The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-03-26
PROVO CITY. MARCH 26, 1895,
ABOUT SILVER.

We read in the Evening News of yes
terday with the keenest interest the
lengthy interview with Mr.. ]. J.Hill the
president of the Northern Pacific rail
way on the subject Of bimetallism. Mr..
Hill recently returned from an extended
visit to Europe and the eastern states
and in reply tc direct inquiries talks
Interestingly and undeTstandingly
upon the prospect of international BIZ
metsllism in the near future. The
conclusion reached by Mr.. Hill is that
If Germany, France and the United
States remonetize, England will be
forced at once to come into the policy
or see the major part of her trade go to
the double standard nations. Mr.. Hill
would have made his position stronger
as well as more interesting had he said
that the near approach of peace be-
tween China and Japan presented an
argument of haste which could not
fail to quicken all commercial nations,
but more especially one having as large
q stake In eastern trade already as has
England. Nor is the concurrence of
Germany and France necessary, albeit
very desirable. 1t would be quite suf-
fcient for England were the United
States alone to remonetize. So great
is our advantage, dealing with the east
from San Francisco. that W ere we TO
remonetize on the 10th of April, be-
fore the Goth England would meet US
with general declaration of time and
place for British resumption, There
would be no waiting in such case for
the concurrence of Germany and France.
1t would be quite sufficient for her that
this nation had determined to move in
the direction of the untold millions of
profit lying in plain open sight upon
the approach of eastern pacifcatIon
for the nation first on the ground
with the prime necessities of China
and Japan which she is willing to sell
at fair prices, for silver-the only
money either nation named has to
pay with. If Mr.. Hill had said that
all that was needed was American ac
tion and stopped, he would have met |
the situation exactly. The best finan- |
ciers of both America and Europe |
have long seen that if the United |
States sGtea in the matter of remune-
tization, instead Of being crushed by
MIR. Cleveland's great bugbear, Euro
peaR combination against us, the
crushing would have been on the other
foot, and the United States would sim
ply have appropriated to herself the
trade which international action would
have distributed to European nations
and herself.
She had the chance, has II vet in
fact,to gobble it all up without dividing
any Of it with Europe. or any power
upon earth save with Mexico, Central
America. Brazil and the Argentine
Republic, and with these latter only
as matter of common courtesy and
neighborly good feeling. Had there
been at the head of this nation at any
time since '7S, statesman of either
the Jeffersonian or Jacksonian order,
this step would have been taken long
since, and the pail of hard times would
have been lifted and the distresses
which are still hanging over Europe
and America would have been but an
ugly memory only.
Now indeed we can go into the In
conference, or let it alone
severely if we consider that better. If
We 20, it should be only on the under
standing that if any other result
than at ratio of is to l were
adopted we are not bound Then
IF course our thunder clap of
remonetization must come so quick af-
Ter the fash that Europe may not re-
cover from her astonishment and ad-
in time to reach out by
similar measures to share with us in
IN advantage which will make every
nan on this continent easy, and most
If them rich. That is just what is in J
7olved in independent action by the
United States in the great act of Jus.
ice, the full and entire reconciliation J
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