Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-10-05
POCKET. BOROUGH SENATORS.
Showing the silverite states in the Ncxl
Senate.

Showing the Silverite States In the NcxL
| senate.
Counting in Utah, which undoubtedly
will be represented IN congress next
winter as state, the relative position
of the people of the Rocky 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 half.
Only 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 a population
emitting each of them to a member of
congress on the basis of full repre-
sentation.
Illinois has twenty-five times the
voting power of one of the Rocky
mountain pocket borough states, TWEEN
ty-two times the population, and twen-
! 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 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 tohuman 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 mum bers, 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 im-
portance by reason of the fact that
each of their pocket-borough states is
entitled 20 furnish two members to
the national senate. 1t is because the
constitution of the United States ac-
cords to each little stGJe 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
tate to all the rest. Because Nevada
has the same power in the senate as
New York, with hundred and forty
times as 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
concession 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 up as equal in i'm
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 to secure united ac-
ton in their own day. They could
have had no idea that under it a large
number of pocket boroughs would be
able to Offset and neutralize the wishes,
actions and interests of the citizens of
the original states of the union after
several of the latter had grown to be
vast political entities comparing in
population and wealth as we'll as in
area with some of the kingdoms of the
old world. 1t is to be regretted that
the fathers of the revolution did not
have some idea of the injustice that
might be fostered by the provision
they made for equal senatorial repre-
sentation, but it none the less is the
duty of the people who are being brow
beaten and menaced with domination
by the senators from the silver states
to make common cause against the out
rageous demand and protect them
selves from the ruinous financial policy
which is attempted to be forced upon
them by the would-be silver mining
autocrats. Chicago Tribune.
| Silver In China.
Since there has been no great in fit1x