The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-08-02
Senator voorhees, Iaterviewed at Hot
Springs.


From Hot Springs Daily News. July H.
United States Senator Daniel w.
Voorhees, has been quietly located
at the Arlington hotel for several
days seeking rest and reiuvenation.
The senator's appearance does not
indicate fatigue or decay. He ap-
pears even more vigorous, il any
thing, than when he paid previous
visit to Hot Springs more than four
years ago. Yet he has done hard
work and endured severe physical
tests since then.
AS chairman OF ths committee OF
ways and means and Of the COM
mittee of finance during the last
session his duties were most import
ant and exacting. Night after night
he had to watch the bills referred to
him, and never leave his chair when
almost exhausted with physical Ia
tigue and the mental strain OF the
senatorial conflicts upon these sx-
citing measures.
He talked pleasantly with . re-
porter of the News when called upon
at the hotel. He expressed himself
as satisfied that the tariff law as il
was approved will result bene6cially
and greatly aid to relieve the dis
|tress of the times. ut was not
what the rank and file Of the DOM
Iocracy wanted,' he said, "but was
"a great stride in the right direction.
The God who made the oceans"
he said, "and the waterways, and
inspired man in the development OF
motive powers, never intended that
he should belittle his achievement
Joy restricting commerce and manu-
Ifactures.
As TO silver, he was as we'll salts
fled what the result would be as he
was that he would sit down to his
dinner. The people may be slow,
but they direct the course OF events
in all countries; in some directly,
lin our own with ,tartling directness,
sometimes.
.Silver is the money OF the
people, he said, ''the money Of
the fathers, the money Of the Bible.
How absurd would it be to imagine
4 Washington and Jefferson and Madi-
son. when they framed the coinage
, act Of 1892 consulting England as
Ito what ought to be the unit Of
|. value, or whether Johnny Bull
, would approve our decimal cur
lrency, SO different from pounds,
shillings and pence, or permit us to
put our value on his foreign coin.
la gold dollar! What 10 it? A
little inconvenient coin that slips
away or is hidden while you feel for
lit. Your farmers who vend their
,|produce on your streets don't want
,lit for daily use. They could not
handle it. They sell quarters
worth of eggs or a pound Of butter
land the old silver dimes and quar-
tiers are more precious to their eyes
and better suited to their uses. The
,Idollar of Washington, 81. .25 grains,
was the unit the fathers built upon.
Ten Of them were the measure Of
the value Of the gold ten dollar piece
or eagle. The eagle it was stipu-
lated should amount TO ten silver
dollars. Do you think the Ameri-
lean people over a groundless scare
! that they we're getting too rich in
4 silver, will endure poverty to debass
ttheir favorite money and dispense
: with its conveniences, its uses and
its promises? NeveI!"
( II there should be such import
ance given to the silver question al
/, to make it a political issue in the
next presidential campaign, Dan
w. Voorhees,, always democrat in
trying times, from the pivotal state
!, Of Indiana, the majestic orator, the
pure man and statesman, will be q
; name to conjure with and invite the
! confidence Of all sections and par
tiles as presidential candidate.