Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-05
GOV. WAITE.
Tho Governor Of Colorado Makes
Another Sensational Speech.
CLOSE OF The SILVER CONVENTION.
The Administration Criticised In the
Strongest Terms for BOwing to
European Ideas The
Resolutions.

Colorado, was introduced to the BIZ
metallic convention ut Central Music
4lall. q number of enthusiastic dele
gates had been shouting for two days
for Waite and when the chief execu-
tive of the centennial state mounted
the platform their cup of joy was over
flowing. Cheer after cheer was given
by delegates, who stood up and waved
their hats wildly and the ovation term
mated with three cheers for Gov.
Waite"
Gov. Waite spoke ut great length.
He asserted that since 1872 no congress
had convened but that majority in
both houses were in favor of restoring
the free coinage of silver. Congress
never had been able to enact such
law because the president,
whether republican or democrat, had
always been dominated by Wall street
and stood ready to interpose his veto,
equal to two-thirds vote in both
houses of congress. The effect of the
gold-bug conspiracy, which has denied
been to increase the purchasing power
of money, or to put the statement in
another form to decrease the value of
all commodities Abraham Lincoln
said that if debt was created with
certain amount of money in circulation
and then the government contracts the
money volume before the debt is paid,
it is the most heinous crime which the
government can commit against the
people.
And that" said Gov. Waite, lis eX-
actly what this government has been
doing since 1873. Congressional legis-
lation and nothing else has reduced the
price of silver bullion from s1.32 per
ounce in 1873 to 20 cents per ounce in
1So3. and legislation for which the two
old parties are equally responsible has
reduced the price of wheat in the same
time from sl.41 per bushel to IS
gents. The same legislation has
re luccd the price of cotton from
~ $40 cents to $40 cents in the same
time. The ratio of value of silver as
bullion Us compared with the gold dol
lar has been increased from IL to to
2oI% or - 10 l. 1t has not only dimin-
ished the value of silver bullion. but
also diminished in almost the same
promotion the value of wheat, corn,
pork. beef, cotton and the wages OF
labor. We hear much about over-pro-
duction. law of supply and demand,
etc, but with the single standard gold
men of Europe. who have the reins in
their own hands, there is not the same
nd rrfsI.
dishonest attempt to dodge the issue.
..Not long ago." said Waite, Gladstone
was told by Mr.. Thompson in the Brit
ish parliament that the gold standard
was crushing out the agricultural and
the commercial industries of England
by compelling the business to be done
upon falling markets, debtor classes
being reduced to industrial slavery.an
taxes while nominally the same as in
force from India were double the
amount of her products which few
years ago paid tax. Gladstone unblush-
ingly declared that England as cred
itor nation could stand any amount of
appreciation in the value of credits
and added the governments were not
sOHCtrncu uoOub piiiinhehioPy'
Considering the condition of the
masses in England and in India, Waite
said this was the most brutal remark
since Cain. with the blood of his muir
iered brother crying from the ground,
insolently asked the Almighty: IAN
I nv brothers keeper" The proposal
bv the false friends of silver and their
-. Wo11 s-fr 20 oA ha
ant price of bullion silver as compared
with gold us a new money ratio, would
simply crystalize all wrongs and in
iuries the money power has inflicted
npon the public for the past twenty
years. This, as q compromise, beats
one the devil proposed to Jesus Christ
IN the mountain.
Waite said that the international con-
ference for the purpose of settling our
money affairs by the dictation OF for
sign money power was the most con-
temptible and God-forsaken idea that
ever entered the brain of an American
:itizen.
IF we have become under the rule
Of the two old parties only province
Of European monarchies," he said,
4sthen we need another revolution;
another appeal to arms and to the God
Of hosts"
This evoked great applause. In
closing Gov. Waite said:
''Who is Grover Cleveland and who Is
Benjamin Harrison and who are their
supporters in Wall street and Chicago
that they dare assume TO drive into
poverty and exile half million of
American freemen? There's no use
crying peace when there is no peace.
Most dangerous tyranny is that en-
forced under the forms of law. Our
weapons are argument and ballot, free
ballot and fair count. If the money
-...... hall ntfannr,f IN sustain its lislIr.-