The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-08

it. The resolutions said those three proposi.
tl0ns made triple headed monster
that WA 70 be let lose on tho country o. tho Last
spawn Of the dying party that thought il had
little life In it year ago. i was pnt ont
at thi, moment to test the conrageof tho two
ment. when Presidential growl came from III
quarters, to sec what tho parties would do
with it. For one. he said meet it, throttle il
in the name of honesty, in the name Of public
peace. in the name of the rights of the people
individually aRainst Z centralization worse
than had ever before been heard of. Meet it
and end it like men,. Let both parties show
their courage in meeting it rather than in
bowing before it.
Mr.. Kelly said there never had been dollar
or shilling of, money that had not been made
by the government. There was no other power
to make money. All that the gentleman from
Ohio. Garfield. had said on that subject was
balderdash. He stood here with the widest of
dreamers, of which the gentleman spoke, with
Thomas Jeferson; and he would vote for the
resolutions because. in the language of JEFF
fersOn, it would re-invest the government with
power to control and issue ito circulation. No
funding, thank God. There was no prospect Of
funding either in thirtys::or forty years the
bonds. Secretary Chase had never said wiser
thing than when he said the control of the debt
is vastly more important than the rate of inter-
est If Congress made thirty or fifty year
bonds. it would pay in premiums to the MEM
beEs of the syndicate more than it would ever
save by having reduced the rate of interest
of the bonds.
Mr.. Weaver considered himself happy at hnv-
ing at last been able to get vote on his reso-
lations. He was not surprised at the opposition
of the gentleman from Ohio, Garfield. That
gentleman stOOd in the road, blocking the
progress of the people for financial reform.
The gentleman assailed the resolutions, first,
because it proposed Capitalization, and second,
because it violated the public faith of the gov
ernment. There was not one word in the reso-
lutions looking to a violation of the public
faith or payment of the public debt in any,
thing except in coin. A a representative of
the National Greenback party he wished to
say that that party was opposed to = violution
of the public faith and the reputation of any
part of the public obligations. Let the issue
be fairly aud squarely drawn. The
issue was whether the government should
whether the banking corporations should do
SO, and he was content to 60 before the people
on that issue. Capitalization, indeed. That
Congress- chosen for two years by the people,
vas not to be trusted, but that the bankers
were. In the name Of the public faith in the
name Of the laboring millions Of the country,
in the name of soft money Republicans, in the
name of the farming interests. in the name of
the humble poor who struggled not for Office.
in the name of all interests on which rested the
peace and perpetuity of the Union, he asked
Jefferson that the issue of the circulating me-
dium should be taken away from the banks and
restored to the government.
After short debate vote was taken and the
resolution defeated, yeas St, nays III. The
following ia the affirmative vote: