The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-05-07

majority q ne Dsmocr.tic party
speseh of Hsn- wiIiiam II. Hatch. 81
Missouri. ~ the House Of Repressn-
t.tives. March -. 1893.
ne House having under consideration che
bin a. r. go lor the free coinage d sold and
silver for The Issue Of coin notes. and ior other
much as their declaration that the
dollar to-day is only worth 20 cents.
Their assumption is delusion and
their prophesy without foundation.
The gentleman says, what about
New York !" happen to have in my
papers, and I want to read it for the
instruction and edifcation Of some Of
the gentlemen upon the other side who
are not Democrats, but Republicans, q
declaration made in the St. Louis con-
yention in 1889, by the Hon. Edwards
Pierrepont, one Of the great lights IN
the Republican party in New York,
and an ADLER man than they have sent
to represent many Of the districts Of
that state since that time. Laughter. ]
No greater wrong was ever attempted upon
generous people than the bill Of 1873. 1t was a
crime. Gold and silver ought to be treated
csrs rule u.s. Edwsrds fsrrspont 4f Iapplaase
Now, my friends, | want to read you
a short extract from speech delivered
on the floor of this House by one of
the ablest and most eloquent Demo
Gratis that ever stood upon this floor.
/ wish / had time to read the whole
speech. 1t was the most earnest and
brilliant ever heard that gentleman
make. / have an interest in it.. be-
cause took great pleasure in yielding
to him part Of the time in which he
made it. Standing in this very aisle
and with an impressiveness of manner
that have never seen him surpass, he
uttered, in the close Of magnificent
plea for free and unlimited coinage Of
silver, these words.
Bur the CRIME IndL Is now sought To De pefDe-
trated on more than fifty millions Of people
comes neither from the camp Of eonQueror,
the hand Of foreigner, nor the altar of an idola
tor. But IT comes from those in whose veins
runs the blood of a common ancestry, who were
born under the same skies, speak the same lam
,guage, reared in the same institutions and nur-
tuts II tine principles q the Same rslg9n
BILE heart of avarice-avafice that seeks to i'm
pale the whole land on q bed Of torture to
crafty the lust for gold !applausel -ayarice
command, and rich enough to satisfy every
want save that which refuses to be satisfied
the labor in the land. With forehead that re-
fuses to be ashamed, it demands Of Congress an
act that will paralyze all the forces Of produc-
crease eaa the burden Of debts and taxation. and
send desolation and suffering into all the homes
of the poor. In this hour, fraught with peril to
e 1ne
this bold and insolent demand like men. Let us
stand in the breach and call the battle on, and
never leave the field until the peoples money
shall be restored to the mints On equal terms
with gold as It was years ago. prolonged APP
plause.]
That speech was delivered by the
Hon. Roger @. Mills, Of Texas, on the
3rd Of February, 1886. [Applause.l
l stand where he stood then. Call on
the battle. / am ready for the fray.
/ have been enlisted for twelve years
in this Struggle in the interest of the
people, and wherever the fight is hot
test, wherever the silver battalions
need the strongest support, my feeble
efforts shall be with them. ] am for
the people, and / have never. been
afraid to trust them, nor have / ever
uttered word upon this floor against
their interests.
Mr.. Speaker, | learned lesson in
the month Of January last in my own
Western home. On clear, cold morn
ing, when the earth was covered with
frost, just as the sun was peeping over
the hills Of the Mississippi River, and
bathing the sky with his golden rays
until they reached the very zenith, the
moon, just full by twenty-four hours,
setting in the Western sky, was cast
ing its silver rays to the zenith and
mingling with those Of the morning
sun, where the morning stars, dimmed
by the lights Of these two great lumin-
aries, were fast fading from the
heavens, but still singing their song to
the Great Creator.
I said to myself that the same Crea-
tor who made the sun and the moon
and placed them in their respective
spheres in the heayens placed the gold
and the silver in the bowels Of the
earth; and as long back as we have a
history they have been the harbingers
Of His civilization; and / want to see
the day when the rays of the gold and
the rays of the silver in perfect parity
and under equal governmental recog-