The daily gazette., 1878-09-03
Butler on the stump
a SPEECH TO HIS LOWELL NEIaHBoRs.
LOWELL, Mass, August 81.
THE SILVER DOLLAR.

LOWELL, Mass, August 81.
THE SILVER DOLLAR.
Said Butler Another thing / have tn
report to you. 1t was said that | was
pledged to something on the currency
question. What was my pledge ? / said.
Gas both parties agree, the democratic and
the republican parties, that the resump-
ton OF specie payments should not be dis
turbed," and let thai alone. There came
up another questionable reconciliation
of silver, and received from 1,200 men
good, honest, true, from my district and
largely from this town request that !
would vote against the Silver bill. i'll
had got this stand where l am now for
fifteen minutes that petition would have
been revoked. ! know about that and
know l could tell you about it. You
were told by these newspapers, who claim
all knowledge, and who claim to know
everything, that if we passed bill re-
monetizing silver the greenback dollar
would go down, or, rather, gold would 90
up ten per cent. Wasn't that told you
everywhere-tha the silver dollar would
be below the gold dollar, and the green
back dollar below the silver dollar. |
said "No, they will stand just altogether
at the same height, one just as good as the
other, and we shall have so much more
money coined, known to the constitution
with which to pay our debts abroad, for
this Is the case exactly" Our bonds
originally, no man doubts, were payable
in greenbacks. By the acts of 1869 they
were made payable in coin-gold and sill
yer coin. BY an act, almost covertly put
through Congress, silver was struck out
of the list, and thereupon they were paid
only in gold. Where the last law-an
iniquitous law, which must be obeyed be-
cause passed-said they should be paid in
gold and silver, and we said we will put
back the silver alongside the gold and we
promised to pay in gold and silver and
our fathers had it from the beginning OF
the government for that purpose-these
men told you that it would be disastrous.
| knew it would not be, and l voted for
the reconciliation of silver, and the
event has shown was right, for the true
legal silver dollar will pay every debt,
public and private, the same as the gold
or greenback dollar. (Applause)
A NEWSPAPER MANS BET.
Now, then, about the newspapers
These gentlemen have pretended to
know all there was, and a great deal
more, on finance, and were utterly con-
founded, utterly wrong, and they were
honest in their belief. daughter and
cheering) / know they were because
one of them argued with me-bet me a
hat, lost and was willing TO pay, but l
haven't wanted the hat yet. daughter J
Upon that / differed with you, ana 1
think you know l am right, but the
c ring Shylock have broughthere ri zee
of silver, called trade dollar, which was
made to cheat the Chinese with more or
less. (Applause.) That trade dollar isn't
legal tender of the United States. 1t
bears on the place of it that it isn't le-
gal tender dollar. They buy them for
ninety cents and force you TO take them
for one hundred cents. They have no
more Fight to have you take them for one
hundred cents than TO have you take a
baggage check for that same amount
(Laughter.) A rascal IN Connecticut wen1
TO New York, bought some up for ninety
cents and paid his mill hands off In them,
when he ought to have been made to
swallow every one of them. (Applause J
Never touch a trade dollar it was made
country in order to get rid of some of our
silver from the Wettern coast, when we
were mining good deal.
EXPLAINS THE DEAN VOTE.
There is another point upon which
some people are inclined to find fault
with me about, aud that is a vote in Mr..
Deans election case. The democrats al
ready had a majority of twelve or fifteen,
and whether they had one more or not
was of no consequence. The law con-
cerning supervisors provides against brib-
cry. / voted for Mr.. Dean because |
thought it my duty, and ] would not be
swayed from party considerations. i
have statedi in my le ter of acceptance
that any man who is reported to me as
being interferred with l will let him
know that there is God in Israel and a
law IN the land. Great applause.) l
don't know of anything else that you find
fault with me about. One other thing
did.
THE FISHERY AWARD.
Great Britain got an award for So, 800, :
900 for few fish that swim in the sea
within uthree miles of the Canadian
shore, which our fisherman catch. When
caught they are not worth more than
$4,000 year in barrels salted, at the
end of Long Wharf, and she got an
award of over $500, 900 for those very fish
when they were swimming in the sea.
(Laughter.) ] said that was wrong and
it ought not to be paid, and did my best
to stop its being paid, and | hope have
done something in that regard, (Great