Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-09-29

zhotavar about IL. have beo-d othar
,,,ambers declaim. and with one consent
make excuse that they knew nothing about
a. As saw, 1t ia one of the nhenomena
md anomalies of leoislation. and 7 have
M other explanation to make than this:
r balieve that both houses of Oonoress and
the President of the United States must
have been hypnotized. So great was the
mower of capital, so profound was the inn
mise. so persistent was the determination.
that the promoters of the scheme succeeded
nv the operation of mind power and will
force in capturing and bewilderinR the in
telliQence of men of all parties, of members
of both houses of Congress, and the men,
hers 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 siluer. There
is not State in which, if that proposition
were to be submitted to popular vote, it
would not be adopted by an overwhelm-
ing majority. 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 demonstration 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 tne tone OF the press, from me
deciara'ions Vi many aoseinDnes, sna. =.
the pr0Posi1ion were W 10 suomeu sn .ne
IL wouid aiso reoeive maJorny VI sno
votes inc ProPosi.'uh woie W 20 SUI .L:.
mitted 10 tne vo'es Oh 1ne People VI ,his
country az iarge' whe.he, 'no silso1 uona'
shouiu 90 reooIneu anu onVet ,oo .t
notwithstanding 'ne PioPnooiee, sno Pr
dictions, 'he osereions ~ MS WV
are oPPoseo W ~ = naso nov S"o org n.os'
douot una. greu. muyo.mg ~ ae peop.e,
irTespec"oe Po'tg' ~ou'" 20 10 y"oo m "
u, anu wouiu % teoo.u sn =, xo ts LIZ ~
nooe oeo'u' a. :" 49, "yJ. IN ~,
years, uno Meg ,uoe oee" Jogs,o0 "'",, 10y
mare oeen .Dureeu, neg na'e oeem PUTT Ts ~ =
'o,", ane oeuN O". W ooao'e 's"' 49,
woro Oh promise 1ha' was nauo W on.ii
ear IN tne Piaeiorns oi Poii''caa parties
mas oeen proKen W 'heir noPo' noio ma9
ma!ori'y IN 'n.s pouy q. 'no . ,ao' oo.eao
ot Conere'o ~ iasor " sne =. 80 s s.
OF shVer' ne co"ttIo"'ee "u' ~uo muo.
iods not 'onae me people e"peTseu 10, ~ az :.
tney nda T'0n. 70 aenio:%' Iney 10. 'naS
they haa oeen trlneo WIN, anu .ha' 10 QUO
cause OF 'ne eAasPeIa',oH 'haS wa9 "a
Presseo III 'he Veroio' VI No'eMooi
feelimpelled 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. l am not prophet nor the son OF
prophet, but say to those who are now
arraying themselves against the deliber-
ately expressed Judgment of the American
people, a 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 may do so
to the executive of the nation, that there
will come time tohen the people will be
t,ifed with 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 h,carted, IL has been defed, it
has been contumaciously trodden under
foot; and l repeat to those who have been
the instruments and the implements, no
matter what the impulse or the motive or
the intention may ave been, at some time
the people pW ell. a House of Represent
atires, then ,oiH elect q Senate of the United
States, then piU elect q President of the
United States, ,oho will cdrru out the
pledges and execute the popular ,viH.
Mr.. President, by the reimbursement 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. II has been transferred from the
seaboard to that great intramontane re-
gion between the Aneehenies and the
Sierras, extending from the British pos
sessions to the Gulf of Mexico-a region
whose growth is one of the wonders and
maryels of modern civilization. II 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 a 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 1