The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-10-28

| pNDnCan party, because tnat party
promises the silver men everything
that they want. They seem to want
the earth, and they are promised that
they shall have it.
Now, what could the government
sell this silver for to-day, that it has
been buying and been issuing paper
money for, made legal tender? What
could it be sold for to day, supposing
we were to throw our silver boards all
into the market2 Sixty-fve or seven
ty cents on the dollar that is prohab.
ly all, We have been buying silver at
Il fictitious price, at valuation beyond
the general market price in the mark
cts of the world because the silver
producers are the Republican senators
from these mining states. and stand
by one another. And yet, gentlemen,
while all this is now a fact and while
the people of the United States are
now being plundered in this shameful
manner by this silver legislation which
Harrison and his party have passed,
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been pressed and coerced into its lau-
datlon as a great measure for the
benefit of the laboringman. Was
there ever anything more absurd and
preposterous? We are to be told that
when you have enabled the silver men
to make monev by operation Of law,
the country will be better off, times
easier, the people more prosperous.
Can anything be more absurd than to
claim that the buying of silver in bull
lion, melting it and casting it INTO
coin, and boarding that coin in govern
ment storehouses, would prodnce those
results.
There has been check, however,
upon the demand of the silver men,
their demand being exactly what |
have described it. They wish to mine
their silver, take it to a government
assay Office or mint to be coined into
money or stored as bullion for the
treasury, and then get legal.
tender money for it-not for It's act
ual value, but for 4 fictitious
value, the government paying
hundred cents for what is worth sixty
five or seventy. Now, they demand that
Congress shall pass a law for taking the
whole silver product and all that can
be brought here from abroad without
limitation of amount; all that is offered
year by year. That is what Is called
unlimited Silver Coinage and that
measure was gravely proposed to Con
gress, and occupied the attention OF
both houses. remember well Nc
Kinley, the author of the present tar
ltt-law, coming across the chamber
and asking NE to say few words
against 1t, to assist in its postponement
or defeat. 1t was put off tor the time
by lean vote in the Republican house.
How will it be in the future At that
time came letter from Grover
Cleveland, that was read in
Congress and read all over the
country, in which he called halt. He
openly and roundy denounced I'M
limited silver coinage, ard opposed to
1t his whole influence reaching think.
ing men of all parties, and causing the
silver men to pause in their purpose :;
and nothing else under heaven but
that action Of Grover Cleveland could
have prevented the unlimited coinage
bill from passing the house, and the
silver men from gaining absolute con-
troll over the treasury of the United
States. This act of courage endeared
him still more to the hearts Of the
people.
BLAINE'S SPEECH AT OPHIR FARM.
Mr.. Blaine made a little speech the
other day, afte. strong solicitation, at
Ophir farm. That is a very good
name. Ophir is where King Solomon
got the gold for his great temple in
| Jerusalem, We do not know exactly
whether it was in Asia or in Africa, or
where it was; although writer of
modern fiction, H. Rider Haggard,
has located it somewhere in south At
rica, and has built up very interest
Ing story upon that assumption-that
somebody found King Solomon's mines
| down there.
At Ophir farm resides Whitelaw
Reid, the Republican candidate for
vice-president and Mr.. Blaine was
lnduced to go from Maine to Mr..
Reds farm to pass few days socially
there along with other persons of dis
tlnction ), and then it happened,
strangely enough, that a few farmers
came to visit Mr., Reid about the same
time; and the farmers naturally want.
ed to see Mr.. Blaine, and Blaine ap-
peared before them AMI by request
made some remarks only about eight
or ten minutes long within that limit
OF time, his speech was the best devel-
opment of Republican weakness in
this campaign that we have yet had
presented to us from any quarter.
Mr.. Blaine said: The country is
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