Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-03-31
A PATRIOTIC GRAFTON.
Senator Thurston Scores the Money Chang
ers-The Voice of the Stock Gambler the
Only One Raised Against Intervention.

Senator ThurstOn Scores the Money Chang-
ers-The Voice of the Stock Gambler the
Only One Raised Against Intervention
Washington, March ga dramatic
scene was presented in the senate
Thursday during the delivery by Mr..
Thurston, of Nebraska, of a speech on
the Cuban situation. Not since the in
auguration of President Mckinley have
so many people been on the senate side
of the Capitol Mr.. ThurSton' $ first sem
tence, in which he said he spoke by
command of silent lips-a delicate ref
erence to the loss of his wife on his
trip to Cuba-cOmmanded instant at
tention. A hush fell over the great
audience which hung with almost
breathless attention upon every word.
As he neared the end of the speech
he was almost overcome by emotion,
but rallied and closed in manner that
thrilled his auditors. Staid senators
turned away and wept and in the gal
leries tears welled to hundreds of eyes.
Mr. Thurston said that he had gone to Cuba
believing that the condition of affairs on The
island had been greatly exaggerated and that
he had directed his efforts in the first instance
to the exposure Of the supposed exaggerations
He had concluded. however. that any over
statement of the horrors of the situation was
impossible. He was prepared not only to
adopt every word of the statement of Senator
Proctor but he even convinced that he had
understated the facts.
Mr. Thurston quoted the Cuban plank OF the
republican national convention Of 1896 to show
that this nation should use it's influence and
good offices to restore peace ana give inde-
pendence to the island" Then he eulogized
President Mckinley's course during the past
year. but said that 1t was now too late to rec
ognize either the belligerency or the independ-
ence of Cuba. He said he was opposed to an
neXation. Toward the close he said:
Against the Intervention of the United States
in this holy cause there is but one voice of dis
sent; that voice is the voice of the money
changers They fear war. Not because OF any
Christian or ennobling sentiment against war
and in favor of peace. but because they fear
that declaration of war, or the Intervention
which might result in war, would have de-
pressing effect upon the stock market. do
not read my duty FROM the ticker do not ac-
ctpt my lessons in patriotism from Wall
street deprecate war.
War with Spain would increase the business
of every American railroad it would increase
the output of every American factory: it would
stimulate every branch of domestic commerce.;
! it would greatly increase the demand for Amer
| lean labor. But in the meantime the specter OF
war would stride through the stock exchanges,
and many of the gamblers around the board
| would lind their ill-gotten gains passing to the
! other side of the table
! Let them go; what one man loses at the
gambling table his fellow gamblers win. Let
| them take their chances as they can. Their
! veal or woe is of but little importance to the
| people of the United States. Let the men
whose loyalty is to the dollar stand aside while
| the men whose loyalty is to the flag come to
! the front
| There are some who insist that the republic
an party will not act, for they say it sold out to
| the capitalists ana the money changers at the
| last national election. 1t is not so. God for
| bid. The 1000 600 free men who voted for the
| republican party and for William Mckinley
did not mortgage the honor of this nation for a