Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-01-04

force silver up 8 per cent. in value
 and that is what it has been reduced by
 the demonstration of silver, wheat and
 cotton must inevitably follow.
 l If the miner can take his ounce of sil-
 yer to the United States branch mints
 and get S1.29 for it, he will not sell ii for that in American markets; where will
 the British go to procure cheap silver i for the manufacture of Indian rupees! Will he go to Russia or Austria? Those
 countries produce altogether 15,000,OOC
 ounces per month, and their silver is
 the standard. England in control of
 tho industrial, political and social life
 of India has bee me to-day the greatest
 silver consumer in the world, and yet
 she produces in all her vast empire less
 than per cent. of the worlds supply
 of silver, and Germany, her co-conspira-
 tor in work of silver characterization,
 produces less than ? per cent. Where in all history will you find such success ful interference in American legislation as that by which silver was so surrepti- tlouslv demonetiZsd as in 1873?
 A voice: Nowhere"
 The nation which is the greatest con- sumer in the world, that nation which consumes 50 per cent. and produces but per cent. of the worlds supply of sil- yer, induced the nation which produces nearly 90 per cent. and consumes near ly 9 per cent. of the worlds supply of silver into conspiracy to strike 8 per cent. from the value of silver of that nation which is the greatest exporter of wheat in the world into a financial and commercial pitfall where 8 per cont. was taken from the value of wheat. The nation whose looms would be idle, and whose people would be hungry, and whose government would be but storms of riot without supply of Amer ican cotton, inveigled the nation which IS the greatest producer of cotton into striking B per cent. from the value of cotton. Why, gentlemen, England is the bunco steerer of the world. Alp plause. And Uncle is gentleman from the rural districts.
 How much longer will our miners, planters and farmers consent that Sen ators and Representatives at Washing ton shall continue to legislate in the interest of Wall street and hold them selves subject to its cupidity. Is it not time for the American eagle to rise and shake tao Liverpool saltsfrom his tail.
 Applause. It may be that the sud den rsmonetization of silver would pro ducs some temporary disturbance in Wall street. The knife that cuts away the cancer causes the patient some agony, but if it is so, the eastern and western boundaries of this nation are not found between Pearl street and 
 We are here to represent the interest, aot of the creditors, nor of the capital sts, but of the debtors, and laborsrs of this land. We are here to represent the cottagers and the cabins of this country, and their interest should be protected though the bulls of Wall street should below with rage.
 Gentlemen of the Convention, the ac- -ions of the friends of silver could be condensed into a sentence. On the night of the second battle of the Wilder | ness, Sheridan dispatched to Grant; If | Lee is pressed or Eff the thing is prss- ted, think Lee will surrender" The | ,nswer came from Abraham Lincoln in | words that are now historic. Let the | adopt those words for its | motto, and "let the thing be pressed"
 Chairman Warner received the follow ng cablegram from London, directed to | president of Silver Convention;-"Bi England's greeting, Sympa- hise with progressive nations, Condem- ling silver means approving flat paper.