Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-05-15
BUsrNEss AND SENATOR JONES

Senator J. p. Jones Of Nevada is on
tine Senate committee which has had the
revision Of the House tariff bill. He has
insisted upon . fair recognition Of two or
three important Western products in the
revised bill. This has caused extreme
anger on the part Of some Of the Eastern
people and newspapers. The Philsdel.
phia Record breaks out with the follow
ing
"who is Jones'! Jones is q Of the
Senators from the State Of Nevada. His
State lacks population enough, by nearly
100, 900, to make . full quota emitting it
10 . member Of the House Of Represents
tives. 1t has nearly as great 8 popula-
tion Is Centre county, in Pennsylvania.
II has no agricultural, manufacturing or
commercial interests to give it conse-
quence. About its only industry is sill
YER mining. About the only object
which it's representatives in Congress
seek 10 attain is to secure such laws as
will compel the people Of the United
States to pay them . dollar for every
so cents worth Of silver they can dig out
Of the ground. But Jones is . member
Of the Senate Finance committee, and
Jones's vote is necessary to report the
Dingley bill ; and Jones's vote is neces-
sary to pass il. Hence the Difference to
Jones. He and the subcommittee are
now comforting whilst the business Of
the country stands hesitant or halts."
In reply to the above the Salt Lake
Tribune has the following No tariff bill
was ever revised by the Senate commit
tee in less time than the present one has
been, and the business Of the country has
not suffered on account Of the time CON
sumed. Bot when the Record tells Of
Nevada and asks who Jones is, it is easy
to supply the information. Nevada is
Just now in "borasca," which is the OPP
posite Of bonanza" But Nevada is a
State which in the next n hundred
years will produce more wealth than
Pennsylvania will, and as to Senator
Jones, we beg to inform the Record that
he lie . man who has more brains than
Pennsylvania has had in the Senate OF
the United States in all the years since
Simon Cameron died. That he has clearer
ideas on all great subjects which concern
the welfare of this country than probably
any man who has lived in Pennsylvania
during the last thirty years ; that when
the Record affects to know him, it only
advertises its own ignorance /; that he is
well posted in literature. but beyond that
he graduated in the big hills Of Califor-
mia, learned the lessons that the great
mountains and the great ocean teach ;
that II he had never seen . book. he
would have been, planted in Pennsylva-
nis, among the common men there, what
Socrates was among the men Of Athens,
and that when the Record speaks sneer-
ingly Of him, 10 but initiates the scoffers
who in their ignorance and meanness
have scofed at great brains and hearts
since the beginning Of time. Again. the
gold product Of Nevada 10 greater now
than her silver product. and il the men
there want silver restored, il 10 not to
get . double price for il, but to take
away the accurssd appreciation from
gold. which appreciation is what now
causes the business Of the country to
halt, and which makes il easier for the
capitalist to make ten per cent per an
mum by locking up his capital, than to
keep sven in any business investment in
the world. II is not the delay in the
tariff measure which makes business hes.
liant ; ID 10 the refusal Of the creditor
class of the East to undo the wrong which
they psrpstrated four and twenty years
ago, and which has caused more loss Of
property and more hsart-aches than
would . twenty-year exhaustive war.