The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-03-13

prove that was a traitor. Msioyai to
silver. unworthy Of my state. was pls-
lived since the year / becams of age. As
aaI,a traitor disloyal to the state l repre.
/ ton for silver; and from that time until
now the chief n,outhpiec; of the Bryan
foolish and ridiculous, there has never
been a public uterance by the Bryan
Mr. President. / do not mean to refer
at length to Colorado. where there is
At some future time may: But / re-
}oiEe,e loE,, to say that there is radical change
ali the far nortRwestern states. tt our
| people are tired of bearing only gospel
pay az micb n,c ssf,apiai,sn sttaniian A. WV we I0 nHt
| did to the prophets of despair and doom,
th Who are eternally warning us against
not come. We ar. getting a glimmering
shadow Of an idea that If we want friend;
| ships, and prosperous communities. and
| capital for our marvellous resources. we
aneaiai are as apt o,, to get them by maintainins
country, even If they do not fully agree
with us on the silver question. as we are
eyeryPpody eve S who Feppens pen TO differ with us;
| ilsm is not really furthered by alli
anee with people who want to tear up
railroads and tear down the Supreme
to be to persuade mankind that they are
on their way to the, poorhouse.
TO take ours without waiting for Mr..
black spccter of the crime OF 70" no
longer walks abroad in Colorado ana
| over the range. and we are coming out
from the cares Of gloom into the open
Our commonwealth Is the richest in
naturai resources in the whole Union.
| 1t lies in the heart OF this great free Re
public. one of an eternal brotherhood of
and immoral destiny.
In these attacks upon bimetallism the
suished himself All through the last
campaign IN Nebraska again and again
tempts to secure international blmetai-
ism; And in speech last summer at
his poiiey. And in his organ, the Na-
tional Watchman or the national some
shhmF shDr aE s SPeesh mes read Is Tfporied it he d IS
clares and outlines the policy of his fol-
lowers N respect to bimetallism Mr.
II believe that independent action will
force International bimetallism. and that
bring the nations of the old world to an
International agreement. When our com
petition; it will be to announce the pur-
pose OF the American people. He Will
as much right to protect their property
from depreciation a handful of imam
ciers have to legislate more value into
the notes and bonds and mortgages they
hold. He will tell them that. by the
silver at 10 to l. we can maintain the
parity between gold and silver: but he
member that YOU have had rood deal
OF money loaned In the United States
means either gold or silver; and remem
Der that II we fail to maintain the parity.
nd
cohspirc to decry the value of silver-if
yea eonspire to make gold dearer merely
OF your dollar-we will punish you by
paying, you in the metal you make
The only exception among those on the
other side of the chamber who insist that
ment was in the address of the able sen
ator from Virginia IMr. Daniel "a day or
OF his speech here. in which he seems to
ila, favor international agreement, not for
which he says:
Keep all our money at par.
Our present stock of silver can easily be
Kept at par with gold. as it has been
since 1855, now nearly seven years. BY
tender quality we will preserve It's par
value"
as the people seem to want an interna-
tional agreement that we make an in
ternational agreement with Mexico and
very brief on this point l can not be-
nene that the senator from Virginia care
fuliy looked over the figures of Central
do. most of those countries you
could nor ind piece of gold in the coun-
try II you went over 1t with hoe. There
is none there. In most of them silver is
cent. 10 500 per cent. or from 500 per
cent. down, and in many of them the
that. -
In Central America to-day with popu-
lalon of 100000. there is at present 80
cents per capita of gold. and in South
America there, is slS1 per capita. In
South america of sis. That was The To-
tai gold coinage of South America, where.
have got ST. go Of GHeoTePed TePpe nancy ahey
money. They have got $30.5O of uncov-
there, and that includes white people
who are lew in number and very intelli-
the crossbreeds. For the white people it
VIII average something over 500 per cap
ita of uncovered deprecated paper mon
., How How in the world any man who de-
know. does. to maintain the parity of
the two metals and the credit and good
name Of the United States can believe
that the silver cause can be helped by
going into silver bmetallic agreement
with the countries of Central and South
South America open to gold to-day
eon rGn silver Ry Sh and Per anS Seg rhe it 10 IS
gold. They will coin you a dollar OF
gold which Is legal tender they will
tender. and you can take the dollar OF
gold and go into the same treasury and
get 81 silver dollars. How in the world
the senator from Virginia would seek to
bring about a bimetallic agreement with
those countries that would do any
good i can not sec. but | do not care to
go any further into 1t now.
Mr.. President, l do believe that who
ever says international bitemaIlism is
dead mas not fully familiarized himself
with the question. 1t is true that for the
present all negotiations are in check and
stopped. England at an enormous cost
to India and enormous cost to herself is
now trying upon that unhappy people an
experiment which almost every economic
thinker, including most of the bankers
and merchants of the city of London, be