The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-04
JUN Z 4, 1895
TIE one GREAT QUESTION.

For twenty-five years this great,
rich and prosperous nation has been
reeling upon the very brink of bank
ruptcy, public and private, due con-
fessedly to one cause, short money
supply, from the destruction of one
half of our store by the demonetiza-
ton of silver, and the want Of conf
dence and that sense of security which
is almost as valuable as actual money
itself. Notwithstanding this fact and
its broad acceptance. all oyer the ma
tion, yet the friends of silver are met
everywhere and obstructed in their
efforts to restore silver and the supply
of money necessary to do the business
Of the country profitabIy, by American
business men-men who have and
ought to feel vast interest in COM
plete restoration. Why is it? What
are the causes impelling men to thus
throw themselves between the people
and the only chance which appears in
sight2 These men are either the pluto
Gratis themselves or they are the bought
and paid for servitors of the rich. We
can come to no other conclusion. The
bsst informed men in the east admit
that the crippled money supply is the
one only cause of the financial string
ency and the pinching times we haye
suffered so long. This crippled condi-
tion of the money supply is the result
of the demonetization of silver in 1878,
as surely as that two and two make four.
Yet these same men suffer and see the
volume Of business and the margins OF
profit grow less and less and narrower
and narrower day by day, and still they
shout the false and deceptive CRY
''honest money!" which means the
permanent destruction of silver and the
permanent short supply of money as
well as the continuance OF the present
hard times and panic conditions fol
all the future, SO far as we can see,
Talk to these men of American in.
dependent action on the question of re-
monetization and they grow pale and
nervous. What is it they fear2 Why viii
they consig gn the country to eterna
panic waiting for international action,
The only answer to these inquiries is
They ara bought They have beer
sold to the money power. They dC
not express their own sentiments
They express the sentiments only O
their masters. l. is not that we car
do with less money or that silver hal
become mere dross, but it suits not tht
purposes of the masters who ar,
leagued with Rothschilds and the Banl
of England, to make themselves richie
by reducing the once happy and pros
porous laborers of this country to
bondage more hateful than that whlcl
held the negroes as slaves in the soutl
before the war.
With the conditions now prevailing
there is no hope whatever for either
the poor or those who are in debt. w,
may eat the meagre bread of the bonds
men, but as to the incentive to laboI
which once existed-the chance O
betUerlnE our circumstances-that il
gone forever, unless we, as a nation.
have more money, unless the chances
are more evenly divided between the
rich and the poor. We can only dc
that by remonetizing silver. Yet we
are told that we cannot do that unless
Europe joins us in the policy. Eng.
land went on the gold basis nearly one
hundred years since, because she is the
creditor nation ct the world. She did
not hesitate and wait until Europe
and America would join her in the pol
icy. She saw her chance to grow rich
On the margins betw cen the money Of
the double standard in which her Dor.
rowers got their money from her. and
the gold in which they were compelled
to pay, and She went for it without
more ado, Now our chance comes to
US in returning to the double-standard
as it existed before 73 and we are told
by our plutocrats that we cannot and
must not return to the double stand
ard until Europe is ready, Small con-
sideration is Europe entitled to at our
hands. We must have gold and silver
both whether Europe wishes it or not,
and without consultation with any ma
ton whatever.