Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-10-27
GREAT ARGUMENTS.

politically and says I'VE have ask
ed for bread but they have given
us stones" Brother Fairbanks
had better buy his bread and then
he will know what he is getting.
He says the ENTERPRISE is advo-
eating party, eighty per cent. of
which is opposed to the free coin
age of silver, and always has been.
We would say to the editor of that
paper that he will never go to heav-
en- for his truthfulness. We advo-
cate the free coinage of silver al
ways have and always will while
life lasts. But did the Times ever
ever try the experiment
Of going into desert with a peck
etful of money and trying to buy
his dinner. He would be in the
same fix here with free coinage
without protection. He would
have to send all his money to- Eu-
rope to buy the necessaries of life.
Those are soon worn out and ate
up, and then the money and neces-
saries are gone, and he must go
and dig more silver or go hungry
and naked, same as people are do
ing today without protection. Our
country has prospered up to within
two years. Although silver was de-
monetized III 1878, the difference
was so small under protection that
the great silver champion, William
NJ Stewart, did not know it for two
years. But it did not take the
poorest man in the land two years
to find out that protection was TAX
en- away from the industries of the
country. All, no! they found it out
in a great deal less time than that,
which shows very clearly to the I'M
prejudiced mind that protection to
both industry and labor is required,
and with free coinage we should be
happy.
The above is a fair specimen of
the arguments made against the
Silver party by the gold bug press
of this country. 1t is from the
Virginia City Enterprise, owned by
Mr.. Mills, conducted by Mr.. Yer
ington and edited by (2). We will
inform the writer of the above that
we have always bought our bread,
and paid for it, but do not know
exactly how much longer we can
do so if the present mismanage-
ment of affairs of the nation con-
tinue. As for our making any mis-
statements in regard to how the Re-
publican party stands, and has
stood, on the silver question, we
will simply refer our readers to the
record of that party in Congress.
That party demonetized silver in
1873, at the instigation of England.
On June 25, 1886, in the House of
Congress % republicans voted for
free coinage and 1870 against it;
April 8, 1888, 30 republicans voted
for free coinage and SO against it;
June 7, 1888, Is republicans voted
for and 127 against free coinage,
In June 7. 1890, in the Senate Is
republicans voted for free coinage
and % against; March "a, 1892, in
the Senate, II republican voted for
and III against free coinage. On
the Bland seigniorage bill 33 repub-
licans voted for and 1870 against.
These dates and figures can all be
found in the Congressional Record,
so our word need not be taken for
it, and if you take the average of
the vote you will find it is over rs
per cent. against free coinage. And
bear in mind the party we favor,
the Peoples Party, of which the
Silver Party of Nevada, is branch,
sent men to Congress who, when
the votes were counted, showed that
100 per cent. of them were for free
coinage.
The Comstock Cormorant likens
this country to desert if we do not
have a protective tariff. Go to,