The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-31
TELLER1s TEARS.

Money and the convention system have
filled the United States Senate with such
a motley crew that no one is now sur
prised at anything coming from IT, There
has been more vapid, stupid stuff anC
| nonsense talked there within the pas
sixty days than in any other body OF
similar size in the civilized world. Sen
ators, too. are so constantly engaged in tn
business Of bowling to each other and
! shaking each others hands while they
pay themselves fulsome compliments In
the hope that they may thereby deceive
| the public and make people believe that
| these are really some big men in the
| Senate, that we never know Just how
! far we can trust to their sincerity when
we are told that senators have given
a particular senator close attention, and
at the end Of his speech have crowded
around him to tender him consratula-
tions and thanks One Of those doubtful
occasions was furnished when Senator
Teller last week preached the obituary
OF free silver. The press dispatches rep
resent the Senate as having paid him
profound attention, while many senator's
were so impressed that their feelings
almost overcame them. Our curiosity was
excited so that we hunted up Mr.. Tell
er's speech in the Congressional Record.
The following is its most effective pas
sage.
But. Mr.. President, let me say for Colo
RADIO that we owe to the East large sums
of money, we have taken their capital,
and we nave returned to them honestly
the gain. We shall do it yet. We shall
not repudiate a dollar Of our obligations.
The people OF the East who have forced
this condition upon us will not find us
rctallaung by refusing to pay our debts.
We shall pay the last farthing. They
shall say that we owe them nothing when
the time comes for payment We have,
l repeat the natural resources with which
10 do It. We shall husband our resources,
we viii develop other industries as far
as possible, and we shall be Independent
in the road that we have marked out for
ourselves, in which we have marched with
credit and success so far In our history
There will be no reputation. If the
great railroad companies in that country
cannot pay the interest on the bonds you
hold, that is not our fault
LAS for our personal obligations on ac-
count Of money we have borrowed and
for which you hold our notes and bonds
we shall pay those. All that we owe we
can pay and we intend to pay. The credit
OF the State Of Colorado as a State and
Of the individuals in the State has been,
and is now, as good as that of any other
portion Of the United States. 1t will re-
main so. II will require a greater effort,
greater sacrifices. and we shall be COM
PEELED at least for a time TO so without
profit and, as l said before, IL viii bring
disaster and distress. But the men who
made their way over the unknown plains
ana through the mountain passes. who
have butt cities and towns and establish
ed a civilization Of the character that we
have, are not the people 20 sit down and
surrender, and II we feel that we have
been unfairly treated IT will make no diff
ference with us II will but incite us 10
greater efforts in order that we may be
In the future, as we have been In the past,
Independent of all men and all peoples as
We intend TO be"
This is what stirred the Senate to its
profoundest depths and sent senators up
In troops to tell Mr. Teller Of Colorado.
they were his to count on and that the
United States would never be in peri
while she had Tellers in her Senate
no pun intended.
But what does IL all amount TO? Moth
ing but that Colorado as a State intends
to be honest and 10 return 10 those from
whom she borrowed money all that they
loaned her and that the individual citi-
zens Of Colorado intend to do the same
respecting the money they owe New York
and Boston merchants
1t is quite likely statements OF this
sort might make something Of a sensa-
ton in Colorado. but we hardly expected
they would become an occasion for any
extraordinary amount OF gush in the
United States Senate. The Senate is a
strange body. though, and takes very pc
culIar views Of things in general