Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-13
POCKET BOROUGH SENATORS.
Showing the silverite States in the Next
 Senate.

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 Counting in Utah, which undoubtedly will be represented ID congress next winter as a state, the relative position of the people of the Rocky mountain regions. who are demanding .'free sil- ver.u may be stated as follows: Colo. rsdo 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 population emitting each of them to member oi congress on the basis of full repre- sentation.
 Illinois has twenty-two times the voting power of one of the Rocky mountain peterborough states, twen- ty-two times the population. and twen- ty-two times the representation ID the lower house of congress. h 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 y-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-eent 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 numbers, their wealth, or the productiveness of their industries.
 
 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 to furnish two members to the national senate. It is because the constitution of the United States ac- cords to each little state 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 dic- tate to all the rest. Because Nevada has the same power in tke 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 ln the endeavor to placate such little states as Dela- 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. tion in their own day. They could have had no idea that under it 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. It 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.
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