The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-18
SILVER LIGHT, NOT ARusE.

The Louisville Courier-Journal has
recently fallen headlong into the gold
lite heresy. This is to be greatly re-
GREETED, because that paper is a power
in the South and has considerable cir
culation and influence throughout the
entire country. But the Cour1er-JOur-
nal makes a very Just complaint as to
the manner in which some silver pa
pers attack those who differ from them
on the financial question. 1t objects to
the 'fcatch words of denunciation" used
by Incorporate silver advocates, and
to the "insidious attempts to discredit
those of a different way of thinking by
intimating that they have secret and
UNIV worthy motives for taking the posi-
ton which they happen to occupy"
It is no answer to that to say there
are goldite organs which misrepresent
the silver men, Not but what the
statement is true. There are eastern
journals which take the ground that
all the advocates of free silver coinage
want, is to get dollar for a half dol
lars worth of metal, and to force upon
the country deprecated and dishonest
money. But that only shows that
those gold organs are as unjust and
abusive as are some of the silver or
gans. It is no excuse for the evil
which the Courier-Journal complains
of.
But there are some editors who can
not concede the honesty or sincerity of
others who do not see through their
spectacles, and they attribute un-
worthy motives to all who do not act
as they dictate. That does not help
their cause but disgusts or enrages
the objects of their vituperation. What
the gold advocates need is light not
abuse, And 1t is not a good sign when
an editor can discover no cause for
different opinion to his own but mer-
cenary or similar unworthy motive.
Suspicion haunts the guilty mind"
and the thought that the critic is
measuring other peoples intents by
the gauge of his own character is i'm
mediately suggested.
That there are two sides to the finan-
question and other subjects of differ
ence among men. must be clear to
every thoughtful mind, and that
great deal which has the appearance
of reason can be offered on both sides,
is evident from the number Of able
men who are opposed to each other.
The Herald is for bimetallism to the
fullest extent of the utilization Of sill
yer and gold as money at the present
ratio of the two metals. But at the
same time it recognizes the fact that
there are millions Of people who verify
believe gold to be the only sure stand
ard of values. and who think unlimited
silver coinage would bring financial
disaster.
What is to be done to convince them
of their error? Call them vile names?
Impute to them the basest Of motives?
Treat them as idiots or knaves? What
good will that do2 It may please the
fancy of fools who regard with hatred
or disdain those who cannot see as
they see But it will not conVice any
one of error, nor elucidate a truth. If
Incorporate gold organs emit abuse,
will it do any good to cry You're an
other" or try to Guido them with sill
yer invective?
The Courier-Journal is right in its
complaint, though wrong in its CONVEX
sion. And it will be in order to watch
its course and see whether it will not
fall into the same evil which it now
condemns in others. For, the mono
metalliSts are not a Whit behind BIZ
metalhsts in hard sayings and the use
of invectiVe in the place of argument
Silver however, having reached the
lowest turn of the wheel, will soon
come up again, and its friends and
supporters will be to the front, while
those who are welded to the gold
alone heresy will find their place in the
rear. The silver star is about to be in
the ascendant!