The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-03-08
MARCH 8. 1895
PROVO CITY
INDEPENDENT ACTION.

Denver silver conference The DIS
PATCH has felt that it has been the
only friend of the white metal left
among the journals of Utah. and as
such, it has found it n ecessary to have
a good deal to say upon the great
question, the question vital to Utah.
We do not believe for one simple mo-
ment that the German conference is
meant to remonetize silver. We are of
the opinion that it is called to still the
clamors Of the people for restoration
ss though conference were the only
way to secure the RECOMMENDATION. 1t
has never entered the German mind
that there is any other way to secure
this boon save by and through a con-
ference of the nations. We believe
that the German government is too
much under the influence of that of
Great Britain to permit any thought of
Independent action to enter Its great
big thick -headedness. Germany IS
conservative if it is anything and It is
very likely to look at the suggest ion OF
independent action as revolutionary, II
not incendisry. Now, people in the
United States will be apt to look at 1t
this way: The Germans and the En-
Rlish are as near bone Of one bone and
flesh of one flesh as any two nations
ever were. The royal families have SO
often intermarried and for so many
centuries that now an Englishman has
TO think twice before he can deter
mine to whom he owes allegiance, the
king of Germany or the queen of Eng
land, and German has need to think
a thousand times before he can begin
to arrive at any conclusion on the
subject. 1t hasn't been SO many years
either since English gold hired German
soldiers to head off our aspirations for
Independent action as to our own form
of government, hence we conclude
that very little obligation rests on US TO
consult either government on matter
which affects us go profoundly as this
thing OF reconciliation does. 1t is
only matter of greater convenience
60 us that we would consent to await
for even one day for the opinion of
either. 1t would be better if the COM
mercial world went into remonetiza-
tion by common action, by common
consent, but failing that, the United
States is compelled to go into the
policy alone and force, not only Eng
land and Germany, but all other COM
mercial nations to come into the ar
rangement.
Nor would it be long until they did.
The tide of trade which would at once
set into us, would bring the Beer
Drinkers and the Beef Eaters both
hurrying back to the good old double
standard in a great hurry. British
dignity and German phlegm would
both go glimmering very promptly.
Nothing is so destructive to dignity as
the loss of money, and nothing touches
the phlegmstle dutchman SO quickly
or SO powerfully as the loss of his fail
share of trade. This, or these results
would promptly follow this indepen-
dent action of this government. We
did not consult them when we wrote
the declaration of independence in the
first instance, nor need We consult
them now in this latter and greater
declaration. Great Britain held the
reins oyer US in good shape until we
promulgated our first declaration. Now
she, with the help OF the other, is again
holding them over US as effectively as
then. Then we were compelled to
battle for eight years With guns for
Que independence, Now we will win
with dollars and not drop of blood
will flow. In this later campaign there
will be no Valley FORCES, no Bunker
Hills, but the happiness of a thousand
men will be secured to every one there.
1t is big stake we play for, but we
have the game all in our own hands
and can only win and never lose. All
that Is wanting in this last struggle is
a very little Of the good old '76 spirit.
Had there been but modicum of it
left. John Sherman could never have
been possible and of course the double
standard would have prevailed yet, as
it did for the first hundred happy and
prosperous years of our national life.
THINGS are getting to be very warm