The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-01-21

In proportion. wages fell. and the value of
every thing was deprecated excep. debts
and gold. The mortgage. the bond, the
coupon and the tax have retail red immortal
youth and vigOr. They hav, not depre-
| ciated The debt remains, but the capa-
city to pay has been destroyed The accu-
mutation Of years disappears under the
hammer OF the sheriff and the debtor is
homeless. while the creditor obtains the
security for his debt for a fraction Of what it
was actually worth when the debt was con
tracted.
There is, Mr.. President, a deep seated con-
viction among the people, which I fully
snare, that the demo netizatiOn of silver in
1913 was one element of Il great conspiracy to
deliver the fiscal system of this country over
to those by whom it has. in my opinion.
finally been captured. 1 see no proof of the
assertion that the decentralization act of 1873
was fraudulently or corruptly procured. but
! it is impossible to avoid the conviction that
it was part of 4 deliberate plan and conspir-
acy formed by those who have been called
spectators TO stillfurther increase the value
OF the standard by which their accumula-
tions were to be measured.
AN ANOMALY.
The attention of the people was not called
to the subject 1t is one of the anomalies and
phenomena of legislation. That bill was
pending in its various stages for four years
in both houses OF Congress. 1t passed both
bodies by decided majorities. 1t was read
and reread and reprinted thirteen times, as
| appears bv the records 1t was commented
upon in newspapers; it was the subject OF
discussion in financial bodies and over the
country, and yet We have the concurrent tes-
timony of every Senator and every member
OF the House OF Representatives who was
present during the time that the legislation
was pending and proceeding that he knew
nothing whatever about the decentralization
of silver and the destruction of the coinage
of the silver dollar. The Senator from Neva-
| da (Mr. Stewart) who knows many
things, felt called upon to make Il speech
of an hours duration to show that he
knew nothing whatever about it.
have heard other members declaim, and
with one consent make excuse that they
knew nothing abOut It, As say, it is one OF
the phenomena and anomalies of legislation,
and have no other explanation TO make
than this. believe that both houses of Con-
gress and the President of the United States
must have been hypnotized So great was
| the power OF capital, so profound was the
| impulse, so persistent was the determine
| ton that the promoters of the scheme sue
ceeded by the operation of mind power and
will force in capturing and bewildering the
intelligence of men of all parties, of mem
bers OF both houses of Congress, and the
| of the United States.
FREE COINAGE.
Mr.. President, there is not a 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 Il
| State in which il that proposition were to be
submitted to a popular vote it would not be
| adopted by An overwhelming majority.
do not mean by that inclusion to say that in
those States east of the Alleghenes and
north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers there
| is any hostility or disposition to receive
benefits that would result from the remOn-
! citation of silver. On the contrary, in the
great commemorative that lie to the north
east, upon the, Atlantic seabOard-New
York, Pennsylvitlfs, and the manufacturing
and commercial States-I am inclined to
believe, from the tone of the press, from
the declarations of many assemblies, that
ii the proposition were to be submitted
there il would also receive majority of the
votes II the proposition We're to be sub
mitted to the votes of the people of this
| country ut large whether the silver dollar
should be recoined and silver remonetized,
notwithstanding the prophecies, the pre-
dictiOnS, the animadversions OF those who
are opposed to it, l have not the slightest
doubt that great majority of the people
| irrespective Of party, would be in favor OF it,
| and would so record themselves They have
declared in favor of it for the past fifteen
years. and they have been jugsled with, they
have been thwarted, they have been paltered
with and dealt W it'll in a 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 a majority
in this body at the last session of Congress
I'm 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
trifled with, and that is one cause of the eX-
ASPIRATION that was expressed in the verdict
of November 4.
A WARNING.
feel impelled to make one further obser
vatiOn. Warnings and admOnitions have
been plenty in this debate. We have been
admOnished of the danger that would follow
we have been notified of what would occur
if the free coinage of silver We're supported
rs part of Our financial system. I am not a
prophet nor the son of a prophet, but l say
to those who are now arrayng themselves
against the deliberately expressed judgment
of the American people, judgment that
they know has beed declared and recorded
l say to the members of this body. / say, so
far 1 may do so with propriety to the
members of the co ordinate branch of Con
gresS and say, if without appropriately 1
may do so, to the Executive of the Nation.
that there will come time when the
people will be trfled with no longer on this
subject. Once, twice, thrice, by Executive
Intervention, Democratic and Republican,
by parliamentary proceedings that / need
not characterize, by various methods of leg
slative jugglery, the deliberate purpose of
the American people, Irrespective of party,
has been thwarted, it has been defied. it has
been contumaciously trOdden under foot !;
and repeat to 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 Il Senate of the United States. they
viii elect a President of the United States
who will carry out their pledges and execute
the popular will.
THE SEAT OF POWER.
Mr.. President by the readiustment 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
Alleghenes and the Sierras. extending from
the British possessions to the Gulf of MeXic
IA region whose growth is one of the won
ders and marvels of modern civil Zation. 1t
seems as if the column of migration had
nauSel in its westward march to bud uDOu