Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-13
WEDNESDAY. ........SEPT. 10, 1898.
A No1ahle Statement.


In the United States Senate on Monday
Mr. Prom. of Alabama. said there was no
senator who stated or believed that the
SHERMAN silver law was the cause of the
existing financial arrangement. II. then,
the statesmen of either the Republican or
the Democratic party are TO be trusted by
their constituents 10 perform the duties
pertaining 10 the high position of United
States senator then the so-called experts
IN Wall street and all over the country
have raised q clsmor against an innocent
Law and proved themselves 10 be financial
ouacks. IL, instead Of yielding 10 the
clamor OF their frightened constituents.
the senators had boldly told the
people that the SHERMAN silver law was
not obnoxious TO the objections which
had been raised against It, and had per-
emptorily refused % vote for its repeal,
the people would have been strongly in
clned 10 concur III opinion with their
senators. and would certainly have felt
that these were entitled to the respect of
the world. But. alas. the senators seemed
90 have no backbone, and instead OF at
tempting to stay the tide of opposition 10
the SHERMAS law ayowcd 1t to be their
purpose to repeal that law. at the same
time INDUCING III long harangues which
seemed to be intended TO prove that the
law ought not to be- repealed. They looked
one way and sowed the other. Senator
FAuLENtR, Of West Virginia. candidlycon-
fessed that he considered the country to
be bypochondriac that could not be
cured except by the administration OF a
remedy which could not possibly have
the effect which 1t was intended to
have. This position of Mr.. FAULKNEK's
must be the position occupied BY
the whole body of the senators who,
"Yowiug they would neer consent, con-
ssnted." and threw themselves upon tie
people at home.
Think ofit. II is confidently expected
that when the bill to repeal tho SIBERIAN
law comes up on its passage IT Will be
passed, and yet there Is not one senator
who has stated or who believes that that
law caused the present financial derange-
ment This Is indeed a sorry showing for
men who are supposed to be statesmen.
such condition OF things was never an
ticipated by the fathers nor the men of
the first generations of the republic. who
resigned their seats in the Senate rather
than cast votes which their cOnscleDces
would not justify them in casting. The
Senate is no longer high above the waves
OF popular agitation and turmoil, but the
obedlent servant ofthe great unwashed."
Why should the Senate waste any more
line upon the bill to repeal the SHERMAN
mwf Do senators hope to induce other
senators 10 cast votes which they them
selves are afraid TO cast: Who is to be
benefited by such a waste Of wind
pudding"2 The senators in favor of the
yepeal bill do not desire TO speak upon IT.
They are willing TO go to the country on
their record. The senators opposed 10
repeal ought surely not to be afraid
TO appeal TO the voters to put
down the repeal bill, seeing that
not one senator has said or be-
lieyes the SIBERIAN silver bill to have been
the cause of the existing financial derange-
ment. 1t was because of this arrangement
that Congress was convened III extra ses-
sion. 1t was TO pass bill repeating that
law, And now, after Congress has been
in session for more than month, we are
told by United States senator that not a
member OF the Senate agrees with the
President of the United States as to the
assumption upon which the cry for repeal
was and is based. Why not. then, let the
vote DO taken! II the quack medicine
must DO administered before the patient
can possibly recover let it be admins
tered at once