Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-01-03
SOME POINTED oUEHrEs.

prominent resident of Nevsdd, asked
Senator. Jones and Ste the
fouos nR pointed questions through
the Washnptnn Pas:
Editor Post:-For the seventeen
years before becoming a resident OF
Washington I was a citizen Of the
State OF Nevada l here passed the
most active portion Of my lie. aud
still claim to be identified with It s
citizens, than whom-tio gu ID relative
ly few in rnnber-l have met none
.or intelligence, enterprise and
morality. I, therefore, feel autboriz
ed TO interroEate respectfully con-
political questions the con
duct OF those Who now represent that
State in the Senate Of the Unit-d
State.
Observation-Disclosures il Is so pub.
li-hed and no; denied that boh
these Senator. have reafihat Il with
the Republican party, and in doing
10 have both declared as their reason
or Excuse that they considered bi
metaIli.m or the restoration OF silver.
no longer a living issue.
/ wish FROM the e Senators an
sWers to a fea question:, and that
their an shall be ma lie from
their places in the Senate chamber
/ wish tiIat the reasons for their re-
cantstion shall be given the same
publicity with which their previous
professions were made.
First-Do ,ou consider that ,he ar
gumeuts for ~bimetallism which GU
have been making for EIany years
were rnsound?
Secund-If not. what sufficient
reason has occur -ed since that period
to justly Il change Of your oonvicuuns!
Third-lf you say that within the
past few years the large returns from
gold mining have 20 far increased the
volume OF standard money as to maze
silver restoration unnecessary.
ask you to look over Your OVID
speeches and see how often and how
emphatically you have stated. and
how clearly you have demonstrated.
that all min uR for precious meials,
and especially for gold, ls pr, carIous,
and not d Few years. but long period,
must be taken into &c -'unt III esti-
mating the average or Probable me
talhc supply. aud that the nearest APP
proacb to STABILITY in any metallic
standard must be found in bimetall-
ism
Fourth Have You not nften stated,
and ID it not clear, that the principal
significance Of a money standard con
sistS in the existence OF an immense
Indebtedness. which must be die.
charged in standasd money. or that
which must be maintnin-d u Its
equivalent
Notwithstanding that you still rec
ognize this truth is it not II tact that
in this country and almost univer-
sally elsewhere, ibiebtrdness-na.
tioDal. municipal, corpor tie and in
dividual-is greater today than ut any
time since tine question as tO Il money
stano ar3 has been agitated in the
United SiatesP And is it not also
true that most Of this in lebtedness
wis created and that foundation II
al !: inId under "a bimetallic stand.
ar, Il Inc rati, Of | or IL IL to i?
Sixth Is it not irue mat this I'M
mense in lebIed less, auou ,ting in
the United >tates alone to more than
el7,0O0.0O 900 of long time interest.
bearing obligations, must Le die.
charged by property and labor, will
bs nearly twice IA heavy under &
Gin .le gold standard as under a bi.
metallic standard 81 silver and gold
at the present ratio?
Seven th-Does the fact that under
q nominal gold standard in the
United States the coiUage 81 silver
has been continued and the volume OF
representative paper money Increas-
ed, and thereby prices stimulated,
offer any guarantee against such cur
reDcy contraction Hs the law now
places in tile power Of the holder OF
money ~oblgannus. and by which
property value aud lal or prices mny
be 30 reduced ~ TO create the
calamitous conditions which ,On
have so citen depicted as the result
Of a gold ct Indard?
Eigth- IL not the interest NJ your
constituents in this question practical.
ly the came M ii has been for the
past twenty years, md rs it was when
you were chosen Senators upon a
iroo ailyer PLATFORM
I think it proper 10 cay. Of refer.
ence 10 tliese inter ro%gatious, that my
personal relations with both Of these
Btnatora are friendly. aud | hope
will continue to be go, but, politically
they have placed my seli, and, | am
cure many Of their pce@rnt
stituents in no embarrassing situa.
ton. We must either part company
With our Senators or wo must rc.
pudiate every thug which Tor twen,'
years they have taught us to believe
and which most OF Us. at least. still
believe.
CO HILLYER.