New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-08-30
Oockran's Eloquent " ords.

ulSclple OF elOQuence ana OratOry as mo,
i tive powers, delivered speech in The
! House last Saturday and among many
other good things Mr.. Cochran said that
the troublein this country was not due
to lack Of money but to lack Of redun-
dancy of money. Money was not wealth
it was the machinery with which trade
is worked. He held that these periods
or depression were without exception,
due to an extension, either of the curren-
cy Of the country by Legislation, or OF
credit beyond the capacity of the bust
ness interests to support it. The opera
tions of the Sherman law, he said ,proved
| the truth of the statement. 1t had in
creased the volumeeof the currency and
now the stringency was upon the coun-
try. Mr.. Bland's proposition to give
9Th grains of silver for 6514 would be
called robbery if it related to wheat and
corn.
The farmer suffered most under the
operations of the Shel man law, said Mr..
Cochran, in the depreciation in the pri-
ces which he had received for his pro-
duct, and it was a strange friend of the
farmer, the victim of the act, who de-
sired continuance of the conditions un-
der which he suffered. Mr.. Cochran elo-
quently spoke of the unity of the inter-
ests of the whole country, saying, in re-
ference to the verbal assaults upon New
York, that efforts to sectionalize the
country on any basis or any line should
never result in benefit to any one.
Gentlemen have appealed to the senti-
ment of the country members as though
their interests were hostile to the interest
of the cities. IspeakD on this floor as a
member from district in the greatest
city On this continent and say now to
this house that the interests of the city
can never be hostile to the interests of
the country; that the interests of that
great municipal wealth is based upon
the productive powers of this country
who toll in the fields and dig in the
ditches' Show me legislation which
am convinced will benefit the farmer,
and, even if it cuts down the profit of
the banker or the capitalist SO per cent,
you will find me voting for it. 1 believe
in the statement which Mentor made to
Telemachus, that it. is not the splender
of a city, but the prosperity of the fields
that constitute the greatness of a nation;
not the opulence of its palaces, but the
comforts of its homes. We have heard
great deal here of sections of North
and of South, of East and West, and3 as
we have heard it doubt was in my mind
as to whether after all the victory of
the Union wos not Il mistake.
Are we to be forced to the conclusion
that this country is so vast that it's in
terests are 50 diversified and irreconcil-
bic that legislation which is essential to
the safety of urban interests, that things
which make for the protection of New
York must necessarily result in the op-
preston of Missouri and Nebraska. l
do not believe that there has ever yet
come a time in this country's history
when any attempt to make a sectional
feeling has resulted in the profit of any
body. hope that this attempt to revive
the prejudices based upon occupations
of each of the sections will he abandoned
by gentlemen when they come to recol
lect the meaning of what they say and
that they will realize that the fires of
this union were stamped out by march,
ing armies. in this country and the
embers were quenched by the blood Of
the martyrs and the tears of widows.
! Iprize the citizenship of this country
not because it embraces New York alone
but because it embraces Nebraska and
Missouri, every section land Teach of the
territoriesl which is comprised within
this country. New York has no mission
except that she can administer to your
necessities and your welfare. IL
The excitement was so great on the
floor that Speaker Crisp was compelled
to call upon the officers of the house to
pass through the aisles and Hobbies and
request members to take their seats or to
repair to the cloak room in order that
public business might proceed. Mr..
Cochran was followed to the cloak room
where the Fluctuations of his hearers con
tinued to be showered upon him for
some minutes.