The leader., 1895-08-27
LAMAr,s cnANar on Silver.

To the Editor Of The Leader:
Did you read the great Georgia
speech of Senator Morgan in advocacy
of free silver coinage? IL so you must
have been much impressed by that
passage wherein the speaker quoted
from letter written to him by Sena-
tor Walthall in which the general stat
ed that Mr.. Lamar late in life recant-
ed the doctrines he contended for in
the days of the Bland Silver Bill. The
people of Mississippi have not forgot
ten the resolution introduced in the
State Senate 10y Senator Benjamin
King about 1878 instructing our Sena-
tors in Congress to vote for the Bland
bill. Kings resolution passed both
houses of the Mississippi Legislature
by handsome maiorities, but Senator
Lamar refused obedience and was af-
forwards reelected to succeed him
self. Now, however, it comes out
through his personal friend and for
mer colleague that he saw the error of
his past way late in life. But alas, the
true light did not break upon him I'M
til his great influence had been exert
ed to the utmost of his strength in
the interest of gold monometalism and
all its accursed brood of wrongs and
evils.
When Mr.. Lamar in his speeches of
self-defense to the people of his State
reminded them that as a sentinel on
the watch tower at Washington he was
able to see the truth more clearly than
they could from the lower and obscur-
er standing point, he was mistaken.
There were men in the Senate and
ago, who despite the obscurity of
their stations, OWNED the deep plot
tings of the present, and the financial
devastation of the future.
Time frequently corrects mistakes,
but generally after irreparable dam
age has been done.
The people of Mississippi have learn
ed in suffering what they now teach
by ballots.
1t is the want of education that
makes the masses an easy prey of sell
fish schemes. They have never yet
been able to see great danger until it
is too late. Daily lessons on what our
lawmakers are doing should go hand
in hand with the three RS. Money is
the greatest of human powers. If the
people would hold the reins and rule
themselves, in fact as we'll as in theory
they must educate their boys and girls
in the principles of money and bust
ness. No other schooling will teach
them how to make the greatest instru-
ment of power subservient to their SOW
ereign will. A true financial system
has never been operated in any coun-
try because the wealthy few have mold
ed all governments to their own wills.
The toilers are the great majority. AS
his keen intellect and merciless greed
less foe. He builds temples to the
Most High, but the God that he wor-
ships in his secret heart is gold.
"Where his treasure is, there will his
heart be also" The kernels of grain
have been known to sprout and grow
after burial for thousands Of years in
Egyptian tombs.
The peoples system of public f.
nance must come from the breasts and
brain of the millions who earn their
bread and live plain lives. They must
bring it to light and life. By profound
self-study they must do this greatest
of all human things. No banker or
gold finance- minister will ever disclose
this germ. If they see it they will
bury it again out of sight, and lock the
secret in their breasts. They are
priests in the temple of the golden
calf. MISsIssIPPIAN.