Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-23
Irredecma bic Paper.

lrredecmable Paper.
He referred to the proposition voted for
by the populists, directing the Secretary of
the Treasury to print $3.50, 100000 of paper
money.
IF you can issue $3.50, 100000 of irredcem-
| able paper money today" he said, you can
| issue $3.50, OO0, 900 more tomorrow, and so on
without limit
Nothing could more clearly demonstrate
the views OF the populist party on the
money question than this amendment de-
bate, and vote. 1t is strictly in accord
with their national platform. 1t may be
that some day both gold and silver will of
necessity be discarded as basic money be-
cause there will not be sufficient of both
metals to meet the demands Of business
and population, and that the governments
Will furnish paper money, for money uses,
such money based solely on the credit of
the government"
The Senator further alleged that silver re-
publcans favored protection generally, in
Guiding so-called raw materials, and par
ticularly lead, wool and lumber, besides
various products of the farm, plantation
ard ranch.
That he opposed the populist scheme for
government ownership of railroads for
many reasons; first, the purchase Of the
railroad property would incur an enormous
public debt to be paid by the people: sec
ond, that as government property, the rail-
roads would be exempt from taxation to
the great hardship of many sparsely set
road companies paid from one-flfth to one
half of all county expenses.
He pronounced absurd the expectation
that England would ever voluntarily join
with us in restoring silver.
There Is plainly something wrong in this
country he said, $50 fruitful in resources
| and opportunities, and SO filled with intelli-
gent, law-abiding and Industrious people
Business is slack, employment at fair
wages, or at any wages at all. hard to get
FACTORIES and mines are either idle CT
working at much less than their full capaci-
| ty, while the great agricultural classes re-
| ceive scarcely enough for their produce to
pay the running expenses of their farms
and plantations. There is no prosperity
! statement made now and then that this or
! that factory or industry has commenced
| operations with an increased number of
employees and increased wages
| IAN investigation of each isolated case
reported will show, in nearly every in
stance, that the increase has been from no
| employees to few, and from very low
wages to an amount which hardly affords
| living. Since silver was demonetized the
condition of affairs has been growing stead
| lily worse, and the prices of everything
steadily falling. Various devices have been
resorted to to stop this persistent declin-
ing market, bus to no avail
Silver Senator's.
Referring to the charge that the western
| silver states have two Senators and are en-
|
! that the question OF representation was
| fought out when the Constitution was
! framed.
THE conclusion finally reached" he said,
! was that each state have two Senators,
and the prime reason was that the great
and small states might meet Oh equal terms
here; that the brutality of mighty majori-
| ties might be checked and justice done to
the minorities; that the states might meet
on common ground in this body, and from
each other obtain justice for all.
Notwithstanding this, read In the press
of the east almost every day that the region
I represent is but pocket borough, not
entitled to consideration at your hands and
| the inference is that it is peop1ed by a class
of men who are perpetual shock to the re-
| fined and vfrtuous east. California Mon
tana, Colorado and all the mining states
represented by silver advocates here are
simil9 rly attacked and the personal and
private characters of Senators representing
those states Is most wantonly and yiciously
assailed. No one escapes.
Il could read extracts by the hour, en-
bracfng direct attacks on the private char
acter of every silver advocate on this floor
| but they vile that 1 do not care to
dignity them by reproduction in the Record
The meanest and most vindictive of these
| newspapers are published in New York city
| where for four-Seore years the worst ele-
| ments Of our foreign immigration have
| found a lodgment and where there have
| been more scandals in connection with ..e:r
| city government and elections than in any
| other spot in our country.
| Idaho and the west need no defense al
my hands; much less Is there any need for
| it's representatives to explain their actions
| to the obsequious press of New York city,
| If our states are proper subjects for abuse
/ however, because they have two Senators
each, with but small population, as com
pared with New York or Pennsylvania, wny
+ should not s)me of the eastern states, rep
| resented by gold advocates, be proper OBJ
| jects for attack also. Our mining states,
| these 'retton borough states, have immense
areas, are boundless in their resources and
I are increasing in population in a marvellous
manner"