The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-02-28
ROTTEN BORoUGHS
not she Least Of the Republican
Party's Scarlet Sins.
They Nay POrce the Country to Accept
a Silver Standard.
THE SOUTH AND EAST ALLIES

wv oOAVAO GOhliNlN lS Vic
ming of American statehood by
Che admission into the Union of the
aiming camps and cattle ranches
Of the woolly west. Nevada, with
population of only 46, 761-not
ane-fourth that of the average
congressional district east of the
Mississippi-has a member in the
national house of representatives,
and her two votes in tho federal
senate equal the votes of the grand
empire state of New York with her
population of 5,997, 858. There
are the seven states OF Idaho, Mon
Cana, Nevada, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Washington and Wyoming
with an aggregate population of
only 1892 and II votes in the
United States senate, while Ken
lucky with population OF | $685.
0B5 has out two votes in that body.
Subtract from the above rotten
boroughs South Dakota and Wash
ington, with an aggregate popula-
tion of G7S, 1913, and We have five
states with Only 505 72S popula-
ton and 10 votes in Che senate.
Connecticut has ~ population Of
TAG, 25S and only two senators.
Is it strange that senate 80 con-
atituted is not representative Of
Che American electorate? L. there
sny wonder that such senate
holds public opinion in supreme
dpntempt?
As the stream cannot rise above
its source, rotten borough states
choose just such senators as one
you'd expect such constituency
TO select. Start out Fourth avenue
any day and touch the first dozen
snen you meet between the Courier
Journal office and the custom
house, and you would touch ten
who would make as capable sena-
tors as those who represent the
batch of states created by the 5lst.
congress. -
They believe in paternalism, and
look to the government to develop
their section. They produce pig
Rilver--that is, many of them do
and they demand that the govern
ment shall legislate so as to en-
dance its value 100 per cent,
something it is impossible for the
government to do. 1t is "protoc-
don" in its purity, and little
more vicious than protection in pig
iron. The government has the
same right to legislatc 50-cent
wheat into 81 wheat a. it has to
tegislate 50-cent silver into 81 sill
yer. There are mines out west that
produce silver ut less than % cents
the ounce, and majority of the
federal senate, in utter defiance of
tremendous majority of the
American people, are ready to coin
that silver on private account and
make it legal tender for all debts,
public and private.
For this state of affairs the Re-
publican party is responsible, and
became so when it dignified such
cot en- boroughs as Nevada, idaho,
Montana and Wyoming into sover-
eign states of the American Union.
The wild hog states of the far
northwest were admitted into the
Union because the Republican
party desired to hold the south in
subjection by means of the force
bill. The new states promised the
Republicans 12votes in the senate,
and that is how they happened to
be admitted. But the Republican
party has bitterly repented it's
folly; if our country goes to the
silver basis it will be due to the
votes of Idaho, Montana and Wyo-
ming in the federal senate; if the
public debt be destroyed and our
Mexicanized it will be for
the reason that tho G. G. p. sold
itself to far western silver kings
in consideration of q force bill
that was never delivered, and now,
after cheating the Republicans of
the east, the silver kings propose
TO cheat , the Democrats of the
South.
If there is any class in our coun-
Try that free silver would damage
more than the cotton planters it
would tako n search warrant To
ind il. There is not q southern
Democratic statesman from sena-
or Morgan down to congressman