The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-21
ARM IN ARM.
Silver Coinage and Tariff Must
Go Together.
Says Senator Dubois to the
journal" Correspondent.
THE WEST is AROUSED.
And Has Given the Arrogant
East a Jolt.
Senator Dubois Views ON the
Western Situation.

From the State Journals Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 21.-"The course
for free silver men to pursue now," said
Senator Dubois of Idaho, who is one of
the most courageous of those western
Repu ublicans who stand for the interests
of the west in the senate, ''is to prepare
to go to the st. Louis convention and
make determined fight for free silver
and the tariff. They must demand the
recognition of silver without eQuivoca-
ton. Without free silver a high tariff
can do no good. If the party doesn't give
to say what course we will take. know
perfectly we'll what course l shall take,
but don't care to say now what it will
be-"
This declaration was in response to an
inquiry of the JOURNAL correspondent
as 20 what course western silver Repub-
licans should pursue regarding the
money question. Senator Dnbols does
not mince matters when he talks, but is
sure of his ground and speaks fearlessly.
He believes the time has come when the
great western section of this country
should cease sitting humble suppliant
at the feet of the east. Every one who
has been in Washington at sessions of
congress knows that the eastern states
have had their own way SO long and
have been SO used to have the west
plead for things as a favor, which they
in their goodness were to bestoW, that
the fossils in the senate had come to
imagine themselves potentates while the
western senators were merely members
of their retinus. They were terribly
jolted therefore, and rubbed their eyes
In astenishment when Senators Dubois
Carter, Teller and Mantle stood firmly
for the rights of the west and forced the
arrogant eaSterners to acknowledge their
power.
These westerners had the courage to
stand by their principles and the rights
of their people in the senate and it will
not be well for the St. Louis convention
to treat their demands htiy or with in
sincerity.
Continuing the discussion of silver and
protection which began this dispatch
Senator Dubois said:
Free silver must go with protection
or the latter is of no value. Our manu-
facturers are having to compete with
oriental silver using countries and they
can'c do it. The difference between our
gold standard and their silver standard
gines their manufacturers an advantage
of 100 per cent. They sell their goods
for gold and buy silver with which to
nav their labor. No tariff however high
can place American and oriental manu-
facturers on an equal footing SO long as
this difference in our money standards
exists.
The American manufacturers
are beginning to see this. The
recent action of manufacturers in
PHILADELPHIA who com mbined to
work for silver has great significance.
The manufacturers are beginning to get
an idea of the advantage which free sill
yer means to this country and when they
do fully realize it they will come to our
cause like an avalanche. Some of them
already see what free silver means and
the others will shortly"
Senator Dubois aud the other western
silver Republicans are not at this time
threatening what they will do if the Re-
publican party doesn't recognize silver in
a straightforward plain way. They will
go into the convention and make the
fight and they will mean business.
If the party turns silver down it may
be safely declared that it will lose the
support of some of its strongest mem
bers.
Senator Dubois has not said he will
leave. neither have the others. They will
not cross the bridge until they come to
the structure.