St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-18
EVERYBODY Is TIRED.

Senator Teller, of Colorado. said Mon
day that he was tired of the incessant
criticisms i'll the press and from other
sources that the opponents of repeal
were wasting time, and characteriZing
their course as revolutionary. The
press shares IN "that tired feeling"
which the Colorado senator speaks of.
1t is tired of tine inanity of the pending
talk-it cannot be called debate-of the
silver senators. 1t is weary-ineXpres-
sibly weary-of the spectacle of a few
men, representing rotten boroughs and
mining camps, attempting to dictate the
legislation of the entire country, and to
force the people to accept a debased and
constantly depreciating metal as meas
ure of value. The press is tired. and in
dignant as well, that the many and va
ried interests OF this great nation are
paralyZed in order that few silver
barons may prosper; that the govern
ment is compelled to purchase unneceS-
sary amounts Of the products of the
mines and hide it away to prevent the
further depreciation of silver; that agri
culture is taxed GENEROUSLY to increase
the profits of mining; that trib-
ute is exacted from commerce to
maintain special interest; that all
values are rendered unstable in the
vain and idIotic attempt to maintain the
commercial status of single product
The press is tired and the people are
tired of the ceaSeless gable of the sem
ators from Colorado, Nevada ard Ne
braska-of their rrate of vested rights,
OF their assumptions of patriotism and
virtue and of their predominatlng self
ishness. The gable of the silver sena-
tors has been exceedingly wearsome,
inane and Frustrating. 1t has made of
the senate the laughing stock of the
world. 1t has shown Americans that
they have no power of self-government,
but that small minority has the power
to thwart the wishes of vast majority
of the people and their representatives
1t has shown that the senate is not a
self-governing body, but body of OBJ
structioniSts, capable of being used as the
instrument or financial ruin and politi-
cal oppression. Above all it has shown
that the senator from Colorado and his
coparceners in obstruction are destitute
or patriotism, of decency and of common
sense-venal, overbearing, nauseating.
The course of the defenders of silver
has been such as to ALLEVIATE from them
and their cause ali right-minded people,
and to bring them into contempt and
reDroach. They are aiming a blow at
the very foundation of our institutions
the right OF governmental
right of the majority to rule. They are
endeavoring to accomplish what the
slave oligarchy contemplated-to make
the government sectional, and to favor
special classes. They have, it is true,
precedent as justification, for the syS-
TEN of taxation foisted upon the gov
eminent under the Republican tariff
system is as grossly unfair and section
al as is the legislation they are now
defending. But sectionalism is not
patriotism, and neither Senator Teller
nor any of his associate obstructionists
can hope to be patriotic until they cease
to be sectional.
A word of counsel to the silver SEN
ators: They have already wearied the
country to the limit of endurance by
their unreasonable obstruction of need
ed legislation. Let them take heed in
time, for there is point beyond which
patience ceases to be virtue. and that
point has been almost reached.