The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-02-01
MITCHELL ON SILVER.
He Discussed This Theme in the SEN
ate on Thursday.

He denied the necessity for further
bond issues or for a further increase of
interest bearing Indebtedness. He denied
that the interest or welfare OF the govern
ment or Of the people, required the per
petuation Of the single gold standard.
And he protested that the continued and
persistent effort to destroy bi-metallism
in this country WAS a fatal stab at the
best material interests OF the people and
a dangerous and oppressive encroach-
ment upon their constitutional liberties.
He would therefore without any hesita-
ton but with great pleasure vote IN
favor of the committee substitute and
against the bill, as it came from the
House. .-
In conclusion Mr.. Mitchell said
rs it not about tine this great nation,
these United States of America, should as
sert it's monetary as we'll as its CONNER
cial independence? Are we, with our
vast territory, our Unreasonable re
sources, our model government, our co.
O0O, 600 of brave Intelligent, aggressive,
Independent people, to forever acknoWl-
edge our dependence on Great Britain or
any other power on earth, in either a
monetary or any other sense? Must we,
while denying the right of any govern
ment on the globe, republican Of -monar-
chial, liberal or despotic, to dictate to us
as to the character of our legislation upon
any or all of the great questions touch
ing our industrial and commercial inter
ests, questions involving the right Of ex-
patriation, the character of people we
shall admit to our shores, the encroach-
ment of alien systems, even to limits far
beyond our national borders, but upon the
hemisphere upon which We live, ques-
tions involving our national honor and
every conceivable subject pertaiing to our
present and future welfare, and the pro.
motion and progress of oIr civilization,
save and except one, that relating to our
monetary system, and as to that one must
we be forever subservfent to the will and
wish and the dictation Of Great Britain?
Has the more than century of our nation
al life, with all the prestige and influence
and power and glory that have come to
us in our unparelled progress as nation,
and in the development of civilization
than which none so grand has ever e1-
listed since the creation Of man, still LETT
us a poor, weak, dependent OF the British
crown?
Because England since 1916, has adj
fered to the single gold standard in the
interest of the gold brokers Of Lombard
street, are we to forever bend the supple
nation and surrender the prerogatiyes
knee, acknowledge our impotency as a
that ought rightfulIy to attach to free
aud Independent people? In my Judgment
the United Safes as a nation in whatever
aspect cosidered-whether nationally in
tellectually scientifically, commercially
of financially,-stands, Or at least should
stand, in the very vanguard OF nations,
preeum:nent in every element of greatness
in every respect of grandeur, in every
attribute OF glory and in every essential
of sovereign power. Resollrcefui in phys
ical elements of every conceivable char
acter, in & measure and to an extent un-
parelled by any country on the globe, If
she will but assert herself as becomes
her, as the proud aggressive dependent
leader of nations, New York and not Lon
don, will become the clearing house OF
the world and our country, pre-eminent
over all, will no longer be the slave,
either in commercial or monetary sense,
but the distinctive and primal sovereign,
the imperial master and dictator, finan-
cially as we'll as commercially among ali
the nations of the world"