Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-01-25
Senator Voorhees, Speech.
(St. Louis Republican,

Senator Voorhees, speech on
the silver question took a very
wide range 1t went far beyond
| the silver question, and took in
| the whole money question, with
all the phases it presents now
and all that it has presented in
the last ten years. 1t tcreshad-
ows that expansion IF the issue
which we shall see take place if
the popular demand for silver
dollars shall be thwarted by
veto of the bill now before the
Senate. Mr.. Voorhees, brings
| up that monstrous and indeten-
sible act OF a Republican Con-
gress, the conversion of the five
twenty greenback bonds into.
coin bonds, and denounces it in
unmeasured terms. He says of it:
ain the whole financial histo-
~ of the civilized world NO par
allel car he found to this auda-
cious deed of broken faith, de-
liberate treachery to the people
and national dishonesty. 1t
stands out by itself, towering
high above all common frauds,
and dwarffng them in compari-
son with its own vast proper
tions. 1t will bear the names OF
chose who enacted it to distant
generations, amidst the groans,
curses and lamentations of those
who toll on land and on sea, and
more deeply engraven than any
other name will be forever found
that of the secretary OF the treas
ury as the author of what he.
himself, said constituted the
two-fold crime of reputation
and extortion."
Mr.. Voorhees,, in support of his
position, quotes the language of
Senator Morton in 1869, as fol-
lows:
"A combination of stockton
bers, as destitute Of conscience
as pirates, and inspired alone by
greed tor money, successfully
Numbered at these doors and
finally deceived this government
into the most stupendous act OF
bad faith and legalized robbery
ever practiced upon any people
since the dawn of history"
This is strong language, but it
is not stronger than the case de-
mands; it expresses the opinions
of a distinguished Republican
now dead and a distinguished
living Democrat-and it would
not be out OF the way, perhaps,
to say that it expresses the opin-
ions of a majority OF the Demo
Gratis and Republicans of the
country at this day.
Mr.. voorhees, demands the re-
peal OF the resumption act, the
abolition of the national bank
system, and that legal-tender
greenbacks be made the sole pa
per currency of the country, to
be issued to an amount indicated
by the wants of business. and to
be receivable in payment OF all
debts, public and private, inclu-
ding interest on the national
debt and custom duties. These
are wild propositions They en-
brace the policy If the green
back party, as it is called, and if
adopted would bear us away
from the safe anchorage into
which we have been tending tor
the last three years, and forces
us to try the imitation expert
ment over again 1t is signiti-
cant, however, that these wild
schemes have found q hampton
in the senate at last. The fact
is suggestive and prophetic 1t
shows the strong popular exas-
peration which the harsh meas
ures OF the creditor classes OF the
East are melting, and it indi-
Gates the violent and extreme
retaliatory forms which this ex-
ASPIRATION will exhibit if the
sense1ess provocatiou shall be
maintained