People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-30

'ASuee 'nat tue! knew nothing about
It, As say, it is one of the phenomena
and anomalies Of legislation, and l have
no other explanation to make than this:
l 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
oy the operation of mind power and will
force In capturing and bewildering the in
telligence of men of all parties, of members
OF both houses of Congress, and the men,
oers of the Cabinet, and the President of
the United States.
Mr.. President, there is not a State west
OF the Allegheny mountains and south of
the Potomac and Ohio rivers that is not
IN favor Of the free coinage of silrer. There
Is not State in which, if that proposition
were to be submitted to a popular vote, it
would not be adopted by an overwhelm-
Ing majority. do not mean by that in.
cluslon 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 CON-
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
1t would also receive a majority of the
votes. II 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-
dlctions, the animadversions of those who
are opposed to it, have not the slightest
doubt that great majority Of the people.
irrespective Of party, tcould 6e'in favor of
Il, and would so record themselves. Then
hare declared in favor Of ii for the past Is
years, and they hare been juggled Nth, then
hare been thtrdrted, they hare been paltered
Nth, and dealt Nth in 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 tpas made
tUdS not tChdt the people expected nor what
they had a right TO demand. They felt that
they had been trifed with, and that is one
cause of the evaporation that was ex-
pressed in the verdict of November 4.
Ifeelimpelled 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 a part of our financial sys-
tenn. am not 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 IL 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
| say, if without improperly may do So
to the executive of the nation, that there
tcfH come a time when the people ,ciH be
tryted Nth no longer on his subject. Once,
twice, thrice, by executive Intervention,
Democratic and Republican, by parlia-
mentary proceedings that need not char
acterize, by various methods of legislative
lugglery, The deliberate purpose of the
american people, irrespective of party,
has been thtcarted, IL has been defcd, il
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 ma! ave been, at some time
the people toiH ete.. House Of Represent
dtiueS, they 'ciH elect Senate Of the United
States, they ioiH elect President of the
United States, i0ho uiH carru out the
pledges and execute the popular UiH.
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
Slerras, extending from the British DOS.
sessions to the Gulf of Mexico-a region
whose growth is one of the wonders and
marvels of modern civilization. II seems
as II the column of migration had paused
IN It's 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 /
went west, MIR. President, as a CARPET
Dagger, in 1858, st. Louis was an outpost
OF civilization; Jefferson City was the
farthest point reached by a railroad; and
In all that great wilderness, extending
from the sparse settlement along the Mis-.
souri, to the SUNNI. of the Sierra Nevada
and from the Yellowstone to the caiions of
the Rio Grande, vast solitude from which
l have myself since that time voted TO ad.
init seven States into the American Union.
neither harvest nor husbandry, neither
habitation nor home, save the hut of the
hunter and the wigwsm of the savage.
Mr.. President, we have now within these
limits, extending southwark from the Brit
lsh 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
lty of 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
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