The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-22
SENATOR STEWART IN TOWN
SPOKE FOR FREE sLLTEB IN THIS
 CITR LAST NIGHT.

He Says the ID DemoDetizn ton of Silver Causes
 Great Distress in the West-Examples of
 National Decay Caused by Failure of
 Mines-About the Sherman Act--A Large
 Audience.
 Senator William M. Stewart of Ne
 vada. the famous free silver advocate, ! addressed a large audience hast evening
 at the Church of the Messiah, that
 being the only available speaking place
 obtainable last evening. The senator
 was introduced by Judge Sheldon with
 short preliminary talk, and was
 greeted with much applause as he
 stepped upon the platform. In opening
 his talk he said that the people of New
 England do not realize what has been
 done to the United States in the crea- ton of a gold standard They do not
 realize that if now the tree of liberty
 is destroyed there Is no soil ready in
 which to plant another. A deadly foe
 of individual liberty has come among
 us and our civilization is in danger.
 In civilization two things are neces-
 sary, namely language and money. No
 tribe of savages has ever been found
 which did not have both, and no saw
 ages have ever been so ignorant in
 money affairs as are the people of the
 United States. The value of money like every thing else depends upon duan-
 tity. During the history of the world,
 in every stage of civilization, money
 has been in use, and the medicine enl-
 ployed has generally been gold or sil- yer. The only money there is, is sim- ply the power of the government. Any value in money which can be used for something else is a detrfment. All there is in monetary science is to main tain a stability of prices. Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and all the great nations of antiquity have been great and powerful only so long as their mines of the precious metals have held out. The Romans when at the heighth of their power brought home trophies of gold and silver, and during this time trade was stimulated. About 50 B. C., 1t is said that at least $1, ,800,- 900, 900 was In circulation in Roman ter- ritories, but soon after her mines be- came exhausted and then began the empires decline. Money had made Rome great. The people, soon after money became scarce, ceased to love thet' government and those times we cali the dark ages The Roman spirit was dead. This is the end to which a wicked few of our own country are bringing the United tSates They are demonetizing one of the metals and causing its production to decrease. Why will not the Chinaman fight for d pression destroys patriotism. MT. Stew art then explained how the sherman act became a law and alleged that it was through falsehood and mis- representation of facts that the bill ever became a law MT Sherman, Sem ator Stewart alelged, stated that the gold standard was an American idea, whereas it was in truth an English idea and impressed upon the intepna- tional monetary conference by the Eng- fish commissioners. In conclusion MT. Stewart said that one-half of the fail- roads in the United States build dur ing the last twenty years, were built under the influences of business made by the discovery of silver mines
 Tn gold standard wherever adopted has never failed to cause a fall in prices, and an increased debt. By the election of another gold standard pres ident and six years more of falling prices, our government will become eX- tinct. He then scored the people of New England for their apathy in re- gard to the misery being caused, as he in the west by the denonetiz- ing of silver, and drew a graphic pie ture of the state of affairs in the west ern silver mining regions.
 After MT. Stewart had concluded, Judge Sheldon asked what action the people of the silver states would take as regards helping the New England states to secure a protective tariff iF New England did not help in the silver question and MT. Stewart replied that f any revision of the tariff was needed oy the northeast, no aid must be looked Or from the silver west under the pres- ent existing circumstances In short .ime the voters he said, will have a chance to vote for a presidential can Iidate nominated by neither the demo- ,rat1c nor republican parties, but on ln issue of free and unlimited coinage If silver with ratio of 16 to 1.
 Senator Stewards address was lS- ened to with marked attention. and many of the points he made were ap- ,lauded. His style of speaking is most pleasing.
 At the close of the speech, Judge Sheldon announced that he had book eady and those who wished to join a |oin's Financial School society could write their names therein. A number # names were put down.