The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-09
NO NEED FOR NONSENSE.

Inc revival of industries, the rise in
prices, the increase of wages and
other unmistakable signs of pros
perity which are perceived every
where throughout the United S ates.
are met by some Republican papers
with ill-disguised chagrin. Most of
them admit the encouraging facts
and rejoice with their Democratic
contemporaries over the benefits en-
joyed by working people and by the
country generally. 1t is only a few
INSCRIPTIONS sheets that refuse to
/ recognize the truth.
The reason why the latter are so
10th to recognize the advent of good
times, is because they prophecied all
kind of dire disasters as a conse-
quence of Democratic ascendancy and
the passage OF a Democratic tariff re-
form bill. The results are such over
whelming proofs that they were false
prophets, that they now endeavor
either to deny or to belittle the patent
facts.
A near contemporary at first re-
pudiated utterly the news, flashed
daily for months over the wires by
the Associated Press, of the resump-
ton of work by mills that had for
months been idle, the relighting of
furnace fires, the full blast of iron
and steel works, the advances volun-
tarily made by employers in work
mems wages, the rise in the prices of
wool and cotton and iron and other
products, the outflow Of money from
the banks, the exports Of American
manufactures to the centres of trade
in England and continental Europe,
and the thousand and one evidences
of prosperity that were given to the
newspapers throughout the land. But
these proofs have become so strong
that further denial is useless.
A new tack is now taken and we are
told that all this is done for effect,
that it is a goldite movement and
there is no sincerity in it, that its
purpose is to weaken the force of
arguments in favor of silver. That is
actually set forth, gravely, to ac-
count for the rising tide and swelling
food of prosperity everywhere ac-
knowledged in this country.
We wish to say if the cause of sill
yer needs to be bolstered up with such
an absurdity as this, it stands very
little chance of succeeding. We be-
lieve that the fallacies and nonsense
which have been used by some ex-
IRENE advocates of free silver coinage
have greatly damaged its interests.
Such rubbish as that now set forth to
account for the good times that are
coming will give color to the idea
spread abroad in the east, that the
silver movement is a kind of craze
that is prevalent in the west.
It is difficult to believe that persons
or papers uttering such inanities as
that the financial and Industrial i'm
so rapidly and univer-
sally taking place are not real, or
that if apparently substantial they
are only a ruse on the part of the |
to blind the eyes of |
the country to the necessity of BIZ
netallism, are actually sane or if not
The logic of events leads to the in
evitable conclusion that as the panic
If 1898, like it's predecessors back to
1873, were the result of Republican
egislation, the restoration of indus
rial and financial prosperity is the
'esult of Democratic administration
If national affairs. 1t does not neces-
,arily affect the silver question. BIZ
netallism is sound financial policy,
md the coinage of gold and silver on
he terms which were lawful previous
o 1873, stands on it's merits irrespec-
i've of the events to which we have
Iluded. It is right in and of ITSELF
nd will not be aided by any decep-
I've arguments or by ignoring well
established and indisputable facts.