Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-09-08
THE TAHITI AND Silver
True silver Men VIII Hos be side
ed by the False Tariff Issue.

EDITOR SENTINEL: | observe in this
mornings dispatches 3 resolution Of the
Nevada attachment Of the Eastern gold
party, styling itself . Republican con-
ventiop, ~denoueing my course in not aid.
ing the Cleveland. Republican combiOs-
ton 10 defeat the tariff bill. The gold
men care nothing for the tariff as an
economic measure. but have used ID, and
desire to use ID as an issue to suppress
the silver question. AZ long as the two
old parties can continue the sham battle
over the tariff. the gold standard will be
maintained.
Nevada is not . manufacturing State
and has no special interest in the tariff,
other than such a. pertains to the int.
rior Of the great West. / did secure .
tariff on borsx, which is . Nevada inter-
est, and aided to secure 3 small tariff on
lead, in which Nevada 10 also interested.
This l could not have done had | aided
Mr.. Cleveland in defeating the Senate
bill. I labored hard TO secure . tariff on
wool. but could not effect il.
The question then presented was, .
tariff fight throughout the United States,
to the exclusion Of the silver question,
or the passage Of the Senate bill. II no
tariff bill had been passed the excitement
in the country over that question would
have attracted the peoples attention.
and silver would have been lost sight Of.
The tariff has been an issue for more
than . hundred years, and If Nevada must
wait until the tariff question is finally
settled before the silver issue can be
considered, the eight is ended.
The Democratic party have now passed
the tariff bill and they will loon learn
that no relief will come, and ID is hoped
they will also learn that their Affections
are due to the decentralization Of silver.
The Eastern Republicans and the Cieve-
land Democracy justly regard the tariff
issue as the most important weapon
against silver, and their policy wss the
defeat Of the Senate bill, to be followed
by 9 hot canvass over the tariff. They
have failed, and the great mass Of voters
who have been taught to look to the
tariff for relief will find that no change
in the tariff laws can save the United
States and Europe from the inevitable
ruin which always follows continued
contraction and falling prices.
The fact that the so.called Republican
Convention of Nevada gave such promi-
nence to the tariff question is conclusive
proof, if proof were necessary. that they
desire to bury the silver issue, which
they pretend to favor. Nevada, Califor-
mia and Idaho, so far as heard from, are
the only Republican Conventions which
have declared for the free coinage of sill
yer without words Of duplicity or equiv
o~cation. Nevada, while doing 80, repu-
dates the silver cause by making the
tariff the paramount issue. The candi-
date for Governor on the Republican
ticket in California in his published
speeches ~relegates the silver question TO
the rear and holds up the tariff IS q pan.
acea for all the lille we suffer. Idaho also
loads down silver with high protective
tariff plank.
The silver States have for many years
enabled the East to maintain q protect
i've tariff, and have been rewarded by
the almost unanimous vote Of the North
and East for the demonetization OF silver.
If the silver States had been q unit for
silver as the paramount issue for the last
ten years neither Of the old parties could
have carried out any policy unless they
would consent to the reconciliation OF
silver. With all this bitter experience
before them the so-oalled Republican
Convention Of Nevada demands Of her
representatives in Congress to subordi-
nate the silver question and aid their
enemies to obtain all they want with
out demanding some recognition Of the
rights Of the people on the paramount
issue-the reconciliation Of silver.
The man in Nevada who talks tariff
while the gold combination is enslaving
the country, is . gold bug of the most
pernicious type. Neither the Omaha plat.
form nor the platform Of the Silver party
of Nevada made the tariff an issue. On
the contrary. the Silver party Of Nevada
| declared that:
Too much time has already been lost
in voting for the agents Of the gold
trust, which action has paralyzed the in
dustries Of the country and ruined silver
mining in Nevada. The Endorsement
already given by the silver States Of
the advocates of gold in former cleo
tions is used as an argument to show
that the silver States themselves are
opposed to the free and unlimited coin.
age Of silver.
The Omaha platform declared two
years ago that 'they 1.-THE Demo-Re-
publican party propose to drown the
outcries of q ~plundered people with the
uproar Of . sham battle over the tariff"
The Nevada Republicans are sounding
the old gong. The anxiety Of the
agents of the gold trust in Nevada. IS
manifested in their platform in making
the tariff the paramount issue. shows
their hostility to the paramount inter-
est Of our State and their fidelity to
the teachings Of the New York Tri-
bune and the other organs of the alien