The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-20
GOLD PRESS DENuNcIAT1oN.

GOLD PRESS DENUNCIATI0N.
Signs are not wanting that the gold
press realizes that the gold advocates
have been too denunciatory of the sill
yer men. 1t also realizes that this de-
nunciation but steels the silver men
against all reason and argument, and
sets them in their determination,
whether it be right or wrong. The I'M
thinking and rabid gold men have talk
ed as though the silver men had no
eyes, no ears, no feelings. Upon them
they have heaped abuse mountain
high and have not hesitated to en-
ploy the vilest language of which they
could think to characterize them. They
have called them all the names that
were the very autonyms, of American
ism of which they have ever heard,
and have even resorted to the cheap
and illiterate practice of coming words
to express their hatred rather than
their ideas 1t has all had its effect,
and very unhappy one it has been
for the country. 1t has engendered
hatred and i'll feeling where they never
existed before
When those delegates who favored
the gold standard arrived in Chicago,
what did they do? They reached Chi
cago on Friday afternoon and as soon
as they had removed the stains of
travel and fortified themselves with a
luxurious banquet they repaired to the
Auditorium theater and proclaimed
their scheme OF operations in a series
of emphatic, but, as we think, most
injudicious speeches. They talked of
dishonor and disgrace; they denounced
the free silver movement as wicked,
vicious and unprincipled; they anatfle-
matized it as the eXpedient of the dis
honest debtor as a war on society and
morals" says the Washington Post;
and it is an exact description. They
were so bloated up with the conceit
of their own greatness and infallibil-
ity that they would have had all ap-
proach them making salaams. The
conceit was soon taken out of them,
and they were proven to be a lot of
jackdaws in peacock feathers.
We believe that abuse of the silver
men by the gold press and the gold
advocates has reached it's zenith, 1t
is to be hoped that it has. Abuse of
either side by the other can do no
good; only harm. This fact is seen by
the New York World. Answering an
anti-silver diatribe by the New York
Tribune, it says:
When it puts all the free-silver men
in the category of traitors attempting
to assassinate the republic it throws
justice to the winds and turns COM
mon sense out of doors. These men
are not disloyal, they are merely de-
luded. 1t is better TO reason with
them than TO denounce them. It is
better sense and more likely to pro-
duce an effect.
1t is true, as the Tribune says, that
| soundmoney Democrats have spoken
as strongly as any Republican could
Of the dishonesty DIS we'll as the dis
aster that would be involved in the
enactment of a free silver law. But it
is not true that the great mass of
! those who support that policy mean
anarchy. They have been driven by
misrule, by unjust class legislation, by
! the outrageous eXactions of greedy
1 lawfavored conspirators, by trusts,
/ monopolies and bond syndicate con-
! troll of the government until they have
| become easy victims of the plausible
! sophistries of demagogues.
! Their outbreak is a craze, a species of
hysteria, but there may be lunacy and
/ hysteria displayed in abusing them. as
our contemporary is demonstrating by
/ example
Let us trust the people. Let US rea-
son with them and teach them. There
remain over a hundred days before
election Newspapers and orators have
all that time in which to expose the
/ delusion thai has led these men
astray.
In the mean time let us remember
that they are not anarchists but
American fellow citizens, most of them
/ honest and sincere and patriotic in
their intentions, though mistaken and
/ imposed upon by twenty years of false
teaching. The republic is safe. No
body has fired upon the flag or is get
/ ting his gun to do so. Some of our
fellow Americans have adopted dam
! gerous policy. That is all. Their de-
/ feat at the polls will end their deus-
ion and their defeat will be much more
! easily and surely accomplished by dis
cussion than it could be by the use OF
unjust and excited epithets.
Trust the people!
That is conservative talk, and ap-
proaches the subject in the proper
spirit The World is mistaken in think
ing that silver will be defeated at the
polls. but it at least does not peremp-
torily shut the door against discuss
ing the question in friendly way.