Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-23
SPEECH is SILVER
And Silence Has Nothing to Do
with the Case.
FREE COINAGE TALK IN THE HOUSE.

The Great Three Days War of Words
Opens and Bland Fires the First Broad
side-Williams and Harter Train Their
Artillery on the Champion of Dads
Dollar. and Taylor and Hopkins Get
Into Action - Post Closes the Days
Bombardment with IA Round for Free
Silver.
WASHINGTON, March 23-The leaders in
the great silver battle put on their war
paint yesterday and made ready for the
fray. Bland brushed the hayseed out of
his whiskers, Harter, who parts his hair
with towel, gave his head an extra brush;
Taylor of Illinois, who is the most vigor-
Gus anti-silver man on the Republican
side, supplied himself with an unusually
striking boutonniere; Bartine of Nebraska,
who leads the fight for free silver on the
Republican side, got an extra polish on
his shoes, and Tracey of New York, who
led the fight against the committees re-
port, came in smiling, even neater than
usual in his personal appearance.
A Good Audience for the Orators.
The speakers had nothing to complain Of
rs to the audience. The floor was filled with
members, few being absent. while the gal
leries for the public were thronged with in
terested listeners. There was q brief delay
at first, Watson, Peoples party man,
wanting to know, You know, how much
time his friends and himself were going to
have. Bland said that all would be given
fair hearing, and Watson accepted that
assurance and subsidized. Bland opened
niGrnSSinn hot ha
the country back 100 years, and returned
to the policy of the fathers The bill pro-
vided that gold and silver should be equal
at the mints. Loud applause.
More Money the Great Need.
He said that the system of credits that
had grown up enconomiZed to certain eX-
tent the use of money, but it was not
money. The fight was one between the
capitalist and the people-or interest VS..
money. He quoted Cernuschi as saying
that France made n great mistake when
she limited the coinage of silver or took
any notice of its decentralization by Ger
many. The opponents OF this bin We're
counting that very danger. The eXigencies
have resulted in our demanding the repeal
of the law of July, 1890 The governments
Of all the world know that the wealth
and power of this country are deter
N,SLli
we were driving them to it.
Two Pairs of Twins Noted.
Lombard street and Wall street were
twin brothers. The restoration of silver
here meant the restoration of it every
where. When We demouetiZed silver the
world over gold itself was gone If that
day should come when silver was demon
etized he did not care how soon gold went
with 1t. The money OF the world would
then be olsen bodied, and metallic money
would then be thing Of the past. Gold
and silver had been twin brothers since
the days of civilization. When we severed
the ligature between them they were dead
The benefit TO be derived from this bill
was that it restored the old power of the
two metals, and it preserved to this coun-
try the standard of money based upon both
metals. If our gold went abroad and our
silver remained here, we still would have
the same volume of money, although a
different metal. Loud and continued ap-
plausel