New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-17

get about the task Of remonetizing H. 40 'hh'
all the product Of their mines should he market
ed M the old rate. and sixty cents worth Oh
silver should for debt-paying purposes be worth
n hundred They are still engaged In that TASK
and now that II takes only forty-four cents
worth Of silver 20 make dollar they are not
ter than ever about IT,
Jones saws in his bugle blast that the people
everywhere ought to arouse themselves and n
"once take steps TO save themselves and their
"children from the letters now being openly
"rorged 10 bind them" He omits to state where
the letters are being openly forged. but MS IAN
guage is go graphic that with very silght
stretch Of fancy the earnest patriots whom ne
addresses can hear the hammcrlng. Butler IN
his bugle blast saws the conflict IS mighty ana
rortentous" with only two sides TO t. All OF
those" he saws "who favor the conspiracy OF
gold and monopoly, who favor Industrial
SLAVERY. widespread poverty and National de-
"structlon. should be on one side and all OF
those, Of whatever party, who love truth ana
right. who love their country. who love Their
"homes and fresidcs. and who believe in the
"socred principles declared by Jefferson and re-
asserted by Jackson and Lincoln. should be on
"the other side" Butler IS very thrilling, but
his composition raises n suspicion that he may
be \ space writer He needs the blue pencil of
n COPY editor Towne and Dubois in their Joint
bugle hast say: Before This awful and imml-
"ncnt peril to the institutions Of our country
every personal ambition must melt away and
every merely partisan contention must be
"stifed" They seem TO be in dead earnest
about Il. That Dubois IS IN earnest we have
every reason to believe His personal ambition
h,f, mi d %
peril n little over n year ago. when the Idaho
Legislature tndlci fire under H. II TowneS
personal ambition melts away as he n'imateS.
he viii probably refuse to be n candidate for
reelection.
All these bugers agree that It IS n crisis III
which their kind Of men should stand by each
other The purpose OF the blasts is 10 call them
an toccther- Democrats. PopulistS and silver
RcpubcanS-for q united effort 10 down the
conspiracy Tho crisis demands that I'D who
believe that forty-four cents worth OF silver
ought 10 hc made legal tender for hundred
cents worth Of debt should lay aside minor
differences and unite IN one tremendous Of
fort 10 carry tho next Congress. And We really
hone ,hcy VIII campaign IN which the
lines should be- strictly drawn on that ISSUE rs
hcy recommend. would ho ry instructive"
There ought 10 be such q campa 20. ana u
ought 10 be final II The voting poopl" of This
country arc Of the deliberate opinion that j
would be either profitable or honorable 10 scale
lown an Indebtedness National STATE. mun."-
ipal. corporate md ind'v.dual-to forty-four
cents on the dollar, the sooner We find i our
and avow ourselves reputation sts rs Nation
/ Tho better BY all means lot the free liver mon
NJ an parties drop every other issue. get to-
[ .othcr and make n square and open fight. We
have TOO great faith in the Ultimate good sense
Z the American people. 10 say nothing Of their
/ honesty 10 have any doubt rs 10 the result