Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-13

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duced, and you exercise your ingenuity
in suggesting devices by which silver
production may be curtailed. First, a
seigniorage or government tax, "greater
point may be necessary to discourage
silver mining; and, second, a govern
ment prohibition to the location of new
mines, which you assume will be effec-
tive because those now privately owned
"will soon be exhausted" Now, if
this had been said by Bynum and Eckles
or Cleveland or any other of the gold
standard cranks, l should not have been
surprised and certainly should not have
t~hought~of criticising it. But in the
mouth of a professed silver advocate it
is such a giving away of position and
argument as to threaten the most
serious injury, unless exposed and de-
nounced by those in whose behalf it is
assumed to be spoken. We are pre-
pared to meet our open enemies but we
cannot safely tolerate the Endorsement
of their theories by those regarded as
our advocates and protesting loyalty to
| the cause of silver restoration. Posi-
bly,, Mr.. Newlands, you may be able to
give some explanation of your remark
able language and if so you cannot
begin to make it too soon. If
these extracts fairly present your
views, then you have no right longer
to pose as a friend of silver. Your
scheme is not only lmpraCtlcable,
one of those ~illusory devices ''to do
something for silver which are contin-
ually bobbing up in goldbug literature,
but is an absolute surrender of all that
is vital in silver advocacy. When a man
who assume to be a champion of silver
talks about a regulation of coinage" to
preserve parity and deprecates any ex,
p~ansion of the money volume by which
prices might be increased and absolutely
suggests a limitation upon production
as a means Of preserving the purchasing
power of gold, he belongs on the other
side and if he persists in carry
ing a silver flag, deserves a court,
martial. If you are in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of sil.
yer at the present ratio by the
United States independently of other
nations, you should take the first
opportunity to say so distinctly. There
is no halfway house in which you, more
than any one else, car take shelter. The
issue is simple and admits of no compro
mise. Those who are unqualiiedly fol-
it are on one side, and those who are no
including the whole scale from Cleve
land to Secretary Gage, are on the othe,
side. Mr.. Newlands, you can choose
our side, but l protest against an effor
to occupy both. 1t is as impossible t.
serve both God and Mam1non now as i
was two thousand years ago.
Yours respectfully,
THOMAS WREN.
What rights has Newlands to office il
Nevada, either as an Englishman or a
an American? Newlands has all the right
and privileges in Nevada and elsewher
which the Sharon estate affords him.
Was Stewart living in Nevada whel
Home Ruler Newlands came over fron
was in the United States Senate fror
Nevada and Home Ruler Newland
+ rented his house to get a residence t
run for office in Nevada.
Mr.. Newlands also said in the sam
f speech that his class had evidenced thei
patriotism and courage in recent battle:
I where the sons of prosperity had stoo
bravely side by side with the sons of to:
forthe honor and glory of a common cou1
try. The spirit so displayed had don
r more to wipe out popular prejudice
e against wealth than was otherwise poss
Y BILE" Why was Mr.. Newlands arguin
II that the Sharon estate, which made hi
rich, ought not to make him unpopula
when everybody knows that all his poi
ularity is derived from the Sharon estate
Without that there would be no one s
poor as to do him reverence.
At Why does not II. M. Yerington b
o come a citizen of the United States
he insists that he has a right to run II
70 politics of the state? If he should b
re- rights to be dictator of the politics
e the state because his rights are derive
exclusively from the mother count
" and not from citizenship in the Unit,
"A States.