Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-08-27

" ~ ttM : u budG ILOy
&N4# should do so. He
o \I/ defed the gentle
pouRAE GockRAN man from Missouri,
CMr. Bland to name an exception. The
huctuatioR Of the values OF the
two coins were sufficient TO
drive out the dearer
metal, and this, said Mr.. Cochran
was the inevitable result. France was
compelled to import six hundred mill
ions of gold to maintain the parity OF
the silver which she had coined. That
was what the United States would nave
to do If II was desired 10
MAINTAIN THE PARITY
Of the silver we have coined.
Referring to the assertion In the re-
cent speech of the gentleman from Ne
braska (Mr. Bryan, that silver was
still the basis of value OF the farmers,
products, Mr.. Cochran inquired, vi
that be so, why do you not give him the
full value of it? You would give the
farmer 37l4 grains Of pure silver while
l should give him 65l4 grains. DO
these gentlemen fear that silver will
have the same effect upon the human
race as alcohol? That while a little OF
it is apt to stimulate, too much
will stupefy and destroy. Laughter.)
The debasement OF the coin proposed,
Mr.. Cochran said, would have the re-
suit Of reducing debts TO the amount OF
As per cent. The gentleman from Ne
braska (Mr. Bryan assumed that the
loss would fall on the banks. But the
fact was that in the very nature OF
things the banks and corporations are
the debtors Of the country and the
workingmen are the creditors. Gentle
men tell us that goldshas appreciated.
l deny it, said Mr.. Cochran. The Al
drich report shows that never before In
the history of the world did the labor
ing man of America receive so much for
his labor. (Cheers.) But the gentle
man from Nebraska and the gentleman
from Missouri propose by their plans to
make the bankers Of New York alone a
present OF S21, ,O0O, 900 in the settlement
of accounts with their depositors and
to deprive the laboring man OF 45 per
cent Of
THE VALUE OF HIS WORK.
Mr.. Bryan-Wnl the gentleman kind
ly say how it is II his statements re-
specting the gentleman from Missouri
and myself are true that the banks Of
New York denounce us and Torrance
V. Powderly is with US. Applause.
Mr.. Cockran-i will answer. II is
because the bankers Of New York have
learned that 10 business and politics
alike honesty is the best policy. LAp-
plause.
Continuing, Mr.. Cochran said that the
trouble in this country was not due TO
lack of money, but to lack OF redund-
ancy of money. Money was not wealth,
il was the machinery with which traders
worked.
The farmer suffered most under the
operations of the Sherman law, said Mr..
Cochran, iu the depreciation In the
prices which he had received for his
products, and II was strange friend OF
the farmer. the victim of the act, who
desired a continuance Of the conditions
under which he suffered. l prize the
of this country, not
ecause IL embraces New York alone,
but because it embraces Nebraska
and Missouri, and every section and each
of the territories which is comprised
within this country. New York has
no mission except that she can admins
ter to your necessities and your welfare.
She trades upon your products; she
grows no grass between her stones; her
work 81 their benches and
by transforming the rude product OF
the soil and mine fits the finished
articlds essential TO the luxury o. the
COMFORT OF THE HUMAN RACE.
Her laborers tranship the freight and
the fruits of your toll from the cars In
which they come TO her borders TO the
great argosies OF commerce that bear
them across the sea FOR distribution
the globe. And so she
stands upon the verge Of this western
continent with one arm gathering the
fruits of your toll into her lap for dis
tributlon over the globe, and with the
other gathering the golden tribute OF
the world TO be returned back
to you as a reward OF what
you produce. As you prosper, she
prospers. AS this nation grows, she
grows. AS this country becomes great,
she becomes great, but material great
ness alone can never be enduring unless
1t be accompanied by moral progress
and moral grandeur, and we ask you
here to make honesty, equity, JUS
tice the distinguishing policy;
ask you to preserve the great
ness we have achieved, which
will broaden before labor and industry
the broad horizon, that even now is
ours, and we will make the march OF
this country along the pathway Of ma
terial development long march in the
progress OF the human race towards
cultivation of the virtues that elevate
humanity, perpetuate republics, make
the flag glorious and make Institutions
prolonged applause and
cries OF vote"
The excitement on the floor was so
great that Speaker Crisp was compelled
to call upon the officers OF the House TO
pass through the aisles aud Hobbies and
request members to take their seats or
repair to the cloak room in order that
public business might proceed.
Mr.. Cochran was followed TO the cloak
room. where the felicitst!ons Of his
hearers continued to De showered upon
him for some minutes.
NIB. BLAND NEXT TOOK THE FLOOR.
He said that II the gentleman from