The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-03


none has been boarded, every dollar
of the gold product has been added to
the currency of the country. But the
! Director of the Mint in his report for
1888 says that at least $275, 900, 900 in
/ gold has been put away-hoarded-
the people, in addition to the amount
that is known to be in circulation. The
prophets of 1878 were false prophets,
so that we need pay no attention to
their prediction of to-day.
The first movement for the relief of
the people should be the restoration of
silver as money Silver is the money
of the people 1t is the money of
trade. 1t permeates every section,
every town, every hamlet, every house
hold. Gold is the money of the bank
ers and spectators and money lenders.
And it is these classes, and these alone,
who oppose the reconciliation Of
silver.
Mr. President, let any member of
this body walk to the other end of the
Capital, ascend the stairway on the
west side of the House and look at the
great painting by Lutz, ''Westward
the course of empire takes it's way"
There is pictured an emigrant train on
it's way to the West. There he can see
represented the sturdy pioneers who
won an empire from the wilderness
and desolation. They felled the forests
east of the Mississippi river and then
crossed over plains and mountains to
the golden shores of the Pacific. Every
where they left the impress of Ameri-
can civilization. States sprang up in
their pathway as rapidly as Aladdin's
palace. Mighty structures, where hu
man liberty was assured as certainly
as it was when the sturdy pilgrims
battling with stern nature on the one
hand and with savage Indians on the
other, planted the colonies of New
England.
The gentlemen on this side of the
Chamber who are opposing this meas
ure must not treat us of the West as
strangers from a strange land. eve
are of your own kith and kindred.
We are the sons and brothers of your
| constituents who have battled with
mountain and desert and savage, as
YOUR fathers who were our fathers did
to build up new States where your in
heritance is as great as ours. You
have. progressed to a condition of afflu-
ence; we are striving for it. Every
thing that you have asked for we have
supported You wanted protection
that manufactures might be built up
and you could be enabled to compete
with other nations in the markets of
the world, but while you asked for this
you were willing that the tillers of the
soil should be protected as we'll, and
we blessed you for it.
We have sustained you even as
Aaron and Hur upheld the hands of
Moses when he prayed for his people,
Now we tell you that the people of the
West are asking for relief from the
troubles that embarrass them. We
are asking for bread; do not give us
stone. The West has been loyal to you
and to your ideas. 1t is loyal to you
now-not only loyal, but we are proud
of you as well; proud of the statesman
ship you have shown in the past;
proud of the grand and heroic deeds
you have accomplished. It is not the
silver kings who are here asking for
free coinage of silver. 1t is the people
who need more money with which to
| transact their business money,
because more money will make prices
better; more money, because more
money will rescue them from the hands
| of the usIrer and the land shark
Mr.. President, suppose, sir, ought
to apologize for having taken so
much time in this discussion, when SO
many ADLER men and older Senators
than myself desire to be heard. And
I do, sir, because I know it is a viola
ton of one of the customs of this body;
but Shakespeare said Mice customs
must courtesy to great kings" Every
| American citizen is a sovereign in his
own right, and am here as the rep
resentative of number of American
sovereigns- these great kings''-and
so I have brushed mice customs"
aside that the voice of the people of
Idaho, the youngest and fairest of the
sisterhood of States, could be heard in
behalf of free coinage, as it will always
be heard in favor of everything that
tends to the benefit of the people and
the growth and glory of our country.
Como, n c., Feb. Z, 1891
I am requested by Como Alliance to