Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-11-02
NO. ITO.

Britain! Ishould like to inquire up-
on what basis Of philosophy or facttLe
idea rests. Their population is only
ABOUT one half of ours. Is 1t possible
that the brain Of the averrge English
man ls equivalent to the combined
brains OF two average AmericansY
1s there some occult power which
gives Great Britain the right to pre-
scribe to US what material we shall
use for money and how much Of it we
shall use.
The fact is, as Mr.. Gladstone ad-
mltted. the monied classes of Great
Britain have 10000 million dollars in
vested all over the earth and made
payable in gold. The more they can
add to the purchasing power of the
dollar the better it will be for their
pockets. n-
Our people must send out every
year 25O or 300 million dollars as in
terest and dividends to the owners of
those colossal debts, and the more
valuable the dollar becomes the mora
OF the products of labor our people
have to sell in order to meet their OBJ
legations. This makes it to the ad-
vantage OF the monied classes OF
Europe to hinder and delay the estab.
hshment OF bimetsllism, either ma.
tlona or International. But consid.
erlng how our people are being
mulcted by the persistently increas-
ing value of the dollars in which these
debts must be paid, it is astounding
that American statesmen will lend
themselves to the execution of Great
Brita'n's will upon 30 vital a matter.
received little while ago letter
from the state central committee of
the Republican party requesting me
to resign. Not having been elected
by committee, I concluded to give
my reply from the platform to the
people OF Nevada direct. Ihave read
the letter very carefully, and cannot
find in it any charge that have been
recreant to any duty imposed upon
me by the people of my state. Such
an idea Is not attempted to be con-
Veyed even by implication. What
then, is the reason which is assigned
for the request? 1t is that | decline
longer to act with the Republican
party. The letter says:
ave desire to remind you that you
were elected to the senate as Re-
publican by the Republican party"
That was elected as Republican
by the Republican party is true, but
1t ls not the whole truth. The Re-
publican party as it exists to-day did
no. elect me. / deny that in the re-
spect most vital to the interests Of
Nevada and to the welfare of the en-
tire country it is the same party that
it was in 1890. True, the change was
effected in but one act, yet it is q
change radical and far reaching. So
far as concerns that most vital issue
the difference between the party then
and the party now is the difference
between things distinctly opposite
between positive and a negative
between white and black. On that
point invoke the candid judgment OF
such OF my constituents as still ad.
here to the Republican party organi
zation, for under the new condition
and with their convictions regard ing
the free coinage Of silver, howe ver
10th they may be to sever their re
lations with the old party, they are no
longer Republicans, though they. may
Gull themselves such. BY the Repnb.
lican party the idea Of independent
free coinage by the United States at
the old ratio is forever abandoned
So tar as that party Is concerned that
sort Of free coinage is as dead az
Julius Caesar.