Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-25

speaks 10 the Silver state-ReDI,
To the Welcome Given Him IL
virginia city July ~. IS7s-Ai
views ON Labor. the silver DE
bate ana Bill. Standardization q
Corporations TO the Common
wealth. the Chinese Curse anG
What Must he Done. and Sur
render OF His Senatorial Trust.
Senator Jones spoke from the balcony o
the International Hotel and was received
by very large and enthusiastic audience
After an eloquent introduction from
Colonel r. II. Taylor, he spoke as follows
FeiLo1C Citize3tS: Would that with a
master hand could sweep the keys of Ian
guage and make utterance photographic
ally express the mingled sentiments of joy,
pride and gratitude that are yelling up in
my heart tonight. Would | were 30
gifted in speech that / could adequately
convey to you how much appreciate the
warm greeting with which you have well
coined me home, and how sensible am of
the distinguished honor of this spontane-
Gus demonstration which no amount of
personal vanity could prevent me from
suspecting is due rather to your generous
friendship than my own deserving.
Fellow citizens, that which we most ar
IDENTIFY desire we best interpret. This is
but another method of expressing the idea
that the wish is father to the thought
Certain it is that the supremest wish of a
representative Of the people-neXt to the
approval of his own conscience
sHouLDBE THE APPRECIATION OF HIS con-
sTITyENTs.
These are the all sufficient and legitimate
rewards of faithful servce-there can be
no other. Since have had the honor of
serving as your representative, | have
strven, in season and out Of season, to up
hold and advance the interests of Nevada.
In all efforts made to this end have been
encouraged and sustained by the thought !
that an approving constituency was be-
hind me. May l not be pardoned then if |
l interpret this demonstration not as a
mere personal compliment. but as an ex-
preston of your INSTRUMENTATION re-
ference to party distinction-not with
everything | have said and done in the
Senate of the United States, but with the
general aim, spirit and purpose of my ac-
ton in that body?
This is not the time nor the occasion for
speech-making, but were it otherwise, and
were / ever so much disposed to discuss
the issues that divide the great political
parties Of the country, | should refrain
from d ing so, upon seeing as | do see,
large numbers Of persons in this assem-
blsge before me whose political faith diff
fers from my own, and who have, for to- '
night, forgotten their politics in the J
warmth of their greeting to a returning {
| certainly could not be
30 ungracious as 10 be less fOrgetful than !
hey. Modern times have developed a I
great and growing tendency toward the 5
of enormous individual I
wealth to the creation of gigantic, all c
powerful corporations and to the classii :
ation Of industries in well-detinsd groups. o
This has powerfully contributed to make I
HE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN CAPITAL AND =
LABOR .
Il ore marked and distinct, if not to inten- Z
ify the apparent or real conflict between r
hem. The great central problem with t
which statesmen have to deal to-day and Fl
which is omiuously pressing for discussion il
nd decision in all civilized lands-and to "
lhich nearly all other questions are col n
lteral or subordinate, Is, how to adjust It
be relations of capital and labor so as to I,
reserve and b.st subserve the interests ii
{ both and, so as to secure the greatest -
ossible measure Of justice to each. ;,
THE EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT 8
# the relations between labor and capital sc
-ould solve the problem of the equitable is
istribution of the fruits of industry. 1t hi
, in fact, not a question, but an aggrega- Ii
on of all the questions heretofore dis oil
lssed by political economists, and to ar Ell
we at its correct solution, one by one, A
lust all the underlying questions be con- ii,
dered. The human mind is so cOnsti- n,
lted that il is seldom, if ever, that more 10
IAN one of these subsidiary questions can b,
0 usefully considered at one and the same CO
me, and it has happened that the ques- Gu
on which has recently been predominant wi
the public mind, has been that Of the lii
Is toration of silver to its old and i'm wi
emorial place in the worlds metallic is
onetary system. TT
The efforts TO accomplish this restora- il
on have as was to be expected, met with in
e most violent opposition from major an
Y OF the public press of Europe and su
merica, and generally from the money be
ongers and credit brokers of the world. DIR
hose efforts were, however, sustained by u,
e enthusiastic support of the masses of
e people. The credit of the partial vic Is
~ which was won last Winter by the VIC
ssage of the Silver bill belongs to no no
e man or set of men or party. This gr
eat victory for the toiling masses was su
FRIED through by the arguments of on
oughtful men in Congress and in the to
bile press in nearly all parts Of the TN
untry. The people everywhere were bic
lex to see that it could not have been OF
her expedient or just to strike down ser
e-half the money which had been in use era
anywhere and in all ages, and leave grS
BITS to be paid without adjustment to gin
new scale and in a medium of enor- thr
,usly and artitcially increased value. TIL
ey were everywhere quick to see that to COT
ike down any portion of that great in. mo
ument through which alone the pro- pre-
cts Of industry can be justly distributed, rig
4 neN
dURDERouS BLOW AT INDUSTRY ITSELF, -
d against the interests of the hand wo,
rkers and bread winners of the world. mao
ey were everywhere quick to see that a we
linking volume Of money meant falling am,
ces, and that falling prices meant an Won
nination of the hope, and almost even dri,
the possibility, of profit in business, IohI
ich is the only incentive to production r
this meant such diminished demand l.. =
labor "a wOuld throw vast numba of w %