The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-16

preservation, every hope for the future
every ambition to succeed, invites tn
dedication of our best energies to tn,
propa Cation of sound bimetalhsm. II
place wholesome financial literature
the hands of the eastern voter becomes
a, duty that overshadows every othel
obligation of "a. public character tina
we owe to our fellow men.
The object of this conference is no
to devise arguments in favor of tht
free coinage of the white metal, fol
such arguments are indelibly WRITER
upon the progress and prosperity of the
human race, but to place in the hand
OF the voter these arguments fashioned
into language that the wayfaring mar
can understand and apply. If this mis-.
sion be accomplished. the victory is
won.
In a conference of this character nc
poHtical pr'ejudices are invited, and II
ITS pon-par'tisanship rests the pledge Of
Its sincerity. Clearly applause.
Jealous For the Right.
We do not meet as Republicans, as
Democrats or as Populists. but as
American citizens jealous for the righi
as God gives us to see the right and
earnest in the advocacy of sound f1nam-
cial principles. The masses of the peo-
pie IN the east, as we'll as IN the west
nave grown diStrustful of the financial!
ability of a class of reasoners whose
policy has invited the most far-reach-
ing disasters that have ever overtaker
the business interests of our country
or paralyzsd the energies of our people
Gold Men Discredffed.
Every prophecy made by the gold
men has been discredited by THE pro
gress of events. and every prediction
made by the silver men has been veri-
al i-f-N
have visited our land. The logic
Of the situation demands a "a
versal Of the public Judgment. and It
viii come. The masses of the people
in the east are as much interested in
the revival of prosperity as are the
citizens Of the west
To secure their intelligent co-opera-
ton 1t is only necessary to educate
them as to the causes of the hard
times and they will seek with avidity
the only cure within the reach of man.
kind, and help eliminate from the
financial system of our government
the disastrous policy of monometal-
ism.
The Case of Billy Patterson.
1t has been said that MIR. William
Patterson never discovered who struck
him, and ] apprehend that many of the
deluded victims of the goldbug policy
VIII never ascertain the cause of the
financial troubles that have overtaken
them. Education is wasted upon the
man whose mind is so narrow that it
is completely buried under one side
of any public question, and cannot
weigh facts or analyze conditions.
But in the main our eastern cousins
aim to deal fairly with public ques-
tions; the masses of the people are
seeking the common good, and with
the financial issue fairly drawn and
intelligently presented, we have right
to hope for their cooperation.
An Inviting Field.
The field for an educational cam
paign, conducted on broad and pat
riotic grounds, is a most inviting one.
To make this campaign a successful
one is merely to avail ourselves of the
opp0r i5unfies presented and dedicate
to the mission of honest money our
earnest and unremitting efforts 1t is
unnecessary, in this connection, for
me TO suggest ways and means for
laying before the eastern voter the Cos
pei of sound finance.
An interchange of views in the var
iouS committees, to which much of the
practical work of this conference will
be delegated, will evolve methods and
plans most consistent with good re-
suits. 1t will be well. however, to
keep constantly in mind that the hosts
of the enemy are marshalled in the
field, that masked batteries are as