Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-04
Free Coinage Still an Issue, but Not
so Strong.
SENATOR WARREN'S OBSERVATIONS
Increase of Gold in Colorado Hav.
ing Its Effect.
PROSPEROUS CONDITION S

been spending his time since the adjourn
ment of Congress among the people of the
west, has returned to Washington for q
| brief period bringing with him a glowing
picture of the condition of affairs as he
| found them in that section of the country,
where the doctrine of the free coinage of
silver has so many enthusiastic adherents.
I'VE now hear very little in the west
about free silver observed the senator
I'm my own state we have no election of
any sort this year. and public questions
are not up for discussion. The free silver
| men-the radicals, of course-stil cling to
| their belief in free silver, but their strong
argument of previous campaigns that the
country would go to the dogs if free silver
was not authorized has lost much of its
weight. We have good times and prosper
ity is smiling upon so bounteously that
even these men see that the country has
been saved without the adoption of their
ideas.
silver still an ISSUE
In Colorado the free coinage of silver is
still an issue. 1t would be foolish of me
or any other man conversant with the sit
uatton to say that it is dead issue 1t
is not, but at the same time it is not so
virulent an issue as it has been in the past
There was a time not so very long ago in
that state when a man was silver man
nrSt and a republican next. Now republi-
cans are republicans first and silver men
next Colorado is gradually coming back
INTO the republican column, and | do not
thlnk the day is very far distant when it
Will again be in the ranks where it proper
ly belongs. We may not carry the state in
1900, but the gains will be more marked
| than they We're at the last election, when
republican gains were noticeable. All
the people of Colorado are silver people,
but In more moderate sense in that they
are sensible and realize the successful con-
ditions that confront them, and that they
are getting their fair share of the benefits
that prosperity has brought them.
Increase of Gold Product.
While the output of the silver mines of
Colorado is not so great as it was, the gold
product has increased amazingly, and Colo
RADIO is today the greatest gold producing
state in the Union, leaving California, long
the leader in this respect, far in the back
ground. This prosperity very naturally
has its effect upon the people, who but
short time ago believed that in silver alone
was to be found the salvation of the coun-
try. Still loyal to silver, there are unmis-
taxable indications of the dissolution Of
the populist and all the other parties that
were ofshoots of one or the other of the
two great parties. The people of Colorado
nave reached the point where they are be-
ginning to believe that two parties are
enough. The tendency for some time mas
been toward a realignment of the old
parties, and once this conviction is settled
the republicans of that great state who
nave gone off after strange political gods
Will surely return to the old fold. The dem
ocrats of the Rocky mountain states, how
ever, are still clamoring for Bryan and the
platform of 1896. and their voice in the next
democratic convention will doubtless be for
the old ticket and the old platform, with
the possible addition of another plank de-
nouncing trusts
to see that the trust business has been
overplayed. 1t will cease to have its pres
ent terrors by the time the national con-
VentiOns meet What are the conditions,
even today? Instead of new trusts being
announced every day and stocks selling at
faEcy prices, We hear nothing more than
the completion of some companies that had
progressed so far that they cannot back
out, ard stock selling at lower prices
Trust certificates not the investments
they were a short time ago. The tendency
toward combines and trusts stopped short
because the buying public is no longer seek
ing industrial shares and stocks Us perma-
nent investments. 1t was a fad and like
all fads it has been overplayed and the
people who support them are tired of them.
when business is good, times prosperous
and money plenty, there is much interest
and more or less excitement. The short
time in which this fancy of running to
trusts existed shows the healthy condition
of the public in regard to business The
question may figure in the campaign but
it now looks as if it will be too far in the
past to have any particular weight in the
coming elections.
IndOrse the Administration.
"Out in my section of thu country the
administration policy with respect to for
eign questions is receiving a loyal support
Every one is not an expansionist as that
term Is understood, but all are giving the
President a support that indorses his pol
and the integrity of the government. This
support goes out to him regardless of po-
.ttical utilization. and the unanimity of SEN
timent is marked when compared with
some sections in the east which it is I'M
necessary to name. So far as the republi-
cans are concerned, L believe / am safe
in saying the party is a unit for Mr. Nc
kinley and that he will receive the solid
vote in convention of the western states
His policy has been wise and conservative
and within party lines is entirely devoid
of criticism.
Generally speaking, the conditions in the
west are very good. The crops, with ex-
cepu0ns here and there are excellent, and
the farmer has promise of an abundant
harvest l noticed coming through Nebras-
ka that the winter wheat was a failure
but the corn crop is very good. Through
out the whole west there is a feeling of
contentment and belief that the era of
prosperity has dawned and that the bright
er days will remain with us. Much of this
| Is que 10 wise legislation by the republican
Consrt IS, and it will find responsive echo
when the election days come again
Il greatly fear that the cattle producing
sections of the west will feel the ill eff
fects of the agitation of the meat ques-
ton of a few weeks ago, although no such
effect has yet been experienced This
however, is due to natural causes. The hue
and cry raised about the beef that was
| shipped to our soldiers was most unfortu-
nate 1t must, inevitably, l fear react
| upon those who raise cattle. Just now
| there is a scarcity of beef cattle and the
market is strong, but that will pass off
| as more cattle come into the market. With
prosperity more people eat beef in hard
| times it becomes even in this country to
| some extent. a luxury that is dispensed
| with The demand for beef cattle TODAY is
| growing, and while the supply is adequate
| We have no surplus, that the prices are
well maintained. But when we reach that
| stage where We are weighted down with
| a surplus than We may have some trouble
| in exporting that surplus to those coun-
| tries which have taken cognizance of the
| agitation that was conducted all over this
4 country a result of the meat sent to
\ Cuba. 1 have nothing to say as to the
| merits or dement's of the alleged charges
| but it is unfortunate that such a question