The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-03-01
PROVO CITY.
A GREAT CONTEST.

People in the United States are too
apt to regard the present mighty con-
test between the single gold standard
advocates and the double standard
men, or, to speak more properly, BIZ
metallism, as local question affecting
only this nation directly, or Ii others,
only incidentally. The truth is, that it
is the leading question of the day in
the governments of the entire civilized
world. Parties are being formed for
and against, in all governments, their
parliaments, reichstags and congresses.
Both Germany and England now recog-
nize the fact that they have gone be-
yond the line of safety in their desire
90 favor the bankers and money loaners,
and they are at this moment consider
ing ,as the question of paramount inter
est, how they may soonest return by
the shortest routes to the good old time
honored double standard. In this
country all other questions stand before
this one as do the pigmies before
the giants. They are utterly dwarfed
before the consideration of the ques
tion as how we can supply the lost one
half OF the volume of the worlds
money. The experiment has been made
and it has been fully and clearly devel-
oped that by no sort of worldly ingenu-
ity can gold be made to do the busi-
ness of the world. In England
the bankers have succeeded SO far in
keeping from the public the great truth
that the question Of returning at once
to the double standard policy is the
one leading and all i'm portant element
in the formation of parties and policies,
not only in Great Britain itself, but
throughout the mighty empire ruled
by her. Indeed the question of bimet-
allism was the real issue which came
80 near driving the RoSebery admin
istration out of power only few days
since.
In Germany, we can well understand
the Importance of the question when
the reichstag formally votes to invite
another International conference on the
subject of the reconciliation of silver.
When England and Germany are thus
agitated we can well understand that
France, Russia, Austria and Italy are
profoundly stirred also. That includes
the whole world. The east, west, the
north and the south.
This being the case, how necessary,
how important is it that the silver men
in the United States stand firmly by
their colors, if for no better or higher
reason than that by doing SO we furnish
moral support to the friends of bimet-
allism throughout the world. We
have a dual object in this: While
England, France, Germany Austria and
Itlay are governed alone by commercial
reasons, we add to that the fact that
this nation is practically the largest
producer of silver of any of the ma
tions of the world, We add to the con-
Yenience and commercial Importance
of silver the fact that we produce the,
at present, dishonored metal, and the
fact that there is a great profit and gain
in this production for us. Thus is every
incentive for loyalty to the double
standard supplied to US. We viii be
false to every principle of devotion, to
our country, to ourselves and to the
people at large if we do not exhaust
every peaceful method to force the
early return of this nation to the
double, or the gold and silver stand
ard. Indeed. SO great are the inter
ests impinging upon bimetallism that
even revolution would be justifabIe if
peaceful measures are found made
quate. Indeed it is by no means GER
tain if revolution is not already be-
come the one remedy for the terrible
corruption encouraged and made pos
sible by the wicked selfshness of de-
monetizatiOn.