The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-17

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wolves tentative propositions tina
. would be fatal to the cause.
, Again, Mr.. Brown shows that he il
looking toward the international agree
ment idea as the means by which tn,
problem is to be settled He would vot,
for any measure that tends thai
way" and if no one else puts forward
bill that suits him he will intrcduc,
one of his own.
Silver Republicans realize that tbe
International agreement plan is ar
ignis fatuus that has been and vii
again be internosed to lure men away
from the safe path; they are not look
ing TO it as means by which the stu
alton can be met, nor do they intend to
be deceived by it into abandonment OF
the platform upon which they stand.
Senator Brown is not in sympathy
with those who make this issue para
mount in fact as well as in name: he
does not understand their attitude, and
there is no hope that he can ever get
in touch with them. This is demon
strated by his comments upon the ac-
ton of those five senator's who voted
against consideration of the Dingley
bill
What the proposition in the minds of
the five senators was, he says, he can
not imagine" 1t was to have been
supposed that this matter had been
I sufficiently discussed for him to I'M
/ derstand the views of those men: but,
! if he cannot yet imagine what they
were, there is no possibility of his ever
understanding the beliefs and the pur-
poses of the free coinage advocates he
is out of sympathy not only with them,
but with their cause and can see
nothing in the light in which it appears
to them.
Mr. Brown characterizes the pro-
granme of the silver men as "ob-
structive" and Revolutionary and
he conveys the inference that they he
lieve in resorting to obstruction in con-
nection with any measure. He cannot
see why they refused to vote for con-
sideration of the Dingley bill while
voting for the appropriation bills
1t should be borne in mind that the
silver men do not believe in obstruc-
ton as a weapon for ordinary use.
They do believe that conditions may
arise when it is necessart to strike a
blow that is out of the ordinary When
the force hill vas before the senate. OBJ |
struction of the most extraordinary
character was resorted to to defeat it; |
the opposition was successful, and the |
American people, without distinction as
to party, agree that the obstructive !
programme was wisely laid and that |
those who carried it through did the |
country an inestimable service.
1t is not necessary here to review the
series OF events, reaching over many |
years. that finally forced the silver men
to the conclusion that hope would for
ever be deferred, that promises would !
forever be broken, that restoration of
free coinage would never be accom-
plished unless a blow were struck that
would bring the Republican party and
the whole people to realization of
the fact that the bimetallists were in
earnest and that they could no longer
be depended upon to carry out the
policies of those who alternately toyed
with the question and trampled it in
the dust
You may call it obstruction or you
may apply the term revolution to the
action of the five senators; but it was
one of those things rendered necessary
by the conditions that had been built
up by the enemy; and Mr. Browns
failure to understand it shows that he
cannot appreciate the overshadowing
Importance of the question or the ma
ture of the crisis that has arisen re-
speoting it. He believes, or seems to
believe, that it is question to be APP
preached like any ordinary matter that
may We taken w and considered on
some future occasion; and he stands
in this attitude at a time when the
enemies of free coinage have concen- !
trated all their forces in a determined
effort TO stamp out silver sentiment at
once and foreverl
The effect of the vote" says Mr.
Brown, referring to the action of the
five senators, was simply to intensity
The luminosity against silver and
against western men by those who
we're anxious to pass the Dingley bill.
So far as the action has been taken ii
has been very injurious to silver
That may be a matter of opinion. Q
out it is a singular fact that Mr..
Browns view is not shared by those
Who are making the fight for silver. 1t
S the opinion of silver men that the ?
lotion of the five senators did more Il
han anything else toward making the P
financial question the issue in this cam v
'aign. 1t at once aroused the country t
0 the fact that the issue could not be c
ushed aside; the effect was exactly c
s anticipated by the friends of sill o
er. Those who have never intended n
hat binetaliism should be restored. s.
ut who We're always ready to hold out
ope to the silver men in order that
hey might control them, have de- s,
ounced the senators in particular and b
be friends of silver in general ever C,
nce the Dingley bill was killed: but ii
hat is matter that does not give the II
zee coinage advocates any concern. m
he silver cause has been helped. it has il
cen pushed to the front into a COM q
landing position. and. having achieved HI
lis result, the supporters OF silver care h,
othing about the abuse heaped upon 4,
lem by a baffled. alarmed and en- 4,
lged opposition 6,
Senator Browns kind of silver V,
luse may be and no doubt is hurt by O.
lie policy adopted, for that kind of sill Ia
r men have been driven into the open: or
ost of them are already in rho ranl,s ~,