The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-14
PROVO CITY. MAY
A MEAN TRICK.

The gold bugs, finding the ground
slowly but surely slipping from be-
meath their feet and totally unable to
meet either the logic or the facts pre-
sented by the friends of remonetiza-
ton, are now busy teaching the un-
wary that the advocates of the remon-
etization of silver favor the demoneti-
zatiOn of gold and to substitute silver
for it. This is false, almost beyond ex-
preston, and inconcievably mean, be-
Cause the true silver man is bimetal-
list always. He favors the double
standard Of gold and silver both and
and opposes the single standard, let
that ba either yellow gold or white sill.
yer. RECOMMENDATION means restora-
tion, an early return not only to the
money standards as they existed before
'73, but to the prosperity and business
modes of the olden time before John
Sherman's wicked brain conceived the
wicked purpose of demonetizing silver
Of course no one who is familiar with
the Wiles and the recklessness of the
gold men are deceived by the thin
sham, but we are TO remember that
men in distant parts of the country
and haying interests other than those
by which we in the mountains are sur
rounded, are not watching these
tactics as intentlY as we are, and con-
sequentlY too often fall into the snare
spread for them by the dishonest and
guileful gold bugs.
The other day the gold standard men
Of Texas met in convention at Waco,
and the whole burden of the song they
sang was, the merits of gold over sill
YER money. Had they been interested
In silver to the extent that they are in
cotton they could not have been be-
fooled in this way, and the resolutions
which they passed would never have
been written.
If we can have, but one money metal
then We would infinitely prefer gold to
silver for many good and sound rea-
sons; but as it is, and while chance
remains for the double standard, we
Will never cease fighting for the
equality of silver with gold as a
marker Of values, at Is to /. We trust
that our brsYe double standard men
will take note Of these base tactics and
apply a competent remedy. Plenty of
sound silver literature should be sent
TO Texas so that the task of our friends
there may be lightened and truer and
healthier feeling for silver be set up.
The free silver men of Texas far out
number the gold men anyhow, but il
will lniure no good influence to spread
abroad the facts concerning the re
monetiZation Of silver and the attitude
of the west on the subject.
Two years since the democracy Of
Texas split on questions very similar to
this, but especially on the tariff cues
ton. Various efforts have been made
TO reUnite these severed factions, and
shacklY peace was patched up. Now
the gold faction, recalling the fact that
Mr.. Cleveland, who stands to them as
q fsultless democrat, is a most pro
nounced single or gold standard
man, this is misleading to the Texan
democrats and it ought to be met by
our best pro silver writers and speakers
ere it has gone too far, or while fight
ing chance remains. OF course such
fight is unnecessary here or elsewhere
in the west, but in the south it is nee
essary.
To the end that the proper steps may
be tsRen to meet the requirements
Of the situation, at the coming silver
conference in Salt Lake on Wednesday
we suggest that the conference COM
press the matter into a terse and Yigor- !
Gus resolution pointing out the false
argument ana the perfect antidote, so |
that its publication may be had all over
the union, including Texas. VIII not |
some Utah delegate move in this mat
ter and never abandon it until the
is secured?