The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
QUESTIONS FOR THE TRIBUNE.


q tough formation And we reply
that the Tribune is tough and devilish
sly" 1t wants to know what we would
have it do; if we would have it continue
to advertise that nothing can be done
for silver until A. D. 1901, when a Dem
ocratic president may be inaugurated.
at the end of its article it suggests that
we read its Washington special in its
Sunday issue, and closes by saying that
It is for the rehabilitation of silver by
the shortest and most direct route.
We have read that Washington dis
patch, but We're not very much i'm
pressed with it. 1t read very much as
though this Republican senator was
. making a special plea for the purpose of
| inducing the silver Republicans to
stand by their party. This senator eve
venture the assertion that he voted for
Mckinley and not for Bryan) says that
I'VE now have a Republican admins
tration, an administration representing
a party whose whole history is a guar
antee for the redemption of party
pledges This administration is using
its best. endeavors to bring about an in
! ternational agreement in conformity
with the pledge in the party platform.
What is to be gained for silver by at
tempting to cheaper the efforts or to
abate the energy of the administration?
Will free coinage be brought about any
| sooner by that course? Has any one
hoped that the administration can be
driven from the limits of its party plat
form and made to advocate unlimited
coinage of silver by this country alone?
Certainly not
The senator says that the administra-
ton cannot be driven from the limits
of its party platform and made to ad-
vocate unlimited coinage of silver by
this country alone In that we most
heartily concur 1t is true that the
administration sent a commission
abroad to sound various governments
on the silver question, but does any
one, does our morning contemporary
believe that the administration had
any other purpose in so doing than to
be able to say that it had carried out
the pledges of the ST. Louis plat
form?
No one knows better than our con-
temporary that bimetallism means that
gold and silver shall have the same
privileges at the minis and that there
shall be a double instead of a single
monetary standard. Now, if the ad-
ministration is genuinely and honestly
in favor of bimetallism, why is it that
Secretary Gage, the official financial
head of the administration, introduces
to the house committee on banking and
currency a bill whose primary object
is to strengthen the gold standard? We
ask our contemporary if the single colo
standard is not inconsistent with true
bimetallism? And if it is, why does
our contemporary persist on insisting
that the administration is trying to dc
something for silver by means of inter
, national bimetallism? Actions speak
louder than words, and Secretary
Cages action speaks very much louder
than President McKinley's words in his
message on what is the real purpose OF
the administration so far as bimetal
ism is concerned.
Our contemporary says that it is fol
the rehabilitation OF silver by the short
5 est and most direct route. Very good
It asks US what we would have it do
We would have it answer these ques
Y tons:
S Does it honestly and sincerely believe
that it is possible for the administrator
to bring about bimetallism by interna
+ tional agreement?
Does it believe that the sending
abroad of the Wolcott commission wa
anything more than for the purpose o
enabling the administration to say tina
it had fulfilled the pledges of the st
Louis platform?
Does it believe that the United State
will ever have the free and unlimited
; coinage of silver unless they shall es
: tabiish it without waiting for the con
: sent or cooperation of any other ma
ton?
These are not difficult questions 70
: our contemporary, and it should no
= hesitate to answer them.