The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-10
A FIGHT FOR FREE SILVER.
DISTINGUISHES SILVER MAN GIVEN
SPACE IN N. Y. MERCURY.
New York Independent Refused to
Hear Both Sides of the silver
Cause.-The. Bartine Answers Its
letter with somt Very Plain
Statements,

The New York Mercury is carrying
on splendid campaign for free silver
right in the hotbed of the gold men.
1t directed its attacks on Wall street
from the center of Wall streets baili-
wick 1t is meeting every argument
advanced by the gold men and fight
ing aggressively to make New York a
silver state Within late months it has
become by far the best penny paper in
New York, and it is rapidly advancing
into the field of the greatest metropoli-
tan dailies. The people from Pennsyl-
vania west should support the paper.
Hon. r. G. Chambers, president of the
Bimetallic union, yesterday received a
letter from Eugene Davis, publisher of
the Mercury, in which he says:
1T has been a matter of very great
surprise to me that the friends IF free
silver have given us so little attention
and absolutely no support.
1.-The Mercury has been doing a
splendid work in this field in behalf of
the cause, unaided and alone. 1t is the
only daily paper in the city of New
York, or within a distance of hundreds
of miles, that has been and is the
openly avoWed champion OF the free
coinage of silver. 1t has been practi-
cally boycotted by such of those ad-
vertisers who must look to the hanks
for financial accommodations in order
to conduct their business. It has been
and is treated with silent contempt by
all of THE single gold standard news
papers. In fact, everything has been
and is being done to coniine it's in
fiuence to the narroWest possible chan
nels.'
Cannot Get Hearing.
In the issue of Sunday, August "a
appears the following article, which
will interest the Salt Lake public:
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 22.-It has
been the general opinion for a long
time in this section of the country thai
it was impossible for the advocates OF
bimetallism to get a hearing in any
paper in the east, except the Mercury
and the following correspondence
proves that this opinion is wei
founded:
Salt Lake City, Utah, July Is.
Editor Independent-An eminent di.
vine of this city, Rev. r. G.. NIcNiece
has handed me a copy of your issue
| of July 4, containing Senator Morrill,
article on silver.
In doing so he expressed a desire
that should reply to it.
! The silver men, so called, eXpec
nothing in the line Of fair treatment
from such papers as the Herald, Times
Tribune, World and the like; but the
character of your paper is essentially
different.
I am inclined to think with Mr.. Nc
! Niece that your only desire in this
matter is to present it fairly to YOU
readers. But no subject can be pre-
sented fairly if only one side is given
AS the Silver Question" concerns tn,
| people of the east as much as it doe:
those of the west, we have though
| that possibly you would extend me The
courtesy of about equal space for {
reply.
Of course, am not United State!
senator, like the venerable gentleman
from Vermont; neither am I entirely
unknown. For four years I was
member Of the Coinage committee o
the House of Representatives, during
which time I took a somewhat. active
part in the consideration of the cues
| ton.
1t seems to me that Senator Morrill,
| instead of 'refuting'' the free coinage
arguments, scarcely touches the mair
| question at all.
To my mind his article is made w
| of generalities, superficial, but rattle
! pungently expressed.
! So far as he touches the main issue
! he assumes it all. If we allow a maj
to assume the entire issue he mus
| necessarily make a strong showing i
| he possesses any literary ability what
! ever, which Senator Morrill, certainly
does. Hoping to hear from you, re
main, very truly yours,
H. T. BARTINE.