Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-17

BETTE Mr.. Bayard speaks to-day in
words of admonition and warning to |
the American people on the dangers |
now menacing the country through the |
medium OF free and unlimited coinage |
NIX OF silver; speaks with a right and an |
authority which no statesman this land |
has produced can challenge; speaks |
with an earncstness of patriotism and
an impersonal sincerity of purpose
which no man living will venture to i'm
A peach; speaks as he spoke fourteen
years ago, ut the Newport Harvest
50 Home, when the party and the nation
stood trembling over the abyss of green
back imitation, and when, conspicu-
Gus among American statesman
he stood up the acknowledged
champion OF honest money and the
sacredness of obligations, the leader
vi who knew no compromise with prin-
ciple, who had the strength of his CON
victions and would stand by them no
matter who, like his old friend Senator
Thurman, and others, might waver and
step aside, and, planting himself firm
and immovable on the ock-bound foun.
dation OF honesty in politics, brought
! his party back from the brink of disin-
4 tegration and destruction and held it
there till the voice of the people culmi-
his mated In the election of Democratic
'een administration sound on the imperish-
,,uole able platform of tariff reform, sound
RE money and civil service publication.
oucheo When Mr.. Bayard spoke then, on
receives August goth, 1873, the country was still
oers, and asuffering from the disastrous conse-
.wys eur quences of the dreful, far reaching and
,e discns, long drawn out panic inaugurated-
This under, be 1t remembered, the same high
md d. protective system with which we are
b pc still burdened-in 1873. Republican
aWa tariffs and mismanagement had so op-
rasnls pressed and demorazed large masses of
are greater American people that they were
the soce' ready TO fly to any panacea that prom
they h' Used even temporary relief. Employ
and ment was scarce; the panic had turned
hsst.Sr put thousands of skilled and steady
int workmen to starve q; beg; it had
spe ,given the word "tramp" to the
cho American lexicon; industry was
out PROSTATE There CAME out of this
The c. 49,. 80. ~. iiioi' niohey anu ior
ventia sheapei inoney-tne same ignls fatuus
Cha that is now again threatening to lead SO
Josi many astray. At this juncture, when as
N; we have already stated, the party and
s,ar the nation stood on the brink of a
Hea virtual financial pandemonium, Mr.
II Bayard stood up at Newport and said to
men his fellow countrymen: "Coin has a
Wins legal value and market value, and no
iaha ~ government on earth can establish a
Era ncs r iarket value. y Print or coin all
United Society oney you please; ordan what rate
was stafious coverest you will; how is man to
Ind repea had 6toney unless he has something to
fignt, NJ 100 in exchange for it, or unless he
q time for it or gives security for its re-
-ound, andlillstcg Some persons seem actually to
heir cornenn Enc that we can make every poor man
a Round sentialfJ setting presses in motion or
'sft ando4'r t 5ing base money" Clothe
4 nHs i1r GlarIress with the authority to tamper
peats. was simpl standards of value and "every
lahcd young pe contracts, every mans bargains,
fbhin point uB mans sales, would be subject to
mpsis,s Is ln'will of the majority of Congress ?"
-, aif -, ot,e told his hearers then that we must
!, Ali tine set the tide of labor flowing
Church and employment must be found
delight Jar it. What will do that? That is
prayer mectlnglestion which you have asked me to
the n To~orsder to-day believe that iu-
pneugust. 1851 reduction Of tariff duties on all
Hon1rch Cares forsrials needed by our manufac-
Reacted general aid which would enable them to
flIzsims were recertr goods in foreign markets at
sarr;s,a, nbnn, 10 ties, would bring immediate
Roupresults were There Mr.. Bayard stood on the
mouth ers adopted rteen years ago there he stands
he lanccond societSut, he added there is another
evolue1 " -N1wou' consider more important than
i,atSl,o 60. rai which, more than any other
mons laies was w. Use, creates and continues the
the moa, VT. Amcstagnatlon and depression in
eight of early hisse, in the employment Of labor,
was all he KEY; employment Of capital-T ,aea,,
I yvscertain and diso7dcrcd conditoa d
,noms Eij Maaoney. The money of country
10 him. Mr.. Calhoun once said and was
PNhere are ted approvingly by Mr. Webster, lis
gan hese CHRIS life-blood Of the political body.'n
~ should quote fully from this
fra,,3se vonnp n call Of fourteen years ago, but
ally,lves' to be Mr.. Bayard utters to-day through
hue,rely desire GAzETTE's columns in language
Fit1ecihed in tly forcible and-since truth is
gerssocffa.s angeable-equally suited to the
tah,ri,irg to he ton of the American body polite
fimnns. Affiliame admontion to his fellow coun-
left those wlp. And now as on August Both
Honeing, are five send forth his message To
haS orga ala, (GAzErTE's readers, saying, a:
SenvS d' II iii ny EVENING said then:
On Inc platform apply tho potentiniuence ofsound
lighoint '"rhe ton isin this state on the side 81
sim cetes is e1Aest constitutional currency Of coin
hinnrist' CONN there is less reed than in mos
men,. Az than for arguments to convince men
bosi basis. me truth; butthsre is even hero great
meiil Christiafor such plain utterances, compre.
andudiating esible by every one, as those in Mr.
roi,,illnasiohard' speech. They forfy men for
.siio,ies of z, maintenance Of their views when
,mnNa. The rare assailed by the delusive sophis.
enofancls f. " which infiaHion Is sought to b
Fitohn Willlamended to the, people. The speech
lntenaw. .,ewise helps meii to keep hold Of The
kns at.da id fact that there is but one real
,,nworld IN tlncy and that is the money Of in
ton, His isic value; but one honest money
.Ar,ak A.