Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1895-02-24
Proctor Kno,t's Letter.

iiB Nv aiFShhoith VII lhG DOLu
resolution last week Congressman
Hatch. Of Missouri. read the follow
ing letter from Ex-Governor J. Proc
tor Knott, Of Kentucky:
u do not know when my Democ.
racy has been o completely OUT
ragged than by the last insolent de.
mand Of the goldites that the govern.
ment shall. issue $500, 10000 in GOLD
bonds and retire the Treasury.no,e
circulation with the proceeds. They
do not seem to want to leave us even
a hereafter.
-You know as everybody else must
who has half as much sense rs a
sucking guinea pig, that whene yer
this government agrees to pay that
amountor a 1.-THE OF it in gold, sill yer
Is doomed so far as we are oncern /,
to all eternity. As old Judge For.
bish said to Johnny Moore. it had Jest
as we'll say goodbye, world. and how
dye, hell
@Great God! how rapidly thin long
suffering people are being driven to
the dreadful alternative OF slavery or
m~ternecino strife, to determine
whether they will tamely hold out
their hands and have the shackles OF
a remorseless plutocracy riveted upon
their wrists or fight.
Now mark what l say, il the mex.
orable law of cause and effect has
no been expunged from the statute
book Of the Almighty, unless a halt is
called p. d. q. you may expect to see
the horrors OF the French Revolution
put onthe American stage with all the
modern improvements, and that with.
in the next decade.
Il remember / was suspected by
some Of my friends Of political lunacy
in 1850 because I predicted that in
the event OF Mr.. Lincoln's election
there would be u war between the
States. They could not sec why it
ought to DO SO. Neither could l, but
| knew the causes which were ut
work, and which would in the long
run produce that result. and l regard
ed his election simply as the spark
which would explode tho mine. So,
when the fiery cloud appeared in less
than n short year which deluged
the country i'll blood for nearly IA
lustrum some of those who had
thought me II croaker, n mere dyspep
tic pessimist, began to regard me rs
Byron did ~JeiTreys- rs "a id dis.
corning fellow l tell you, Senator,
in all seriousness, / sec far moro
reason to npprehend the speedy up.
proach Of Il terrible revolution in this
country than Lord Chesterfield saw
in France when he wrote his historic
prediction from Paris. Nor am /
alone. That gentleman, Astor, who
went to England some time ago,
bought him u place on the island, and
became a British subject saw what ia
coming as plainly ns 1 do. so no took
time 10y the forclock and skipped out
when there was not such n rush for
tho staterooms as there will be after
n while. lie know very we'll that II
things should keep on us you aud l
have seen them for some years past,
the time vas not far off when thero
would DO such u crowd of his class OF
people hurrying aboard OF every out.
going steamer he might DO showed OIL
the stage plank.
sour good fricnd, Mr.. Sibley, sent
me a copy of his magnificent speech
anent tho Carlisle abortion the other
day. wss sick in bed when IL came,
Lonesome and low.spirited. my wife in
Louisville under treatment for her
throat trouble, and not a God blessed
friend near me TO cheer mo up. |
read II over, in come places two or
three times, and il stirred my old
blood like tho call OF the trumpet
stirs that OF tho war horse. or perhaps
you will understand me better when
l say il acted on mo like good wine
King Solomon's iavorite prescription
to those that he Of heavy hcarts,
tAs tho average United States Senat.
or is not presumed to be familiar with
the writing OF that eminent author.
&C. Proverbs XXI, G.. ~ Sibley and
and froc coinage forever