The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-02-22
CONCERTS

The Republican majority in the House
Of Representatives has at last adopted
set of rules under which it is hoped that
legislation may go forward. There is
now an opportunity for congress to right
the financial wrong it committed in 1873.
But there is no certainty that this will
be done. While the wires are laden
with the buncombe of porty leaders,
with the indignant protests .minorities,
with the fierce fractional fights between
parliamentarians who would
IA hair divide
Betwixt the South and Southwest side"
the interests of the people are waiting
for the attention which they may not
receive. While willing to make partisan
fights on such questions as the mainte.
nance of protective tariff;-an9 on
other questions of less import. down to
a bubble of parliamentary law. the two
great parties of the country, with shame
we admit it-refuse to take stand upon,
or to make an issue Of, the one great
question which, in its import to the peo-
pie, overshadows all others, money
question. 1t is not question for only
the east, the north, the south or the
west, but it directly affects the whole
mass Of the people all over the United
States. Every fnancier, every student
of political economy, every practical
man, who has given Thought to the sub.
ject, without regard to party, or faction,
agrees that the amount of money in circu-
lation in the United States is far too small
for the present population "a population
which is constantly increasing with
wonderful rapidity. In Congress and
out of Congress, among the goldite
bankers of New York and the silver
miners of Nevada, orly one opinion can
be heard as to this and that is, that the
money in CIRCULATION is too small in
amount.
sive move is made to remedy the evil.
Silver, the money of the people, offers
itself as the only ready, available and
perfectly natural means of supplying the
want 1t is well known to politicians
that to give back to silver its money
quality is the easy and only solution of
the problem. And the people of the
country want this done. But while the
politicians frequently get ahead of the
people in important matters, they also
frequently lag far behind the popular
will; and SO they do in this Cowed by
the power of the wealthy creditor class,
whose representatives meet them at every
turn, the great political leaders fear to
stand forth and give voice to the popular
will. Now and again senator or repre-
sentative in the House isallowed tomake
"a great silver speech" Very often he
delivers in reality only few lines of it
and "by courtesy" the whole speech is
considered as delivered, printed in the
congressional record, and by further ex.
tension Of courtesy, numbers of extra cop.
iesEare printed and the great speech
which was never spoken, and of which
his fellow congressman are as ignorant
as hottentots, is sent to the constituents
who, while toasting their toes by com.
Portable winter nights fire read it and
congratulate themselves snat there is at
least one active man in Congress and
that one the man for whom they voted,
you bet" But alas, when it comes to
solid business, when the peoples bust.
ness is to be attended to in behalf of the
people, the great parties are to-day
behind the age. They are too much
troubled with kind of conservatism
which declines to take away too sudden
ly from the rich what they robbed all in
moment from the poor seventeen years
ago. But the people are awakening day
by day, and when once they do well know
their mighty will, they will go express il
that, for that tnrn, their servants viii
know, when dismissed il not before
that "the voice of the people" should be
to them ssthe voice of God"