Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-11-02
AN EASTERN OPINION OF SENATOR
JONES.
FACTS WHICH IT WOULD BE WELL FOR 7EE
PEOPLE OF NEVADA To CONSIDER.

EDITOR CARSON APPEAL will you per- ii
me to say few words relative to a statesn Ill
whom the whole country delights to hon.r
The election to be held in Nevada ON the 5fn
day of November will be eagerly watched by
the whole country. Truthfuly speaking it
involves national question. The question
is: Shall silver maintain its place as
money metal2 Now, need l inform any
intelligent being what the consequences will
be if the people of Nevada permit the Demo-
cratic party to elect majority of the men,
bers of the Legislature in November. A
grave and responsible duty is before them.
A United States Senator is to be selected
by the Legislature elected by the people next
month. Your present Senator Hon. J. P.
Jones, the author of the Silver Bill, and
statesman who has in the past proved himself
unhnchingly correct on the whole circle of
monetary and financial questions, is a candl-
date for reelection. Will the people of
Nevada by electing a Democratic Legislature
assume the Democratic financial hereses and
by that means assist in continuing the bust
ness depression and distress such as have
been affecting us for the last five yearsl Will
they place their own State in false and
ignominious position before their sister
States? Will they indorse the views of the
gold lords in New York, which demand that
your mineral production shall be treated IN
the same manner as wheat, rice or any other
commodity! Or will they administer wise
and noble rebuke by electing a. Republican
Legs} ature, thus ensurng the return of John
P Jones to the Senate and showing to the
country that Nevada approves of her Sena-
tors course and indorses silver as money
metal! 1t is a self-evident truth if the peo
pie of Nevada repudiate silver they can not
expect other States to maintain It's rights.
1t would be a work of sEpererogation in me
to attempt to give a synopsis OF the great
good Senator Jones has done the country III
bringing the Silver Bill up to the practical
perfection in which it was passed. We are
all familiar with the fact that when the bill
was passed the country was Overrun with
silver. Germany alone had nearly 81 ,OO0,
900, 900 for disposal. The supply available
from your State was sufficient to fill the mar
ket of the earth. The bill, as it passed Con
gress, had the immediate effect of diverting
over s. 800, 900 month from the increasing
current and turned it into natural channel.
This, Mr. Editor, is vital question, and to
the people of Nevada an all important one.
Suppose the Silver Bill had not passed,
can you imagine how silver would have de-
preciatedl Can you contemplate the distress
that would have been entailed upon your own
State! If the bill had not passed the depre
citation in silver would have been so great
that two-thirds of the silver mines of the
country would have closed down, business of
all kinds would have been paralysed, depres
sion and distress such as people never knew
would have followed. That this state of af-
fairs did not follow is due to Senator Jones.
That the American people now stand on the
threshold of a new period of prosperity is
also due to him AS an Eastern man | will
ask your people, is there nothing due to a
statesman of this character! Senator Jones
felt convinced that his course was noble and
worthy oue he knew that law autheriz- |
ing the free coinage of the standard silver
dollar, restoring it to its legal tender charac
ter, would benefit the country and insure |
happiness and prosperity to the people, and
notwithstanding he was opposed by Senators,
the money powers of Europe, the gold lords
of the East, the financial writer's of the two
hemispheres, he kept moving with an untir-
ing energy such as was never known in the
history of this or any other country until at
last his efforts were crowned with success and
Congress was forced to- remonetize silver
To-day he is recognized both in Europe and
this country as one of the greatest fnanciers
of the age. | will ask, Mr. Editor, how
many public men in this country would have
Jared to have opposed the gold lords and the
oondhoders? How many could have with
stood the temptations placed in their way at
he inception of the bill! Certainly such
departure from the course which most men
would have pursued is entitled to some recog-
lition. The Monaghan curse which affects
he Pacific Coast has never escaped the Sena
or's attention. Both in Congress and out
ide he has always argued that Chinese i'm
aigration should not only be restricted but
bsoutely prohibited. At the time he was
apdidata to the National ReDnhlican Con-