The daily gazette., 1877-11-23
The Anti presumption Bill.
Great Speech Of Mr.. Escing yesterday.
Tne Lnhnr Tro,,hIe
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The Labor. IroubEes. 8A "a
| What was the meaning of the labo,
riots-that almost civil war-six months
ago? the meaning of them was that la
Dor had been trampled upon as much as
as it could stand. Go, said he, to
any Of our cities and see the hun
dreds and thousands and tens of thou
sands of pale, wan, ragged aud hungry
people l have seen them clubbed out
of the parks Of New York city at night
men who went there hopingto lie down
on the grass and get little fresh air and
sinoothsand cool resting place. The
thing has been pushed just as far as it
will bear. (This last sentence was pro-
nounced very slowly ana emphatically. J
What are we to gain by inflicting such
losses on our industry and labor? What
is the great advantage to be accomplish
ed? It costs this country in the loss of
productive industries, in the unjust
transfer of wealth from the debtor to the
creditor, in the unjust increase of taxa
tion, in the labor, more than all the
wastes of the rebellion combined, and
what are we to gain by adding to the
enormous sacrifices of the rebellion a
self-inflicted sacrifice even more stu
pendousp Why, we are to get back the
banking system which existed before the
war modified little, little,better in one
respect than the old State bank system
but system the very genius of which
Will be panic; system which. in the
very nature of things cannot be stable
He spoke of the laws for the payment of
the bonds in gold as an act of repudia-
tion of the S2,000,000,000 of contracts
whose values rested on it, and declared
that the repeal of the the law and the
putting back OF the parties at the time
they were made was an act demanded bv
every consideration of individual inter
est and of national honor. If the repeal
OF that law were repudiation the hapless
sufferers would be, not the people at
large, but the men probably who insti- |
gated the passage of the law.
THE CITIZEN VS.. THE CREDITOR.
he quoted Edmund Burke to the
effect that it Is to the property OF citi-
izen and not to demands of the credi-
tor to the demands of the creditor of
the State that the original faith OF the
nation is given and that the claim of
the citizen Is prior in time, paramount
In title and superior inequity.
In conclusion he said:-No greater
question than this was ever presented
to an American Congress for it's action.
1t touches the happiness, the prosper
lty, the future OF three fourths of the
msB, women and children In this land
Thousands of men have been drivenI
by the Resumption law to insanity or
suicide; hundreds of thousands have
been cast down from competency to
poverty; millions have been deprived
of employment for their labor, onI
which rests the dependence of their
families. 1t 10 now too late TO right
that wrong; but we may avert any
greater wrong from them and other
millions by prompt action on the the
part OF Congress and the President. l |
do not appeal to that money power
which seeks its fortune over the wreck
ed happiness and accumulation of its
teiloW men-a power to which our
unhappy civil war gave bIrth-which
mas grown so enormous through un-
Just hnancial legislation; which now
''oestrldcs our narrow world like a
colossus which subsidies the press:
which captures statesmen and parties I
and makes them its subservient tool:
which bounds down and villifies every
pubic man, who dares to raise his
voice against 1t. That power, in the t
nush and arrogance of its enormous {
and lllgotten gains, has heart of |
stone not to be touched by human
and compassion. | appeal to
lhe masses, to their faithful represent
atlYes Il thank God) of both political Ii
parties on this floor: The true aim OF s
government is the greatest good to {
me greatest number, ahd whoever by
or other wise changes the
Ealue 0t contract is as accursed as {
ne who removes his neighbor's land
marks. For twelve years past the f. i
nanclal legislation of this country
has been dictated one would think. in
Lombard street or Wall street and the
people have been plundered by every
fresh enactmeat. Tney have suffered
the fate of the giant Gulliver when
led down by the Llliputians. Thank I
L"d they are about 10 rise-to burst
.he bonds which their petty foes have
fastened upon them while sleeping,
and to walk abroad again in their own
majesty. (Applsuse.) l.
AT the conclusion of his speecb,
which was listened to with closet at
tention and interest on both sides OF
the chamber, Mr. Ewing yielded the
hoor to Mr.. Fort, of Illinois who NOV
ed that the House adjourn.
Mr. Hale, of Maine, endeavored to
nave the House adjourn until Monday,
nut his proposition was rejected and
I mouse, at twenty five minutes past
nVe O'Clock adionrned until to morrew.