Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-06-17

the silver question does credi
neither to your heads nor your
hearts.
We who live in the wilds OF the
far West buy the iron and steel Of
Pennsylvania, the cotton and
wooden goods Of Massachusetts,,
the clocks and wooden nutmegs OF
Connecticut, and all the highly
protected products of the Empire
State. In every political cam
paign we march shoulder to shout
der with you in the great battle for
protection to American industry
but when we ask you to do justice
by our silver-a product upon
which our'very existence depends
you shrink from us as if we
were unclean things, and accuse
us of trying to swindle you with
a 72-cent dollar. A ~ cent dol
larl In the name of God, I
would ask, who made it a 72-cent
dollar? Did we? Docs not our
silver cost just as much of sweat
and toll as it ever did? Is it not
as bright and pure and beautiful
as when Abraham paid his shekles
for the field Of Machpelah? Do
we propose to put any less Of it
into our standard coins? Was it
not worth more than your boosted
gold dollar up to the very day
when it was "clipped" by unfriend-
ly legislation?
If our standard dollar is a dis
honest coin, then every other sill
yer coin in the world is likewise
dishonest, and every nation that
strikes silver coin is dishonest
nation. But is there a gentleman
upon this floor whe ever heard
the East Indian rupee spoken of
as a clipped and thieving coin?
Whe ever heard of an Italian Ira
being thus characterized and dis
paraged? Did you ever hear of
the French 5-franc piece being
a fraud upon anybody? venture
to say that you never did. But
our standard dollar contains 8
per cent more silver relatively to
gold than the franc or the Ira
and 6 per cent. more than the
rupee, 1t will buy more of wheat,
or corn, or lumber, or dry goods,
,r any OF the great staples of life
han the gold dollar would in
1873; and yet the advocate Of the
liver dollar is regarded as sort
Z cross between bandit and
hree-card-monte dealer-a man
rholly without conscience, and
whose noblest ambition is to rob !
he unsophisticated money lender
I New York and New England. II
Now 1 wish to say to my friends
n both sides of this House, and p
rom all sections Of the country,
hat we are not here asking for /
harity; we are not in the position
mendicants by any means. We F
re asking for simple justice, moth
lg more and nothing less. But Fl
is proper for you to consider
le effect which the demonetiza- it
on of silver had upon the silver
lining States Territories, because n
is a great industrial as well as
monetary question. In the arid Sc
,gions where silver mines abound d
lere is not variety Of resources
hich we fiLd east OF the Rocky P
fountains. Nature has not been IL
cry bountiful in her gifts to that
'ction. There, silver mining is the ar
erm and support of every other ol
dustry. Strike that down and
else falls with it. This p
especially true of Nevada. The
,monetization Of silver cast a 60
light upon the entire State. We da
I'VE no great bonanzas there now
til which to deluge the world, m
it we have many mines Of low re
ade ores that might have been
,rked at a moderate profit if sill tn
r had stood at the old-time av
.ure. This would have led to fur ca