The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-10-19
ELOQUENT STEWART.

ELOQUENT STEWART.
He Rebukes the Subservient
Tools of England in the United
States Senate.
On the 26th and 9th ult. Sena-
tor Stewart, Of Nevada, speaking
in the United States senate to a
resolution declaring that the indie
pendence of the CO ordinate depart
ments Of the government
must be maintained, closed
his masterly arraignment Of Presi-
dent Cleveland with these words:
If England accomplishes her purpose
and puts us on a gold standard we shall
no longer be 8 rival. She allowed In
dia to have the silver standard, think |
ing India was her country; but India
built up her manufactures because the
silver standard is the stable standard.
The silver rupee was the ''perverse
rupee" which continued its same pur-
chasing power, and the Indian people
prospered and acquired the trade of
China and Japan. Then the manufac-
turers of England complained that
they could not compete with a country
which had the boon of a stable stand
ard, that they could not compete while
embarrassed with the falling prices of
country on a gold standard, with a
country which had standard which
honestly measured contracts and the
produce of labor. So they said, 1--WE
will destroy the manufactures of India;
we will destroy them by putting them
on gold standard.''
The papers said: IF you do that
America may adhere to silver, and if
America shall keep the silver dollar
and have a common coinage
with Mexico, South America, India,
China and Japan, England will lose
her supremacy. Then they answered
that they owned America; that their
gold syndicate had it's tentacles in
every commercial center in that great
republic; that the president of the
United States and his advisers were
subject to the will of the gold com ina
ton; that they are the government O.
our country; that they would hamper
and destroy and subjugate us so tina
, we would not be their rival.
This creditor nation, as I say it is
, destroyed India, and said with tn
f subsidized carrying trade in our hands
we will then be mistress of the world
:, without a commercial rival anywhere.
Our rulers and fnanciers say; "Amen
= it is good for England; did we not de
= scend from that country; are we not c
0 the same blood, and why not let Eng
i land rule?'' .:-: ...>
e That was not the language of our ar
d cestors hundred years ago when tn
e trihing exactions of a tax on tea an
n the like caused the colonies to rise
" rebellion. They did not then thin
that everything that was good for Ems
land was good for this country. b
e times have changed. The England (
r. to-day has very little of the old Eng
4 lish blood from which we spran|
Bond-holding, aristocratic Englan'
i money-loaning England, is not tt
~ same sturdy old England which d
manded free speech, which fought fl
~ six hundred years for the right of sci
- government, and finally prevailt
~ through her revolution. The Engla1
or of to-day, which governs, is conce
IT. trated capital in London, which h
the world at its feet, and everywhe
of tramples on the rights of man. II
tv England of to-day is the England tn
bo is robbing and enslaving Egypt, al
insisting upon the lash upon the ba
backs of the laborers to produce enou|
wheat, cotton and sugar to pay the
LII terest on the debt due the Rothschilt
The England which has robbed Inc
on for generations and has, recently,
nd prevent those toiling millions from {
,se joying the modicum of happint
I'D which they did enjoy by honest none
wv which had not changed in centuries
it's purchasing power, taken it aw
10. from them, destroyed their manuf
~ lures, and proposes to reduce thu
nix people to worse condition than tt
it of Egypt. The England of to-day
our mistress; she controls our pub
ra- press, she invades this senate, and
at- vades the other house of congress, a
she tells us that her will is the will
to the American people. That is t
1at England Of to-day; that is heartl
England, living in its palaces, enjoyi
the wealth of the labor. the sweat. q