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and then allow the producer of bullion to
go into the mints and get the bullion
coined and leave upon the individual the
burden of placing the money in circula-
ton.
Bedford regarded the fourth section as a
covert fraud on the people as being in the
interest of the Rothchilds, who controlled
Germany on the question of gold or silver
demonstration. He had always followed
his friend from Pennsylvania, kelly but
last year that gentleman had gone to Ger
many and consulted with that brutal
tyrant, Bismark, and on coming back had
advocated practically the cessation of the
coinage of silver.
Il beg leave to say" remarked Kelly,
that / am not conscious of having been
in Germany. l did. in my sickness,
stretch my travels as far as Paris, where |
spent three months and had not the
privilege of seeing any German states
men"
''The house will reeollect the series of
letters, - replied Bedford, that the gen
tleman wrote, after a brilliant interview
with Prince Bismarck"
"When?' replied Kelly.
Two years ago., replied Bedford.
Kelly-''If my arithmetic s~ustains me,
on a basis of 1879 and 1884, it was five
years
Belford-"Very well; let us get to the
next point, l say that when you came
back from Europe last fall, you intro
nuced a bill to stop the coinage, and yet
you are willing to stand up here and adj
vocate, day after day, protection for pig
IRON
Kelly-''My desire is to permit a wide
spread use of silver on its ancient basis
and my bill is one which | believe will
be calculated to force arrogant England,
the prosecutor of silver and silver nations,
to sue relief from her own arrogance by
asking for the decentralization of silver on
an ancient basis
Belford-''Why didn't you introduce a
bill to protect arrogant England on the
question of pig iron?" Laughterl.
Belford-"I have always voted to pro
tect the industries of Pennsylvania, New
jersey, Connecticut and Louisiana, and
yet there is a settled and studied policy on
the part of the m%onopolies of the east to
discredit, injure and ruin the great indus
try of my state
Kelly-''Did any of these ]monopolies
fail to stand by you in the duties you
demanded for Colorado lead, an industry
scarcely second to silver? or did they fail
to protect her pigiron, her nail factories
and her Bessemer rail mills?'
Belford-"I can tell the gentleman that
Colorado needs no tariff on Bessemer
steel. 1t costs $l+ to ship a ton Of Besse-
mcr .steel from Pennsylvania to Colorado
the tariff there is distance. ! can also
| give notice to my friend that Colorado
need not stand up for relief on her pig
iron.
Continuing, Mr.. Bedford proceeded to
make an argument in favor of free silver
coinage. 1t was time congress should
make war on the theory which dominated
this administration. He cared not whether
it was republican or democratic. Com
munism had absolutely begun its devus-
tating course in this country,
Look at the riot in Cincinnati. 1t
might be said it sprung out of the at
tempt to administer justice in one individ-
ual case. Oh no., the mantle was too broad
for that. 1t was because the people of
the country were beginning to realize and
feel that no man by honest and legitimate
industry could earn twenty millions in one
year and deprive the people of the cur
rency which belonged to them in the ex-
ercise of their trade and business, that
was what the riot meant, and he advised
the gentleman who had control of the
house to see to it that the currency was not
diminished while thepcople We're increasing.
If they did the result would be not Il riot
in Cincinnati, but a riot in every great
city in the country, when millions worth
of property would be destroyed. He
criticised the democrats for cutting down
the appropriation to insufficient amounts
and inquired, "Are we for ever and ever
to hold the white house on account Of
your absolute silly blunders.'
Warner Ohio submitted an argument
in behalf of the free coinage of silver.
Hewitt New York; thought the house
should not sanction, by any act, the IN
crease in the coinage Of the standard silver