The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-09-30

make excuse that they knew nothing about
it, As say, it is one of the phenomsua
and anomalies of legislation and have
no other explanation TO make than this;
i believe that both houses of Congress and
the President of the United States must
have been hypnotizsd- So great Was the
power OF capital so profound was the Im-
pulse so persistent was the dgtGrmluls lou5
that the promoters OF the scheme succeeded
Dy the operation OF miud power and VIII
force lH capturing and bswildsriug the iu-
reIiigeuce of men of all parties of members
of both houses OF Congress and the mem
beers Of the Cabinet and the President OF
the United States.
Mr.. President, there iz not O. State west
Of the Allegheny mountains and south OF
the Potomac and Ohio rivers that is not
i1l faU0F Of tlls free coinage Of stlUss. There
iz not State in which III that proposition
were TO be submitted 60 popular vote 60
would not be adopted by an OverWhelm
ing majority. i do not mean by that in-
CIusion to say that in those States east Of
the Aueg henies and north of the Ohio and
Potomac rivers there is any hostility OF
iudlsp position to receive benefits that would
result from the EsmOnstiEatiou OF silver.
On the contrary, in the great common
Waaltha that lie TO the northeast upon the
Atlantic ssabOard-AsW York EeuusyL-
Vania1 ana the manufacturing and com
mgECial 5tatss-I am inclined TO believe,
from the tone of the press from the
declarations of many assembliasr that if
the proposition were TO be submitted there
DO would also receive majority of the
votes. If the proposition were to be sub
mEtted to the votes OF the people OF this
country st large, whether the silver dollar
should be TsCoiHed and silver rsmUnstizGd, I
Notwithstanding the prophecies, the pre-
dlctlOus, the uuimadvsrsious of those who
are opposed to it, i have not the slightest
doubt that great majority Of taE people, .
irrespective OF DuTtU lroutL be do favor QT
&c, and would SO record themselves. IHeg
hare declared IN favor Of 10 for the past is
years, and theU haze been jugglad Jgitll, tLsg
haze been tttCurtedr they hare bsesl Duttgrsf
lgitE1 and dealt I0ith tu O. double sense The
word OF promise that was made to their
ear in the platforms of political parties
has been broken 60 their hope. There was /
a majority In this body at the last session .
of Congress in favor of the free coinage /
of silver The compromise that tgus made F.
IGus not JUhut the people expected nor l1hut f.
u right to demand. They felt that .
they had been trlhed with Eud that 30 one /
cause of the evaporation that was eE-
pressed IN the verdict OF November g.
IfseI mpeued to make one further obser- /
walton. Warnings and admOuIti0us have /.
been plenty in this debate We have been /
admCuished of the danger that would fol- /
lows We have been notified of what would .
occur if the free coinage of silver were .
Imported as a part of our financial sys-
tenn am not q prophet nor the son of /
a prophet, but say to those who are now /
Grraying themselves against the dsiibsE- ]
AlaAN llAa
people Judgment that lhey know has I
been declared and recorded say to the .
Of this body ] say. so far as I /
may do 30 with prOFriety5 TO the msmbors I
OF the coordinate branch of Congress and .
i say If without Impropr16ty I may do So I
so the executive of the nation, that there
sCiH come q time tUheu the people tDiU be .
triEsd sUitH 40 longer 0E Ibis subject. Once, 7
twice. thrice by executive intervention
Democratic and Republican, by parIia- /
nrnHaarfFFgrH that mead Oh
aCterizeB by various methods of legislative
luggleryB che deliberate purpose Of che 4
AHleTicuu people irrespective Of party 4
has been tIJUugtsdr 10 has been daHsL it ]
has been ContumaCiously rroddsu under I
FOOT and repeat to those who have been .
the Instruments and the implements, Dc
matter what the impulse OF the motive o.
the intention ma re been at some time .
the people IgiEE ID House Of Represent
utiuss, alsy t0iI elect 20 Senate Of the United .
States they lgiN eject o. President Of the .
United States Igh0 11iN carry ont lE6 .
pledges and erecIlts the popular tgilL
Mr. President by the readiustmsnt of /
the political forces of the nation under .
the eleventh census the seat OF political .
power has at last been transferred from .
the circumference of this country TO its l
center. It has been transferred from the .
leaboard to that great iutramontaue re-
gion between the AHegheuis5 and the .
5lsrrGs5 extending from the British pos
sessions TO the Gulf of Mexico ia region .
'aAteag EhoWLt rs one or lAa HDAlaLa ana
uarFsls or modern civilization To seems +
as if the column of migration had paused .
in its westward march to bad upon those .
plains, and iu those fertile valleys .
spread a fabric of civilization that should .
be the wonder and admiration OF the .
worlds rich in every element of present ]
prosperity but richer iu every prophecy I
OF future greatness and rgnoWn- when j Z
went west, Mr, President, as a carpet
Dagger in 1858, st. Louis was an outpost /.
Of civilization; JEFFERSON City was the .
farthe5r point reacl red by @ railroadi and .
IN all that grea llaeruClsl extending /
from the sparse lnt along the Mis-
souri, to the suulalit ID the Sierra Nevada
and from the Yellowstone TO the cahoua of
the Rio Grands, q vast solitude from which
7 have myself since that time voted TO adj
NIT seven States into che American Union,
neither harvest nor huahaudrvr neither
labitztlon nor home, 6lVs che hut OF the
hunter and the WigVgm OF tine savage
MT President We have now within these
-l-uitl5 extending southwark from the Brit
iah possessions and embracing the States
OF che Mississippi valley Che Gulf and the
7out1easteru Atlantic q vast productive I
region sns granaEy OF the world a mai oE-
House of Hspreseutatives8 aud OF the
electoral college We talk With admira-
ton Of Egypt. For thirty centuries its
ruins, les cities, its arts, its religions. have
been the marvel Of mankind The pyru-
uids have survived the memory o. their
5uldars1 and the sphinx still questions
with solemn gaze the vogue no Fslary OF the
desert. The great heroic OF Egyptian CiV-
ilization, with itg wealth and power. the
philo5opherHr was reared from che iabur5
10 u few million HIHraH unaaH cha UuaH OF .