The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-24

the approach OF WlnGer IOr Ilo lack VI
food and shelter. The public peace was
/ not broken BY riots in resistance to star.
walton wages. The. courts were not prin-
,cipally occupied in enforcing collections,
, foreclosing mortgages, ordering sherifs
I sales, or IN punishing the destitute and
the outcast.. These are some things
which did not take place. Others that
did are equally striking. Good wages
and good prices stimulated every labor
ing mans muscle, every business mans
brain and every power of machinery into
the highest and most productive activity;
Hope and encouragement were in every
heart. New farms were bought and cul-
tiyated. New workshops were opened.
New manufactures were established.
New mines of iron, coal and silver were
sunk into the earth, whose contents in re-
turn assisted in the glad acclaim of a
universal individual and national pros
perity. - ~
Mr.. VOORHEES, argued that there is not
dollar to-day in the hands of the peo-'
pie on which they have not paid q tax
for the privilege Of having it put in cir
culation by the government. The ma
tional bank is the middleman between
the government and the people, and is
enormously paid for doing what the gov
ernment Ought directly to do itself. He
spoke. of the eyils of the national bank
ing system, and said that if the national
banks were q blessing then our public
debt was blessing, for the debt supports
the banks. In concluding he said that
those for whom he spoke demanded the.
restoration of, the silver dollar and its nm.
limited coinage, not fearing it would be-
come too plentiful; and that it be made
q legal tender. Second, they demanded
the repeal Internationally of the specie
resumption act stof January Il, 1875.
Third, they demanded that the national
banking system be removed and q circu-,
lating medium provided by the govern
ment for the people without taxing them
for the privilege Of obtaining it, and they
ask that the amount thus placed ia cir
oulation should bear a reasonable and ju.
dicions proportion to the business trans.
actions and the population of the United
States. Fourth, they demanded that the
currency authorized and circulated on
the authority Of the government shall be
made legal tender in payment. of all
debts, public. and private, Including dues.
to the government. Fifth; they demand
that hereafter the financial policy of the
country be framed permanently in their
interest; that they shall not be discrimi-
mated against in future legislation as in
past, and that their prosperity, and not
the mere growth Of income and retired
capitalists, shall be the primary duty Of
, III E conclusion, Mr.. vdorhees quoted,
from an article he had noticed in certain
Eastern newspapers in regard to the
rights Of the bondholders, the duty of the
laboring' classes, and the policy that
should be pursued by capitalists to coun-
teract the effects of anticipated legisla-r
ton on the silver question, and said: 5.
;stSif, / have 10 word of menace to utter
on this floor; but in behalf of every
laborer and every owner Of the soil whom
I: represent; I warn ell such as value
their investments, ,t6at when these doc
trines Of despotism are sought to be en-
forced, this fair land will again be con-.
yulsed IN agony, and the fires Of liberty
will blaze forth again as they did one
hundred years ago in defence of the nat
araIt rights Of man. Appladse in the
galleries. May the wisdom of our
fathers and the benignity Of our God
avert such an issue but if it shall come,
if infatuation has seized our councils, the
result will only add one more instance to.
the long catalogue of human crime and
folly, where avarice like ambition over
leaps itself, and in its unholy attempt to
rob Others of their possessions, loses its
OWL Great applause in the gallery. !