The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-16
THE TIME TO SPEAK OUT.

We poor, deluded, trusting and
faithful silver men all remember how
badly we were fooled. by the dulcet
notes warbled by both Mr.. Harrison
and Mr., Cleveland just prior to the
assembling Of the national conYen-
tions two years since. Nor have we
forgotten the two national platforms
upon which they asked the votes of
the people. They we're both bimet-
allists, ardently in favor of the ZEN
larged use uf silver" and all that non
sense, The fault was theirs then.
They were insincere when we belieyed
they were honest. Ii we are befo0led
the next time the fault will be ours,
and we will not be entitled to either
pity or sympathy and will deserve our
chains. But there is now little danger
that the tate OF '92 will oYertake US
again. There are too many able and
leading men in both parties who are
declaring against the tactics which
pICNdllOu DuCu oG DOlu SulCoRO Ctl1O
Minneapolis and their declarations are
to the effect that their platforms must
contain plain and explicit declarations
in favor of remonetiZlng silver ,and the
men nominated upon them must be
we'll known and perfectly reliable sill
ver men. Wnen such men as Henry
M, Teller, Edward 0. Wolcott, Dan
Voorhees,, Richard p. Bland, George G.
Vest and a good half-hundred equally
able and well-known men on both
sides, make such talk, it means some
thing; it means business and nothing
else.
In the light of such declarations as
these we may safely conclude that
whateYer questions are left open and
undecided silver is not to be one of
them. The next national battle will
settle the silver question. and we relig-
iously belieye,o on the western basis; set
tied as our brave, true, but impoYer-
ished silver men would have it set
tied. There is now an enlarged
discussion of the question all
oyer the nation. 1t is talked of in the
mills and work shops OF New England,
IN the forges and furnaces of Pennsyl-
Yanil; in the cotton fields of the south
and the wheat fields of the west; in
the mountains and upon the plains,
by the rich and the poor by the farmer
and the mechanic; by the seamen and
the lanismen, and men now under
stand the enormity of John Sherman's
great sin who never before understood
it, or had the least inklIng of its gravity.
Thousands upon thousands of men
now know that silver is demonetized
who never before knew it, and that
the silver struggle now going on is for
it's complete restoration as money
the equal of gold. We have had
long campaign of education and the
fruit is nearly ready for the plucking.
We said years and years since that all |
that was needed to effect complete re.
storation, wae to teach the people that |
silver had been reduced by the act of |
'73 to the condition of a base metal
and that it is only now tolerated as
money by the grace of the gold bugs of
the land. And it is now as clear as
the sun at MONDAY that it will be re-
stored by very nearly an unanimous
vote of the people, the people of all the
land, and not by a sectional majority.
The convention now in session at
Salt Lake can very materially help in
this work, if it really has met to hon
estly consider what is to be done in the
service OF silver. Its action will be
closely scanned by the people from
Main to Texas and from florida to
1t then becomes mat
Ter of the utmost moment that its
voice has no uncertain sound. That
silver tongues only are chosen to voice
it's sentiments. We have the most i'm
plicit confidence that the task will be
lone, and well done at that