The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-15
FULL OF TROUBLE.
Lot of the Silver Territories
Not Pleasant,
Says Mr.. Rawlins the Delegate
from Utah.
WALL STREET DOES 1T.
WALL STREET DOES 1T.
No More Silver States to be
Admitted Now.


.sTbe trouble with US territorians,' said
Delerato Rawlins of Utah in the course of
a talk on the prospects for new states, IS
that all the adverse forces and all our trou-
bles seem to have como to q head at once
There arc several little things which most
people have not thought of as affecting our
case AS to the next presidency, we should
cut very little figure in the electoral col
lege, as all the four would have but IL
votes. But suppose the choice OF the next
president should be thrown into the house
Then Utah or Oklahoma would count just
as much as New York 1t is the majority
of states not of members, that decides,
and & great many politicians are calculat-
ing on the next election being thrown into
the house. 1 sometimes think that alone
would be enough to keep all the four ter
ritories out, but there is another and still
more powerful cause. Wall street has serv-
ed notice that no more silver senators are
to be admitted, and what Wall street
wants has to be done. / have not been
saying so, but it looks very much as if no
now states could be made until this silver
question is so thoroughly settled that ev-
erybody will recognize the settlement and
no more attempts be made to change it.
Utah's Fertility.
us it possible for the population out
there to go on increasing at present rates
when so much of the area is mountain and
desert?''
''It is really wonderful how large pop
ulation the valleys viii support, and in
great comfort 1 sometimes think an acre
of land in Utah we'll Watercd and cultivat-
ed would produce food for a family. And
am afraid that millions of families in the
United States will have to como to some
thing like that. In other words, think
that civilization is about to receive, if it
has not already received, a great check on
its present course; that there will be less
division of labor and each family supply
itself with almost everything. I cannot
sec that there is soon to be great revival
OF business the old lines or that there
will be a rich market for manufactured
goods.
1T seems to me that the price Of farm
produce for some years is going to be so
low that farmers cannot buy manufac-
lures. If it be SO, each family will have to
be entirely self sustaining, and with gold
as the basis of all money it seems to me
there must be this steady shrinkage and
check to civilization. In such case we
Utah people will be right at home. We
were brought up to live that way and can
do it again. 1t is depressing, however, to
think of the way some of our interests have
gone down. Take our wool, for instance,
which is only cents pound, if one can
sell it at ali, and think of the millions Utah
might mako with wool at fair price.
Low Price of Wool.
You have often spoken of that region
west of Great Salt lake as the most COM
pIete desert in America and so it was con-
sidered 20, 900 square miles more of reg
ular barrenncsS. Well, of late years mil
lions have been made on that same desert.
All that white sage which looked a mere
worthless weed that no stock would touch
has proved the finest kind of winter feed,
both for sheep and cattle. When the snow
comes, SO the stock can get water, all that
region is good pasturage, and when sum-
mer comes the stock is taken up into the
mountains. One herder can take care of
1000 sheep or moro, and so the expense is
trihing. The great trouble is that the re-
turns are triflinS, too, just now, but there
is scarcely any limit yet to be set to the
development of stock arising in Utah, and
there is good land enough with running
water to employ a%ar1ning population of
500, 600 or Add to this all tho mining,
manufacturing and other business, and you
will see the enormous margin for develop
ment that Utah has, but there is use in
denying that the fates against us at
present Silver is away down, and wool is
down and going lower, the politicians are
against the new state for one reason and
Wall street for another, and if we got over
all these, why, the chances are that Cleve-
land would veto US But Utah can live.
Her people know how to be self sustain
ing
The Hope of Europe.
After hearing this somewhat depressing
statement of the case it was a pleasure to
listen to Hon. J. B. McCreary, who passes
much of his time during the dull days of
debate on appropriation bills in his com
mittee room-foreign affairs. On the gen
eral subject of money and the near future
he said: Nothing would suit the people
of Europe better than for to adopt free
coinage. 1 know it and have often heard
them say So 1t would put US on a silver
basis at once and give them our 5000, OOO,-
600 of gold In the great conference, of
which, OF course you have read, one of the
ROthschilds said America wants TO I'M
load her silver i said to him that our
corn crop is worth at least $3.50, 600, 900,
our wheat crop has been as great in value
as 5000, 600, 900, our cotton crop is $780,
600, 900, of iron and coal we mine well over
$500, 600, 900 worth yearly, while of silver
our product is but $50, 900, 900. 1t is
mere bagatelle- No other country in the
world can afford to wait for an interna-
tional agreement better than we can.
am equally opposed to an exclusive gold or
silver basis believe in both, and / know
we shall get it if we hold on firmly
Minor Matters.
While the less interesting details of the
appropriations bills were being droned
over in the house the critics were whet-
ting their tongues for a general assault on
Judge Holman's Indian bill He ALWAYS
catches it pretty heavily, but this year the
elements OF wrath are stirred up against
him more lively than usual. So many
things are asked for by the friends of the
Indians, and the judge has been so re-
morseless in cutting down even the mod
crate estimates that there is a general com
his bill
There has been general and surprising
change all around the board in the senate.
and the progress of the tariff bill is com