The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
The Silver Bill.

From EmpOria Register.
1t is now generally. conceded
that BANDS silver bill will pass the
Senate without serious amend
ment, and the efforts Of the gold
gamblers are now directed toward
securing a veto by the President.
The House can easily pass it over
his veto, but the Senate is not so
certain.
We notice very marked change
in the tone of the New York pa
pers on this subject, within the
past two weeks. The Times ed
itorials does not contain so many
prophecies of evil to come, and
there is a decided falling off in the
number of choice epithets applied
to those who have dared to differ
with the syndicate which controls
that journal.
The Herald has even the nanli-
ness to say;
$50 far as the money center of
New York is concerned, an inva-
sion of the capitalists strongholds
in Wall street, yesterday, revealed
the fact that the ant-silverites ale
ranged under the banners of the
syndicate firms, and the pro-silver-
ties fight on the eide of the local
brokers and of houses that are en-
barked in domestic negotiations"
This Is a remarkable admission,
coming from such a source, and
strongly corroborates the views
entertained by a vast majority of
the people. In other words, the
. REAL bankers and best business
men of New York, and other sea-
board cities, are on the side of the
people in this fight, while a very
small ring, called the syndicate,
whose business is not legitimate
banking, but gambling in gold, and
acting as agents for European cap
italists, are raising all this clamor
about "honesty," national faith,
and other phrases of which they
know little, and care less. 1t is
this crowd of vampires, who for
years fattened on the necessities
of our government, who are now
besieging Congress and the Presi-
dent, day and night, to prevent
the passage of a law which will
deprive them Of an occupation.
We have waded through column
after column of denunciation, as
sertion and invectIve, but have
never yet read one word of ARGU-
MENT, or seen one single REASON
advanced, why silver dollars
should not be again coined and
used as money. The fact that the
production of silver has been re
Gently largely increased, is no rea-
son why it should be demonetized,
any more than a debt payable in
wheat, should be demanded in
some other grain, because of a
plentiful wheat harvest. The same
reasoning would require the pay
mont of our debts in diamonds, if
by any reason the supply of gold
should be largely increased.
The handwriting on the wall
has at last become percept!ble to
the dulled senses of the money
changers and their organs. The
long list of failures with which the
papers are daily burdened, is open
ing the eyes of the most gold blind
ed devotees of mammon..
We have no sympathy with those
who denounce capital or capital
lists as such, nor, as our readers
well know, will we uphold repudia
ton in any form, but we do insist
that the people have the right, and
that it is their solemn duty to in
sist on it, to pay their debts Just
ezra city as they agreed to. Even
Shylock was compelled to take his
pound of flesh without drawing
blood, while the monomaniac mo-
no-metalists, have already depleted
the body polite of more than it can
spare, and are now Tavenous tor
the last drop.