The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-27
BOGUS BIMETALLIsTs.

The Herald has demonstrated by
facts and figures that cannot be denied,
that the Republican party is not a sill
Yer party, but on the contrary it is re-
ally and truly committed to the gold
standard in finance. OF course by this
we mean the national Republican par
ty. In Utah the majority of the Re-
publicans favor the free coinage of sill
yer as we'll as of gold and so do the
Democrats. On this question they oc-
cupy similar ground. The goldites in
Utah are not sufficiently numerous in
either party to count for anything, and
they wisely keep silent on the subject
because of the overwhelming popular
opinion on the silver question. But
the Republican party of the country is
pronounced against the doctrine Of free
silver coinage on the part of the United
States Independent of other nations.
There are many Republicans who
call themselves bimetallists, but their
bimetallism is similar to that of Sena-
tor Chandler, one of their number, who
has recently expressed the views he
and other prominent Republicans hold
on this question. He says:
Republican bimetallists do not ask
any one to advocate free silver coinage
at this time by the United States. We
do ask Republicans to set their faces
like flint against gold monometallism.'
There are hosts of that kind of BIZ
metallists in the United States and in
Europe. They may ''set their faces
like flint" against gold monometallism
their flfnty visages. What do they care
how stony may be. the countenances
which are turned toward them? What
difference will it make how much they
may fling their finty darts at the
gold-bugs? They do not aid the cause
of silver. They simply keep things in
statu quo They stand in the way of
the march Of the silver men. 1t is be-
cause of the attitude of those pre-
tended bimetallists that Senator Jones
and other stalwart Republicans left the
party declaring that in it there was
no hope for silver"
What with the army of gold mono
metallists and the contingent of bogus
bimetalists in the Republican party,
the few genuine silver men in its
ranks count for next to nothing. That
party is a gold party. The people of
the west will look for favorable action
from it on the silver question in vain.
Unless the Democratic party shall de-
clare for the free and unlimited COIN
age of silver by the United States in
dependent of the action of any other
country, the cause of silver may be
considered as doomed for several years.
Waiting for international bimtallism
is just the policy that pleases the gold
ties. The only thing they fear is in
dependent action in the restoration of
silver by the United States. In the lam
guage of goldite organ,
There is no objection to Chambers
making faces at the gold-bugs so long as
he likes as long as he does nothing else.
There is no objection to the setting of
faces like flints at any point of the
compass, so long as other people are
not disturbed in their business. If
Chandler has a, fancy for the exercise,
he should be INDUCED in it to the full
est extent
These remarks apply to all bimetal-
lists of the Chandler stripe. 1t matters
not what they say or what they do.
The goldites laugh in their faces and
jeer at their ,impotent pretenees. The
only real friends OF silver are they who
demand the free and unlimited coinage
of gold and silver, without discrimina-
ton, at the present ratio by the United
States independent of the action or
opinion of any other nation beneath
the sun.