Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1890-06-14
pgsouNc,Ns the FRAUD.

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the West who does not d%enounee the so
called silver bill passed by the RepabIi-
cans in the House last week. We were
IN Salt Lake a few days ago and found
ali Of the bankers and mining men bit
terly opposed to it. They prefer that
the Bland law should be left as it Is
rather than that this fraud should be
forced upon the country. The annexed
article from the pen OF Judge C.C'
Goodwin Of the Tribune is 9 fair renex
of Republican sentiment all through
this country;
The Silver bill as passed by the House
will not do. The bullion redemption
clause must be stricken out. 1t is a dis-
grace to the House from the Speaker
down that legislation should be crippled
and throttled and the will Of the people
turned aside by the act OF the Secretary
Of the Treasury and the Speaker OF the
House. Mr.. Psyson stated the case
very clearly when he denounced the
HAYES. Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison
administrations. The position Of Seere-
tary Window all through this business
has been as disgraceful as it has been in
solent. Because Of an accident be was
temporarily raised to a position as clerk
70 the Government, to handle the
finances Of the Government, he has as.
sumed the right to dictate to Congress
what legislation he will adopt and
what he will not accept. II there IS no
power in Congress to sit down on him,
II - Gx---oonk ia not xUnFth a
rush. That a man with his record
should have the cheek, because he tenn
porarily holds a clerkship under the
Government, to assume to do what ne
has assumed to do during the last three
months, is a direct insult to Congress
and a disgrace to the nation. Speaker
Reeds refusal to permit the question to
be debated in the House, to put a gag on
the majority in the House, and behind
that the majority Of the country, is dis
graceful and contemplate in the ex-
IRENE. The bill must never become a
law in the form in which it has left the
| House. 1t leaves the Secretary OF the
Treasury a discretion which will enable
him, if he pleases, to utterly destroy
| silver as money, and, from what We have
seen Of his acts, we have a perfect right
to conclude hat that is what he has
been playing for ever since Congress met.
| The silver men cannot afford to trust
| Secretary Window in any respect. Con-
gress has no right to place in the hands
Of the Secretary the opportunity, by a
twist Of his wrist, to make $4,000 a
week in specializing ON the money in his
hands. That is what this bill does, and
from what we know Of Secretary Win.
dom we have no doubt in the world as
10 what he would do. Away behind all
that, il assumes from the first that sill
yer is but a commodity; that it has no
grace as money, except such as the Gov
eminent Of the United States pleases to
give TO it; that it would be just the
same if it were copper or iron, or pota
toes or cotton that Congress might
choose to pick up and declare, under the
limitations, to be money. 1t would be
better to let the matter rest and make
the issue in the coming Congressional
campaigns, than to permit such legisla-
tion to place in the hands of MI. Win
dom the power to still depreciate silver
as compared with gold, and still further
for the sake Of personal gain to add to
the burdens of the producers OF the
United States. The sentiment Of the
men OF the West is that rather than
pass such a bill they would like to teach
both parties an object lesson in the
coming campaign. Mr.. Cleveland was
defeated because he enforced his will
and forced his party to abandon silver in
their platform. Mr.. Harrison was elect
I'd because of the plank in the platform
that promised gold and silver money to
the country for all purposes, not money
to be redeemed in bullion, but money
to be used in its most sovereign attri-
butes. The men of the West pledged
the people that if he should be elected
this pledge OF the platform would be
carried out. They had a right to do it,
both from the pledges of the party plat
form and the pledges of the closest
friends of the President himself, and
now, if the only object is to destroy the
chief money function of silver, il is bet
ter to let the law stand as it is. Then,
by the time the smoke of the election
hattie shall have passed away, Mr.. Har.
rison and Mr.. Window will have learned
a lesson. Mr.. Reed will have learned a
ieSSOu, anu hl tuo SuTlohluB uaTpleS
whose horizons are no broader than
Wall street will have learned a lesson,
and the West and South will take con.
troll Of the nation. Mr.. Speaker Reed
spoke reproachfully to some Salt Lake
gentlemen because the Tribune mildly
opposed his election as Speaker, fearing
that as Speaker he would use his place
to beat back justice in regard to silver
legislation. 1t seems the Tribune was
not far out Of the way. The lesson
from it all to be learned is that the duty
Of men is to take care of themselves,
and that when a vital question is pend.
ing which affects the interests Of the
whole nation they should, regardless Of
party ties and regardless Of personal
friendships, make the best fight they can
to cause the right to win. The Senate
must strike out the bullion. redemption
clause or kill the bill.