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

are going to let gold flow backP
hold In my hand q copy Of the New
York World, which, fear, comes nearer To
being the revelation OF the Lord Almighty
to some Of you than any other document
that has been before your vision for the last
few years. This paper contains cartoon
which Is entitled, "Wall street waiting foE
the lambs wool to grow again" No one
can claim that the New York World is a
bimetallic paper. It is for Sound and
honest" money. They are sound, honest
men that own and control this paper; they
were "born go" This cartoon represents a
distinguished lot Of individuals, with their
names and their buttonhole bouquets, wait.
ing for the lambs wool to grow again. ~
Here Is the Stock Exchange, where the poor
lamb ia standing, while the line Of shearers
reaches from the Stock Exchange away up
as far as Triuity church. See the length Of
their shearsI Here is the poor lamb, every
particle of his wool shOrn from him, and
they have even gashed into his hide, so that
the blood is streaming from himl Ofcourse
they have got to wait for the lambs wool
20 grow again.
Why, Mr.. Speaker, raise Angora goats
up in Pennsylvania, and shear them only
once year. / find it more profitable to
wait for q second crop. cut my grass early
In the summer, and do not keep running
the moving machine overit every few days,
out / wait until the fall for the aftermath.
30 these people will wait. There Is no fear
about the return of gold. They have got
Dur securities, they have got mortgages
lpOn our possessions, and now what dotbey
WantP Why, they want to see the wheels
Of industry revolve and hear the spindleG
hum again, 80 that they may grow new
crop Of wool and then repeat the shearing
process.
Isee that my New York friends insist
that there iS but one remedy for this trou-
BILE, and that Is the issue of bonds to main.
tain gold and put us upon a ''solid hnan.
ciGl basis" Well, gentlemen, suppose we
agree to issue the $15O,OOO,OOO bonds that
you demand, how long will it be before you
will want another S15O,OOOOOOP If through
your conspiracy you can get this $15O,0O0,.
600 that you say .s necessary now, why cam
not you, three months hence, present youl
treasury notes, your legal tender notes, to
the subtreasury and draw out the gold re-
serve again and then come here and de.
mand &150, 900, 900 more Of bonds as an ad'
ditional mortgage on the industries Of
the nationP And 80 indefinitely you can
carry on this process until the wealth oi
an entire nation will not suffice to feed the
greed Of these conspiratOrs.
You ask the cause of the panic. donot
know all the causes, but know this: Fol
two years the distinguished gentleman
from Ohio Mr.. Harterl has been mission.
ary in the field The distinguished ex.
member Of the house-St. George Fred
Williams of Massachusetts-and the other
saint from Ohio have filled the columns Oi
The Arena, The Forum, The North Ameri.
can Review, The American Journal Of Pol.
Atics and other papers with their predictions
Of disaster to come If we did not get upon
solid gold basis
Another thing, my friends, that Is re-
sponsible for this panic is your own New
York bankers. You may stand here, the
whole body Of you, from that state and
talk about your patriotism and how you
will uphold the business interests of the
nation, but he who has eyes and has read
current events knows better than that.
When the government refused to issue
bonds, and when the banks of California
the banks Of Chicago and the great west
came to the relief of the administration by
giving 1t gold, your bankers in published in.
terviews, which are extant today in the col.
umns Of the New York papers, threatened
to give the south and west pinch of hard
times. l can show you those threats in
your metropolitan papers. Your bankers
threatened to give the people of the south
and west taste Of hard times.
This conspiracy, which has had 20 years
for its Matching, has now reached its culmi.
nation, and those who have taken part in Il