The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-10-22

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crowd was present during the dis
cussion. Senator Teller first spok
and a portion Of his speech ran a
follows:
WHAT CAN BE DONE.
"The question concerning silver is ho,
we are best to obtain relief. What W
can do in one direction is wholly i'm
possible in another. And wish to re
peat my former statement that the silve
question is an economic, not politica
one. | have said that President Harri
son was not bi-metallist. But Presi
dent Harrison is being reelected on
silver platform, and that makes him
bi-metallist. If we expect to secure
reformation in this line we must look t.
the party we represent. Free coinag
Of silver cannot come by one gigantic
overthrow and revulsion of existing sen
timent. Nothing has yet been accom-
plished that way. But it can come b,
proper influences and hard work, ant
that is the work the republican senators
of the west have been accomplishing.
THE EAST AND SILVER.
"And this question of education j.
going on rapidly. Free coinage has
thousands of advocates to-day where il
had but few hundred a short time
since. The sentiment of the east is
changing. Its people are beginning tc
see the advantages offered through q
solution of the silver problem. And
again | say that the republican party is
bringing about this change. Not only
are the masses changing, but so are the
public men. No better proof of this is
shown than in the fact that the present
Senate is a free-coinage Senate. The
growth of the silver sentiment has been
Seven years ago there was
practically no interest in it. To-day it
has become a leading economic question.
How has this been accomplished! Just
as well the great reforms in the repub-
lican party have been accomplished-by
persistent and untiring labor, backed by
the growing sentiment of the people.
"You cannot get this silver reform by
voting for a man who cannot be elected
md for a man, who if elected, does not
himself believe in the free coinage of
silver, as his own attitude in the House
If Representatives has been against this
metal. If | felt it my duty to go out of
he republican party to secure silver re-
'orm, | would not hesitate moment to
20. feel that my duty is with it.
eel that it is the party to which | may
ook for proper legislation in this re-
pect."
After his speech, which was
'eceived with great applause, the
chairman introduced the Hon. Frank
:. Goudy, who spoke most vigorous
V in lines as follows:
WHAT A VOTE MEANS.
'In this campai gn you can vote for
lothing by voting for the Iowa man, or
'ou can vote for Harrison, who is the
'nly president who has signed a silver
'ill since 1873; the president who has
aiken a deep interest in the silver ques-
ion by calling the great and leading
lations of the earth together to try and
olive the problem by monetary con-
erence. You can vote for Harrison
Indcr whose administration $200,0QO,-
100 of silver has been put into circula-
ion, and on a par with gold. You can
otc for the party that has put into cir
ulatiOn and use. OF as the basis of
money, more than $500,000,OOO of silver
ince 1878, against less than $2OO,OOO,-
90 coined during the free-coinage laws
f eighty-tive years preceding the act of
S73, or you can vote. directly or indi-
ectly, for the anti-silver pomposity
rom Gray Gables, who wrote his letter
gainst silver to General Warner before
e had even been inauguratcd as presi-
ent of the United States.
"Iou can vote to strike down the
ariff on lead and wool by voting for
he Omaha platform; can vote for the
ub-treasuTy scheme and the further CEN
ralization of government by placing the
ailroads in the hands of the government,
ut | do not believe you will do ii after
on have carefully considered these great
uestions. We are told by those who
ave thought of voting against Harrison
l this state by voting for the Iowa man
nat they have no hope of electing the
ireenbacker, but they do it to protest
gainst Harrison and as warming to him.
uch action reminds me of the Irish
adge, who, in sentencing man to be
ung, said; "The sentence of the court
that you be hung until you are dead,
nd may this be a warning to you"
GENERAL HARRISON AND SILVER.
''ThOse who denounce General Harri-
On for his position on silver will do
ell to study his acts. AS we have
lown, he has approved the only silver
i'll that has been presented to him.
hiding that this did not meet the en-
rgency, and that Notwithstanding the
urchase by the treasury of 100000
unces of silver month the price con-
nued to fall, he concluded that free
,inagc could not be maintained in the
nited States without the concurrence
f the leading nations of Europe, and at
nee set out to bring about the concur
,ncc. What the result will be remains
} be seen, but we are among those who
'ok for mutual benefit from such a
ove. If nothing should come of it,
e still have the ri ght to such legisla-
on by Congress as will restore the par
y between the metals in this country
gardless of other nations.
THE sUB-TREAsURY SCHEME.
In 1878 the Argentine Republic tried
plan similar to the sub-treasury
maha plan, or loaning scheme, only
: advances were made by the govern
ent upon lands, rather than on wheat
ms, warehouses. etc. They founded the