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will feel, as they certainly should feel, that
whatever they may think of what is
arEn IN THE ROND

of the debt, and whether they might favor
this or that easy solution, that the great body
of the people are determined that the debt is
to be paid on the honor of the United States
in the sense that the creditor is
entitled to feel that he should be paid
If that was the spirit of the people when the
debt was twofold and the interest was four
fold now when we have reduced it within
the narrow limits of debt and interest. this
nation is not going to lower its head to any
criticisms of the way IN which it is to pay its
debts. No more responsible question
to be brought to the nations
of Europe and this, our own, than
that one, whether, when heretofore two met
tails havessupported commerce and the credit
of the world, one of these could be struck
down, and what would happen if it should be
done. But if it be true that we are to discard
vituperation and exaggeration, then we shall
know how to deal in the counsels of this ma
ton with this present and practical ques-
ton, concerning the coinage of sill
yer in way that shall bring
us out, not in rage, but in
that consistent and deliberate determination
that when coming from the common coun-
ellis of the country shall be accepted until
there shall be developed some necessity for
further action.
Collector Saltenstall followed Mr.. Evarts.
He eulogized the
HONESTY OF PURPOSE
of President Cleveland, strongly deprecated
the continued coinage of silver and advo-
Gated plain, simple tariff law to. raise
enough revenue to meet government needs.
The next speaker was Senator Allison of
Iowa. He favored national bankrupt
bill and might say he was one of the few
senators who had believed that the law
should be amended and not repealed, that
there will he no difficulty on that question.
The tariff is a larger question, and coming
from an agricultural state it might be
suspected that there was a shadow
of difference of opinion there
and in Massachusetts,. l think / can
say to you that I believe the
prevailing opinion in my state is in favor
of encouraging the manufacturers OF our
own country and that so far as legislation
can properly accomplish it, it is our duty to
take care of the American laborer more
than the labor of our other countries. Mr..
Allison pronounced himself as decidedly
IN FAVOR OF THE BIAIETALIsM
and argued at length in support of
his proposition. Senator Frye of
Maine was next, and delivered
long and vigorous speech, in which he de-
nounced the silver dollar as ''coined lie"
urged the beneficence of protective tariff
and earnestly advocated the fostering of the
carrying trade, with subsidies if necessary,
and the application of 1.-THE surplus to the
purpose. Hon. J. Randolph Tucker of
Virginia was the next speaker. He de-
clared that the only power the federal
government had to tax was to raise revenue
for the support of the government.
We have free trade between the
states. If this has been a blessing
here, why should it not be blessing when
between all the countries of the world? On
the silver question he said, whether the
government can make so cents equal to 81
is question in arithmetic. He thought
we should wait until the nations of the
world had settled what to do
on the subject, when it would be time for
America to settle the question for itself.