Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-23

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Senator Stewart is credited with . re-
markable discovery in connection with
silver. He processes to have dug up law
enough TO demonstrate that silver hiss
NOT deprecated in value, and cannot IS
q matter Of fact do so in the United
States. He contends that, % the law
reads OF present, any man can take
seventy.four grains Of silver to the Mint,
get IL converted into . standard dollar
legal tender for l00c, and pass IL of on
his neighbor ct the latter figure. This
may be regarded as one Of the most re-
markble finds" recorded 10 history.
Senator Stewart evidently thinks that
yen can do almost anything you please
with law, and that so long as it stands
u~nrepealed the facts in any given case
are not Of any real value. IL the law is
Just what is represented in this last sill
yer contention, it is as much out OF date
as the Blue laws. II can have no force
or effect whatever, for IL sanctions .
bare-faced fraud. The thing to be done
in the premises is not to begin at the
Treasury to furnish tokens to those who
W silver bullion, intended to cheat their
neighbors out Of 26 per cent in every
exchange Of . dollar. but to formally re-
peal the absurdity. San Francisco Bul.
letin.
We do not placs much reliance in the
discovery by Senator Stewart Of an old
law by which free coinage can still be
legally enforced. No matter what the
statutes may be the question still re-
mains that an unfriendly administration
can easily find ways to render the law
comparatively q dead letter. as it has
been for all these years since 1873. II
silver IL ever to have q fair trial on equal
terms with gold in the monetary race in
this country, we must have at the head
Of the government friends Of silver in
stead Of enemies; and in the coming cleo.
tion this end should be kept steadily in
view by the people of the mining States
and the silver men throughout the coun-
try. II 10 the opinion Of well informed
Senators that we cannot hope for q two
thirds vote in the Senate to pass 9 free
coinage bill over the Presidential veto,
but that we can always muster q major.
ity in that body. 1t follows. therefore,
that nothing can be accomplished for sill
yer under the Harrison Administration.
The whole fight must be delayed for two
years, or until q new President is
elected. And the new President, who
ever he may be. is the man Of vital i'm
portance to the silver producing States.
We will deserve the continued depres-
sion which sits like q pail over our State
If we cannot for once lay aside partisan
ties and 60 for the candidate who prom
Uses most for silver. None Of US know
yet who the candidates are to be. None
Of us care much who they are so long as
one of them shall stand for the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver. That man
should be Nevada's man, no matter to
which party, or what party he belongs.
II is not especially important that we
turn Senator Stewart out Of the Senate
and fill bis place with a Democrat,
though it would be better if all Of the
mining States were represented in both
Houses by members Of that party, since
the great majority OF the silver men are
OF that political faith. But ii is vitality 9
important that the mining States elect
Democrats TO the lower House. The s
House must be kept Democratic or we
will get back just where we were under 6
Tom Reeds administration Of the Speak.
He stocked the Coinage Com i
mittee against Us and would not allow $
the free coinage bill which passed the (
Senate to aver come TO . direct vote in q
The House. With . Democratic major I
ity in the House we are always certain |
that the Committee on Coinage, Weights
Ind Measures viii be favorable to silver.
This is . live. pertinent issue in Ne
7ada. and in ell Of the mining States, /,
md should not be lost sight of in the
heat Of the Presidential contest. With
he record Of the last and the present
Congress before US as to the make up OF
he Coinage Committee, the States Of
Nevada. Colorado, Montana and Idaho
hould all elect Democratic Congressman
Without the slightest opposition from any
,ody. A vote to make the House Re-
is = vote for 8 Republican for
who will pack the Coinage Com.
nittee against silver, just as Tom Reed
lid. It has been the rule since the
Government began for Speakers to 30
their committees as to carry
,ut their personal views on all questions
II public policy. Hence it is that the
Speakers attitude on every public ques-
is Thoroughly canvassed and under.
stood before his election. Thus in the
recent contest for the Speakership, we
law Mills retired from the leadership,
, position to which he wal justly n
by all OF the time-honorsd prece.
dents, for the reason that he wanted to
subordinate every other issue to . rad
lcal Notification OF the tariff. A ma
jority Of the Democratic members re-
to 60 with him to that extent,
holding that free coinage and other great
national questions and issues must re-
equal consideration. In other
words Speakers are made. and in turn
make the committees, to reflect the SEN
timents Of . majority Of the party in
control Of the House at the time. Geo.
and otherwise the Republic
can party as represented in Congress is al.
ways SO constituted that any man Of
party with sufficient prominence to
become Speaker must necessarily be an
man. Therefore. when we OF