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

Egyptian civilization. with its wealth and
| power. the riches of is art, its creeds and
faiths and philosophers, was reared. from
the labOrs of Il few million slaves under tho
last OF deSpOts upon narrow margin 80
miles lcns and ten miles wide, comprising in
all, with the Delta of the Nile, no. moro
than 10000 square miles of fertile land.
Who can foretell the future of that region to
which have adverted, with its 20 600 miles OF
navigable water courses, with its hundreds
| of thousands of square miles of soil, excell-
ing in fecundty all that of the Nile, when tho
labor of centuries, of freemen under the inn
pulse OF our institutions, shall have brought
forth its perfect resultss
DESIRE OF THE WEST.
| Mr.. President. il is to that region with that
| population and with such future. that tho
| political power of this country has ut LAST
| been transferred and they are now urani-
mously demanding the free coinage of sill
yer. 1t is for that reason that shall cordial
! ~ support the amendment proposed by tho
Senator from Nevada In doing so not
only follow the dictates of my own iudg-
| ment, but carry out the wishes OF the great
majority of my constituents. irre>pect We Of
party or political affIiation l have been for
| the free coinage of silver from the outset and
am free to say that after having observed
the operations of the act of ISIS am morn
! than ever convin of the wisdom of that
| legislation and of the futility OF the accusa-
1 Z
of the country that l represent have lost
their reverence for gold. They have no
/ longer any superstition about coin. Not
wthStandng all the declarations Of the
monometallists. Notwithstanding all the as
saults that have been made by those who
are in favor of still further increasing the
value of the standard by which their posses
sions are measured, they know that money
| is neither wealth nor capital. nor value and
that IL is merely the creation of the law by
which all these are estimated and measured.
| We speak. sir, about the volume of money
| and about its relation to- the wealth and cap
| ital of the country.
Let me ask you. sir. for a moment. what
would occur if the circulating medium were
| to be destroyed. suppose that the gold and
| silver We're to- be withdrawn suddenly from
| circulation and melted up into bars and in
| Sots and buried i'll she earth from which they
| were taken. suppose that all the paper
| money-slver certificates. gold certificates,
| National bank notes, Treasury notcS--were
| stacked IN one mass at the end of the Treas
! ury building and the torch applied to them
| and they were to be destroyed by Dire and
| their ashes spread, like the ashes of wyck-
| life, upon the Potomac, to be spread abroad,
wide aS its waters be. What would he the
| effect? Would not this country be worth cx-
| actly as much as II is to-day? Would there
| not be just as many acres of land, just
| many farms, us many days of labor. us much
\ mercntnulSc ana rs nlucn property, I'M
proved and unimproved. AS there is to-day?
| The result would be that commerce would
| languish, the sails of the ships would ba
| furled in the harbOrS. The great trains
| would cease to run to and fro on their err
| rands. trade would be reduced To barter, and
| the people. finding their energies languish-
| ing, civilization itself would drop and we
should be reduced to the condition of
nomad lac wanderers upon the prmcvai
| plains.
Suppose, on the other hand. that, instead
/ of being destroyed, all the money in thiS
country We're to be put in the possession OF
| a single man-gold Ond paper and silver
! and he were to be moorcd in midi Atlantic
| upon Il raft with his great hoard or be sta
| toned i'll the middle of the sahara dies, re
without food to noursh or shelter to cover.
/ or the means of transportation to get away?
| Who would be the richest man the posscssor
! of that gigantic treasure, or the humb!c>t
settler upon the plains of the Vest with -
dug out to shelter him and with cornmcu
and water enough for his daily bread:
sCRIPTURAL.
/ Doubtless, Mr.. Pres. dcnt, yOu search tho
| Scriptures daily, and are therefore familiar
with the story of those departed poll tcans
| of Judea who sought to entanglc the Master
! in his talk by asking him If IL was lawful to
| pay tribute to Caesar or not. He, perccivinG
| the purpose that they had in view, said unto
|
| they brought Him penny. He said wi hose
! is this image and supcrscripton?" And they
replied, CAESARS" And He said: "Rcnder
unto Cesar the things that are Caesars and
unto God the things that are Gods"
| i hold, Mr.. President, between my thumJ
and finger, silver denarius, or penny" OF
/ that ancient time, bearing r., image All
superscripiion OF Cesar, 1t hi. heer "'e i
| for more than twenty centuries Impcril
| fl.-I IN ell, 10,
! yielded to a mghtier conqueror, and his
| eagles his cnsigns and his trophies are in
| distinguishable dust. His triumphS and hs
| victories are a school boys tale. Rome r.
| self is but memory. Her marble porticcs
and temples and palaces are in ruins. Tho
| sluggish monk and the lazy lazzaron haunt
the Senate houses. and the coliseum and Il u
derisive owl wakes the echoes OF the
less forum, but this little contemporary
disk of silver is money still because
il bears the image and supcrscriptiou
of Caesar. And, sir, it will continue to ba
money for twenty centuries more. should Is
resist so long the corroding canker and tho
gnawing tooth of time. But, if one
of these pages here should take
this coin to the railway track and
allow the train to pass over it, IN
one single instant its functions would have
disappeared and it would be money no
longer, because the image and supcr-ciD-
tion of Caesar would have disappeared. Mr..
President, money is the creation OF law, AMI
the American people have learned that les
son and they are indifferent to the assaults;
they are indifferent to the argument. they
are Indifferent to the aspersions which are
cas-. upon them for demanding that the law
of the United states shall place the Image
and superscription of Caesar upon silver
enough and gold enough and paper enough
to enable them to transact without cmbdr-
rassment, without ndrance without delay
and without impoyerishInent. their daily
business affairs, and that shall give them =
measure of values that will not make their
belongings the sport and the prey OF TIE
spectators.
ONLY ONE ISSUE.
Mr.. President, this contest can have but
one issue. The experiment that has begun
will not fail. II i useless to deny that many
irregularities have been tolerated here; that
many crimes have been committed in the
sacred name of liberty that our public affairs
have had scandalous episodes to which every
patriotic heart dverts with distress; that
there have been envy and jealousy in high
places; that there have been trcacSsvou5
and lying platforms: that there have h-cn
shallow cO,nproruises and al e.Sradiug