The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-24
SILVER GAINING.
Mr.. Johnson of North Dakota is
Anti-Silver,
But He Thinks the Metal is
Gaining.
INDIAN BUSIN ESS s..
Present Policy in Regard to
Them Discussed.
INDIAN BUSINESS.

The R6Du blIcan Representatives from the
far northwest Of there be far northwest
in these days Of steam and electricity con-
stirute a class apart, with marked charac-
tsristics distinguishing them from their co
partisans of the east They are far more
outspokens breezy and unconventional
often breaking out in that racy humor
which seems a natural product of the great
mountains and prairies In none do these
qualities appear more pleasing than in Mr..
Picker. the big and healthy brunette who
helps represent South Dakota and has re-
Gently made it interesting for the commit
tee on Indian affairs He overhov7s with
good nature and understands his business.
but if an artist wanted a model for an
Apollo Belvidere lie would not 'sculp" MIR.
Picker.
Indians. Negroes and Silver
I'VE are on the right track in this Indian
business, said he. Sand the best proof Of it
IS that the Indians have ceased to decrease.
if they ure not actually Increasing, and the
more Indians we have now the fewer In
dian wars we have The present policy IS
to braak up their tribal relations separate
and give them allotments of land, teach
them TO work and read. and SO on. But it
takes 50 long 50 awfully long. VI nat slow
job this thing Of civiLzing q race isl Why.
we Anglo-Saxons have been 900 years or
IN ore in learning enough to run q republic
an governn ent-Uhat is, If we have learned
1T, which looks a little doubtful just noVYs
in Colorado for instance And our negroes
the kernel of the trouble with them ito this
country is right here's They have been
brought from barbarous shore and put
under the requirements of the very highest
civilization and p complex and wealthy so
ciety and have not had time to grow up 10
it. Why, a negro in this country is subject
to five hundred times as much temptation
as IN Africa and is not more than FIVE
times stronger to resist it, The result IL a
moral minus
nd how viii vour set vote on silver for
the rest of this congress22
s'AIl for it, I believe I shouldn't vote
against free coinage, bat they VIII not let
it come up in that shape. ] have tried to
get in an amendment for the free coinage
of the American product and would prefer
that. AS to the rest, let me see. There is
MeikleiOhn Of Nebraska-he is young and
able. ann bitious. of course. and admits
doubt on the subject, thinks the last word
has not been said by a good deal AT pres
ent he prefers not to commit himself posi-
lively. Much the same may be said of
Haines and Mercer of the same state Mr..
Haines IS the dark com pIexIOned man. with
the heavy black whisl1ers. TO which LATE
Pence referred ia some derision. But
think these men who admit doubt and
are studying the question viii eventually
vOtO for more silver
Thinks silver Is Gaining
ssNIr. johnson Of North Dakota is ANTI
silver, strong. He is q sort of exceptions
darker than ScanGinavians generally OF
course all west of us TO the Pacific are
strong for silver. especially MIR. Hartman
Of Montana and Judge Sweet of Idaho, but
they are all about alike Wilson and Doc
little Of Washington are an amusing pair
in one spect-Doolittle, / ann told, weighs
just twice as much as Wilson. Mr. Curtis
of Kansas is another very interesting char
acter. He has some Indian blood and
shows it and is q very pleasant gentleman
irsl zif wa 1c lrair ne qrs-
guments for it have never been answered
Maybe they can be, but they haven't been
yet The main argument Of the other side
cOntradlcts itself
Here it is as I get ct it: BY invention
and increased production commodities have
declined in price some 40 per cent since 1873
coin price at that. By the same processes
silver has declined about the same There
fore, they conclude, silver ls not good
money If that is not a complete non seoul
tur. the books on logic should be burned
i have been anxious to see the Bland seign-
forage bill become a law. I ann satisfied it
would work well and give much needed
and healthy shove to business. AS to the
prophecies of evil, why, they have been max
lug them ever since the Bland-Allison act
Of 1878. and the result has always been the
other vay-Our gold stock has increased
Just as our silver has. They said silver was
the cause of the trouble last summer, and
that the repeal of the Sherman act would
make everything lovely. but we all knew it
wouldn't. and it didn't Let's be guided
by experience and common sense.9
II Told You so-'
All the silver men take pleasure in quot
ing the figures recently put out by the bu-
reau of statistics to the effect that the bal
ance of trade IN our favor for the eight
months ending with February was S21S
100000 against so 900 coo last year, that in
the same months the Imports Of gold ex-
ceeded the exports by $50, 900 coo and the