The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-09-30

make excuse That they knew nothing about
it. As l 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 Congress and
the President of the United States must
have been hypnotized. So great was the
power of capital, so profound was the i'm
pulse, 80 persistent was the determination,
that the promoters of the scheme succeeded
by the operation of mind power and will
force in capturing and bewildsring the in
telligence of men of all parties, of members
of both houses of Congress, and the mem
bers of the Cabinet, and the President of
the United States.
Mr.. President, there is 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 siIuer There
is not State in which, if that proposition
we're to be submitted to popular vote, it
would not be adopted by an overwhelm-
ing majority. I do not mean by that in
clusion to say that in those States east of
the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio and
Potomac rivers there is any hostility or
indispOsitiOn to receive benefits that would
result from the reconciliation of silver.
On the contrary, in the great common
wealths that lie to the northeast, upon the
Atlantic seabOard-New York, Pennsyl-
vania, and the manufacturing and COM
mercial States-I am inclined to believe,
from the tone of the press, from the
declarations of many assemblies, that if
the proposition we're to be submitted there
it would also receive majority of the
votes. If the proposition we're to be sub
mitted to the votes of the people of this
country at 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, 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
hare declared in favor of it for the past 10
gears, and they hare been juggled Nth, they
hare been hUdrted, they hare been paltered
Nth, and dealt Nth 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 in favor of the free coinage
of silver. The compromise that IUas made
tUdS not tChGt the people expected nor tUhat
they had a right to demand. They felt that
they had been trihed with, and that is one
cause of the evaporation that was ex-
pressed in the verdict of November 4.
feel impelled to make one further obser-
walton. Warnings and admonitions have
been plenty in this debate. We have been
admonished of the danger that would fol-
low; we have been notified of what would
occur if the free coinage of silver were
Imported as a part of our financial sys
tenn. 1 am not a prophet nor the son of
a prophet, but say to those who are now
arraying themselves against the deliber-
ately expressed judgment of the American
people, judgment that they know has
been declared and recorded say to the
members of this body, say, so far as
may do so with propriety, to the members
of the coordinate branch of Congress, and
l say, if without improperly I may do so,
to the executive of the nation, that there
tUiU come time lOhen the people WiU be
triGed loith no longer on this subject Once,
twice. thrice, by executive intervention,
Democratic and Republican, by parlia-
mentary proceedings that need not char
acterize by various methods of legislative
jugglery, the deliberate purpose Of the
american people, irrespective Of party
has been thlOarted, it has been defed, it
has been contumaciously trOdden under
foot; and repeat to those who have been
the instruments and the implements, NJ
matter what the impulse or the motive @,
the intention ma We been, at some time
the people UiU b House of Represent
atiUeS, they tOiU elect u Senate of the United
States, they will elect a President of the
United States, tVho will carry out the
pledges and execute the popular wiU
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 circumference of this country to its
center. 1t has been transferred from the
seaboard to that great intramOntane re-
gion between the Alleghenies and the
Sierras, extending from the British pos
f sessions to the Gulf of Mexico-a region
whose growth is one of the wonders and
maryels of modern civilization. 1t seems
as if the column of migration had paused
in its westward march to bud upon those
tranquil plains, and in those fertile valleys
spread 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 renown. When l
went west, Mr.. President, as a carpet
Dagger, in 1858, st. Louis was an outpost
of civilization; Jefferson City was the
farthest point reached by railroad; and
in all that great wilderness, extending
from the sparse settlement along the Mis-
souri, to the summit of the Sierra Nevada
and from the Yellowstone to the cafions of
the Rio Grande, vast solitude from which
1 have myself since that time voted to ad-
NIT 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
ish possessions and embracing the States
of the Mississippi valley, the Gulf and the
southeastern Atlantic, a vast productive
region, the granary of the world, major
ity o. the members of this body, of the
House of Representatives, and of the
electoral college. We talk with admira-
ton of Egypt. For thirty centuries its
ruins, its cities, its arts, its religions, have
been the marvel of mankind. The pyra-
mids 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 civ
ilization, with its wealth and power, the
: riches of its art its creeds and faiths and