The herald., 1893-07-05
A sRNILE SENATORIAL poGBRRRY.

There have been number of contri-
buttons on the silver question of late,
the publicists including Hon. John
Sherman and Hon. John B. Henderson.
of Missouri. OF the former distinguished
gentleman it may be said, with truth,
that he hiss been on every side of the
money Issues of the day. He has been
He has been greenbacker, anti-green-
hacker, silver man and anti-silver man.
Such little matter as hard or soft
money has had but little difficulty for
him. The author of the Sherman bill,
be now stands ready to vote for it's re-
peal. Old as heis, he is ready to stand
on his bead if thereby he supposed that
there was greater chance for the presi-
dental lightning striking him. He is
the great political Jim Grow, and like
that worthy he is entitled to cling:
Iturn about and wheel about,
And do 'jes SO;
And every time wheel about
lump Jim Crow.
The Ohio icicle thus requires but brief
mention. His abilities are quite as re-
markable as his tergiversations, politi-
cal and moral.
MFR. Henderson was formerly an i'm
portant figure in Missouri politics. OF
late, however, he has not appeared in
public life to any great extent. His ad-
vent as financial pundit is, therefore,
something of surprise. He comes for
ward with theory. He finds that the
poor white metal is responsible for all
our financial ills. He accepts the
axioms OF Wall street as sort of West,
minister catechism or thirty-uine articles,
10 to speak, deviation from which is
monetary damnation. This fossilized
politician refers all our present financial
disasters to "distrust" on the part OF
basiness men, and he attributes this
''distrust" to the baleful effect OF the
laudable attempt on the part of the
Congress of the United States to stand
by one of the twin metals OF the
constitution. 1t is astonishing the
wrath this honest and time-honored
money of the fathers has brought down
upon its head, of late. When one looks
into the matter dispassionately the war
against it seems something unnatural.
in the oldest money transaction recorded
10 the history OF the world-the pur.
chase of the field OF Macpelah, by the
prophet tAbraham-silver was the money
lsed in the transaction. After thous-
inds and thousands OF years of recogni-
lion of the honest claims of the white
metal it is little late in the day to at
tempt to whistle it down the wind. It
vas not only held in high estimation in
The time of Abraham, but ever since.
Even today it is the favored money
metal of an overwhelming proportion of
he people of the world. The whole
,nergy of the conspiracy against it is
.onfned to England, Germany and e.
mall colony OF imitation Englishmen-
degenerate Americans-in Wall street,
New York. Within the memory OF
nyriads now living, silver wea laid aeide
the western states, and called land
money, because it was used to pay for
he quarter sections on whose cultiva-
non much Of the fabric of the prosper
ty of the United States rests.
This fine eupbemism 'distruat" is In
ruth an exceedingly clever invention as
spilled to the conspirators OF Wall
treet. II the conjuncture were not
mch grave one one would be tempted
laugh at the complete manner in
Ehich man of the ordinary intelli-
ence of ex-senator John 3. Henderson