The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-05-06
speech % Hon. wiliiam II. Hatch. Of
Missouri. In the House OF Rspresen-
tMtives, March 81. 1899.

speech 81 Hon. william n. Hatch. of
Missouri. In the House OF Rspresen-
tatives, March -, 1899.
The House having under confederation the
Dill ~, n 49, for the FREQ coinage of gold and
silver for the Issue of coin notes, and TOR other
purposes
lators heed tho warnines would 70 God they
.onla riss g nc present emergency and deliver
Just, unfair and brushing burdens, the cheap
silver bullion. which enables ENGLAND 10 build
w s1 sns g,ospe,iy mon &c ruins q Ameri.
with the free and unlimited coinage. the
pEice q silver VIII BE staple again. and England
have Tor ~ ounce ne ns s sse mS.
on India win advance her council bills 20
snilllnes from she present rats. o. 4 "a. .per
down In Great Britain for less than oi.ao per
nnshcl, and q Indian wheat q inferiprin quail
ssd A n srn yesss yopld again ell n Eng
farmers win receive just 81 per cent more Tor
all the wheat they could raise.
And the gentleman from New York
IMr. Cockranl in his speech to-day is
merely begging the question. is beg
|ging quarter when he says, .sLet US
have no classlegislation. = My friends
il was class legislation Of the worst
type when it was demonitized in 1873,
and the interested representatives Of
the same class are around here in these
galleries now, providing upon the
representatives of the people TO con-
tinue that class in power and dethrone
the Sovereign Of the United States
its people"
am not alarmed by the declaration
that this bill is class legislation. am
not alarmed by the declaration that
any particular interest is to be injured
| by this bill, because ! dc not believe
word Of it. The gentleman from New
York has the most magnifcent memory
ever heard Of in my life. He can
recall all the traditions Of the writers
on monetary questions for two thous-
and years back, down to 1902, but ne
4 does not recollect word, an event or
| q tradition that occurred between 1902
and 1873. That il d blank to all these
gentlemen. He talks about the pro-
,lphesy Of my colleague mr.. Blandl not
being fulfilled.
Why does he not take the evidence
Of eighty-two years Of prosperity here
in this country, in the history or our
own people, emerging as they were
from the war against the greatest.
power that existed on earth, establish.
ling their independence upon bimetaii-
ism, with silver and gold upon per-
feet parity and equality, which they
held from that hour to 1873, challeng-
ing the admiration Of the world I Not
one single break in it, and the Demo-
cratic party from jefferson and Madi-
son.never produced a statesman down
to 1873 nor q public man that ever for
one moment contemplated the demone-
tization Of silver Or offered bill in
either branch Of Congress for its de-
monetization, not one.
y Mr.. Stout. Silver was demonetized
1 in 1853 and the legal tender limit was
| fixed at IS.
i Mr.. Hatch. can not yield to the
gentleman. But they say this fraud
because it isonly a ..70-centn dollar.
Gentlemen say that, and they have
rnng the changes on this ssdishonest
dollar;n that is worth only 20 cents
Now, sir, the only word in the old
Anglo-Saxon language that can pro-
perly express my reply to that PROPOSE
ton is "demonetizedv by the rules Of
| the house, and ! am not permitted to
utterlit here. [Laughter.l But the
statement is not true There Is not 4
word Of truth in it; there is not citi-
zen Of the United States to-day, three
degrees removed from an imbecile, who
does not know that it is not true. 1t
is demonstrated every hour in the day,
and in every town and hamlet in the
United States that it Is equal to any
other dollar in circulation in this coun-
try. If love debt Of 500 to-day /
can pay il with one hundred silver dol
lars. II ! owe thousand dollars I
can pay it with one Thousand silver
dollars.
II want to buy anything in the
United States to-day that is offered for
sale and has its price fixed, ! can buy
il and pay for it in silver dollars with
out murmur, and defy any one Of
these gentlemen at any time during
this discussion or after it, to name any
place in this land where a silver dollar
viii not purchase as much as gold