The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-23

reach the masses and will answer the
fallacies of the gold monometallists,
who are fighting against silver under
the false cry of Sound money"
The address of the silver conference
is in the right line. 1t is good as far
as it goes. 1t does not please some
people, but it is endorsed by the sill
yer papers that have given it fair at
tention The San Francisco Chronicle
says:
The suggestion and recommendations
of the Salt Lake Conference are in the
right direction, and yet they do not
cover the whole field. The conference
was an able body and was non-par-
tisan. The address which was issued
is calm, clear and convincing. The
conference proposed the organization OF
the Bimetallic Union, and the plan o.
action adopted contemplateS that il
shall be national. A transmontane
league was eSta blished, and the propa-
ganda will be pushed to the utmost.
This is we'll as far as it goes and will
accomplish great good.
But other work is needed. The free
silver Democrats in Illinois and other
States have taken the right course.
The Republicans who a"e for free coin
age should do something Of the same
kind. The Republicans Of California,
among whom there is but one senti-
I ment substantially, might do we'll TO
take the initiative.
That paper declares that the silver
question is not one of parties. 1t re-
CARDS the attempt to organize a silver
party as futile. 1t believes the issue
will be fought out within the lines of
the two great parties. and remarks:
The issue. then. betyeen gold mono
metallism and bimetallism-the ques-
ton of returning to free silver coinage
in the United States without waiting
for an international agreements not
a political issue. The two great par
next year that both organizations will
be full of energy, hope and confidence.
divided within themselves on the
coinage question. Just now the Re-
publicans are very quiet, and the signs
OF division are not SO apparent as in
the other party. But the division ex-
lists all the same.
1t is true that both the national
parties are internally divided on this
question. But we believe it will re-
solve itself, after all, into a party is
sue. The. declaration of the Demo-
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dependent free coinage movement
mentioned by the Chronicle-will be
followed in other places. True bimetal-
lism is old Democratic financial doc
trine. The great body of the party
will be found on the side Of silver
restoration. By the time of the ma
tional convention that sentiment will
predominant in the party and result
in straight, square, nnequivocaI BIZ
metallic plank in the Democratic plat
form.
On the other hand the Republican
party, being composed of a large ma
jority of anti-silver men, that is of
gold monom etalIsts and the sort of
bimetallfsts that believe in the use of
silver as subsidiary coin, will try to
placate the real bimetallists of the
party with a GO npromise, which will
disgust many of them and drive then
TO the support of the silver candidates
OF the Democracy.
There is this contingency, however,
to be seriously considered. Tt is barely
possible that an international agree
ment of some kind may be reached be-
fore that party issue comes, which
would make big difference in the
political situation.
Meanwhile, the advocates of silver in
all parties should push the campaign
OF education without regard to party
interests. Convert are wanted to
bimetallism in all parties Put silver
first and let what will follow. The
East is the fruitful field for the good
seed to be sown. The silver light must
shine from the West till the darkness
in the East is dispersed. Send out the
silver missionaries. circulate the silver
literature!