The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-02-09

THE PRESIDENTIAL DEFEAT.

In France, the president would have
resigned. In England, if the govern
ment had fathered bill such as the
Springer bill and had suffered defeat
on the final vote, The prime minister
would have resigned and the opPosi-
tion would have come into power. Mr..
Cleveland's administration. or rather
his two administrations, have had but
two graat measures of policy TO urge.
The one, tariff reform, has achieved
only half success; and the other, to
put the country on a gold basis, has
utterly and signallY failed. Mr.. Cleve-
land cannot be called an ignorant man.
He knows, therefore, if he knows any
thing, that the goldites of the United
States constitute but pitiful minority
of the people. That the people are
profoundly welded not only to the fair
bimetallism, but they are enthusiastic
ally devoted to silver. No man stand
ing where Mr.. Cleveland does can be
at all ignorant of the utter truth of
the above statement, yet he has, from
some darkly concealed cause, chosen
to 60, not only against the concensus
of opinion IN his own party, but
against the aggregate of the public
sentiment of the nation. This, too,
In country which prides itself upon
the fact that public sentiment is
the supreme law of the land.
No man, we repeat, knows better
than does Mr.. Cleveland that this
country is bimetallic to its uttermost
core, and yet he has followed the ad-
vice of the bankers of Wall street and
weakly fallen in with the gold stand
ard forces of Europe led by that hide
Gus menace to human liberty. Roths-
childs, in fastening upon this free land
the cruel chains with which that arch
enemy of the poor of the world has
bound the nations OF Europe, ,and which
he is endeavoring to fasten upon the
limbs OF the people of India, China
aDd Japan as well as the United States.
Well, it is oyer, and this awful defeat,
awful to him and his followers, set ties
the question definitely and we believe
forever, that this country is not to be
gold standard, but that it will be ul-
timately and forever gold and silver,
dual standard. This result is an earn
est of this hope and only few years,
perhaps less than three, will see the
gold demon spread his wings and the
black incubus of debt, starvation and
bankruptcy fly away where one man
rules nations, and the other rules the
rulers.
We only regret that Mr.. Cleveland
is called a democrat, and in
that way in the minds of
the unthinking the great party
of the people is blamed. Now let dem
ocrats pull themselves together for an
uDending struggle for restoration, to
the end that the old prosperous days of
the double standard may return again
to US at the earliest possible day. In
this great work let us call to our aid all
the men who will manifest any willing
ness at all to help. For individuals we
care not. Let US only regard the dis.
tressed and impoverished middle and
working classes of the whole country
and place all where it will again be
possible for an honest man to make an
honest living for his family as he could
before this hellish idea of single gold
standard was conceived and projected.
Cleveland is gone. He is now only a
memory. For the good in that memory
we shall always mourn, but for his at
tempt to fasten the gold standard upon
this fair free land of free coinage, we
can never forgive him.