San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-02
SENATOR JONES ON SILVER.
Extracts from the Recent Speech Of tho
senator from Nevada.

MS speech being devoted 10 argument show
since its characterization, and against asser.
tons that the dollar PROPOSED by the bill IL
'dishonoring medium Of payment and a do.
preciated coin. lie said that silver since 1873,
although Disseminated against and shorn OF
rs monetary functions, denied mintage
throughout the entire, ysrefn World and dc:
graded to tile rank OF rcomm6dity, instead
icssinersased il its c6%,nsmd over services
and all kinds of property; that both gold and
silver have
GAINED IN PURCHASING POWER,
andrthat silver only seems tn have failed in
value bccauseit has not risen 70 so great an
extent rs gold. In the face of these patent
and accumulated facts, II Is still claimed that
silver has deprecated to such u degree that
Il would be dishonest to pay debts In It even
nent jurist once said of certain legal prOpo-
sitiqn that he,could not CONCEIVE of u human
mind 50 constitateuas to'cntettain It,. lam
equally incompetent to conceive of human
mind so constituted as not to see that silver
has appreciated rather than fallen In value,
and that gold has been so enormously en-
6aneea IN nv value tint TO- gratatoSsly require
gantic folly or the most gigantic fraud OF I'LL
ssNK.Jokfs DENOUNCED As'fALsn
the charges that lie had individual interests
local GiatSsfS ssids, win cUneNndewith brief
.ceterepce. to tho frantic appeals that come to
us from to rally to the rss
which II 70 p66l4red is now heldgaiott by less
tlydp, d HoSen states In the Union. 1t Is said
that this Nation will lose the high position
should pass. I'll s.sbid that ek6si, the discus
sion OF Il measure to restore to the country
power to perform ITS contracts In the terms
whiehthey are written, has to no inconsider-
able extent disparaged us In the eyes of the
world. Whence come the really dangerous
assaults upon the good name Of the, Nation?
Is II not from cortnin members OF Congress
who denounce this rs u .pick.pocket bill,'
and rs u scheme to issue clipped coins, for
getting that clinpingswere ,aNN
STOLEN FROM THE POCKETS OF THE PEOPLE
nd Hgs now found IN the pockets Of their
creaitorsi And y A. not from the , Leading
nominees supporters of the bill us swindlcrs
and repudiators, and, declares itself 10 have
thehonor of this Nation in its special charge?
BY what title does any faction sen itself up rs
being par erceiiepce the guardiansof the honor
of the country? Sir! the honor can rcpose
nowhereDso securelyas in the llletping and
hearts , OF the people - There I Is its shrine,
what manner and by what methods. has tho
New York and Eastern press sustained the
honor Of the Nation of which it procaims it.
self the special guardan3 Only by liDes
upon the c haisicter and personal motives of
every public man who can not see the Justice
of f0bbing the Government ana 'lieople by
enhancing the valae 9t money inwatel. debts
peals to the President to make corrupt use of
his patronage to
oh aiINPitENcE VOTES IN coNdKl!ss
against the Silver bill, by pretensiDn us false
as it is Illuminating. that Congress d9res not
then quoted from TIE New York d1ribr"e OF
"The PRESIDENT knowstliat men can be held
true to Republican principles as t2 finance, II
'Hh TRSres days Afterwards the sainel paper
T The capital Of the country is organized ut
last, and walshall see whether Congress dare
to fly in its face" - .Id
THOSE newspapers claim to be read largely
Tp Sb Mha cn Ss~ Of to o preT peGp s
Europe, which sees these American newspn-
pers, In which the majority in Congress Is
daily denounced as made up of silver swind.
fers, repudiators- or heretics, and in which 1t
is daily represented that Congress can be cor
rupted by the Presidents patronage and in
by threats OF organized capital?
What better than IL roaring farce Us 1t for
editors engaged in this altf. % oil
WORK OF DEFAMATION
to assume to be tho peculiar champions ofthe
honor of the Nation! The attempt to per-
suade the President to use his patronage MS II
corrupting, agency seeming to have failed,
and Congress by votes mt various times and
in decisive numbers having exhibited u de-
to "fiy in the face of organized
capital of the country" the latest movement
has been to defame those who could neither
be purchased nor intirnidatcd. No longerin
voking the President to buy Senators, these
gold organs charge that Senators have sought
lengthy hQmilies upon the decaying morality
Of this body. The same men who day after
day have declared that It wasthe mosturgent
duty of the Chief Magistrate to trade patron
fux Mt ,l,atf Ind
est money" now shed tears over the
.a' STORY OF THEN OwN INVENTION
that members Of this body have been wait
ing, watching, hoping anu asking to be brib-
ed.y The New York Times OF the 18th inst, cd
torially says:
"The United States Senate has sunk 80 far
below the standard with which 1t was form
erly assodated that propositions which we
gave rs in circulation ut Washing
ION excite little or no surprise. There are SEN
ltors who have so little Intelligence and prn-
IN regard to the Silver question or SO little
conscience that they are ready to vote Tor or
against the pending bill. They imagine that
il is popular. Provided they receive A. quid
fsk of unpopularity. Tley are ready, in
short to sell their votes to the President and
lid in defeating the bill, II he will only pay
heir price. IL is limited that, by adopting
his bribery plan, the President may not only
iefeat the Bland bill, but also may establish
iInicable relations between his Adminfstra-
ion ana the senators VINO are Ht present III
mical. The explanation does but addto the
lisgrace of those who offer it,"
IL was J0ab who said to Amasa, " Artthou
n health, my brother" and $50 he smote
lim in the fifth rib" The journals from
which have quoted seem to have been equal
v solicitous concerning the National honor,
md while tenderly inqqiring as 10 It's health
leal deadly stabs like these. In this country
National honor had never been tarnished by
hose who proposed TO
. RESTORE THE ANCiESr MONEY
n which every National bond Il promised to
% paid II Il + in danger of being tarnisllcd it
; from the charge OF the Opposing faction
hat a majority OF the citizens 81 "A majority
u the States OF this Union are innately dis
ionest. Let the gold press of this country
rot forget that while power usually begets
Intolerance IL always begcts resistance.
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