The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-03-09
PROVO CITY.
UTAH INTERESTS.

While this prosperous and happy
young state has many and leading in
terests, she has nothing that equals her
minerals. She has a splendid and
profitable agriculture, yet if sill
YER we're remonetized now the farming
interest would be increased almost
beyond measure. The improvement
would come in the stimulation and
better prices that would induce not
only better farming but an increase
of acreage. When silver falls TO 90
cents, wheat goes to 40 cents per
bushel. There is no stimulation in
this. Remonetize silver at ratio Of
l6 TO / and Utah silver would promptly
90 to $1.29 per ounce, wheat to 81 per
bushel. We defy any man to success
fully controvert this claim. Then why
should any intelligent Utah farmer or
business man hang back in the patri-
otic duty of forcing reconciliation?
What is true of wheat, mind you,
would be true of every other agricul-
tural product, beef, mutton, pork,
chickens, eggs, wool, fruit, vegetables,
and Lotably among these, potatoes.
When the farmers get good prices for
their productions and money is plenti-
full, then they have the money to spend
in the qualification of their tastes.
They wear better clothes and more of
them, all their living expenditures
would be increased, and here comes in
the merchants interest. They would
buy more pluws and agricultural i'm
plements, and necessitate the upbuild-
ing of manufacturing establishments
to supply these. The fact is there is
no human industry which would not
be quickened, expanded and increased
enormously by RECOMMENDATION. We
can help in the work by speaking out
on the subject upon any and all fitting
occasions, by voting whenever an
opportunity offers for men for all posi-
tions who are the most pronounced@in
their advocacy for this the greatest,
dearest and most valuable interest for
which the people of Utah ever strug-
gled. Indeed before it everything else
sinks into comparative insigniicance.
The laborers, the mechanics and skilled
workmen in all lines call for this policy
for the reasons above briefly sketched.
We need hardly refer to the great
quickeping of our mining interests
which would occur. Not only silver
mining but gold as well. Because the
more money our MI ners have, the more
they will devote to gold mining. II
half the gold in Utah were mined and
in circulation today there would be
many thousands Of dollars for each
man in the commonwealth.
Then how direlict is any man in
Utah who fails upon any proper occa.
sion to place himself on record as fa-
voring remonetization. But while
this is true what shall we say of those
who, if they do not actually oppose it
themselves, continue to vote for ard
act with the known foes of silver,
either in local fields or upon
the broader field of national
action2 No. matter which party
declares for silver, that party should
get the full and unshorH western vote
two years hence for its nominee for the
presidency. In casting this vote we
vote for silver and can stand everything
else. Let Utah study, work for and
vote her true interests for few years,
and bury her partisanship and her
preiudices in one common grave and
her predictions for silver will begin
to have weight and force, and tell in
the great result which we have limited
at above. We must hunt for those
who will stand with us in common
cause for her hopes, no matter where
they live or by what prejudices they
are swaYed, We want their help, no
matter if they were loyal or disloyal
during the war.
The man who is for reconciliation,
who votes and works for it today, is the
friend of the west, and no man is such
friend to the west who opposes her
vital and overtopping interest, in the
early and complete restoration of sill
yer. Let us look at this thing from
but one standpoint and that is the in
terests of Utah. If ne do, we can
never 90 estray,