The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-30

OMAHA, June "a special from
Waterloo, Ia, says: Ex-Governor Boies
today made public this letter, replying
to a message from a New York paper
concerning the Whitney declaration.
Owing TO my absence from home
did not receive yours by wire until this
morning. Mr.. Whitney is entirely right
in his conclusion that there is no dis
position on the part of those who will
represent the silver sentiment OF the
south and west in the Chicago conven-
ton TO further discuss the matter at
issue with the men whose views are
Numerically opposite to their own on
the currency question.
ENTIRELY CORRECT.
He is entirely correct in his con-
clusion that it is now too late to ac-
complish any practical results by a
discussion of that character.
Throughout the south and west that
discussion has been extended and
thorough, and the views expressed by
Mr.. Whitney have been put forward
by many people who entertain them,
and they have been fully considered
and weighed, and sitter all of this the
Judgment of an overwhelming majority
of the party in these sections is evil
denced by the class of delegates who
have been chosen to represent the
states in the Chicago convention.
KNOWN TRUTH.
mot one Of these men can now re-
gard the known sentiment of those
who selected him without betray4ng
the trust confided to him and not one
of them, in my judgment, will ever
do so.
'sMr. Whitney is entirely wrong in
assuming that free silver Democrats
are forsaking the fundamental princi-
pies of Democracy, or that what he
terms sound money Democrats are
defending. those principles in their en-
deavor to commit their party to gold
recommendation.
Until the Republican party met in
ST. Louis a few days since, there was
never a line written in a national plat
form of either of the great parties that
justifies the claim that the one or the
other of these parties was committed
to that doctrine. Over and over again
the Democratic party in national con-
vention assembled, has put itself on
record in the ciearest and most COM
prehensive language possible
IN FAVOR OF BIMETALLISM,
in favor of the restoration of silver to
its place in our financial system as
standard money, and, never for a mo-
ment in the congress of the United
States has a majority or anything like
a majority of the representatives of
that party wavered in it's devotion to
the principle so clearly enunciated in
the party platforms. To assume now
that adherence to that principle is
abandonment of an established doc
trine of the party is to defy history
and ignore the most plainly written of
all it's declarations of policy.
1T is useless to claim that tender
of the good offices of the party to Sc
cure an international agreement for
the free coinage of silver is the full
fillment Of it's pledges so often made in
this respect. To sincere
BELIEVERS IN BIMETALLIsM
for the United States an offer Of this
character is little, if anything, less
than an unqualified violation Of a
sacred pledge by a great political
organization. If this is all that Mr.
Whitney and those who think with
him can Offer it will be vastly better
to offer nothing. When Mr. Whitney
says the maintenance of our present
gold standard is essential to the preser-
demption of our public pledges, he
ignores a great truth of which he
cannot be ignorant. He knows that
there is not a single obligation of this
government outstanding today that by
it's terms is payable in gold alone. and
he knows that right upon the face of
the great bulk of the bonds of the
government it is written, in substance,
that they are payable in coin of the
United States of the standard weight
of fineness of it's coins before silver
was deinonetized and that, therefore,
by their own express terms, they are
payable in
OUR PRESENT SILVER DOLLAR,
if the government elect to so pay
them. 1t is since the most of those
obligations were issued that silver has
been demonetized; whereby, if they
are to be paid in gold alone, their
value has been doubled, and the
burden OF the great industrial classes
who must provide for their payment
has been increased two fold. To talk
about a violation of national honor
when no party in the nation has ever
suggested its failure, in the least de-
gree, to meet every obligation it has
/ assumed according to the strict letter
! of the contract it made, has, to say
the least, a strange sound to those
who heard the universal cry of distress
occasioned, as they believe, by doubling
the purchasing power of money anc
cutting in twain the market price oil
the products of labor. If to undo
what law has done to add to the bur
dens of those toiling millions OF this
nation and double the fortunes of the
rich within, is to disrupt the Demo.
cratic party,
DISRUPTION MUST COME.
1.-THE majority of the party win sub
nit to no wrong such as the perman
ent esta blishment of a. single golt