tactics of fraud and cunning and
do battle for the classes in the open
field. If your language had been en-
ployed in 1879, there would have been
no battle of the standards. II you had
told the people of the United States
twenty-five years ago last February
that you would destroy one-half of the
worlds money by excluding silver from
the minis for the purpose of enhanc-
ing the value of the other half and
doubling the obligations of contracts,
no man in either house Of Congress
would have dared to have been a party
to deceiving the American people by
smuggling a provision in a codification
law demonetizing silver. Every step
that you have taken 20 enhance the
value of money and depreciate the
price of property by the destruction of
silver has been accomplished by the
methods Of deception which you now
condemn
To this the New York Post replies,
that Senator Stewart was himself an
active participant in 1.-The crime of
1873" and took part in the discussion
on the bill, and by a specious kind of
argument it makes him therefore
partly responsible for that demonetiz-
ing law.
Even supposing that were true, it
would be no argument in favor of the
act nor against free silver. 1t would
simply show some apparent inconsis-
tency in the doings of the Senator. But
it is well known that but very few Of
the men in either House OF Congress
who voted for the bill, understood its
effects on the silver dollar, and that
most Of the members were deceived as
to the full purport of the measure.
But thar does not matter. What is
needed now is a remedy for the evil,
no matter by whom it was caused. And
we agree with Senator Stewart to the
extent of his conclusion that there is
no hope for silver in the Republican
party. But we do not believe it is for
the interest of silver for Democrats to
divide, or for any of them to draw out
and join a silver or any other kind of
a third party
If the Democrats who favor free
silver coinage forming at least three
fourths of the Democratic party, will
come out boldly and unreservedly for
the true bimetallic doctrine, that is the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of Is to 1, they will not
only revive the old Democratic prin-
ciple of finance, but will draw to their
support thousands of voters who are
not members of the party but who de-
sire the rehabilitation of silver almost
at any cost.
The Herald warns the silver men of |
the party that they viii take a suicidal |
policy if they suffer themselves to be
led away from the fold, by the silvery
light which seems to be the true IL |
Elimination but which they will find is
only sham moonshine, and will lead |
them into quagmire. Silver must be |
the shfbboleth of the party for the |
of SO, and by that watch
word it will prevail. Let Democrats |
cling together and let Silver be their |
standard and rallying cry!