The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-04

perity will dawn on every home" Was
not that your propheCyS And from the
day that the proclamation was issued down
to this time we know that the financial sic.
uation has been getting worse.
Who made the demand for this extra
session? Your boards Of trade, your stock
exchanges, your Wreckers upon the shores
Of commerce, your gamblers, your vampires
upon human industry. NobOdyof agricul-
turists in this nation asked for q special
session Of congress. No body Of laboring
men demanded that congress should as
semble. No, sir; the demand came not
from the producers Of a nations wealth,
but from the absorbers of nations wealth.
This demand came not from the 67,OOO,OO
of American citizens, but from the $4,000
who, through this financial villainy, have
taken one-half of your total wealth and
now want to gain as quickly as they can
the balance of it.
Mr.. Speaker, have heard much about
the evils of a high protective tariff. Ireal-
iZe the force of what is said In that direc-
tion. But where tariff Saul has slain his
thousands this financial David has slain
his tens Of thousands and mutilated,
MANNED and crippled his tens of millions.
Another reason for financial distrust and
doubt is the fear Of the people that the de.
signs Of those who have determined to de-
stroy one-half of the metallic base of COM
mercial transactions may prove successful.
Bankers want bonds. Why, my friends
here is a proposition which make to you
bankers in this house and the 24O lawyers
whoa are members Of this body. wish you
would get together and illustrate to us
how it is that bond which rests only on
the faith Of the government is good, is de-
sirable, is wanted, is howled for, is con-
spired for, and yet greenback, o treasury
note, which rests upon the same faith of
the people in this government, you de-
nounce as fiat money" want to under.
stand where and how you make your dis
tinction.
My friends, it has been amusing to sit in
this house and hear the diagnosis that the
different schools of physicians and empires
have given Of the malady Of the patient.
And they have got as many different NAL
aides as there are different schools Of doc
tors for their treatment. Here comes one
who says the patient is sick, and the trou-
BILE with him is that there is lack of con-
f1dence. All he needs is to have confidence,
and he will soon be we'll again. Why, up
in Pennsylvania the other day bank
closed its doors where had several thou
sands Of dollars on deposit.
Now, l have absolute confidence in the
president of that bank. The people of that
community have confidence in him, and he
has confidence in me, but neither Of us has
any money. That is what is the trouble.
want to tell any man who proposes to heal
this disease by administering dose of con-
fidence medicine that he has got to inject
that medicine into every patient at the
same time everywhere in the country, or 1t
will not work. You cannot give dose to
a man in this community and another to a
man in another community and hope that
your confidence medicine is going to cure.
But another says the difficulty arises from
overproduction- -overproduction Of wheat,
of wool, of oil, of coal, of corn, of cotton
and beef. 0Verproduction of cotton-Why,
] drove out through the slums of Chicago
four weeks ago and saw men, women and
children in tatters. Overproduction Of
wheat, and we read that in the west people
are starving for the very necessities of life.
Overproduction of fuel, and yet they froze
to death in Pennsylvania, the land of fuel,
last year. Overproduction of oil, and
million of our people roam in darkness this
night for want of it. No, sir, it is not be-
cause of overproduction. It is because Of
underconsumption, because Of the lack Of
the necessary money to purchase these alb
solute necessities Of human existence.
The Speakers Democracy.
But there are other classes Of doctors,
other schools, who tell us that we are get
ting down to "hardpan," that we have
been going through an era Of initiation, and