Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-12-01
SENATOR STEWART'S DE.
TENSE OF SILVER.

pose OF the queStIOudDiS LuebuouS
by which the enemies of silver are
waging their malicious and greedy
warfare. It is not alono in defense
of the State of Nevada. He takes
a broader view and shows that it is
a blow at the poorer classes
throughout the United States; a
soulless and cruel conspiracy to
further widen the chasm between
the rich and poor, and to reduce
almost to state of pamperism, the
bread-winners Of the country, and
take from the Masses the little that
is left in the great struggle now GO
ing on between the few who are
rich and the many who are poor.
He shows how the European
bondholder has stretched his grasp
ing arm across the sea and twined
his fingers around the throat OF
our industries and commerce, pre-
paratory to throttling US. 1t was
the gold of the European bankers
that came over here and found its
way into the halls of Congress to
carry through bill demonetlzlng
silver. This bill set US back upon
the dial of National progress, and
gave the wire pullers across the
Atlantic the opportunity of strlk-
ing a blow, not at the silver interest
alone, but at the whole commercial
prosperity Of the country.
People should disabuse their
minds of the idea that this war is
against silver alone, it is war
against the masses Of people who
haye, during many years passed,
based all of their commercial cal
culations upon the theory that the
United States Government would
continue to uphold and endorse Its
own money.
Striking the silver dollar is the
surest way to create that depres-
sion in business circles in the East,
which result in
Hard times;
High interest;
A tight money market,
This stagnation in business, how
ever, does not mean so to the
money-lender and the East, per-
cent shayer of notes, the man who
deals in bonds and mortgages, and
he who in all business transactions
exacts his toll. The purchasing
power of the dollar eurtailed, means
reduction of wages; strikes; i'd
lers crowding the streets Of large
cities, and stream Of humanity
vending its way toward the little
pawn-shop around the corner, or
the big bank or pawnshop across
the street. Then comes the har-
vest Of the money lender, and the
harder times get, the higher he
notohes up his interest, and the
greater his profits. It is not alone
the silver producers of Nevada, but
the people of the world who should
rise and fight this conspiracy of
bankers and usurers to possess the
earth.
It may more properly be sum-
med up as war between Europe
and the United States, and curl
ously enough, the Atlantic sea-
board is providing thousands of
traitors, who, for the money they
find in the dirty work, are willing
to help the enemy.
Senator Stewart very artly o.
serves:
''In 1881 Monetary convention
was held in Paris, to which the
United States sent Commissioners
for the purpose of inducing the Eu-
ropean Government to agree upon
some basis whereby silver could be
used as money. The folly of send
ing Commissioners to such con-
vention was necessarily composed of
the bondholding class. The differ
ence, bordering on contempt, with
which the proposal of the United
States to remonetize silver was re-
ceived should have been anticipat-
ed. It ought not to have been ex-
pected that the bondholders who
controlled the Paris Convention
would remonetize silver, and there
by depreciate the value Of their Sc
curities."
This is the case in a nutshell, and
when the people fully realize it,