Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1893-08-19
VOICE FROM THE HILLS.
Rally Around the Silver Flag A
CorrespOndent-s Views

! Nearly thirty years have elapsed since
the first shot fred upon the 'Star of tie
the West" in Charleston harbor whilst
on her way to relieve the besieged Fort
Sumter. Shortly afterwards followed
Ombardment of Sumter. The writer
remembers we'll the boom OF those guns
even TO this day. Il was the ushering
IN Of the great civil war that shook this
nation 20 its foundation. The primary
cause YVES the extension Of slave terri
tory and step still further the disunion
of states. The words Of Stephen A.
Douglass in 1860 "that the fanatics at
the south and the fanatics at The north
were endeavOring to reId asunder this
great and glorious union, but the union
must and shall be preserved" Today
nearly thirty years afterwards we find
the taDatlcal centraliZed gold standard
men of New York city in collision with
the British India conspiracy Matched
under the shadows Of the Bank OF Eng
land endeavOring to totally dis unite
the monetary double standards of the
United States for the purpose Of enrich
lag Engllshmen and their industries at
the rulnOus expense Of the manufac-
States. The expression during the
war-"Oh wait boys the steel clad fleet of
England will soon appear of Charleston
harbor and raise the blockade" This
was the sentiment existing all through
out that perioda-help1ng hand from
England TO disuniie the American union.
The heavy ordinances or cannOns that
were placed OF the Boulevard or water
front of the city OF Charleston for q .
purpose OF sinking the federal gnnbOats
In case they succeeded in passing the
forts were brought 10 by blockade
runners from the fort at Nassau and
were Of English make and sold 20 the
confederate government. 1 cite this to
show Eneland's dupIicity and hatred of
the United States. She built the Ala
bama, that terrOriZed and destroyed
American merchantmen until they
were almost annlhilated from the high
seas. For this she paid a war indemnity
under the claim known as the Alabama
claims. She paid this because the foot
steps of million veteran sOldiery, fresh
with victory from the tree of Apo
mattsx and following in the lead Of a
great general, were ringing IN her ears
and she dare not refuse. Engiand's
history is one is one of premeditated
and attempted conquest. What she can
not do by force of arms she will attempt
by intrigue, diplomacy, collision and
conspiracy. To Offset the Alabama
claims, England used strategy, she used
bribery and 20 the mpllshment of
this purpose she sought as an instrV-
ment the brother of one of Americas
greatest generals. The doings of John
Sherman in financial legislative enact
ments at Washington IN 1873 are still
fresh in the memory OF many.
Dictated by English influence it
caused a financial panic and entailed
the failures of large number of banks.
This demonetizing per6dy, enacted
against silver, one of the monetary
standards Of this ration, has resulted in
squeezing from the silver mines and
nine owners OF the United States vast
profits which have accrued to English
bankers and English corporations
and EnglRnd'S India trade. and paid
back to England IN large profits, ten
times more than she ever suffered from
the war indemnity demanded of her by
tee United States. The further legisla-
ton in his particularly interested part
taken in behalf OF 81, 100000 purchase
was recognized by observing men as
only a sop thrown to the silver men to
delay at that time free coinage las MS
utterance made few DAYS since in the
United States senate 2 'es to proved.
The damaging effect Of this sO-called
financial .atesman has been observed
by f3r-seelng men for years, but the
fatal effects of the crime OF 1873 and
further gislatjOn has brought rich and
poor to face d financial and business de-
preston almost paralyzing in its results.
Now that the pocket and stomach are
both attacked Is is probable the Amer
lean people demand that the evil cease
and the remedy applied. Let the laws
Of congress enact that silver be placed
to its former position, that the minis be
thrown open to the prod ucts of our
silver mines, and business will soon adj
lust itself and the government need
not compromise itself with $500, 100000
gold standard bonds, for the products of
the western mines viii soon furnish all
the circulating medium required. Now
tEese words are from plain, unlettsred,
unscholarly and unschOlastic
man. A rough, weather beaten, tail
sweating, red-sbirred, drill-hitting,
silver producing miner, and in the utter
inces Of these sentiments | believe the
masses of the American people are with
ne. Very truly,
ARTHUR III. ELLIOTT.