| Show SILVER It is idle to talk about further silver legislation by the present Con re3S The Republican members of the Fiftyfirst Congress have taken their position on silver and it is too much to ask them to change within six months It is true that position was dictated dic-tated by Wall street and by the federal administration ad-ministration and it is also true tbat the American people one week ago today repudiated re-pudiated the legislation andthe legislators but it is asking too much of the lawmakeis to request them so soon to confess their ignorance ig-norance or error to reverse themselves and to go back on their masters in the White House the treasury department and Wall street The Republicans in this Congress will stand by what they have done and silver must rest under a cloud for a year or more But wait until the Fiftysecond Congress convenesuntil the men who were chosen last week gather at Washington Wash-ington Then justice will be done to silver and to the people at the same time Most of these men are Democrats and the others were so badly frightened by the voters that they will not have the courage to defy the nation as their predecessors have done The President his secretary of the treasury and the combined efforts of the enemies of the white metal will not prevail pre-vail next winter when men who respect and fear the people undertake to legislate regarding silver Undcr tho vicious Republican Re-publican statute nova force the coinage of silver will be suspended next July The Fiftysecond Congress will meet in the following December and we predict that the act which will admit silver to free coinage will go into effect in tho succeeding succeed-ing July 1892 It will be a splendid Democratic Demo-cratic compaign document especially if it should have to bo passed over a Presidential Presi-dential veto as now seems probable I |
