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The imperative
session of c o 11-
gress to be convened immediately after
the 4th of March , 1899 , is realised by the
genuine friends of the gold standard
everywhere in the United States. In a
letter addressed to the editor of THE
CONSERVATIVE on December 14 , 1898 ,
Congressman Charles N. Fowler of New
Jersey remarks :
"We must make and
a strong persist
ent effort , if we hope to secure an extra
session for the special purpose of cur
rency reform. We can only hope for
legislation , which may be justly called
reform , it seems to me , at a session con
vened especially for that purpose ; for
then the public mind will bo concentrated
upon this question , and can be made to
more readily and clearly see the strength
of the position taken by those who have
carefully studied the subject , and fully
appreciate the importance of an unequiv
ocal gold standard , the retirement of the
demand obligations of the government
and a system of credit currency respon
sive to the demands of trade. "
There is no more earnest and consist
ent advocate of an honest currency for
the citizens of this great republic than
Mr. Fowler. And ho has the courage of
his convictions a rare thing , relatively ,
among modern law-makers.
THE CONSERVA-
PLEASEI , > . , , ,
TIVE congratulates
itself upon the evident satisfaction
which the friends of Hon. George Fred
Williams evince relative to the tribute
paid to the logical and oratorical force
of that distinguished disciple of the
money fallacies , in a recent issue.
The fact that THE CONSERVATIVE
omitted to relate how frightened all the
gold bugs were , whenever Mr. Williams
let loose his logic or opened his oratory
seems , however , to have disappointed
some newspapers of the sixteen-to-one
variety. Therefore it is hereby admit
ted , agreed and confessed that no advo
cate of the gold standard in Nebraska
dared debate with Mr. Williams. His
strength and luuiinousness startled and
scared everybody who differed from his
monetary views. This probably came
from the general knowledge that Mr.
Williams was a sort of Saul of Tarsus
goldite and that ho set out for Chicago
with a pocket full of rocks and persecu
tions to be inflicted upon the silver men ,
and that when he reached the conven
tion of 1896 he saw a great light with a
halo marked "vice
ready-made presi
dency" in the clouds and so ho was
converted and became an apostle Paul
of Silver. Tims it was easy for him to
frighten the weak and the ignorant.
TO UEFOllitt TIIK CUKHKNCY.
Itoprcsciitutlvu Fowler Favors Culling an
Extra ScHHion.
Concerning the desirability of an
extra session , Representative Fowler of
Now Jersey of the committee on bank
ing and currency says :
"At the end of two squarely fought
contests over the single gold standard
and sound currency , the republican
party finds that it will be in power in
every legislative branch of the govern
ment after the 4th of March , 1899. Un
der these circumstances , what is wisdom ?
What is duty ? Clearly it would be
unwise for the committee on banking
and currency to take up , during the
present session , for consideration , dis
cussion and determination in the house
any single proposition affecting our gov
ernment finances .or looking to currency
reform. It would be worse than foolish
to attempt to secure any proper legisla
tion in the senate as now constituted.
"The whole subject should be made
the occasion for calling an extra session
of the Fifty-sixth congress , immediately
after the 4th of March , for the exclusive
purpose of dealing with this most im
portant matter. The most intelligent
public thought on the question demands
an extra session ; the people expect it ,
and the failure of the president to call
it would result in bitter disappointment ,
for all must realize that such failure 011
: iis part involves the pledges of the re
publican party , involves the financial
tranquillity and commercial prosperity
of the country , and , indeed , might in
volve our national honor itself.
"I firmly believe that the president
spoke in the utmost good faith , in New
York last winter , when he said that
words would no longer do , but that wo
must have action. Certainly an extra
session should bo called. Indeed , it
must be called , if the president and the
republican party hope to escape the just
retribution of an outraged public senti
ment because faith with the people had
been broken. " Washington Star.
DEVELOPMENT INSTEAD OF EXPAN
SION AN1 > ANNEXATION.
The American people need no islands
to occupy their attention , divert their
energies from home development and
involve them in the perplexities and
dangers of a colonial policy. The vigor
and endeavor of Americans may find
ample and remunerative employment in
the development of some of the uninvestigated -
tigated and hidden resources of some of
even the original thirteen states. Ex
pansion of territory is not needed. De
velopment of domains already ours is
needed. As an illustration of the truth
of this proposition lot us look into the
great state of Georgia which belonged to
the original thirteen.
In northern Georgia , as any scientific
tourist may demonstrate , are millions
upon millions of gold sleeping in the
mountains. These gigantic deposits have
slumbered there for eons. Their beds
have been known to < Americans for more
than a century. Ores assaying seventeen
to thirty dollars a ton in fine gold have
been mined , sampled and tested in
northern Georgia. And in addition to
the precious metals the mountains of
Georgia carry , in their rocky pockets ,
silver , copper and iron. The wilderness
of northern Georgia invites civilization ,
industry , enterprise to outer upon its
development and promises as a reward
the most stupendous possibilities in out
puts of gold , iron and lumber. This
empire state of the South is an Elysium
almost unknown to those outside of its
own boundaries. In its northern coun
ties , besides mineral wealth , are capabil
ities of agriculture and horticulture un
told. Hero and there are enough of
farms and orchards to prove the strong
fertility of the soil. Even in the midst
of the mountains may bo found patches
of cultivated land which in power of