The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1893-07-07

TH -E
frinet Geor9s's enQairfr

The silver-mine owners and their
misguided populist followers, finding
their edition of monetary fallacies cru
ely demolished by the logic of events,
are now ''fshting mad and are strll-
ing out very wildly. The popullst
State convention at Columbus, Ohio,
for example, on Tuesday adopted res
olution calling on Congress to lmpeach
President Cleveland for high treason"
The basis of the proposed impeach-
ment proceedings is not specified. The
Presidents offtnse, however, it seems
Is his calling Congress in extra session
t. repeal the Sherman acs. For hay
ing acted on his conviction that the
Sherman act is lnjuring the country,
the Ohio populists vote unanimously
and "wi;h wild cheers that the Presl-
dent of the United States Is "a traitor
to this country and "a representative
ofthe British money power" Coming
from Ohio populists formerly repub-
licans-.hese expressions are very nat
ural. They remind us of the period,
not very remote, when OHIO republic
cans, with jaunty indifference to the
truth, edfged every democratic advo-
&C tie of lower tariff taxes with being
>"an emissary of the Golden Club
s.bought with British gold,' slave of
the English money power, &c. The
proposer of the populist resolution at
Columbus was probably only using
once more phrase he has been using
as a republican campaign cry ever
since Mr.. Cleveland brought the tariff
issue to the front. The Columbus
platform, it may be noted, pronounces
the tariff issue "a sham
But the wild language of the Ohio
populists sanity itself compared with
the crazy secession resolutions adopted
recently by mass-meeting at Creole,
Col. One Of the resolutions demands
Of Congress san amendment to the con-
stitution of the Union which shall per-
NIT the peaceful loosening of the bond
Of confederation" Not breaking up
of the Union into Two absolute sepa-
rate parts, but enough separation "to
permit the founding of the department
of the East and the department of the
West, to legislate, each in its separate
Congress in matters of finance ana
trade" The Creole silver men have
been producing silver at cost under
IS cents an ounce and selling to the
under the Shermfn act from 80 to 121
cents an ounce, and thew resent the
Presidents suggestion that their grip
on the treasury should be loosened.-
Ii the silver states Colorado, Mon
tana, Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming
had government of their own, things
would be mar aged with a tenderer re-
gard for the interests of the mining
camps. The Creole secessiOnists sketch
their plan out in these words; each
department to have its separate House
of Representatives, its President, vest
ed full appointing power, the two de-
partments to be cooperative with
Senate, as now constituted, and Pres
ident of the United States, who shall be
commander of the army and chief ex-
exutive of the board presidents" All
this because under the present legis-
lative and executive system" the silver
States caunot get their rights. The
East IS deaf to Western silver argu-
ment. There must, accordingly, be
separation, "to the end that we may no
longer have our rights, our properties,
our sacred honor in business, legislated
away by the Eastern power, which
knows not our interests, refuse to learn
our needs and will not accord us the
rights our fealty and energy III the
past entitle us to-"
A striking feature of the proposed
dual republic is the retention by the
silver States representation in the pres
ent Senate there would be two houses
anc two sub-Presidents, with one Unit
ed States Senate, and third President
over allan organization very much
like that of the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy.-Sun