The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-13

THE SILVER CONGRESS.


one 10 quarrel with Mr.. Cleveland for
not appointing representatives to
silver congress which bas not as yet
been called and which we are not
quite sure the United States should
attend or take any part in whatever
A silver congress which would not re-
monetize silver would be about the
worst thing we could appear at. How
ever, we are very sure that this is not
the reason restraining the president.
1t is now perfectly clear that any con-
gress which does net include England
could not possibly effect remonetiza-
ton and. any congress in which she
does take part will and can only go
against silver. The fact is the war is
on between this country and England
on the money question and the only
thing we can do, is to accept the guage
of battle and fight it out with the
mother country, and win or lose 1t all.
If the United States were a Weakilng
in either commerce or finance we
might seek congress for the settle
ment of finances, but she is weakling
in nothing and just as able to remone-
tie silver in 1895 as England was 10
demonetize it in 1916, land there is more
in it for her than there was for Eng
land in that enterprise. II Mr.. Cleve-
land ever exhibited the shadow Of
friendship for silver he has exhibited
it alone in avoiding any undue anxiety
about another European conference.
Unless Europe takes some step to in
dicate that she, or at least some one OF
the leading powers, had changed theiI
minds on the subject of bimetallism,
it would be worse than nonsense for
the United States to confer with her
on the subject. If an early return to
bimetallism is desirable, ali we have to
do is to pass free coinage act and the
president to sign it and the thing is
done. Not for the United States alone.
but for the whole world. Such an act
on our part would do away with any
shadow of excuse for the congress, and
yet it woul1resnlt in the full and com
plete acceptance Of the double .to..4-
ard by every trading nation on earth.
There can be no doubt of it and our
method is the shortest and best.
Besides it would give us such a COM
mercial impetus that in fifty years no
nation, either European or Asiatic,
could overtake US. The financial scep-
tel would change from England's hand
to ours very promptly and instead #
borrowing money from her or her sat-
elites, she woutd be on her knees be-
fore our Wall street bankers for the
very favors which we have for so long
sought in Lombard street. This may
not suit the views of some of our fnan-
ciers, but we are sure that the masses of
che people OF the country would very
greatly relish seeing the financial boot
on the other foot for season or &c, ,and
this action would certainly put IL, ano
that very effectively, too.
What is the use of begging another
TO do for you what you can do for your
self9 Why should the United States
wait years and years for Europe to re-
monetize when she can do it effectively
for herself and without any wasteful
or extravagant loss of time? Six
months after remonetization, even by
this nation alone and we, would be in
the very midst of a whirl OF business
activity which would astonish the
world,and within one year there would
be no European nation which had not
followed US into bimetallism.