Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-08-09
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yhOm their friends desire SnOulQ W cdiiuA
Iates, might give their views. He SAID
hat it had been agreed that each speaker
hould taA, AN nour and Il quarter, MI
first, Mr.. Paul next. and ifany time
we're left he would occupy it.
A voice-Its mighty hot here: can't you
make the time shorter.
Another-Oh! make it three-quarters OF
IN hour.
Anotier-Mr. Massey, you know when
gentlemen get to speaking they never
know when to stop.
Mr.. Paul-Mr Chairman l only speak as
as the people seen interested III What
| Say, when that time is passed L cut 1t OH
short.
The first agreement, it was declared
should stand and he chairman introduce
ed
JUDGE HARRIS.
After speaking of Albemarle as his ma
tive county, Mr.. Harris went on to give a
of the financial legislation OF the
past few years., which he said was OF the
highest importance-the great question
now was this want Of money. You might
win Out the State debt of Virginia to-day
ID vet YOU would find the Same distress
from want of money prevailing. This
distress had been caused by contracting
the currency from nearly $4,000, OOO, 900 to
d. little more than $500 900 900 in the last
Twelve years. He narrated the money
owe character, of the Republican legisla-
ion in congress first making payable IN
coin bonds .htt were contracted to be PAID
in greenbacks, and then contracting the
currency until there was not enough for
the people, and until the money power got
on top to such an extent that fourteen
men in Wall street held $3.50, 600 900 of it
more than half the currency of the whole
country. This policy has resulted IN CIV
ing New England $50 a head to her people
and Virginia 81 so a head. The Demo-
cratic party directly it got IN power ID the
lower House had opened a fight against
his system but the Senate being Republl-
can had foiled their efforts. Five years
ago he made a speech against contraction
and foretellihg its consequences. lie
wanted that 'saccursed and fendish oppres-
sion, the National Banks" broken up. lie
detailed the process of starting a national
bank by which the starters go to the Treas
ury deposit 500, 900 in money and for it
get 500, 900 in bank notes a;.d 500, 1000 in
government bonds OIL which they receive
4 per cent ir interest in gold, while they
also loaned out the bank notes at from Il
to Is per cent. He said Bayard, Herman.
Eaton and other Northern Democrats
aided the Republican Senators in lolline
the efforts of the Democratic House. MIR
Harris then spoke of the financial schemes
he was in favor of, about the widest Of
which were to stop the collection OF all in
ternal revenue in the States and let the
government issue $3.50, 900 GOO in green
backs to pay it's expenses in place OF hay
ing the revenue to pay them with, and al
SO to issue $3.50 900 900 Of greenbacks to pay
the remaining $40 bonds that are out
Another was the rehabilitation OF thu
a--tA ha-l=Ha said that the rich mai
has more peoples necks under Inn heel K
day than he ever bad before.
Coming to the State debt he denounce'
the funding bill; said Gov. Holiday
highest duty" wa to have signed the
Barbour bill. as the peoples representa-
tives passed it, and he made a fatal error il
not doing it. He said this talk of the con
sent of the creditors Was idle; the Sta'e
should be the Judge of how much interest
she will pay and when she will pay it zap
~plause). If the creditors call this forciblt
adjustment let them do SO. They must
take it; with them it is root hog, OF
die (applause). If there is no way, then
call a convention and Go it (applause). ]
am not afraid of the people of Virginia as.
sembled in convention loud applause).
"A voice-He's knocking the bottom out
of old Massey.
The speaker closed by saying that he was
a member of the Congressional Committee.
to which had been referred the bill to give
U. S. courts jurisdiction overt Virginia
courts. and that bill, his hearers might be
sure, would never see the light of day.
SENATOR PAUL.
Mr.. Paul said that in discharging his
duty to the people in his seat in the Senate
he had acquired some reputation or no.
toriety in connection With the question Of
..diustment-at least enough to make his
course the subject of abuse by the news
papers, but he should not be deferred from
his work. He should occupy no middle
ground, and should be frank and fearless
in what he had to say. He was proud of
belonging to the R~eadjusters, for they
were the only friends of the masses
Of the people. The interest On the
debt is greater than the people
can pay land more than they are going to
pay. There is no shadow OF a
claim for the interest occurring during the
war-all international law forbids the pay
ment of such. More than twelve thou
sand citizens of Virginia have gone into
bankruptcy and the state itself is hardly
better off. She owe $40, 900 to the luna
tic asylums, while three hundred of her
people who ought to be in them, languish
in county jails or are kept at home by those
who car ill afford it. He explained the
Barbour bill which was founded on the
principle of maintaining the life of the
state, while the Brooke-Fowler bill which
was substituted for it was a mere stick
horse for the legislators to ride home on
and tell their constituents that they done
something. No greater wrong was ever
inflicted on the people of Virginia than
when Gov. Holiday, as a candidate, led
them into the belief that he would remit
the question of the state debt to the .legis-
Tature and afterwards turned around and
constituted himself the judge and vetoed
the Barbour bill which has been approved
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