Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-14
SENATOR jones TO HIS CON.
STITUENCY.

The ".SilVer. IOngued Senate
Speaks to the Silver state-RepI
TO the Welcome Given Him Ii
Virginia City July ~. IS7S-Hi
Views on Labor. the Silver DE
bate and Bill, differentiation O
Corporations to the Common
wealth, the Chinese Curse ant
What Must be Done. and Sur
render of His Senatorial Trust.
Senator Jones spoke from the balcony O
the international Hotel and was received
by a very large and enthusiastic audience
After an eloquent introduction from
Colonel R. H. Taylor, he spoke as follows
FelLo,c Citizens: Would that with 8
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 80
gifted in speech that 1 could adequately
convey to you how much appreciate the
warm greeting with which you have well
coined me home, and how sensible l 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
representative OF the people-neXt to the
approval of his own conscience
Spor-rnpr rur APPROPRIATION Of MS CON-
sTITUENTs.
These are the all sufficient and legitimate
rewards of faithful service-there can be
no other. Since have had the honor of
serving as your represen tative, l have
striven, 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 not be pardoned then if
l interpret this demonstration not as a
mere personal compliment, but as an ex-
preston of your NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. re
ference to party distinction-not with |
everything / have said and done in the I
Senate of the United States, but with the |
general aim, spirit and purpose of my ac-
tion in that body?
This is not the time nor the occasion for |
speech making, but were it otherwise, and
Yere I ever so much disposed to discuss
the issues that divide the great political
parties of the country, should refrain
FROM ing so, upon seeing as | do see,
large humble of persons in this assem-
blage before me whose political faith diff
fers from my own, and who have, for to-
night, forgotten their politics in the
warmth of their greeting to returning
representative l certainly could not be
so uugracious as to be less forge,ful than
they. Modern times have developed
great and growing tendency toward the
of enormous individual
wealth; to the creation of gigantic, all
powerful corporations and to the classiti-
cation of industries in well-defined groups.
This has powerfully contributed to make
THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN CAPITAL AND
LABOR
More marked and distinct, if not to inten-
sfy the apparent or real conflict between
them. The great central problem with
which statesmen have to deal to-day-and {
which is ominously pressing for discussion i
and decision in all civilized lands-and to '
which nearly all other questions are col I
lateral or subordinate, is, how to adjust {
The relations of capital and labor so as to t
preserve and best subserve the interests (
IF both and, so as to secure the greatest =
possible measure Of justice to each. =
THE EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT 9
)f the relations between labor and capital g
would solve the problem of the equitable il
distribution of the fruits of industry. 1t h
q, in fact, not a question, but an aggrega- Ii
ion of all the questions heretofore dis O
ussed by political economists, and to ar g
i've at its correct solution, one by one, A
must all the underlying questions be con- Fl
idered. The human mind is so consti- n
uted that it is seldom, if ever, that more t.
han one of these subsidiary questions can b
,e usefully considered at one and the same C,
ime, and it has happened that the ques- q,
ion which has recently been predominant W
n the public mind, has been that of the Ii
es toration of silver to its old and i'm "
memorial place in the worlds metallic ia
monetary system. T
The efforts to accomplish this restora- il
ion have, as was to be expected, met with in
he most violent opposition from major a,
y of the public press of Europe and al
merica, and generally from the money b,
longers and credit-brokers of the world. d]
hose efforts were, however, sustained by ~,
le enthusiastic support of the masses of -
10 people. The credit of the partial VIC Is
,ry which was won last Winter by the W
ne man or set of men or party. This 81
-eat victory for the toiling masses was gu
.rried through by the arguments of OF
men in Congress and in the to
1blic press in nearly all parts of the tn
untry. The people everywhere were ol
lick to see that it could not have been OF
Their expedient or just to strike down se
le-half the money which had been in use err
erywhere and in all ages, and leave gr
bits to be paid without adjustment to gu
o new scale and in medium of enor- tn
ously and artifcially increased value. tn
ley were everywhere quick to see that to CO..
IKE down any portion Of that great in me
rument through which alone the pro- pr
cts of industry can be justly distributed, rig
Is ne
BLOW AT INDUSTRY ITSELF, ~
I'd against the interests of the hand wo
rkers and bread winners of the world. pet
icy were everywhere quick to see that a we
rinking volume Of money meant falling am
ices, and that falling prices meant an yor
mination of the hope, and almost even dri
the possibility, of profit in business, lab
ich is the only incentive to production
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