The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1899-08-09
EXPANSION
OF
PLAIN TRUTHS"

~ THINK OtuoIWists iury WISH 10
treat that question as settled ami laid
mon the shelf with other volumes OF
ancient history. They seem 10 believe
that not ouly have their arguments
established the gold standard theoreti-
caly IN such fashion that the great
multitude of bimetallists who made the
race so close and so Uncertain in 1895
are both vanqulshed and convinced,
but they point out also that an over
ruling Providence has assisted In
stopping all free.silver mouths and in
silencing all "silver.tongued" orators
BY uncoyering so much gold that there
Il an abundance OF money without the
While metal.
Anyone can see why those who are
tied TO the gold-standard for personal
and political reasons should attempt to
make the bimetallists feel that their
oaks are so depleted and demoralized
that they are nothing but shadow of
what was once host.
: II is.not so easy to understand why
sc.cslled independent journals take the
sane easy tone of relegation to the
mast when speaking Of The financial
issue while the very same chaotic and
contradictory policy aud administers
ion leave the same evils unremedied
which these very journals have in
Weighed against WI h u righteous indig-
nation. Some Of these journals stand
40 high 10 our esteem that we cannot
think they wilfully mislead their read
srs or seek to befog the issues Of the
day. 1t may be they are tired OF the
money question and prefer therefore to
conane themselves to the Philippine
problem.
II Is true that many also Of those
who pressed the so-cslled silver ques-
lion tn the forefront Ia the last cam.
paign are now discussing other ques.
tons as If willing to adopt other issues.
There are two possible reasons for such
Q course which occur to our minds and
which we will refer to when We expand
our second proposition.
1t is said in regard to trusts as an is
sue that no patty will defend them,
that all are opposed to them. II that
d true why do not all parties unite
against tie national bank trust? The
great trust is the money trust. The
nation itself Is fostering this trust and
paying the bankers interest on the
bonds which enable them to do q ma
tional banking business, pledging the
credit of the nation Tor the security Of
the banks, the banks at the SAME time
debating the financial policy OF the
nation almost without regard to the
letter Of the laws passed frem time TO
time by congress. Does the oil trust
Cypress the people. putting down the
a. price Of oil where man is opening a
we'll OF his own to five cents a gallon
with lamp wicks and chimneys thrown
10 until the man Is bankrupted OF
means to carry on his little enterprise
then putting II up to a price that Is y
heavy tax on every consumer
Similar are the tactics OF the money
trust. Why should not the nation
adopt system of finance that would
make corner" on money impossible
Instead of allowing scarcity at times
that will affect even such powerful Gus
iness combinations as the railroad
companies, literally eating up the smal
uock holders at willy II trusts canno
be made an issue. il 10 not 10 our opin
lon because all parties are opposed Il
hem. but we shall hope at least to SCI
Issues joined on this immense trust II
the coming campaign, since II Is par
aud parcel of the gnaucial issue, which
WElll not he settled and set aside unit
II Is adjusted In a manner which tn
Heading aud thinking intelligent mass
so Of Americans can see and understand
and also experience 10 the practica
Jpuduct OF affairs TO be just and equi
fable.
But again we can no more agree tina
he question of expansion, or the poll
y Of the government In dealing wit
he Philippines will bs THE issue OF tn
'ampaign than that trusts will not b
An issue.
Did not the United States Congress
Without distinction OF party. vote tb
uuds for prosecuting the WARP d.
'ol men spring forward at the call fo
'0lunteers from all psrtiesi
hnot the nation so committed ths
cannot draw backp There will o
QUOT be continuous discussion an
9nslderable differences OF Opinio
"ucerniug the national policy In th
Nianlic AID Pacific islands, hut to on
auds there is nothing to Indicate
"Oad party division. While all me
spfecate the killing OF islanders the
gard the situation aud necessities {
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