The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-12-29
Prosperity.

we are CLOSING u year VI diuoSb LII
PARALLEL prosperity. From a national
standpoint we have not seen the situa-
ton better described than it was done
by Hon. ]. G. Silby, of Pennsylvania, in
speech made on the flnancialquestion
in Congress, just prior to the holiday
recess. Mr.. Sibley says:
Mr.. Chairman, many years ago Hume,
the historian, wrote:
A state is never greater than when all
its superhuops hands are employed in
the service Of the public.
Viewing the magnificent prosperity
which today abounds, seeing the com
mercial instinct and genius Of America
engaged in the peaceable conquest of the
markets Of the world; beholding every
American furnace stack blazing, every
forge glowing, with every loom clicking,
and every spindle humming; urgent
drafts upon the treasure stored in our
mines of coal, iron, lead, copper and all
the precious metals to supply con-
stantly increasing demand; noting the
marked increase in price received by
the producers of petroleum, cotton,
wool, and other products of the soil,
which has lifted the burden of care and
enkindled hope in tens of thousands of
homes; witnessing the exports of the
products of American factories and
American workingmen progressing by
leaps and bounds until they reached
more than 1889, 100000 last year; with
our revenues, even in the presence of
extraordinary expenditures for sup
preston of revolt in our newly ac-
quired possessions, promising to yield a
substantial surplus; witnessing every
locomotive and every car taxed to its
limit, and every vessel laden to the
Plimsoll mark to carry our products to
market; prosperity not bounded by
parallels of latitude, by mountain range,
or sea; reading only last week of volun-
tary ADVANCE of 10 per cent. in the
wages of 10000 operatives in the WOODEN
industry, and reading of these advances
every week in all branches of industry
for the last two years; viewing a con-
dition where each man who has a days
work for sale finds within the reach of
his arm ready purchaser for that
days work at the highest price ever
known in history; witnessing every man
in the enjoyment of the God given right,
to eat his own bread in the sweat of his
own brow; retaining the most vivid
recollections of the soup houses main
tanned to prevent the starvation of
strong and willing American manhood
and for the support of which many of.
us were called upon to contribute, ,,
for one, have 20 pride of political
opinion which 1 will place as a barrier
to impede the triumphal march of the
present order of affairs. With Ameri-
can homes bathed in the golden sun
shine of prosperity my partisanship
as it ought, and my patriotism
exults, as it should.
CALL TO coNTERvATlsM.
To my mind, every proposition in re-
straint oflitigitimate trade, every meas
ure which in its tendencies may carry |
covert threat to our industries, every |
new scheme of dreamers and theorists,
should be carefully weighed by members
of both sides of this Chamber who aim
to be statesmen rather than mere poll
ticians; not to make records for an i'm
pending Presidential contest, with which
we may appeal To the prejudices and
of blind partisans, but with
wise conservatism weighing, assaying
and Analysing all measures, and when
n doubt let US rather stand still than
'ush headlong into untrodden paths.
Whatever our views politically may
De, love of country is not bounded by
ines of party. The man or set of men
Who for political success would drag the
ar of progress which has emerged from
he miasmatic lowlands back into the
lismal swamp of despair is worthy
member of no party. l do not think
here is such a one on this side of the
)hamber. If there be such a one on
ither side of this body, may we all,
escape from his leader
hip.
DEEMS APOLOGIES UNNECESSARY.
Mr.. Chairman, have thus, in des
ltory manner, stated some Of my objec-
onc RI tho pan6in0 maacura and bauo