Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-07-31
SPEECHES
From Senators COckrelI and
Vest.

w NV ohS othcl de o"SCo opiihSos
will be found in another part of this
paper. They relate to the conten-
tons of the Democrats and Republi-
cans during the late extra session of
Congress, and should be carefully
read by every one that desires to
understand the aims of these two
great parties. 1t is seldom that COM
munities arc priylledged to receive
information and counsel at the same
moment from both of the gentlemen
selected to represent their States in
the highest branch of the National
Legislature, and the great ability of
these two Senators to express their
conceptions, imparts additional in
terest to conclusions arrived at under
the best of opportunities for full in
sight into what they discuss.
Some persons demand analytic, ar
gumentive and deductive methods Of
considering fundamental principles.
Others shrink from the profound and
%protracted thought that is necessary
for such processes. They prefer in
cisive illustration, ridiculous con-
trast or lightweight denunciation.
Every class can find in one or other
of these speeches the mode that is
best adapted to its tastes. The one
discovers in organic law the springs
of what it advocates. The other holds
up to contemplation actual viola
tons of the constitution. Thus they
sustain each other and assist the
readers of them to fully understand
all that is in issue.
No one could have listened 10 these
speeches as they were delivered or
can read them as they are reported
without discovering that Republican
measures are intimately related to
each other and tend to subvert popu-
lar government. Through resump-
ton OIL a gold basis they have i'm
poverished the people and enriched
the treasury. While coin disappears
more and more from circulation it
accumulates in the hands of the ad-
m~inistration. BY organic law the
President commands the army. At
the anne time the secretary of the
treasury holds office at his will. All
this is the practical union of purse
and sword, both of which can be used
hereafter, as they have already been,
so as to secure the election of plant
Representatives and Senators. AL
ready the President denies to the
House of Representatives control of
the nations treasure in the hands of
a Republican administration. This
has been accomplished by using his
veto power so as to prevent the en-
actment of laws prohibiting the pay
ment of money without the author t1
Of appropriations by Congress. Be
sides Accommodations in the treasur,
there arc millions stacked up in tn,
vaults of the national be .nks waitin!
20 be subsidized for similar purposes
There are over two thousand of thes,
n~rpn~"t;0-~ fontn--~I ~-I 1.~-~atas>
by government of which it is not too
much to say that they hold every
, business interest and every business
y man in their tightening grip. In or
f der to sustain resumption on n golC
4 basis these institutions, while refus
ing to receive silver on deposit, hav'
+ refrained from making coin demands
: on the treasury and during the Presi
, dents contention with Congress
when it was feared or pretended +
s be apprehended that the credit ofth
n nation might suffer, these corpora
: tons organized into syndicates frs
G subscribed for forty million of tn
. four per cents and then took not onl
the whole number of bonds needed t
fund the t%en-fOrties, amounting t
one hundred and fifty millions, bu
also some forty-four millions of til
ten dollar certificates. In this wa
they not only secured great gains bu
relieved the administration of all aI
~prehensions, if any existed, and i'm
{ parted to the President encourage
u ment to persist in his demand to re
tain power to uphold with the arm
y and navy supervisors and marshal
and their deputies in their oversigt
and manipulation of ballot boxes
Ii There are also owe one hundre
e thousand office holders, paid part
sans, dependents of the treasury
: who, backed by the army and nav
e and a trucking Congress, should or
Is be elected hereafter, have bot
"a the will and the power to make ele,
tons by ballot in this country tt
D. merest farce. What interest ha,
r these corporations Oh these offic'
< holders in preserving liberty? Th
d bankers know that with elections n,
u interfered with, they will be Stripe
IL of their franchises and compelled
u to redeem their paper. These of
KS GERS know that on the triumph ofpopl
OF lar right they will lose their author
IN ty. Only through the establishmel
and perpetuation of aristocratic met
e. DDS can either hope to retain position
'rt The last thing they want is goverI
a. ment by the people.
10 Never was there greater need
d. watchfulness. Never before in tn
OF country was there room for great
an a,u.A I1.-