Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-06-11
SENATOR DANIELS SILVER
SPEECH
The following is a continuation OF
Senator Daniels silver speech:

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But we are told to wait and wait
for al international agreement. Why
sir, We have been waiting Tor it for a
quarter Of a century. We are told
that America could not act indepen-
IDENTIFY, and that we must postpone the
restoration of silver until the others
lead. l reply t1) that it is senseless
.teaCd&ke a proposition for the man
agenient Of our domestic oncern
which must be Internationally de-.
pendent for it's sanction on the action
OF any others whatsoever. ] reply (2)
that Europe has several primary in
terests just as she had in the days Of
James Monroe, and that they are
against international agreement,
which pertains peculiarly to it and it's
institutions and it's conditions. I re-
ply (3) that Great BritainI Germany,
Holland, and other nations are cred
itor nations and have a direct interest
to oppose the liberalizing of the mon
ey system of the world and the cheap
ening of what they derive from bond
clipping. To make our nation de-
pendent upon other nations would be
as foolish as for anyarmy to submit
its plans to the dictation of a hostile
general. az The prevailing systems
Of government in Europe are also diff
ferent from ours. Great Britain with
her Queen of Great Britain and Ire
land and Empress of India, Germany
with her imperial war Emperor, Rus
STA with her Gar, Austria with her
Emperor, and Italy with her King
all these nations are monarchies; their
legislation is for the benefit of oligar-
chies and classes, and was pretended
and claimed to be Of divine right;
the people do not exist for them in
the sense that the American people
exist for themselves; standing armies
stand around the throne ready to sup
press popular ebullition or popular
advancement; the divine right of
kings permits some liberties to flow
down to the masses from the imperial
reservoir in the crown, but the peo-
pie are not sovereign, as they are
here. . ~.
MIR. President, America can rescue
herself from this difficulty the very
moment she makes up her mind that
it shall be done. The enumeration of
her decree will make the world bow
to her power and to the sovereignty of
her will.
When the warning finger of this
great nation vas uplifted and Great
Britain was told that she should not
rob Venezuela after the manner that
she is now plundering in Egypt and
South Africa, the money changers
trembled lest there might be wal and
coupon clipping be transieptly sus-
pended. There was no danger of war;
for Great Britain is gathering more
wealth from the United States than
she car gather from the gold mines of
South Africa or from the alluvial
lands in the Valley of the Nile.
Ii she had dared to dictate to her
colonies in the manner that she had
dictated to rs, theywould have arisen
in rebellion without waiting for d
stamp act or an embargo against the
port OF Boston. If we choose to sub
NIT to the grinding policy OF gold, let
us ito 80; but, in the name of sense, in
the name Of justice, in the name OF
the pride and honor of our country,
let US not submit on the lame and
puaiuanimous ground that we are not
able to act for ourselves without con
sent by international agreement of
the Old Worlds kings. 1f the text Of
monofnetallism-that we can NOT net
for ourselyes-be true, then let me
say:
ave have thews and sinews like our
ancestors,
But wo! the while, our fathers hearts
are dead"