Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-24
BLAND CALLS TIME.
He viii Throttle the Silvery e.
oquence Today.
AN OFFER TO EXTEND THE DEBATE,

Which an Alliance Man Objects to, and
Precipitates Shut-off-The Subject IL
Illuminated by Number of Speakers
Salient Points of the Discussion-A
Colloquy Between Livingstone and Har-
ter-Geo. o. Jones Price Chart-Plead-
Against Sunday Fair.
WASHINGTON, March 24-The galleries
were crowded when the speaker raped the
mouse to order at noon yesterday, and thero
was no abatement from the great interest
manifested at the opening hours of the de-
bate Tuesday. The floor and lobbies of the
house, too, were well crowded with ex-
members and senators, attracted bv the
great interest of the occasion, and on sofa
IN the rear of the hall was seated Hon. 4
j. Warner we'll known as one of the faith
Frs of the free coinage movement, and dur
ing the day lie hcr"ulcan ex-member held
frequent consultations with Representa-
tives Bland and Pierce and other active
leaders in the cause of free silver.
Bankers Watch the Debate.
In the galleries were seated many bank
ers and financial experts from all over the
NS'hiNAS tNlA'i Vic W cSleTH L mon wires on
the outside were busy bearing the hasty
messages that flashed to the country the
progress of the discussion and conveyed to
the great financial centers every indication
that appeared in the political atmosphere.
The speeches We're all of strongly posi-
tive character. They were the arguments
of men who have stern convictions upon
the sides which they respectively represent
and who are uncompromising in their dec
laratlons of the policy which should be
pursued.
Pierce Sets the Talk a-Going.
The first speaker of the day was Represen-
tative Pierce, of Tennessee, the able young
lieutenant of Chairman Bland, of the coin
age committee. Pierce said the hour was
now at hand when the people would ask
from congress that the wrong done in 1873
be undone, and that justice be done them.
viii the representatives of the American
people deny this to the laboring classes Of
American There were two roads-one lead
ing to homer, principle and right, the
other to dishonor and destruction. and the
former was the pathway which should be
followed by the free coinage men. There
was no reason for the demonstration of
silver in 1873 From 1884 to 1873 the silver
Why demonetize it?
The Murder" of silver.
BY the act of 1873 silver was murdered in
the interests of the great banking and
financial interests of the world, and agri-
culture and labor have paid the forfeit by
their sweat and toll. Should this thing go
on? Have the laboring men no right to be
respected by capital2 Upon the side of the
people the Democratic party had ever been
planted. They would advocate honest
money, an honest dollar, and nothing less
1t was by act of law that the dollar was
made dishonest, and it is by such operation
that ii now should be made honest
Says Gold has Gone Up in Value.
Political economists on both sides admit
that gold has appreciated and not that
silver has deprecated. Silver has ever
been the money of the common people
measured in the price of commodities. 1t
has never fallen, but has kept apace with
the products of nature from the time the
morning stars sang together until now
Why should we go back2 We should
rehabilitate it under the law as under the
law it had suffered We demand that this
house give to the people of the United
State full measure of redress for the wrong
done in 1873 by the demonetizat of silver.
Loud applause.l