It is easy to see what the end must be. Nothing less than the triumph of independent bimetallism within the next four years. Senator Teller, whois the one man in the silver party of outstanding ability and unimpeachable integrity—said last year to the writer that he did not see how such triumph could be achieved in a less time, but that he believed it would be achieved then. Subsequent events appear to be confirming the likelihood of his prophecy. It is singularly unfortunate for the ites" that their journalistic weapons should so largely be those of ignorance and abuse. It would seem that most of the writers for the gold press have never tray-elled in the South or West, and malign recklessly a constituency of whose character they ttle understanding. It cannot be too often repeated, in face of the continually applied epithets of "anarchists,"
repudiationists, thieves," 'i muses," ' socialists," that the bulk of the voters for free-silver through the south-west are at least as intelligent, God-fearing, and proudly honourable as the bulk of the voters in the Esstern states. The danger with which their heresies are threatening the country may bea grave one, but it must be met by a campaign of education and sound argument, and not by one of empty sound and fury.' It is a painful sign of weakness that the conservative press is so largely content to beg the question at issue and deal with ill-informed argument and the representations of the silverite position. Men like Stewart and Peffer and Altgeld are their targets, and are grandly riddled with shot and shell: while the millions who have neither mines, nor social list theories, nor crazy Populist heresies run to seed, are largely left unscathed by all the tumult of attack. oprovs COMPARISONS.
A still more misleading comparison than thet just alluded to, is the one which is being made by the magnifiers of sectional feeling, between the present situation and that which preceded the Civil War. We are told that West is arraying itself against East in such wise that war will be the only conclusion of the struggle as it proved to be a generation ago when slavery instead of silver was the root of bitterness. It needs little enough acquaintance with the present conditions in the States and with the history of thirty years that went before the great war, to see how utterly fallacious is such an analogy. The interests of East and West are for the time being widely diverse. The lack of sympathetic understanding between them, and the presence of an ignorant and bitter mutual prejudice is all too evident. Light headed demagogues, like blood-to-the-bridle" Waite, find in this opposition of interests a congenial field for melodrat oratory. And certain writers in re that should know better, base upon smiler utteranees—at which a whole country laughed, or frowned—solemn prophecies of coming battle and murder. Nevertheless, there is not a man of any weight in any section of the country or in any party, who will lend a moment's sup-Port to attempts at inflaming sectional prejudice or widening sectional differences. The one man who attempted to do this thing at the Chicago Convention, Senator Tillman of Carolina, went out a politically ruined man in consequence, discredited and despised by East and West alike. Compre this all but universal recognition of the supreme necessity for unity of action, with the feeling both North and South during those black and bitter of days, through which, with frequent and bloody outbreaks, the country went staggering on towards the red disaster that awaited it, It is easy for a stranger to pick out, for newspaper pur-pores, certain points of resemblance; but the difference, thank God is still worldwide, and all Americans familiar with actual conditions in North and West and South know this to be true.
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