Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-27

hobbies and rclue-i the ine!uDers % talii
seats. cr repair TO the coax room II
order that prolie pnsiae,s misnt pro
| cloai rnrn. where the felicitations OF hi
| hear,.r. .ontiuued to be ShOwcrt.d upoi
/ lin fnr aone minutes. while Mr.. Bianf
wa. beginning bis repiy 10 the argu
/ meut ID fbe gentleman from New York
/ with which the debate IN support Of ID,
| flee co.uare substitute for the Wilson
bill was 10 BE- closed.
BLAND-S SPEECH.
Mr.. Bland next took the floor HI
said II the gentleman from New Yorl
lstr. Coekranl. whose financial theorie,
were eviderily gained from mauipula.
tioa Of the stock exchange. would ever
20 10 The great. country from which he
| had said were obtained the agricultural
products which were shipped abroad III
order 10 bring back the European gold
necessary 70 sustain the public credit,
he would understand why the gentleman
and himself were practically different
In their views. II was true. as The
gentleman aid. IL was to the product OF
tho soil Of this country that fnnnciers
and the government looked to bring back
the gold Of Europe in order 10 main
tain our present financial system. But
the gentleman failed TO tell the
house Of the difficulties under
which the farmers labored in or
der 10 do this patriotic service He
had not told the hOu9e there was a cor
nor IN the gold Of the world. So long
as the gold Of the world was cornered
by the legislation of the United States
the gold men Of the South and West
could exact their own price for gold.
All the dogn1tic utterauces Of the gem
tleinnn from New York were made IN
the face Of history and IN the face Of
ruth.
lie Bland did not defend the Sher-
mar act and " he could put N It's place
provision for the free coinage at n ratio
Of TO 70 / he would vote for It's repeal
He saw no reason for changing the
existing ratio Of 10 to l. Although the
sherman act WAS not Ia conformity with
hretLH.sm, yet under i S3O,WO.VDO to
SiuO0DNO Of greenblckq q year were
put IN circulation Mr.. Cochran argued
that one NJ the causes Of he financial
trouble was redundancy Of money,
yet that gentlemen would, in lll prOha-
bility, be found voting for the senate bill,
allow ing che national banks to lncreAse
their circulation to the amount Of S21,-
600, 100. He scut 10 the clerks desk
aud had read dispatch referring to an
article IN the New York Evening Post
rs 10 the application Of pressure In favor
OF the repeal Of the sherman act. the
pressure suggested being the threat 20
withhold cr,iits from country merchants.
lie d'BoLnced the article and quoted
N -. s,r,iwjst apalo,,ous nrannsiii,1, He
then declared q was a notorious fact that
Tho, people OF lhe south aud West who
banks. c0nh not have their checks paid
This WIS done to weaken The Western
banks and have an miiuence upon repre-
a4IHNH 30 o. al NFI
NJ syor mem a in ~ b,uso had off.r
ed several compromises. II those com.
promises were rejected there would
never be another compromise offered.
tApplntiel To maintain a gold standard
meant 10 demnnetize silver and lower
the price " labor. Inc Wilson bill ask
81 the United States congress 10 70 leg.
islate a. 70 add TO- the prosperity OF
England and Austrulia ana 20 distress
and miners OF America. He had not
advocated the sherman law. He had
voted against u, bnt u was now the
last buwafk or SILVER IL was now pro
posed 20 uempnetlze SILVER. Nov was
tle uine 20 let tne country see VINO
Were tle friends o. SILVER ana blmetalllsm
IN tlis house. 10 strike down silver
Wouii mean pohnc3l revolution thAt
would strike down both the great polit-
ie9l paHles. tor one ne was wiling TO
JON we people even though democracy
would nave TO 90 20 the wall iApplAusel
MR.. McMlLLIN OF TENNESSEE
was The next speaker. Had listena1 bs
.,;I ,,fl. ,,,.h t,,a-,.. . -. ~
'''N' "i'n ihuVn 'n'e'est !" 'ue ''r! uple
presentation of his side Of the question
by the distinguished gentleman from
Nfs,,s h,t corid ma, ogreo ,,itI, I,;,, Mo,
"N' '''' "s''' ""u "'''i 'h"'
the eject OF the repeal would nil TO bring
back him Reed and those who went
with lin, Nh, yertl.ua, WINS NOT Ibs
,f,,',,'
yMtNnllhsl klnn o. bsin2crat, lLougu-
tvEl lhere We're t1ree hlnua 81 currency
~ me country, gVlu, suNeT' ana paper,
ana he would keep nose three Adhds 81
currency, each or tHeA 'lull 70 tut
other aud he would resist rs he would
resist pcatilence any .eAort 70 lcgislaie
The destruction OF these Kinds Of currency,
He could conceive Of no. greater disaster
than that which would drive from circu-
latlon S000,0OOOoo Of silver. II was a
new doctrine 10 the Democratic party that
any on Of the three kinds Of currency
was to he put out Of circulation. 1t was
new doctrine TO the American people.
lie did not want monometalllsm in either
silver or gold. He wanted bimelnllism.
For bimctalism he had voted in tho
past and would vote In the future, He
intended TO offer an amendment 10 the
silver coinage proposition to the effect
that there should be collected on oil
silver not mined and owned in the Unit
cd States, the actual cost of coinage
la n1Jtfion 10 tho difference If any