New-York tribune., 1880-06-12
THE BLOATED BOYDHOLDER.

There be speeches and speeches. Some are
snoken that never get into print, for which
tbe nublic has reason to be thankful. Some
get into print that never were spoken, for when
the authors ought to be equally thankful. The
Ouadrennial stump will presently begin TO
yibrate with the echoes of the former; the
pages of The Congressional Record furnish
tones upon tones of the latter We have been
struck in perusing The Record OF the present
session by the frequency of unspOken speeches
on the financial question. The general pubic,
which does not, as a rule, read The Record
line by line can have no idea OF the amount 0t
craftsmanship of the most profound and be-
wildcring character on finance and kindred
subjects which finds its way into that mammoth
collection of political briC-a-brac, or Of the gllded
and FURNISHED rhetoric in which it Is framed.
In both matter and manner these unspOken
speeches are fresh and original The positions
taken in them upon political economy, finance:
and the relations of capital and labor, are such
as Adam Smith never dreamed of; the language
in which they are clothed is of Oriental mag
nifccnce. Between the startling originality of
the one and the Kaleidoscope splendOr of the
other, it is only question between the jndg-
mcnt and the imagination which shall first
SUlICnucIJ VII DDtn ~ uOMl lO~O'HNi'
The fundamental thought in most of them is
that the man who has loaned the Government
a hundred dollars or more, at four or five per
cent interest, Is n representative OF the tyIannV
Of the Money Power, a blOated bondholder,
and desp1t for whom in the fine language OF
Gideon F. Rockwell, of Missouri, conscience
:" is murdered, law is for sale, the people are
"bctraycd," etc, etc. On the other hand the
man who has not saved any money Is the victim
of oppression, who not only pays taxes with
muscle but contributes by law the means OF
"luXury to n dcspicable aristOcracy OF shoddy
"spawncd upon the beautiful symmetry OF the
"Rcpublic by unnatural generation and pre-
"scryed to its diShOnor by the partiality OF
"lcgisatiOn." This is the vigorous way in
which Rolhwcll states it III speech printed n
The Record Of June 4. "ShyOck," he says,
"is the public creditor. lie has specialized III
misfortune he has prOiitrd by duphciy he
demands his bond, and his bond is tinciurrd
" with fraud" The public creditor has also
"plOughcd with the peoples heifer to Obtlln
{" the fatal secret of their strength; then be-
traycd them. lie robbed them in one day OF
n thousand millions Of dollars and now
uses his stolen advantage to perpctuate the
"wrong." "Siuco 1873" he slys, 4" the people
have gone through hell for the sake of the
public creditor" ROthwell Is opposed to the
repeal of the legal tender act, and it was on the
bill for this purpose that he printed these re-
marks. @The simulated virtue he says, that
frames the argument to impair the quality OF
these lcga-tendor notes but lily disguiscs the
"ayarlcious lust that seeks the enforcement of
the people from returning prosperity for the
sake Of n legal concubinagc with the public
"crcdtor." Rothwcll, it will be observed i
"agin" the public creditor.
On the 9Th of June the Hon. w. II. Kitchen,
of North Carolina, got leave to print an un-
spoken speech in The Record, in which he stated
that the present fight is n square one between
"thc people and the bOndhodcrs and their
"allcs' The great question isaS he puts it," Shall
the Government protect the capitalists at 'he
@cxp"nso Of the poverty of the countryf'
"Shall the poor labOrcr," he asks, continuing
his conundrums, I" be trampled in the dust that
the rich arstOcratic bOndhOlder, banker or
4" IA lrOad king may ride in his giided chariot Z
Shall the people I've compelled to morteagc
themselves and all they shall ever have to the
bOndhodcr, that hr mny have a safe and per-
@mancnt investment for his accumulated
"milhons 7" Kitchen answers his own con
undrums. lie won't have the labOrcr tramplrd
in the dust, nor the bOndhOldcr riding in
gildcd chariot" if he can help il. He says
4" No." and that if he had hundred voices he
"wouli cry ut the top of each, No, never"
Which il very good of him, but WE fear some
body has been playing of circus band wagon
on him ns a bondholdcr's gildcd chariot"
The same day the Hon. Hendrick Is. Wright
obtained leave to print speech on the Fund
ing bl which was Of the same general tenor,
though hardly so warm in its rhetoric rs those
quoted from above. lie also considers tine
bondholdcr an enemy TO free institutions, and
capital Il curse. The financial disasters of 1873,
he says were /" the result of the power of capital
Ii is now seeking to pay debts by new promises.
It's professions are cOuchcd in honest terms.
" It's breath is the srOccO: it wthers and de-
stroys. 1t has the d"vouiing blight of the
." upas." But space will not suffice for extracts
of n similar character from these undclyc,cd
speeches. We have quoted enough to indicate
the general style of them, the fresh and
original line Of thought they follow, and the
ornate periods in which they abound.
originality and cloqucnce so invariably
thrust their dclivcIances INTO The RccOd
unspoEcn DO they fear the House could
not stand the dazzle, or are they airIld
of parcnhcsCs and intcrruptionsl There is
one thing certain: if the blOatcd bOndholdr
is as bad as they all agree in representing hm,
instead of riding in "gildcd chariot" he