The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-02-18
PROVO CITY.
ON RISING GROUND.

The other day when the associated
press dispatch from Berlin announced
that Won MiIbach had introduced
resolution in the Reichstag calling for
an intern ational conference on the
question of restoring silver,a great sigh
of relief came from every American
heart which Is attuned to the miseries
ana distresses of the people. Today
the glad tidings come that the resolu-
ton not only passed that body trium-
phantly, but that the government of
Germany is in thorough accord with
the aims and purposes of the resolu-
.tiOn. This is almost too much JOY for
one occasion. The resolution is most
powerful rebuke to the weakness and
folly of the government OF the United
States on the strenuous efforts 1t is
weakly making to fasten the gold
policy upon US, at the very moment, too,
that all the enlightened governments
of the world are considering how silver,
or the double standard, may be best re-
stored, with the minimum Of financial
disorder. 1t is true that Won MirDach' S
move may be but an unfrank move to
settle and fix the gold standard more
firmly upon the nations. If SO, the
true policy of this country would be to
rush the restoration of silver and be in
fn
great advantage the conclusion of
peace in China and Japln would give
us. 1t turns out that this very con-
sideration it is which is hurrylng the
business men of Germany in the effort
to restore silver. Germany and Eng
land do not see this settlement made
and the United States practically on a
silver basis,-which it would be were
it alone to remonetiZe-without coming
into the arrangement, at least so far as
to re-establish the double standard.
The nation which takes the lead in
this great work will be the nation to
which the east will inevitably turn with
its great volume of trade as soon as
peace returns to them. The United
States will be in the very track of the
trade. Hers will be the shortest water
haul and and her transcontinental rail-
road haul is at least two thousand
miles shorter than the Trans Caspian
line would be. Indeed is it great
stake the United States has to play for.
1t is a pity that at this important
iuncture we have not single states
man whose head rises above the mass
of struggling mediocrity at Washington
which would wreck the national
finances rather than forego the
merest partisan advantage. We
need both craftsmanship and patriot
ism now, more than ever before in our
history. and we have infinitely less OF
it. A Webster, Clay, a Calhoun,
would be IF fabulous worth to US.
The presidents course on this whole
matter Of forcing the country down
upon a gold basis has been the work of
either imbecility, or the fell task of one
who thinks more of the interests of the
golden Europeans than of his own
country. We need men now who are
distinctly American in all their hopes
and aspirations. We have no use for
the sickly sentimentalists who would
follow England and crown her with the
gold of the world while our own peo-
pie starve and wrangle as they have
been doing now for over three years,
in poverty and weakness.
There are few, very few democrats In
congress now who will stand by Mr..
Cleveland IN his financial policy. If
the break were once made, the full
measure of this democratic feeling Of
dissent from his policy would be seen
for the first time. The whole policy
seems so heartless, SO unfaithful from
the standpoint of party faith,
so cruel to the people, SO inopportune,
that the wonder is how any man, any
American. could have pursued it as he
has done.