Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1893-09-16

Hon. Thomas Wren, who attend
cd the Silver Convention recently
held at Chicago a. the delegate
from this county, and subsequently, vie
tied Washington st the opening OF The
extra session Of Congress. addressed the
citizens OF this place lsst Saturday
evening. giving his views ss considerable
length upon the work accomplished and
TO be accomplished by the Chicago Con-
ventiou, the prospects Of silver iegisls-
tion In Congress. the outlook for silver
In the futurs and the most effective
course TO be pursued BY the people Of thss
State to aid the silver cause The
speech was too long for ~pseliessioa IN
full, bat We give . brief sysopsss &
those portions Of most interest
Mr.. Wren said that nearly al q tie
great dailies in the large eisses skss Il
the Rocky Mountains and nor.h q tie
Potomac were controlled By EaxiixA
and American money leaders. and isssr
columns teemed daily with The nest
Outrageous falsehoois and Eoss Eissrs-
BILE clsptrsp aimed against silver. 10 10
now known that Esglish capitalists hsvs
bought stock in the sorpontioos thai
own some Of these dailiss for HE par
pose Of using their columns 10 advances
English interests. Nothing 10 10 Be
hoped for from these papers now Or in
the future.
The holders Of American securities
both at home and abroad are bitterly
opposed TO the remonetirasion OF silver
for purely selfish reasons. These par
ties can afford to spend millions Of dol
lara TO prevent its demonstration, and
from this source the money is derived
with which to substitute newspapers,
employ speakers and bride public Off
cials whenever bribery 10 possible and
necessary. Through business o
tions with the banks all ove the
country they are able to control nearly
ell Of the bankers, either by persuasion
or intimidation. and through the
bankers their employees and . great
majority Of the merchants, manufac.
turers and others doing business with
them by the same means. They are
better organized, have more money st
command, act more promptly and more
in harmoney than the friends Of silver.
The contest between these foreign
and American money lenders and the
silver forces is . part, and the princi-
pal part, Of the fight that has gone on
for centuries between the privileged
Glasses and classes favored by special
legislation. At the present time it is .
contest between the moneyed powers Of
England and the United States and
the people. The leaders Of the Re.
publican party are all arrayed without
exception against the people and In
favor Of the moneyed powers. Tom
Reed, who seems to be acknowledged
- the ablest Of these leaders, is not
only the friend Of the monsyed powers
against the people, but he Is also the
Incorporating foe Of silver and Of
Western interests generally. There 10
this to be said TO his credit, however
he 10 faithful to his section. As much
cannot be said for two other leaders Of
the party-Burroughs and Grosvernor.
or Mckinley. who is neither true TO
the interests Of his State nor to silver.
Mckinley voted, in the lower HOUSE
Of Congress. for the free coinage Of
silver in the Forty-6fth Congress and
subsequently, for the Bland bill, and
now denounoes % dishonest the dollars
he aided in creating. Nothing is to be
hoped for from the Republican party
favorable to silver, and one Of the chief
aims Of the Silver party should be to
drive the Republican party out Of ex.
i~stence, and especially to drive out Of
public life whenever and wherever they
can such men as Mckinley. Burroughs
and Grosvenor. by the use Of the bal
ance OF power that they probably hold
in the States in which those gentlemen
reside.
Opposed to these anti-silver forces are
all Of the industrial and labor orgsni.
cations Of the United States and the
debtor classes, and probably nine.tenths
Of all Of the voters Of the Southern
States. except Maryland, and . large
majority Of the voters Of all the
States lying west Of the great lakes and
the Ohio river.
In the cities and towns Of the East
probably . majority of the voters know
little or nothing about the silver ques-
tion and have n opinions in regard 10
u. When election day comes around
they walk mp to the polls, vote the
party ticket they hsve been accustomed
TO vote without the remotest idea Of
the vast Importance to the country Of
the financial issues.
This briefly was the status Of the
silver question among the people Of
the United States when the Silver Con-
vention met n Chicago.
To counterscs the influence Of . venal
and corrupt press. to more thoroughly
organize the friends Of silver through
ont the country, to arouse them TO re-
nswsd activity and secure concert Of
action, 70 educate the ~uneducated upon
the silver question and to bring suoh in
husnces to bear upon members
of Congress 81 the extra session
rs would aid silver, was . part oil