, 1899-12-14
THURSDAY, DECEMBER IA. 1899.
THE sNARLERs.

our morning contemporary is in sore
straits. 1t is most anxious to know our
status on the silver question. and
quotes lovingly from the Sacramento
Bee the questions: WAS not the sill
yer cause a righteous one then QS96?"
1t 1t not a righteous one YETI" Sup
pose both questions are answered in the
affirmative, what then? Colonel Bryan
Is a good silver man, is he not? Well,
he has been struggling with all his
might ever since he took off his SOL
diers uniform to find some other issue
to make next years fight on, for Col
onel Bryan has no faith in being able
to carry an election on that issue. Hon.
Joseph Sibley, an old-time silver man
and democrat, declares that the silver
issue is dead; Senator Morgan takes
practically the same view: it was drop
ped from the democratic platforms
last summer; it had but a ]perfunctory
support anywhere save in two or three
states. In 1896 there was depression
and despair all over this country. Sill
yer was put on trial and lost. Now the
money volume of the country is vastly
increased; average prices have in
creased so per cent: many great manu-
featuring establishments, crowded as
they are to the utmost, have a years
orders ahead, and quite a million OF
voters who were idle in 1896 are en-
ployed at living wages today. To try
to carry the country under such con-
ditions. for silver. is pure lunacy.
point to a man who was a gold man in
1896, who is a silver man now, while
some OF the very ablest of democrats
who were silver men in 1896. say now:
Its nc use" Where, then, do the
sneers and insolence of either the Bee
or Herald come in? But there is a
vast difference in the silver question
of today and of 1896. Gould Mr.. Bryan
have carried the election in 1896, with
a silver majority in congress, silver
would not only have been restored in
this country, but the minis OF India
would have been opened, n silver in
the market, as a commodity, would
have been at a parity with gold at once.
Now the gold standard has been fixed
by law upon India and the government
there is looking to the United States
for the gold with which to make a
basis for it. India has been absorbing
for 1000 years. With a silver cham
pion elected president and with silver
given free coinage like gold. in the IN
tied States, the silver would at once
begin to gravitate this way. 1t would
but follow a natural law. But with
that prospect ahead, the bankers OF this
country would begin to lock their
vaults, and the panic and losses of 1898
would be as nothing by comparison
be absolute paralysis of business, and
such distress as a dozen wars could not
bring. The Bee and Herald, before
they grow so glib about TRAITORS" to a
principle, had better go into confession
with themselves and see how much
they lack of advertising themselves as
candidates for the home of feeble-
minded.
Beyond silver the Bee tries to estb-
lish that Colonel Bryan has not been
denouncing the wal in the Philippines,
and the Herald has the gall to copy
what the Bee says. That needs no COM
ment. Colonel Bryan has been in full
accord with every "anti" in the land
from Edward Atkinson to Senator Ma
son, from the Springfield Republican
to the Salt Lake Herald, and has been
the chiefest source of encouragement
to Aguinaldo G. Co., and the American
people, will never elect a president of
that kind.-Salt Lake Tribune.