The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05


1t. AS say, it is one of the phenomena |
and anomalies of legislation. and I 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, so persistent was the determination, |
that the promoters of the scheme succeeded |
! by the operation of mind power and will /
force in capturing and bswildering 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 JGCOT Of the free coinage of Sitper. There |
is not State in which, if that proposition |
were to be submitted to popular vote, it |
would not be adopted by an oveFwhelm-
ing majority. do not mean by that in
clusion to say that in those States east of |
the Aneghenies and north of the Ohio and |
Potomac rivers there is any hostility or |
indispositiOn to receive benefits that would |
result from the cemOnetiZ5tion of silver. |
On the contrary, in the great common
wealths that lie to the northeast, upon the |
Atlantic seaboard-New York, PennsyI- |
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 were to be submitted there |
1t would also receive a majority of the |
votes. If the proposition were 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
/ Or
irrespective Of party, tCoWLd be in favor of
ii, and would so record themselves. They
haze declared tn favor of it for the past IS
gears, and they haze been jSggled tVita, they
hare been thl00rted, they haze been pGltered
tOtth, and dealt 1Oith in q 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 SOGS made
tUds not tOhGt the people erpected nor IOhGt
they had q Tight to demand. They felt that
they had been trifled with, and that is one
cause of the evaporation that was ex-
pressed in the verdict of November 4.
I 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
supported as part of our financial sys-
tenn. I am not prophet nor the son of
prophet, but say to those who are now
srraying 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, I say, SO far as
} may do so with propriety, to the members
= of the coordinate branch of Congress, and
, 1 say, if without impropriety I may do so,
TO the executive of the nation, that there
will come q time tVhen the people lOiU be
tr'i1ed tCith no longer on this subject. Once,
twice, thrice, by executive intervention,
Democratic and Republican, by parlia-
} mentary proceedings that I need not char
scterize, by various methods of legislative
juggIerys the deliberate purpose Of the
E American people, irrespective Of party,
1 has been thI0Grted, it has been deted, it
: has been Contumaciously trOdden under
= foot; and I repeat to those who have been
the instruments and the implements, ne
Q matter what the impulse or the motive OF
9 the intention ma we been, at some time
Q the people tOiLL ID House Of Represent
atiUes, they tOtI elect u Senate Of the United
9 States, they tOiu elect a President Of the
8 United States, tOho SViH carry out tbs
= pledges and erecWte the popular tViIE.
/ Mr.. President, by the readjustment Of
= the political forces of the nation under
!, the eleventh census, the seat of political
s power has at last been transferred from
r the circumference of this country to It's
: center. It has been transferred from the
l, seabOard to that great intremOntane re-
T giOn between the Aneghenies and thC
2 Sierras, extending from the British pos
If sessions to the Gulf of MexicO-a regioT
h whose growth is one of the wonders and
. marvels of modern civilization. It seems
| L. n1~Iw- -G- AI1
q IN its westward march to bud upon those
tranquil plains, and in those fertile valleys
J spread fabric of civilization that should
. be the wonder and admiration OF thl
8 world; rich in every element of presen
u prosperity, but richer in every prophecy
: of future greatness and renown. When
Il went west, Mr.. President, as 9 carpet
q bagger, in 1853, st. Louis was an outpos
e of civilization Jefferson City was thC
q farthest point reached by a railroad; snC
Z in all that great wilderness, extending
! from the sparse settlement along the Mis-
o souri, to the summit OF the Sierra Nevada
q and from the Yellowstone to the cafiOns OF
= the Rio Grande, vast solitude from which
i have myself since that time voted to ad
't NIT seven States into theAmerican Union
8 neither harvest nor husbsndry, neither
. hebitation nor home, save the hut of the
I hunter and the wigwam of the savage.
I Mr.. President, we have now within these
's limits, extending southwark from the Brit
u ish possessions and embracing the State!
= of the Mississippi valley, the Gulf and the
southeastern Atlantic, vast productive
d region, the granary Of the world, major
y ity o: the members of this body, of thu
n House OF Representatives. and Of th'
, electoral college. We talk with sdmira
y tion of Egypt. For thirty centuries it
ruins, its cities, its arts, its religions, hav
u been the marvel of mankind. The pyra
n mids have survived the memory of thei
y builders, and the sphinx still questions
10 with solemn gaze the vague mystery of tn
ts desert. The great heroic Of Egyptian civ
20 iization, with its wealth and power, tn
y riches OF its art, it's creeds and faiths ant
n philosophers, was reared from the labor
~ a Rav million aIayaa uudaP the last n