The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-13
SERIES AS y WARNING.

Said Senator Thurston in 1898: 1T is
better we should, if necessary, buy
gold at a premium to settle our for
eign balances with than that the
American people should be compelled
to pay higher prices in human labor
and human endeavor for dollar be-
cause of the adoption of the single
gold standard. I am an advocate of
the American theory. We are not de-
pendent, either for manufactures or
money, on the outside world.
In what respect have conditions
changed in three short years, that
Mr.. Thurston now finds himself Just-
fed in repudiating his former opinion
and lending himself to support of the
single gold standard?
Keep this fact in mind-what Sen
ator Thurston said in 1898 was gospel
truth then, and is gospel truth now.
There has been no change in principle
or conditions, but the Nebraskan mas
gone over to the other side.
You ask how it is possible for a
man to so change his attitude toward
a self-evident truth? The answer is
found in the fact that party ties often
blind the eyes of men and lead them
away from correct principles into
s,,nport of error. Senator Thurston
has changed because his party has
changed. Long before the meeting OF
the national convention in st. Louis
he saw the drift of his party and be-
| gan to prepare to go with It, Two
years ago he had drifted far from the
ground he had previously occupied, and
when the gold men finally captured
the party this year he was wiling
enough to follow their lead.
And this suggests the thought tha'
| If is DANGEROUS for silver men to ever
think of sending men to congress whf
belong to the party that is arrayec
against free coinage. Those who are
willing to try such an experiment
cannot understand that party tie!
hold men with hooks of steel and tina
it is like death to sunder them.
YOU send a Republican to the nous
and another to the senate you canno
tell what they will do when crlsi
arrives. They will be surrounded b!
Republican influence, cajoled by he
publican flatterers and tempted VIII
Republican promises While the eau
Gus whip will crack over them at on
hour, the siren song of power and IN
: fluence will be sounded in their ear
the next, and no man can tell how the
will emerge from the ordeal.
Have we not had proof of tn
reality of this danger? What occurre
! when a crucial test came last winter
Five Republicans were brave enoug
and loval enough to face the batterle
of the enemy and hold aloft the silve
standard; but all the others from tn
silver states Bonded the knee to tn
party image and maintained the
allegiance. Senators Shoup, Brown
Wolcott. Warren, Clark and other
wavered then and they are lighting
> the ranks of gold today. Even on
: of the five senators who made such
L hold stand in the name of bimetallisl
I has since been drawn back by tt
e marty loadstone and is supporting MI
Kinley.
S Not only Thurston, but scores
: other prominent men have been he
: close in the arms of the party in
r gold march; and The Herald admol
i ishes its readers that the record,
: it were painted across the heavens
re characters of flame, could not mo
d solemnly warn us against sending me-
I TO congress who would be subject
party allurement on this all importa
is