New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-21

! 10 guard their possessions in the East; ana
our people must be responsible for the other IN
order to protect their distant coasts and TO pro-
mote the ends of peace.
NOT 4 ZEPHTR. BUT HURRICANE
We confess that until we gathered the in
| formation from the stream Of tOrrid eloqucnce
pourcd ont in the Senate by Mr.. Voorhees, last
Friday we had not been aware Of the tremen-
dous influence which legislation on the silver
question has had upon the welfare of the Ma
ton. And we apprchcnd that to a very large
majority of the American people also the
! spccch of the Indiana Senator VIII have some
thing in the nature of n revelation. 1t
was upon motion to refer to a committee 80
much of the Presidents Message as recon-
mcnds the repeal Of the act authorizing the
coinage Of silver, the repeal of the act author
ling the issue Of silver certificates. and the re-
tircmcnt Of such certificates from circulation +;
and il present, n most startling picture OF the
effect produced in the first instance by the re-
! peal nine years ago of the law OF 1892 author
ling silver coinage, and aftcrwam by the
passage of the silver bill in ISIS. Mr.. Voor-
bees pronounccs the repeating act fraud
upon n long and wcll-scttlcd financial policy
"A remark which we remember to have
heard betorc-which for five years and
sixteen days there's nothing like being
remained upon the statute books to
curse the land" 1t took the people that
length Of time to find ont about it. In Mr..
! Voorhees, judgment apparently it Is from
the demonstration oi silver III 1873 that all
the unnumbrrcd woes oi the next I'VE years
! and sixteen DAYS proceeded.
Bat when the people began to comprehend
| it, the popular voice. he says, twas neither
slow nor timid IN making itself heard As it
may DE interesting to know how the voice
! was heard and what II came breathing We
quote:
Il aid not salute the cars Of LEGISLATORS with th' soft
muse o.. " signing <'ln'r 'n"ll'- WIZ" 7''"'c no"e''
!. ''''', .. l,,
Of honest citsrpris, and industry, from The farmer the
mauufleiurcr the mechanic the merchant tua trader,
the wage aDorcr, from every class Of business people,
and " came Dreaming 10. '" 'n' ln"6"'', o. consul.
,..,,r %, ,..,c r,,I,y VIA, IN t.,r rro.pr, and
| happiness.
We have no idea what " the soft music of a
sighing zephyr dallyins with summer flowers :,
! is. but if ANYBODY has ever supposed that in
this case there was amy "soit music Of a sigh
ing zcuhyrr in the popular voice." or that it
! treated members of Congress like "summcr
flowers" and "dallicdn with them, he lubors
under dclusion. MFR. Voorhees,, who was
! there at the time, says it came rather with
! the fierce and commanding majesty OF the
| hurricane in its wrath con the 2S,h day
Of February. 1S7S,n lie says, d" the voice
of the American people was obcycd in
! these halls as it naturally would be,
coming win the Commanding majesty
of the huircauc'-a silver money,
" the money of Washington, the unit of value
devised by jefferson, the money Of great
minds in every age Of civilized man, the
"moncy Of the Constitution, the money of every
"pcriod an of every political party of this Re-
"public until II recent day. was restored by law
" 10 coinage and to circulation" lie desires to
have the day remembered forever III the
American calendar as one on which great
"victory was obtained by the industrious, pro-
ductvc masses over the usury- gathering,
idle, unproductiyc few" and in that view Of it
il certainly ought to be. Suppose we make it
a legal holiday.
But there were 90 dark forcbodings" in the
minds of eminent and gifted men in the
halls OF Congress" and according to the in
| spiratOn of their prophetic and troubled
souls" he says, " The presence of AarOn's