The advocate., 1891-01-21
CONGRESSIONAL


discrimination which have boon made
against silver in favor OF gold, and am Tor
the United States leading on in this 40 Wo
led OF Ia the Oth0r direction. Tho United
States has caused the demonstration OK os.-
YER. Our acts and Onr officers have cau0ed 70.
Senator Evarts OF New York. said:
Tomorrow will be six months exactly
from the date when this Senate aud tho Con-
gross came 10 a decision upon the currency
Of tho country In reference % Tho metallic
baBia In my Judgment nothing whatever
has inteEv8ned In the affairs OF the country,
or In the affairs OF commercial countries
with which we have relations that should ro-
new this agitation or should have brought
us 10 a new determination at least on the
subject as II was then settled.
The gold nations and the vObarios OF that
standard abroad have for fourteen year9
wished for nothing better than Che United
States should undertake TO carry the burden
of restoration OF parity between tho money
method by itself and undertaking the froe
coinage Of silver.
Senator Stoup, OF Idaho, made his
"maiden speech" on this question and
said:
The farmers are making no money. The
cost of production and living 10 greater
than the price OF the product. It 10 our
duty, IL practicable, 20 discover tho cause,
and u within our power 10 provide
remedy.
It is almost universally admitted that
the scarcity Of money 10 the cause Of
the depression. We have the richest,
the greatest producing country In the
world, and yet the people are poor
Farmers have produced by their labor
from the teeming soil articles Of food
and clothing valued OF 825OOO,OO0,OOO
Look at few Of che principal Items Of
the farm production Of the country in
these ten years.
Corn, 16,0OOOOO,OOO bushels.
Wheat, 4,5OO,OO00OO bushels.
Oats, 4,2OO,OOO,0OO bushels.
Potatoes, 2,OOO,OOO,OOO bushels.
Butter, S,O0O,OO0,OOO pounds.
Wool, 2,5O0,OOO,OOO pounds.
Hay, 4OO,OOO,OOO toms.
Cotton, 85,0OO,OOO bales.
And yet the men who do this are poor
and suffering. What is the cause Of this
anomaly Why are the producers Of all
these articles not as we'll OH 40 they were
ten years agoS What is the remedy
We believe that 1t is the making Of more
money.
The army appropriation bill absorbed
most OF the time OF the House and In the
discussion Of the transportation part of Il
Congressman Anderson, Of Kanaas said
By far, the greater part OF S3,O0O,OOO will
be expended by the government Ia GhO pay-
ment Of freight and passenger rates FOR
transportation Of army supplies and troops
upon lines doing bu9iness west OF Chicago
and SO. Louis.
It 10 simply now q matter Of current news
that there is now In process OF formation q
syndicate, or pool, or effective combination
Of all the railway lines west Of Chicago and
So. Louis, beginning with the Northern Pa
citic and reaching 10 the Texas Pacific, In
fact, including che water transportation by
PanAme--a combination 10 such an effect
that not Q single railway company Ia the
combination can hx its own rates; and
would like 70 state some OF Che faOts OF this
new and villainOus trust, the most gigantic
and hurtful that has yet been formed In this
decade Of trusts.
To the farmers Of my state cheap trans
pOrtation is life, home, a family, educa-
tiOn, a competency and universal content.
EGtortionate transportation, solely deter
mined by ShylOCk bandits 10 diScontenE,
debt, fOreclOsed mortgaRea, sweeping away
home and land, the family. broken into
fragments, perhaps the poor house and in
dustrial, il not physical death. 4
doubt II there are ten counties In Kan |
sRs which have not voted railroad bonds. |
But agreement az TO rates b0tW66h mSAf
lines has become 80 complete that fOE yoaEg1
the whole profit Of a crop has been ttkSt by |