The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-09
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fact, but the reasons it advances fol
the faith that is in it in the efforts OF
the president Ito fully restore silver
during his term" do not justify thai
faith Our contemporary says:
Silver men have pointed out how lit
tie all the silver in the world would be
10 US; how easily we could carry and
assimllate II, if necessary; what 20 600
OOO OF free men making a policy means
and how to doubt the result would be-
10 discount in advance the majesty and
the power Of our great republic. But
now that the president of the United
States declares his intention to fully
restore silver during his term. while
ne is setting in motion the machinery
to try to compass that result, these
same silver men, erst so valiant, sneer
from afar off and say it is either a
cheat or delusion; that it can never
be unless Great Britain consents. and
she never viii; that all that can be
done is to whine and sneer and doubt
and deride and swear for four years
more. Do they think that an earnest
demand on the part of the United
States goes for nothing beyond the sea
DO the power and majesty of this
country really count for nothing?
The president declares his intention
Ito fully restore silver during his
term" He may have done so. but we
do not recall the occasion upon which
he so declared. But granting that he
has made such a declaration, it can
only be his intention to restore silver
IN accordance with the st. Louis plat
form. 1t is the declarations of that
platform which make impossible any
faith in the efforts of the president to
restore silver. Such may be his sim
cere desire, but he is handicapped by
the declarations of the platform upon
which he was elected Our contem-
porary may term this sneering or jeer-
ing, deriding or swearing. but it still
remains an incontrovertible fact.
1t is asked of those who have no
great faith as to the results of the eff
forts in behalf of silver now being put
forth by the president whether they
think an earnest demand on the part of
the United States goes for nothing be-
yond the sea? whether the power and
majesty of this country really count for
nothing?
These people of little faith have great
faith that an earnest demand on the
part of the United States goes for a.
great deal beyond the sea; and they
believe that the power and majesty of
this country counts for very much in
deed. But is any earnest demand
on the part of the United States in
behalf of the full restoration of silver
being made on any country beyond the
sea, east or west? If so, by whom is it
being made? 1t is true that there are
now in Europe three distinguished
sent abroad by the presi-
dent, whose mission it is to visit the
governments of the chief commercial
nations for the purpose of ascertaining
their views upon the question of as
'embling another International none
AIRY conference, and whether the same
s desirable or feasible. When they have
ascertained this their mission will
lave been completed. If the chief COM
nercial nations think another confer
ence is neither desirable nor feasible
VIII Mr.. Mckinley go any further in
'arrying out his intention to fully re-
store silver during his term?" Where
5 the warrant for the belief that he
viii? Not in the st. Louis platform.
surely. What becomes of the earnest
when the bimetallic commits
ioners inform the president that the
eading commercial nations of Europe
Will decline to do anything ito fully
estore silver" if they shall so inform
i'm?
Our contemporary says the silver men |
lave pointed out how little all the sill
er in the world would be to us. and |
ow easily we could carry and assini- |
ate it, if necessary. They have pointed |
ut all this, and said that the adoption |
+ the free coinage of silver by the |
'nited States at the ratio of IS TO l.
'ould bring silver to a par with gold |
nd fix the price at S129 an ounce in
tanter, and keep it there. The argu-
tents on which this conclusion is
ased are we'll known to our contem-
orary, and have been urged by it re-
And yet our contemporary
SKIS if those who have little faith in
hat the president is doing to restore
liver realize that the capitalists of
ngland are right now rejecting that,
S events are crystallizing in Amer
a, the $1,000, 900, 600 which this country
ives to them will be liable to be paid
lem in deprecated silver, unless they
ecept this honest request for an ad-
of the silver question:
If the capitalists of England would
= paid the $4,000, 600, 900 which this
'untry owes them in deprecated sill
er, then every argument adj
anced by our contemporary and
very other advocate of the in
ependent free coinage of silver
= the United States falls to the
'ound. The question our contempor-
Y asks is tantamount to an admission {
lat the adoption of free coinage by
us country alone would not bring sill |
II to a par with gold at the ratio of ]
to l; it is the acceptance in toto of
lie financial declarations of-the st. !
ouis platform. {
1t is possible that the presidents ef-
rts may result in the restoration of
ver. Eve sincerely hope they may).
1t belief that they will must rest upon
18th and not upon reason.
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