The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-01-14
THE DEMOCRATIC TEACHING
: Of JEFFERSON AND JACK
son HAS AN EXPONENT
IN THE L. :. SEN
ATE!!
SENATOR BECk'S GREA I
SPEECH IN THE SENATE.
Kentucky. the Geographical Center,
Heard from at Last-LaW-Brcak-
ing Officials Exposed-A Bomb
Shell iii the Ranks Of the enemy.
The Greatest Silver Greenback
Speech Ever Delivered in the
Senate the Lookup Contraction
Schemes Riddled.
SENATOR Eek.
continued from last weekly


CONGRESS Must NOT ROB THE DEBTOR.
What right has Congress to de-
prive the debtor Of that right by adj
ding more silver to the coin than he
agreed to pay, or BY stopping its
coinage 50 that he can not obtain It?
1t is as palable violation OF a con-
tract to increase the obligation Of
the debtor as it is to impair or re-
duce the standard value OF the coin
which the creditor stipulated in his
contract should be paid to him.
When Congress has once coined
money and regulated the value there
Of, and contracts are based upon II,
tile right to pay according tc its
terms cannot rishtfully or justly be
taken from the people. and Sena-
tors and Representatives who de-
p1iye them OF that right will have
unpleasant explanations TO make to
those men whose burdens arc in
creased by their vote.
CUNNING CANT OF THE GoLprTEs.
1t Ii simply All attempt to repeat
RI. i. ..isiatlon al 1867, and the same
nrst,nses ar. made now that We're
made then. Al hun-st dollar Tor ine
l;,burin- man Was then, rs now,neld
I'D as the patriotic object OF those
VINO repuuiatcd the greenback, us
Higher wages to labor is claimed TO
oe the prime object 81 all the pilil
cite combinations Of monopoiists
and machine owners. VINO Tax " al
46 per cent. under tie present pro-
taciive tariff ami yet hire the cheap
- pauper labor they can import. 1t
Is the wolf guarding the lannb, the
pider the fly, aud the hawk the
sparrow.
The last report from the Treasury
| Bureau OF Statistics, Relative to our
foreign commerce for the fiscal yeal
1885, proves that there i no such
condition either in our trade or eX
ports of metals. whether Us coin u
bullion, Us to render IL necessary to
strike down our silver coinage. II
shows page ID that our total exports
TOR 1885 were $72G,6s2.946, and fOI
1854, xI24 ,964 ,So2. while our total i'll.
ports for 1885 were s577, 527 ,329, and
for 1854 S667 .697 ,693.
1t will thus b. seen that while the
value OF our exports in 1885 exceed.
ed those of 1854. our imports We're
more than S9O,OUOO0O less. Tie same
report shows that for 1885 our eX
ports OF gold were Ss,477 ,S9l. and fol
1854. 81, OSl ,957, or over S32,OO0,COl
less for the last fiscal year than fol
the year before. Our exports O
silver for 1855 were $33, 75O.633, ant
for 1854, 6,O5l ,426, or nearly $4,000,
900 more last year than the year be
fore, while our imports Of gold las
year exceeded those Of the year be
fore nearly S4,OUO.O00. These facts
faisify the clan or that gold is fleeing
from our country. aud proves tina
all the (pretended) evils OF singh
deprecated silver standard ar
myths.
i Nor is ii true that our silver coli
has deprecated since July lS7O.whel
Tested by any other standard thai
the market value OF bullion 10 Lon
don.
| The report above referred to give
the New York or export price in eur
rency OF the commodities which con
stituted over 50 per cent. Of our ex
ports, nearly all agricultural pro
!. ducts in 1870 and 1855; from wiiicl
it will be seen that the silver dollar
which it has become fashionable I
malign aud denounce in aristocrati
circles, will now purchase from % t
80 pc: cent. more Of all that the toll
ing millions Of this country labor I
produce, and 81 all that men nee
money to obtain, than it would /
. July. 1870. To avoid all dispute q
to the facts / quote the language {
the report. rs follows:
The following table shows the ar
nnal average export piice il cul
| rency Of the articles OF domestic pre-
, duct named and for the yeal ind
T Gated: