The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1891-01-22
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January isth. 1891.

Mr. President, there ~ not state
Ses' @ the Allegheny mountains
and - til Of the Potomac and Ohio
rivers that IL not In favor Of the free
coinage Of silver. There IL not .
state in which, n that proposition
were 10 be submitted TO q popular
vote, Il would not be adopted by an
overwhelming majority. ] do not
mean by that inclusion 10 say that
In those states east Of the Alleghen-
les and north Of the Ohio and
Potomac rivers thereIs any hostility
or lndlspositlon 10 receive the bene-
fits that would result from the re-
monetlEatIon Of silver. On the con-
trary, 10 the great common wealths
that lie to the northeast, upon the
Atlantic seaboard-New York,
Pennsylvania and the manufacture
Ing and commercial states-I am In
clined to believe, from the tone Of
the press, from the declarations Of
many assemblies, that II the PROPOSE
tioB were to be submitted there, 10
would also receive . majority Of the
votes. IL the proposition were TO bs
submitted TO the votes Of the people
Of this country at large whether the
silver dollar should be recoined and
silver remonetiEed, Notwithstanding
the prophecies, the predictions, the
administrations Of those who are
opposed to Il, have not the slight
sst doubt that q great majority Of
the people, irrespective Of party,
would be I'm favor Of II, aud would 50
record themselves. They have de-
cIsred In favor Of IL for the past fif-
teen years, and they have been
juggled with, they have been
thWarted, they have been Paltered
with and dealt with In a double
sense. The word Of promise that
was made 10 their ear In the plat
forms Of political parties has been
broken to their hope. There was .
majority in this body st the last sss-
sion 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
o right TO demand. They felt that
they had been trifled with, and that
Is one cause Of evaporation that
was expressed In the verdict Of
November 4.
feel Impelled to make one further
observation. Warnings and admo-
hitions have been plenty In this de-
bate. We have been adInonished OF
the danger that would follow; we
have been notified Of what would
occur II the free coinage Of silver
were supported by q majority Of this
body, or IL Il were TO be adopted ss q
part of our financial system. I am
not q prophet, nor the son Of q
prophet, but say to those who are
now arrayIng themselves against
the deliberately expressed judg-
ment OF the American people,
Judgment that they know has been
declared and recorded say to the
members Of this body, 1 say, so far
asI may do SO with prOpriety, 20 the
members Of the coordinate branch
Of congress, and ! say, IL without
improperly ! may do SO, to the
Executive Of the nation, that there
will come q time when the people
will be trified with no longer on this
subject. Once, twice, thrice by ex-
ecutive Intervention, Democratic
and Republican, by parliamentary
proceedings that ] need not charac-
teriZe, by various methods Of legIs-
Iative jugglery, the deliberate pur-
pose Of the American people, ire
spective Of party, has been thwarted,
Il has been defied, IL has been con-
tumsciously trodden under foot and
I repeat to those who have been the
instruments and the implements, no
matter what the impulse or the mo-
tive of their intention may have
been, at some time the people will
elect q house Of representative, they
will elect a senate Of the United
States, they will elect President Of
the United States who will carry out
their pledges and execute the popu-
lar will.
Mr.. President, by the reimbursement
Of the political forces Of the nation
under the eleventh census the seat OF
political power has at last been trans
ferred from the circumference Of
this country to lts center. 1t has
been transferred from the seabOard
to that great intramonIane region
between the Alleghenies aud the |
Sierras, extending from the British |
possessions to the Gulf Of Mexico-a |
region whose growth Is one Of the
wonders aud marvels Of modern civ
IIizatiOn. II seems as II the column |
Of migration had paused in its west
ward march to bud upon those
tranquil plains, and in those fertile
valleys q fabric OF civilization that
should he the wonder aud admira-
ton Of the world; rich in every els-
ment Of present prosperity, but
richer In every prophecy Of future
greatness and renown. When I went
west, Mr.. President, as a carPet-bag-
ger, In 1858, st. Louis was an outpost
Of civilization Jefferson City was
the fartherest point reached by q
railroad; and In all that great will
extending from the sparse
settlement along the Missouri 10 the
SUBMITS Of the Sierra Nevada and
from the Yellowstone 90 the canyons
Of the Rio GrAnde, q vast solitude
from which I have myself since that
time voted TO admit seven states into
the American Union, there was
neither harvest nor husbandry,
neither hAbitation nor home, save
the hut Of the hunter aud the wig
wan Of the savage.
Mr.. President, we have now within
these limits, extending southwark
from the British possessions and
the states Of the MIssiss-
IPpi valley, the Gulf and the South
eastern Atlantic, Q vast productive
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