St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-10
BLACKBURN The BOLD.
He Raises His Voice in the
Senate for Relief Of the
People.
Zoo Long Honest Toll Has
Been Doomed to Bitter
Poverty.
secretary Mobiles Decision
Regarding the Mile Lac
Reservation.
Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee Pre-
pairing for 1892.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 9-In the senate the
finance bill was up, and Mr.. Blackburn ad-
dressed the senate in advocacy of Mr.. Stew
srt's amendment for the free coinage OF Sill
YER. He was not willing that the debate
should close without hearing the testimony
of his section and his people TO the merits Oh
the amendment. He was not willing TO nave
it 90 to the country and the world that tnat
amendment was simply an effort made by tne
representatives of silver states, and that the
rest of the country was Indifferent TO the re-
suit. There was not silver mine within tne
limits of the great commonwealth OF Ken
tucky, and yet he ventured to assert that her
people were as united, as earnest as honest
and as clsmorous IN their demand Tor the
free coinage of silver as were the people
of Colorado. California, Idaho or Nevada.
The opponents of free coinage might rely on
the veto power of the president but tnat
would prove to be q vain reliance. The presl-
dent dared not furnish them with that Veto
When the amendment passed the senate ana
the house. and the bill went to the president,
he dared not put his veto upon IL unless ne
was already prepared to sign the death war
rant of party already doomed. But, even II
the president did veto the bill, that would
not save them. The death-knell of the pres
ent congress- he thanked COO ,Wouid soon
press whose house of representatives would
give free coinage TO the American peo-
pie, even by the yote required py
the constitution to pass. 1t over the
presidents veto; and the senate would con-
cur in that action of the peoples representa-
tives, so that relief to a clamoring and over
burdened people was now at hand, whether
the opponents of free coinage willed 1t or
not This, with him, was not party ques-
fion, for he had denounced the antl-sllver
policy of every administration for the last
twenty wears. 1t didn't matter to him that
his own party was, for four years. response
BILE for the enduring wrong. Mr. Cleveland,s s
administration was just as amenable to crll
cism and censure as had been Its predeces-
Bors or its successors. When honest toll was
doomed to want and poverty, no party shack
les could chain MIN to the defense of that
which was it's cause. The tilers of
the soil could epdure no longer the bur
dens put upon their backs by unjust and par
tiaI legislation They had at last, deter
mined to make this cause of grievance
known, and their demand that it be righted.
The Farmers Alliance was now centralized
into a national organization, and was pro-
testing against class legislation. Every in
teligent man, and every honest man, ac-
knowedged that they had just cause of COM
plant. They asked q redress of grievances.
not imaginary, but real. The mighty west
and the rejUyenated South had endured the
leecing process until patience was exhaust
ed; and now they mean that just laws should
be enacted and unjust laws repealed. He
trusted that the time had come, and that ere
the ides of March were uShered in. silver
would be restored to the position which 1t
had held and hOnored for more than three
thousand years.