The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-08-18
BLAND ON SILVER.
he Missouri CouEressman Speaks In Fs-
vor of Free Coinage.

IAs Missouri CouKressmap Speaks In F..
vor of Free Coinage.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-In the house
yesterday after Mr.. Raynor, of Mary =
land, had spoken in favor Of the uncon-
ditional repeal of the Sherman law aid
against free coinage, he.was replied to
by Mr.. Bland (Mo) substantially as .
follows: =,
Mr.. Bland, rising to open for tho
free coinage side of the question, eS-
pressed his regret that a number of
gentlemen, of whom the speaker who
had just sat down was one of the most .
capable. had seen fit to change their
q large portion of the voters who had
aided in giving. them the seats they
occupied to turn their faces to the
east and backs to the west. As
to the declarations in the democratic
platform, it was the. understands
Ing that the free coinage silver neces-
sarily meant the repeal of the Sher. :
man law, the two being SO antagon-
istic that they could not exist at tho
same time but" he went on, 1--WE arc !,
met now with the suggestion that wS !.
legislate by piecemeal-repeal the Shers .
man law and take our chances of secur~
ing anything in its place, which shall =
meet the pledge of the platform to coin
both silver and gold-and this is. .bp. ,
cause 4 panic is upon u.s. The voting
masses of the country. may beconle
panic stricken on election day; and II.
they do, I'm afraid that those, like the
gentleman from Indiana, will feel the
force of that panic"
Mr.. Bland eketched briefly the his
tory of financial legislation in. recent
years and asserted that the same cry OF
''Going to silver basis" had been
raised against the bill of 1878, with
which his name had been cOnnected.'
Upon the question Of ratio Mr.. Bland
argued in favor of 10 to L.. lie said that
if the United States would maintain.
the parity of gold and silver on that.
ratio. the world would. buy American
products. This country had the prop
erty to sell and should induce purchas-s
ers to come. France Maintained gold
and silver at a parity on the ratio. of
1871 to 1 for seventy years because She
had property to sell.
The money requirements of the
United States with the vast wealth, in
dustry and energy of its people were
equal to those of England, France and
Germany combined, and that tho
whole civilized world would have to
look to this country for its future
monetary supply. "
'And yet" he said, with vehemence,
1--WE are asked here to-day to lay the
bloody hand of confiscation on millions
| of our population in order to satisfy the
greed of England. Will congress do it?
Will you trample down the interests of
your own people and destroy the value
| OF one of the precious metals, simply to-
| crafty the greed of Wall street, mere
agent of Lombard street? 1t can not,
it shall not. be done. Applause.
."Speaking for the mass of the peoS
pie of the Mississippi valley, and of tho
people west of it, l say you shall not
do it [Renewed applause.
| And anybody or any party that
| undertakes to do it will, in Gods name,
be trampled-as it ought to be--ih the
dust of condemnation now and in the
future. Continued applause on the
floor and in the galleries.
81 speak as "a dcm.-ci,at, Out yet ~
an American above democracy.
| fCheers.
I'VE do not intend that any party
shall survive, il we can help it, that will
lay its contiscating hand on America
in the interest of England or of Eu-
rope That may be strong language,
but in speaking to you of the eastern
democracy, we will bid you farewell
when you do it. [Applausel. Now
you can take your choice OF
sustaining America against En-
| gland, of sustaining American
industries and American laborers
against English industries and English
laborcrs, or of our going apart We
have come to the parting way. / do
not pretend to speak Of anybody but
myself and my constituents, but l be-
lievc that ] can speak for the masses Of
the great Mississippi valley when I say
that we will not submit tO the DONNA.
ton of any however much we love
democracy II it lays its eacrifcial
| hands upon silver and wounds II if-this
| country.
| "For myself / will not support such
| party here or elsewhere; but will de-
nounce it as un-democratic and un.
| American, and the democrats engaged
in it will ask the people of the conn-
try to condemn as the agents and tools
| no, will withdraw that epithet-as
the representatives of the moneyed
power and moncyed interests instead
as of representatives of the AmcricaD
people.
| You cannot hold the democratic
| party together on that line" APP
plause.
In closing his argument (which ha
said, was entirely without preparation
before) Mr.. Bland declared that the
| time had come to decide whether or not
| the country was to go to bimetaliism.
| He thought it the duty of the house
Especially of his democra tic assOciates)
| to settle the money question and to set
tie it at once on democratic lines.
1t would not do to demonetize silver
and then to undertake to restore it
afterward. There was time enough
now to arrange it according TO the
principles of bimetaliism and in a man
ner conformably to the PROMISES of the
democratic party. If, ne said, in con-
clusion. addressing his words particu-
larly to eastern democrats, you do not
do it, yours is the responsibility, not
ours. Applause 90
A Big Cattle Company Involved.
VERNON, Tex, Aug. 12.-The district
court has appointed receiver for the
Eshula Land & Cattle Co, an English
corporation which owns 90, 900 acres OF
land and $1,000 head of cattle. The