The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-02-09
THE SILVER

Our people nave greater reason 10
hope for silver Legislation today than
at any time since the fight began.
In previous years the main strength
of the agitation came only, or almost
wholly from the silver producing
states. Today our friends are stand
ing all along the line of states, till
there is scarcely one of the common
wealths of this great republic with
out it's staunch silver advocates.
Vest is still valiant for the fight, and
though he presents a memorial from
the bankers of St. Louis favoring the
Cleveland idea, yet he reiterates his
oft repeated statement, that he en-
tertains no question as to the stand
of the people of his great state, and
declares his allegiance to them, in
favor of free coinage, regardless of
requests from the bankers assOcia-
ton.
Henderson of Nebraska, republic
can, catches the drift of sentiment,
and introduces a free coinage bill.
The Springer gold bond bill, embod-
ying the Cleveland idea fails to meet
the approval Of the house committee.
Teller, Wolcott, the two Jones', and
many others join in the blockade in
the senate, and Vest assures us that
no finance bill a possibly pass the
senate that does not give silver its
allotted place.
Already we hear the talk of an ex-
ira session soon after the adjourn
ment OF the present congress. The
extra session will be the first of the
fifty-fourth congress. The house
will be overwhelmingly republican.
The senate will be strong for silver.
While the president can not control
the acts Of the present congress be-
ing with him in party utilization, how
much less can he hope to control the
next congress. Observation has
taught that congresses opposed to
the president in political view are
very apt to do things just the oppo;,
site from what he may suggest, 1t
would not be unlike IA republican
body to pass IA free coinage bill be-
cause the president does not desire it.
Should the house take such "a step,
there is no question that the senate
will agree to it.
Montana and Wyoming will each
have two silver senator's in the next
congress. This gives silver four
votes, against none in the present
senate; for Powers vote has ALWAYS
been offset by Carey's whenever sill
yer was in question. Kansas sends
up IA silver senator. Wyoming sends
two. Washington follows suit and
sends Wilson, who stands IA recent
convert, much in the same relation to
silver as Carter of our own state.
Manderson's coinage bill recently
introduced occasions no little com
ment, coming as it does from a line
republican. But it sounds the slogan,
and we predict that the z. o. p. will
be the stauuch friend of silver during
the next two years, and that not a
single state west of the Father of
Waters will fail to see in it the only
hope Of substantial silver legislation
and its attendant prosperity.
A hopeful sign of this revulsion is
seen, too, IN the attitude of various
metropolitan dailies many of which
are now making %silver's cause their
own. The Chicago Inter Ocean, pre-
v%lously strong in its gold policy, ar
CUES and asserts that no prosperity
IA be substantial until this govern
ment returns to b%imetallism, placing
silver in our financial economy on an
equal footing with gold. New York
city is said nov to have four big dai.
lies which stand up for silver, and
while its gold advocates are stronger
and more numerous, yet the occas-
lonal turning of individual papers to-
ward b%inetallism prove that even in
that stronghold of the yellow metal
the silver idea is p%ermeating the
superstructure, to it's eventual ruin.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Allan
ia Constitution and numero us other
large papers occupy the free silver
position, and we are not left alone in
the advancement of current educa-
ton.
The non-committal attitude of
Mckinley is itself a suggestive fact.
The position of Reed ia .lra.dv