The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-06-04
IT'S ON THE 0CALA LINE.
sARksoALEs BIG SPEECH DELIVER
Ed AT kOsCIuskO.
CONTRACTION AND TARIFF ROBBERS
Both should he Eliminated Replies 60
senator Georges Constitutional and
Other Objcctions-whatt the People Need
and Intend 60 Have.

KoscIUsKo, May 23.-The discussion
between Barksdale and George just
closed. BY arrangement Maj. Barksdale
spoke first, occupying IL hours. George
followed in a speech of one hour and
forty-fve minutes. Barksdale rejoined in
one-half hour, and George closed in fif-
teen minutes.
His arraignment of Georges record
was unanswerable and his vindication
of the Ocala platform, includingth Sub
Treasury, was complete. He said he
was fighting the battle of the masses
against the classes inside the Demo-
ocratic party. Much of Georges time
was taken up in explaining his record.
Barksdale captured the crowd, at least
two-thirds of whom We're with him.
Maj Barksdale spoke as follows;
Honored by the Chairman of your
Democratic County Executive Commit
Zee with an invitation to discuss before
YOU the national questions, have ac-
cepted it with determination to per-
form the task impartially and with a
fixed purpose to deal with the situation
as it is, nothing extenuating, nor setting
down aught in malice.
Two robbers are depredating upon the
industries of the country and accumu-
lating wealth for the privileged few at
the expense of the toiling many-the
tariff robber and the contraction robber.
To borrow a figure of speech employed
bv a great statesman, they are like the
heartless barons of the feudal ages in
their rocky Businesses,
LAYING TRIBUTE
upon the wayfarers of business, and duty,
and pleasure. They ply their nefarious
occupations independently Of each other,
and it is mistake to suppose that the
overthrow of one will rid the country of
the other Their destruction must be
accomplished; by different methods.
Happily there is no difference of Opin-
ion among Democrats as to the suppress
sion of the tariff iniquity.
A few deny that the currency has been
UNDULY CONTRACTED
and that the lack of sufficient circulat-
ing medium is destroying values and
robbing industry of its just rewards, but
wide differences of opinion exist as to
the manner of removing the
ACCUMULATED HORRORS
it has produced. As for myself, | am
for striking the monster, which like the
pestilence that walketh at noon-day and
the destruction that wasteth in dark
ness, squarely and directly, without cir
cumlocution or evasion, full on its
hideous front.
1t is needless to explain the causes of
the money famine which is in the land,
except the charmed circles where wealth
has been concentrated by uni ust legis-
lation. 1t has been well said that in
the catalogue of crimes against human
society, not one can be found so awful
in its consequences, as a government
commits when it deliberately destroys
the money of its own citizens.
have said that except the architects
of the mischief, who have protted by
the shrinkage in the volume of money
in circulation all admit that it is the
chief cause of the prevailing distress
and impoverishment, and that its in
crease would afford the quickest and
surest remedy. l regret that Senator
George
is THE EXCEPTION.
He AYERS that the lack of money is not
the prime cause of the impOverishment
which he depicts in frightful colors, and
undertakes to show that there is now
$24 per capita in actual circulation; and
that in 1860, when the country was
prosperous, there was only $14 per capita
in circulation. Ergo, the money now in
circulation is sufficient for the trans
action of the business of the country.
i have not at hand the statistics to
verify his sta ement as to the circulation
in 1850; nor is it necessary to expose the
fallacy of his reasoning.
In 1850, every dollar of the money In
the country was in actual circulation
performing its part in the business Of
the people. Gold and silver coinage
was free and unlimited. Independent
treasury notes were doing their part in
"hcnm airy system. Business was
on long credits. There were
fires. No combines and trusts
the markets, and put up and
prices ON speculation. Nc
.,rvoirs into which the money
yernment was poured. Sena
!, of Alabama, is my authority
lg, that at this time there are
nan $50 in the money centres tC
he agricultural and real wealth
districts. Senator George
IGNORES TEssE FACTS
lqting the anfe III
.sculation in the two