The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-11-23
POCKET. BOROUGH SENATORS.
Showing the Silverite states In the Next

CnOWlnk tne SlIveElI6 SloJSB IN the NoXI
Senate.
Counting in Utah, which undoubtedly
will be represented IN congress next
winter as state, the relative position
of the people Of the sRocky mountain
regions, who are demanding free sill
ver," may be stated as follows: Colo
RADIO, Utah, South Dakota. Montana.
Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada have a
population of about one million four
hundred thousand, or one in fifty of
the total population of the United
States. They will be represented by
eight congressman, or nearly one in
forty-five, and by fourteen out of nine
ty senators, or one in SIX and a half.
Only a small part Of South Dakota be-
longs to the Rocky mountain region
by virtue of Containing the Black Hills,
and only the first two in the other
states above named have populat ton
emitting each of them to a member of
congress on The basis of full repre-
sentation. - .fITs fft
Illinois has twenty-five times the
voting power of one Of the Rocky
mountain pocket thorough states, twen-
ty-two times the population. and TWEEN
ty-two times the representation In the
lower house OF congress- In that
large proportion the people of the
state of Illinois would suffer as COM
pared with those in the Rockies by the
change in the money standard Of the
country which the latter demand.
Similarly the figures show that New
York would suffer thirty-four times as
much and Pennsylvania thirty times as
much as would the average of these
silver mining states by a debasement
Of the currency to the silver mono
metallic standard of fifty-cent dollar.
In fact they would suffer far more, be-
cause the people who live in the eastern
half of the United States are more in
timately identified with the production
of things necessary to human existence
and elementary comfort than are the
two per cent. fraction who are leading
in the demand for free silver"
If their influence were proportional
only to their numbers, their wealth, or
the productiveness of their industries,
the silver miners and their employees
and other dependents hardly would be
heard in their shout for the ruinous
measure they are advocating. But they
have attained perhaps dangerous i'm
portance by reason Of the fact that
each of their peterborough states is
entitled to furnish two members to
the national senate. 1t is because the
OF the United States ac-
cords to each little state the same
voting power in the senate as is pos
sessed by the larger states, and, owing
to this fact, their heads are turned
with an egotistical Importance ON the
strength of which they assume to die
late to all the rest Because Nevada
bas the same power in the senate as
New York. with a hundred and forty
times al, many people, and as Illinois.
which has ninety times the population,
her people dictate to them and threaten
the direst consequences in case of re-
Fusal. to such dictation in regard to
silver. And all this on account of a
.oncession made under the stress of
the revolutionary war In the endeavor
To- placate such little states as Della
ware and Rhode Island, which were
setting themselves mp as equal in inn
portance to New York and Pennsyl-
vania.
; Our conciliatory forefathers could
not foresee the magnitude of the in
equality that would develop in after
years under the arrangement which
seemed necessary 70 secure united ac-
don in their OWN day. They could
nave had no idea that under it large
lumber of pocket boroughs would be
lble to Offset and neutralize the wishes,
actions and interests of the citizens of
he original states of the union after
'everal OF the latter had grown to be
,ast political entities comparing in
population and wealth as we'll as in
lrea with some of the Kingdoms of the
I'D world. 1t is to be regretted that
he fathers of the revolution did not
lave some idea of the injustice that
night be fostered by the provision
hey made for equal senatorial repre- !
entation, but it none the less is the
luty of the people who are being brow
'eaten and menaced with domination
~ the senators from the silver states I;
o make common cause against the out |
ageous demand and protect them +
elves from the ruinous financial policy !
which is attempted to be forced upon !
hem by the would-be silver mining ,
utocrats.-Chicago Tribune.
Silver In China.
Since there has been no great influx
f silver into China and China has