Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-09-02
STEWARDS PLAIN TALK.

The following is an extract from
Senator Stewards speech, delivered
in the Senate last Friday. copied
from the Congressional Record:
If this bill should be passed, (the
Voorhees, billy and silver reduced in
price to 20 to sc cents an ounce,
there would be one acclaim from
Wall street and Lambard street and
all their agents, in and out of office,
against the use of that s'base metal"
because it is only worth 20 cents an
ounce.a Give them that argument,
give them that power, and then sill
yer is doomed, gold monometallism
is established, and there will be no
thing left for the people of the
States but to rise in their
might, break the chains with which
gold contraction has bound them,
and make their own money. 1t may
not be silver, but it will not be gold.
for twenty years If you could you
would reduce the people so that they
could not resist. You have not stop
ped the common schools; you have
not crushed the ambition of all the
young men of ths country; you have
not blotted out the spirit of liberty;
you have damned it up little; but
this damming up of the spirit Of lib
erty and of the aspirations of men
will only make the torrents more
terrible when they find that you are
determined to make them slaves.
We know we have four years of
bondage, because the executive ia
a monometallist, We understand
that, But these four years will be
season of education, and the voice of
the people will be heard. sl.. So
- What mockery to speak of the
Democratic or of the Republican
party, when both of those parties
have pledged themselves to bimetal-
lism and gone before the country,
and then they convene in extra SEES
sion to give the lie to all their pro-
fessions. They say they will give us
bimetallism. They promise that
from this Senate, and say to Wall
street and Lombard street, "Wait
little and you will be fully satisfied.
We will give the people a little
taffy, bat we will give you the power
to crush them perpetually."
q 1t is the paid press you hear talk
ing now; you are surrounded by
bankers, you are surrounded by
money influences. The masses of
the people have not been heard,
They will not be deceived. The
people are watching our proceedings,
and they viii mark those who, when
they ask for bread, give them
stone. They ask for free coinage,
and we say We WI give Wall street
ami Lombard street recommendation,
and then we will consider their |
claims.
'True, we promised; but we are
politicians, and we do not keep |
promises. We have contempt for
you. Our object is to deceive the |
masses, to acquire office, and then
betray." That is the position of the |
two parties here, to strike down sill
yer; but the position of the Repub- |
ican party is more humulating than
that of the Democratic party. They |
say that this was compromise, and |
with out giving reason they come
here to break the compact. The |
people will understand it, and mark |
them.
The Democratic party said they |
could not vote for the compromise
because they were for free coinage,
but Wall street demands that the |
compromise on free coinage shall not
be repudiated, that their greedy de-
mands shall be satlsf d, aud the peo-
pies cause shall be buried forever.
1t will not be. This will not pass
without a substitute.