The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-28
rha House Chaplain Paralyzes
the Members.
..crrr gAR, OH GOD OF JACoB!7
h The Rich Men of this Country
nat Their Fortunes are Lent
BY Thee!"
HOUSE.

,r,-BISqTOE. MaTCn Ii'-Ane Nudp-
a.opening prayer this morning was
asiolOws;
give ear. o, God of Jacob! and
.r.teu us to see the danger which
,brssrens the civilized world-revolu-
ions more tremendous than any which
history tells, in, which scenes of the
,.ion OF terror may be enacted in every
,,Dltal of Europe and America. For
rong The few have mastered the many,
because they understood the open
socret-tools to them that can use them
Int now many have learned the secret
If organization. drill and dynamite.
Arouse the ri b of the world to under
stand that the time has come for the
grinding of selfish monopoly to cease;
that corporations may getsouls in them,
with Justice, honor conscience and
human kindness. Teach the rich men
Of this country that great fortunes are
lent them by Thee for other purposes
than to build and decorate palaces, to
found private collections of art,
to stock wine cellars, to keep rae
ing steeds and yachts, and find bet
ter company than hostlers, grooms and
Jockeys, pool sellers, and book-makers.
Teach them, Oh God, that it is Thee
who has given them power to get these
fortunes, that it is to prove them to
know what is in their hearts, whether
they will keep Thy commandments or
no. and that those commandments are:
Thou shalt love the Lord, Thy God.
with all thy heart and thy neighbor as
thyself That if the rich men of our
land keep these commandments, the
poor will follow the example, and we,
at least. will be saved from the days of
tribulation that are fast coming on all
the world, help us o God, and save u.s."
Mr.. Grosvenor. of Ohio, asked unani-
nous consent that the prayer be printed
in the Record
Mr.. James, OF New York, objected,
remarking, soto voce, TO a gentleman
who asked him to withdraw his obJec-
ton, that it was made because The
prayer was an incendiary speech.
WASHINGTON, March 2T.-The debate
on the silver question was opened by
Nr. CUlberson of Texas. He Voc
friend of silver and in favor OF placing
it on the same plane with gold. 1t was
necessary to provide some further legls-
lation in order to break up the practice
in the Treasury Department OF repudl-
ating the silver dollars and to cause
their applicationto the payment OF the
public debt, principal and interest.
When the people declared that the
financial policy of the Republican party
should be enforced, their mandate was
respected and obeyed, but when the
people revolted against the oppres-
sive exactiOns and extortions of
that financial policy and declared that
the financial policy of the Democratic
larty should be enforced, it seemed that
heir mandate fell still-born and they
we're deprived of the fruits of their
great victory by the exercise of official
discretion and the interests of all people
were sacrificed on the altar of gold.
UnfOrtuns tely for the people, there was
law that required the Secretary of
the Treasury to pay the surplus money
on the public debt, but it left a discre ion
airy power in this regard with that
officer, and since experience had shown
that that discretion had been exercised
to defeat the will of the people, it should
be withdrawn at once. He would make
the coinage of silver free and he would
pass law compelling the Treasury De
partment to pay the surplus on the
public debt.
Mr.. Long, OF Massachusetts, said the
simple. common sense thing to do was
to call halt. We had an abundance
of silYer-more than the efforts of the
administration could force into circula-
ton. Give silver coinage, present or
prospective, a rest. In the interest OF
bi-metaliism, in the interest of silver
itself. IL was time to cast an anchor and
take bearings to suspend, or at least fix,
the time for the suspension of silver
coinage, and then to see if some inter
national arrangement with our general
commercial nations could not be made.
In conclusion, he said: 81 appeal to the
victorious majority of this House, flushed
with success and now entering on thefull
administration of the govern
nent. Is the Democratic standard,
this first act of Democracy, now
regaining The full national control that
it strikes its first blow at public ard
private credit; that it refuses to sustain |
its own executive in keeping the |
financial flag at the mast head, and |
that it announces to the world |
that Democratic supremacy and |
leadership are only another name for |
impaired credit, for half-mast financial |
standards and for transferring the re- !
public from its financial rank among
The foremost nations or the earth to /
hat of India and heather ChInee."
Mr.. Dorgan, of South Carolina, made |
strong plea for the establishment of |
SNgle gold standard and advocated the
Sspension of coinage under the Bland |
at, declaring that the so-called debt |
paYing dollar was in reality debt |
selling dollar. Nothing bat so cents
Wo'th of bullion with falsehood stamped |
UPON it. l repudiate, said Mr.. Dorgan,
HeNggestion that tits for the interest !
VI t9e south to unite with The west |
against the east and north in enacting |
Suta laws as will enable US to pay the !
Ihauonal debt in deprecated silver dol
y. II, Taylor. of Tennessee, briefly |
adjourned.