The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-21
AS HON. c. S. vARIAN SEES IT

Senator brown announcer luS poSitiOi
of the Republican party upon the silve
question as follows:
..Bimetallism must be approached con
servativelv, hence the tariff laws should
continue in operation until this country
becomes rich enough to pay off its great
private indebtedness and then we car
more easily attain bimetallism- The
greatest obstacle to the free coinage OF
silver is the great amount of legal tender
and ii will take ten years production OF
silver to take the place of this paper
money in circulation
Here we have a new departure. Wher-
ever the Republican party has spoken in
other states upon this question, it has
boldly pronounced for the single gold
standard to be maintained permanently.
The crooked and Elusive utterances of the
St Louis platform have long since been
abandoned. The secretary of the treas
ury more than a year ago. announced
the purpose of the administration bill rel
alive to the currency, TO be the complete
and final ending OF the controversy. The
League of Republican Clubs and the state
conventions every where have fallen into
line. and even in Utah the state conven-
ton heartily endorsed the policies of
the administration. K is true the plat
in opposite directions. so that the Provo
Enquirer said:
Utah county's candidate for congress
was really defeated by the platform
adopted. He could not have run on that
platform with any success" And in rela-
ton to the platform itself the Enquirer
remarked editorially:
In only one single way did the conven-
! ton deviate from true Republicansm,
and that was in the independent free
coinage of silver. That clause of the plat
form is not Republican, and it looks like
dissemblance to insert it
| Very much so. But Senator Brown was
! chairman OF that convention and his in
fluence appears to have dominated it.
His Interpretation of Republicanism in
Utah may be accepted as authoritative
He holds that the restoration to the coun-
try of bimetallism must be deferred until
| through the operation of the tariff laws
/ the country is able to pay off its private
! indebtedness. and that the greatest OBJ
/ stacle to the free coinage of silver is the
paper money in circulation, which must
1 be replaced by silver. This, he infers,
must be done through the silver that is
to be mined for which reason the job
viii take ten years. Does Senator Brown
anticipate a time in all eternity when the
private Indebtedness of the people will be
liquidated? Does he understand the true
relation between the money volume of the
nation and the debts of labor? The in
debte1ness of this country, public and
private. must all be paid by the labor of
the people, and month by month, year by
year, with a restricted money volume
and increasing population and necessities,
no With l,a ~
paid is approaching in value.
His second proposition. like the other,
indicates a poverty of thought upon the
question that is appalling. But, these ut
terances of Senator Brown. made Off
cially for his party in Utah, naturally
give rise to some wonderment as to the
real position Of the Salt Lake Tribune
upon this question. Can it endorse Sen
ator Browns position? Two years ago,
upon the dissolution of the st. Louis
convention, it announced its inability to
support the Republican candidates, who
stood upon a platform, it will be remem-
bered, not expressly hostile to silver, but
with recognition conditioned upon the
consent Of other nations. The Repub-
lican party is now fatty for the gold
standard. The great leaders of the past
in congress, who spent years in a vain
struggle within the party for the return
to sound financial principles. have aban-
doned it in despair. The Tribune says
that there is no silver Cor money! issue
between the parties in Utah Mr. Ed
re6ge, the Republican candidate for con-
gress, says Gf he is reported correctly,
that the silver issue is settled. Is there
not an issue when the Republican plat
form endorses both sides of the question.
and the leaders of the party proclaim
that no solution shall be had until this
world is not?
And who decides that the question is
settled? Gage and Hanna. The truth is,
all of these men make the tariff ques-
ton the dominating one. They do not al
ways say so, but the thought is under
lying all of their speeches, and this is
honest, straight Republican doctrine 1t
is what Mckinley teaches. Mckinley.
who, years ago. in congress spoke and
voted for free coinage of silver, has
changed his views, and with the bankers
and the trusts betrayed his party to the
gold power.
There is no question as to the attitude |
of the Republican party everywhere but !
in Utah. But here is an atmosphere of /
deceit and double dealing. Why, my Re |
publican friends, do you not come out !
even as your great and honored Marcus !
A. Hanna urged you to do? Do you feel |
that you can enjoy the fruits of a victory |
obtained by means of false pretenses? !
And yet. a victory won supon the canvass !
you are making Will not be an honest
one. because you do not submit the great |
issue to the test of the people With
evasive and dishonest utterance you de-
claim your allegiance to the cause of hu-
manity, but your party and platform are
against you. VIII your candidate for
your candidates for the senate.
say upon their honor as men that if ex
allied TO those high stations they will vote
and labor for free coinage bill?
Surely, there is at least enough of the
great issue remaining with the people of
this state to demand candidates who will
its real sentiment.
Why do none of you in unmistakable
language. say to the people that although
Republicans, you Will not obey your party
,aucus, or follow the direction of your
party leader upon this question? You
are aware that the objections to making
;uch declarations are very great A Re
publican who shall go to congress pledged
% the free coinage of silver will be as
severely excluded from his party councils
Is a Democrat would be. His lonely way
les between the two parties and his activ-
ties are confined to attending to his mail
Ind drawing his salary. The face of that
;reat and good man, whose indictment for
bribery by the Ohio Legislature lies buried
lnder the Republican majority in the
enate. will be turned away from him. and
IN "iridescent dream"
If such contingency does NOT dict,,-t, |