Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-06-13


ment arises from the arbitrary and
obdnrate assumptions OF successive
Administrations, which have made
an artificial endless chain by which
the Treasury may BE raided for gold
at the option OF any creditor. If all
the creditors of the Government, it's
salaried officers, it's employees. its
claimants, and it's contractors we're to
act like its bondholders and money
holders, and demand gold. and were
the Treasury to. manifest the same
weakness toward them In recognizing
their claims that 1t does toward bond
holders, the Government might be
overwhelmed at any dayeb BY gold de-
mands, when IN point OF fact it had
an: abundance of surplus revenue and
silver coin wherewithal to meet Justly
all obligations. Let the people un-
derstand, then, that the apparent
trouble in the Treasury is nm artificial
one, invented by the Treasury itself.
If we are a foolish purveyor" of gold
for European monarchs, if we have
titled the strong boxes of every auto
crat who is boarding gold as a war
fund, it Is simply because the Treas
'ury has voluntarily persisted in doing
so when it could have stopped it in a
moment. 1t is q folly that the Secre-
tary could have stopped at any mo-
ment by the scratch Of his pen; it is a
folly that is persisted in because
Congress sits helpless and allows it to
continue; it is a folly because with ali
the strong talk we have here we have
also weakness Of will and weakness
OF action and suppliance of DISPOSE
ton. 80.
Mr.. President, l am by nature, by
experience, and education a conserva-
tive. l am for property and vested
rights. l believe in the virtues of a
people who are characterized by mod
Grafton. l am against radicalism
that would pull down and destroy;
and the place for every conservative
who would maintain the institutions
of America and preserve the property
OF its people is in the ranks of the
true .bimetallists. The rights which
attach to life, liberty, and property
are those upon which all social order
must rest. To protect them, govern
ment was founded, and that v
ment Is freest in which they are best
protected and the most amply and
securely enjoyed. Life and liberty
can not be safely secured or freely
enjoyed unless property is respected.
"You take my life. when you take
the means whereby I live" is a plain
proposition. That every mans house
ID his castle is an axiom Of II free
race, and it has always been ready
to draw the sword and meet tyranny
at the threshold. There are various
methods OF warning upon property.
The robber band may 60 with a high
hand and expel the tenant, but time
has long since passed when this
could be done in any land where the
English-speaking race is in power.
Twas a splendid illustration of the
genius OF the Germanic race, from
which we arc part descended, when
there was a peasant in Berlin who
had a cottage that the king wished to
possess in order to make q part of his
park. The peasant refused the royal
request, and declined all the gold that
was offered him, and, when he was
threatened, he sat securely at his door
and said: "There are laws, Your
Majesty, in Berlin"
1T is by the subtle agencies OF taxa
ton and currency that the modern
wars against property are conducted,
and the contraction of the currency il
the most subtle and certain method OF
conbscating property that tho wit of