The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-08-21
PROVO CITY.
THE SILVER "CRAzE. u

Our friends in the east speak OF our
western views of currency as the "sll-
yer craze" 1t is so easy to call names
and so far as public sympathy extends
TO make those names popular, but our
eastern brethren may rest assured the
currency question is not settled ana
never will be until silver is again recog-
nized as a standard of value at ratio
of is to /. ..
Severe criticisms have been made OF
the position of free silver advocates In
regard to past legislation, and we are
told we ought not TO question the in
tegrity of congress, but that we should
take it for granted that there has been
no fraudulent intent against the silver
dollar, that it is very unlikely that
measure of such Importance could be
smuggled through congress, and that
our "craze" on this subject will soon
pass away, that we ought to have an
"houest" dollar, one that is always
worth a dollar everywhere, and such
like arguments.
Now we say, restore to the people
what legislation has taken from them;
we do not like the idea when our
property, that we are suffering for the
need Of, ID missing and we
do not know exactly how 1T was taken
from us, but we know it is gone and
that we need it, and somebody else has
has got it, we do not like the fellow
who has got it, to say to US: MY dear
sir. did not know what was doing
when | took this. l intended your best
good. You must not call me by hard
names. am gentleman, SIR, and
must not be questioned. You are
greedy, grasping malcontent when you
ask me to restore that which lnno-
Gently took from you. You do not have
any use for it. You are crazy, sir.
to ask me to put this back where took
it from. l did not intend to take 1t,
but l find it SO convenient to keep 1t
that to ask me to give back to you
YOUR own to keep you from starvation,
will deprive me of little luxury have
cot used to. 1 cannot for moment
think of restoring this to you, have
a friend IN Europe who will not get
any further aid from me in robbing
YOU if L do this. Go to the devil sir
can and will keep it. 1 haye
l,oa this 40 long that BY this time you
it. This Snraza, ..s ---.------7.. - -'o
over"
Now the first thing for those an
qaocent persons to do is to put our
property back into the place and in
the condition it was when they took
il. and then we will feel like reason
ing with them. We do not so very
much care whether they stole it or
not, we demand it put back in its
proper place. We are suffering for
need of it, and their possession of it
enables them to reYel in luxury, and
if we are ''crazy" in asking our own
back again, it is not the 'craze" of
greedy desire to fatten upon the ills of
others, it is the incipiencY Of the
madness of hunger for our own to
keep our life's blood flowing in the
veins of our systems. The people of
the U. S. have not time to call names,
but this has all the effects of robbery"
We do not care about intentions now.
One half our money is destroyed, and
they haYe nearly all the other helf. We
do not care so much whether they are
called s'thieves" or financial gentle
men'-what we care about is that we
want our own back again just as it
was when they took it.
Do they see the handwriting upon
the wall, that the sufferings of the
masses produced by financial legisla
tion, will not much longer be endured
quietly?
Do they fear that their policy is
creating in the minds of the people a
feeling akin to the ma iness of despair,
that they call this a just demand a
'craze?"
1t is not q "craze," temporary
ehulltion. something to be sneered
put of existence. 1t is the dawn of
ight creeping through the crevicss of
he shutters which our so-called
statesmen have put up to keep Gods
sunlight out of the den in which they
,oncock their schemes against society.
t is a revolution that will FeVolYe,
md such revolutions never go back
until the object is accomplished. 1t is
he premonition of the future. 1t is
he light of the dawn silently extend
ng, increasing and spreading until
wen dark corners are illumined, and it
will penetrate even into the recesses of
he hearts of those who have done the
yrevous wrong to the people, and sx-
pose their wickedness.
IT is easy for our populistic friends