The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-12
PROVO CITY.
THE RESPONSIBILITY

There is and indeed can be no doubt
whatever as to where rests the respon-
sibiIity of the fell act of the demone-
tization of silver The republican
party has gone on regularly electinG
John Sherman to office ever since the
dsy of demonetizatiOn. 1t has not
therefore repudiated either him or his
act. He is still in force in that party.
He is still one OF its most illustuous
leaders. John Sherman stands in the
very first rank of his party today as
be did in July, 1873. He has never
been discredited. No republican con-
yention ever resoluted against him and
but few and obscure are the conYen-
tions of that party which have dared
TO resolute for silver. The simple
truth is that since '7S, the republicans
have had little to cav for silver. II is
true that now and then individuals In
that party have spoken out manfully
upon occasion, but the fatal fact fol,
lows that whenever one of them de-
velorr ability enough 70 become dan
gero, S. he HES himself off to some
league or other convention and at
once ali his nerve and deYotion for sill
yer acnes facile and of no account.
1t. orly necessary to recall the once
pote Goodwin and his trip to Den
yer last vear. Now, there was a silver
advocsta lu. What is he now?
We might geJ i'm on the American
produc. platform, but that is as far as
he will ev, g ain. Poor Goodwin! !
We are all sorry Tor him, because there
was fame and fortune both for him in
the line in which he was working, if
be had not weakened, But he fell
amongst the sirens at Denver and si-
lence or modification, or both, siezed
him iu a masterful grip.
The responsibility for the act of de-
monetization cannot be placed any
where else than upon the shoulders of
the republican party. Up to the good
year 1873 there was not a man in
America who had even dreamed that
silver was not good enough money
for him. A republican congress and
president upon John Sherman's sug-
getion found that silver poisoned COM
merce and threatened the standing of
the nation In the world. They did not
dare move on silver openly; they, by
the merest of base trickery, inserted
the demonetization clause in bill
where it could not be detected in time,
and so it passed into the statutes of
the land. 1t was base act basely &C.
complished and the only wonder now
is that there are republicans to be
found, even in Utah, to vote with the
party which perpetrated this great
wrong. Especially when to it is
plainly trsceable the poverty any dis.
tress of a people, only few years since
the most prosperous on earth.
1t does no good now to call names or
whip the devil "round the stump"
The thing to do is to get together and
do the battle for tie restoration of
silver, to the end that we may again
enjoy a measure of prosperity. OF |
course it is but natural that western
men should repudiate party which
gave birth to such a traitor as Sher-
man. We do not blame them, but the
most effective form their resentment
can take is to come over and vote with
the free silver democracy until silver is
fully restored and then they can go
back to the old party and stay until
it makes another effort to enrich the
gold bug bankers at the expense Of the
western miners and farmers.