The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-26

since L became your representative, M
Judgment has been that the currency
should be more largely increased than ha:
been proposed even; and / have stood in
season and out OF season in my place il
the senate to accomplish that result
lApplausel.
Iknow the feeling that has been against
it. | know full well the wicked feeling
that was raised against it and how hard il
has been to reach the feeling Of those who
were so prejudiced against what they
called innovations in finance" Sc
But as it is the first step that
costs. so this great step which has
been taken will soon be followed by
other steps; and remember, too, that the
great gain in this is that now all the
money which bears the stamp of the gov
ernment is legal tender. That is some
thing, fellow citizens, which haven't any
doubt about. After the adoption of my
first amendment, providing for free coin
age of silver, determined to offer another
amendment providing for the issue OF
notes in payment for silver so that there
would be no delay | moved to add the
provision that these notes should be legal
tender, because | knew that many of those
who were willing to vote for free coinage
doubted the constitutional power and
doubted the wisdom also. of what they
called so radical provision. But offered
it, it was adopted, and while the house
did not agree TO what we sent them, con-
ference resulted which gave the bill have
spoken Of That provision which | had
Incorporated in regard to the character of
the money to be issued in payment Of the
silver became not only part of the law,
but, in my judgment, the chief part OF It,.
And now, as "A greater gain SUIll, that
eastern public which has fought against
legal tender money and which thought
we must have certificates merely. lacking
the function of debt-paying, some
thing which might not circulate IN
an emergency and would never I'LL the
place Of money, has accepted these legal
tender notes and they now go as noise
lessly into circulation, and are as freely re
ceived there as the old, original green back;
and thus the great obstacle has been re
moved, and eastern sentiment Is now will
ing TO admit that they whom last year
they designated as Western Cranks,
knew something about this business after
all This bill has been subjected to much
criticism. ] used To think when a young
man, Just coming on the stage OF man
hood, that | should live TO see the millen-
ium. / have given that up. Laughter.
will never live to see it; and none OF my
children will, either. [ am not sure |
want to see it. am not sure that | would
be fit for the millennium myself. Some
men have said to me "Why don't you do
this or that?' Well [ answered, Il
would Just as leave shave something left to
do, because don't want to be left half OF
NV time with nothing to be done"
But criticism is made because the coin
age of silver dollars is to stop on the first
day of next July That is right. do not
care whether there is another dollar coined
after that time: but, mind you, while the
coinage of the silver dollar itself stops on
the first day oi July, the issue of these new
greenback notes does not stop with the
first day of next July or any other first day
of July. Applause. Why should they
pile up silver dollars in the treasury and
nobody wants them9 Three hundred and
fifty million dollars are now outstanding.
Enough to redeem all the notes ever pre-
sented This law SAYS if there is needed
any more silver dollars then the secretary
can coin more All that criticism is merely
sticking in the bark" 1t is merely the
wall of men who want to complain. Ii
they cannot find worse joint than that
in the harness of legislation, then we have
no reason to complain.
Fellow citizens, | say to you, as | said
before, not in spirit of prophecy, but as
one may speak of the coming of tomorrow
which he knows will come, free coinage
and further additions to the volume of the
currency as from time to time, congress,
i'm its wisdom shall deem it necessary, will
come and will come speedily. ln other
words, the United States is now fully
through its own direct agencies of banks,
be they state or national, that the people
Of the United States are to be supplied
with money: money which is as good in
Maine as it is in Louisiana, and so good
that no mutter how great the emergency,
every American citizen will count himself
safe by reason of all he has got in his
pocket. That is not Democratic money.
tell you, by any means. prolonged APP
plause
There is nothing i'm that that will remind
you of the red dog and the wild cat
currency which the Republican party had
rs legacy when it got control OF the
by the election of Abraham Lin
coin 10 the presidency in 1860. Not money
hat was good in Illinois and good for
nothing in Indiana Not money that
in value as you crossed from one
state line to another Not merely the
,imilitude of money which was liable at
any time to shrivel in your pocket Not
money that man was anxious to get rid
Of, hunting his neighbor TO give it to HIM
FOR fear it would perish before he got
there. But money that is sheet anchor
Of every desire. Republicans money, be-
cause it is good. Applause.
Now, fellow citizens, | will briefly allude
TO one other thing. / shall not recount the
in which the soldiers of the repub-
lie were treated by the Democratic admin
strotion. will not recall the fact. except
briefly. that the bill which pass
I'd congress giving to every
Union soldier a pension according
to the degree of d disability. without re
1uiriug him to prove that the disability
was incurred in the line of duty, was
vetoed by a Democratic president in the
same breath and at the same time that he
signed the bill giving pension TO the sur
vivors of the Mexican war who nearly all
lived south of Mason * DiXou's line. |
wish TO call your attention TO this fact
that a Republican congress has passed and
a Republican president has signed bill
which not only gives TO every Union sol
der pension according to the degree of
his disability, without requiring him to
prove that his disability was incurred in
the line of duty. but it gives 10 every
widow of the Union soldier a pension
without requiring her to prove that her
husband died on account OF disability in
Cured in the line of duty. Which gives
more liberal pensions To dependent parents
han was ever before given and has also in
creased the pensions of more than sixty
thousand men now borne on the rolls; and
by one stroke, by one act of legislation. at
tested by the signature of the president.
gives $6J, 900, 600 year to the survivors of
he war for the Union. Applause.
As / said about the silver bill, this pen
sion legislation is most comprehensive and
far reaching. Far more so than any that
was ever enacted by any government in
he world. But it does not 20 far enough.
There is still something TO be done at the
next session and at the succeeding sessions
IF congress; but you are in the hands of
your friends. They viii give you every
hing that the enlightened public opinion
IF this country will warrant them IN do
ng, and every man whom you elect TO
congress as a Republican viii obey sol
smnly and faithfully the instructions
which you give him upon that point. Re
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