Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-01

tertain his views earnestly and should
advocate them on all occasions, but
let us do it by argument and not by
the ruder forces that are sometimes
resorted to in political discussions.
was quite entertained at the opera
house the other evening at the time
that the democratic club did our op-
ponents the courtesy to adjourn in a
body and attend their meeting.
really felt, however, a little bit
sorry for one of the statesmen pres
mt On the rostrum on that occasion.
allude to our polite and suave and
gentlemsnly ex-governor who is al
ways elegant in political discussion. I
noticed during the time Judge Baker
was discussing the silver question.
our friend, the ex-governor, sat ex-
ceedingly uneasy in his chair during
that occasion, and happened to re-
member that the ex-governor had pub
lished the most able discussion of that
subject that l saw during the last
campaign. i felt very much as If |
should like, in answer to Judge Baker
on that occasion, have some old-time
democrat read chapter from Gov
ernor Princes book. You remember
that Judge Baker was very fearful
that this country would become the
dumping ground of all the nations of
the world in the event that silver
should be remonetized and 16 to 1
again become the law of the land
and silver made a money OF redemp-
tion. He spoke about silver of Old
Mexico being dumped over into this
country. | could not help but think
as looked around that audience. es-
pecially so far as the democratic por-
ton of it was concerned-that they
were quite anxious to have the Dump
ing process commence, for | did not
~ - -As'iA IA lhdt duulCuCe IndL 0aQ
any more silver dollars jingling in his
pockets that he needed for the emer-
gencies of life, and l am going. WITH
your permission to read you just a lit
tie, not very much, from one of Gov
ernor Princes passages in his book,
entitled THE Money Problem"
The doctrine was just as sound when
he promulgated this book, and the
principles he then enunciated were
just as true as they are tonight and
the needs of the country for their adop-
tion were just as great then as now.
In this little book of the governors
he first takes up and considers, and
that is republican argument, the ef-
feet upon the country of the destruc-
tion of silver as the money Of redemp-
ton. And before l come to the
dumping ground" want to read you
also just a hLLle from governor
Prince on the subject of the honest
dollar. You know our republican
----s---- A..Iar8.... - Al, r,
iifty-cent-dollar and about the honest
dollar, and so far as / am concerned
| am wholly unable to see why in this
western country especially, the issue
of 16 to l; the restoration of silver
to the place which it held in the cir
culation of the country from the or
ganization of the country until it was
demonetized, is not just as import
ant now as it ever has been hereto
fore. In all these western states, at
least in Colorado, in Utah, in New
Mexico, in all the west-where silver
is a production of the mountains, it is
just as important to our interests as
the COTTON crop of the south, or the
corn crop of Kansas. And when my
friend, the governor, strutted forward,
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