The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-18

of men OF all parties, of mem.
bers OF both houses OF Congress, and the
members of the Cabinet, and the President
of the United states.
FREE COINAGE.
Mr.. President, there IL not state west OF
the Allegheny Mountains and south OF the
Potomac and Ohio rivers that Is not in favor
OF the free coinage of silver. There is not
State In which IL that proposition were TO be
submitted to popular vote il would not be
adopted by an overwhelming majority.
do not mean by that inclusion 20 say that in
those States east of the Alleghenies and
north of tbs Ohio and Potomac rivers there
Is any hostility or indisposition TO receive
benefits that would result from the remon-
etization OF silver. On the contrary, in the
great commonwealth that lie to the north
east, upon the Atlantic sesboard-Nev
York, Pennsylvania and the manufacturing
and commercial states-I am inclined to
believe, from the tone OF the press. from
the declarations Of many assemblies, that
il the proposition were to be submitted
there IL would also receive a majority of the
votes. II the proposition were TO be sub
mltted to the votes of the people OF this
country at large whether the silver dollar
should be recoined and silver remonetized,
the prophecies, the pre-
dictions, the animadversions OF those who
are opposed to 10, have not the slightest
doubt that a great majority OF the people,
irrespective Of party, would be in favor of IL,
and would so record themselves They have
declared in favor of IL for the past fifteen
years, and they have been iuggled with, they
have been thwarted, they have been paltered
with and dealt with in q double sense The
word of promise that was made to their ear
in the platforms of political parties has been
broken TO their hope. There was majority
in this body at the last session of Congress
in favor of the free coinage of silver. The
compromise that was made was not what the
people expected nor what they had right
to demand. They felt that they had been
trified with, and that is one cause of the ex-
ASPIRATION that was expressed in the verdict
of NovemberI
WARNING.
Ifeel impelled to make one further obser-
walton. Warnings and admonftions have
been plenty in this debate. We have been
admonished OF the danger that would follow:
we have been notified of what would occur
II the free coinage of silver were supported
as a part OF our financial system i am not
prophet nor the son of q prophet, but say
to those who are now srraying themselves
against the deliberately expressed Judgment
OF the American people, Judgment that
they know has beed declared and recorded
say to the members OF this body, say, so
far as I may do so with propriety. 70 the
members of the coordinate branch of Con-
9ress and say, II without appropriately
may do so, to the Executive of the Nation,
that there Will come a time when the
people will be trified with no longer on this
subject Once, twice, thrice, By Executive
intervention. Democratic and Republican,
by parliamentary proceedings that I need
not characterize, by various methods OF leg
islative jugglery, the deliberate purpose OF
the American people. Irrespective of party,
has been thwarted, it has been defied, it has
been coptumaoiorsly trodden under foot !
and repeat 60 those who have been the in
struments and the implements, no matter
what the impulse or the motive or the inten-
ton may have been, at some time the people
will elect a House of Representatives, they
will elect Senate of the United States. they
will elect President of the United States
who will carry out their pledges and execute
the popular will.
THE SEAT OF POWER
Mr.. President by the readjustment of the
political forces of the Nation under the
eleventh census the seat of political power
has at last been transferred from the cir
conference of this country TO its center. 1t
has been transferred from the seaboard TO
that great intramontane region between the
Alleghenies and the sierras, extending from
the British possessions to the Gulf of Mexico
=
ders and marvels of modern civilization. 1t
seems as IL the column of migration had
paused in its westward march to bud upon
those tranquil plains, and in those fertile
valleys a fabric of civilization that should
be the wonder and admiration OF
the world; rich In every element
of present prosperity, but richer in
every prophecy of future greatness and re-
nown. When 1 went West. Mr. President, as
a CARPET Dagger, in 1858, st. Louis was an out
post Of civilization; Jefferson City was the
farthest point reached by railroad; and In
all that great wilderness, extending from the
sparse settlement along the Missouri 70 the
submits of the Sierra Nevada and from the
Yellowstone to the canyons OF the Rio
Grande, vast solitude from which 1 have
myself since that time voted to admit seven
States into the American Union, neither
harvest nor husbandry, neither habitation
nor home, save the hut of the hunter and
the wigwam OF the savage.
Mr.. President, we have now within these
limits extending southwark from the Brit
ism possessions and embracing the States OF
the Mississippi Valley, the Gulf and the
! Southeastern Atlantic, a vast productive
region. the gransry Of the world, majority
of the members of this body, OF the House OF
Representatives aud of the Electoral Col
! leEe. We talk with admiration of Egypt
For thirty centuries its ruins, its cities, IT'S
| arts its religions have been the marvel OF
mankind. The pyramids have survived the
memory OF their builders and the sphinx
! still questions with solemn gaze the vague
mystery of the desert The great heroic Of
Egyptian civilization, with its wealth and
power the riches Of It's art, its creeds and
| faiths and philosophers, was reared from
| the labors of few million slaves under thu
last of despots upon a narrow margin ~
miles long and ten miles wide, comprising in
! all, with the Delta Of the Nile, no more
| than 1000 square miles OF fertile land
Who can foretell the future OF that region q
| which have advsrted, with its 1900 miles o
navigable water courses, with its hundredI
| OF thousands of square miles OF soil, EXCEL
| ing in fecundity all that OF the Nile, when thu
| labor OF centuries, Of frsemen under the i'm
| pulse OF our institutions, shall have brought
/ forth its perfect results?
DESIRE OF TEE WEST.
| Mr. President, II is to that region. with that
population and with such a future, that the
political power of this country has at las
/ been transferred, and they are now unani
mously demanding the free coinage Of ell
yer. IL is for that reason that shall cordial
/ IL support the amendments proposed by th'
Senator from Nevada In doing 20 / not
{ only follow the dictates OF my own iudg
ment, but ] carry out the wishes OF ths great
majority OF my constituents, irrespective 81
party or political Arilis;ion. have been fol
I the free coinage OF silver from the outset. and
I am free to say that after having observed
/ the operations of the act OF 1878, am more
} than ever convinced Of the wisdom Of tha
I legislation and Of the futlllty OF the accuse
I tons by which IL was asssiled The people
I Of the country that / represent have lost
their reverence for gold. They have nc
longer any superstition about coin Not
I withstanding all the declarations OF th'
monometallists, notwithstandipg ali the as
saalts that have been made By those VINO
I are In favor OF still further increasing TIT
value OF the standard by which their posses
sions are measured, they know that money
z IL neither wealth nor capital, nor value, anl
+ that IL Is merely the creation OF the Law os