The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-08

for their belief. AS we could not pass
the compromise without g full Demo
cratic vote, seven Democratic Senators,
all but one, in favor of repeal having
refused to sign it, we, of course, had to
abandon it. The Senators from the
silver States did not seem inclined to
accept it and help pass it, and those of
US who had been resisting the passage
of the bill, concluded to allow the mi
nority of Democrats, with the Repub-
llcan annex, pass the bill and take the
responsibility, and thus the fight
ended"
You do not consider yourself and
the Senators who acted with you, OBJ
structionists?"
son the contrary, as they represented
the party being in the majority and
made every honorable effort, some Of
US made sacrifices to induce our minor
ity brethren to unite with US in an
effort to harrnonize the party. but they
stubbornly refused and preferred to act
with majority Of the Republican Sen
ators. If the compromise signed by 50
per cent. of the Democratic Senators
was not satisfactory, the chances are
that it could have been made so if those
who held out had joined US in caucus.
You can form your own opinion as to
who is responsible for party divisions.
We have heard a good deal about ma
jority rule in the Senate, and some of
the very Senators who have cen clam
oring loudest for it were the first to
defy and disregard it in their own
party"
"It is your opinion that repeal will
restore confidence and revive busi-
ness?"
"In the first place the Sherman act
did not destroy confidence or destroy
business. The gold standard capitalists
of New York and Boston took advant-
age of the business stagnation resulting
from prospective revision Of the tariff
on a revenue basis to knock the last
prop from under silves rs money. They
raised hue and cry against the Sher-
man act, aud have succeeded, with the
help of the executive, the democratic
minority and republicans in the Senate,
to accomplish 1t. They will be COM
PEELED to permit a temporary squirt in
business. The stock gamblers will he
the chief benefciaries. Prices may
advance somewhat for time, but the
New York and Boston banks have it in
their power to put on the screws when
ever they see fit. There can be no
solid improvement in buiness until
after the tariff is readjusted, and no.
body knows it better than these very
people who have brought on this panic
for purpose. Whenever they decide
to turn the money loose into its legiti-
mate channels, they will do so. Not
until then. They are now our masters
and will continue to be if the people do
not revolt against this dangerous
power
"Is the debate likely to leave much
bad feeling and bitterness in the demo-
cratic ranks?"
"Oh, well, that will depend on the
course of the so called administration
democrats. If they will now unite
with US in forming fair and just finan-
cial policy, the sores will soon heal.
Otherwise, the party will be wrecked,
and the election of the next President
will be thrown into the house of Rep
resentatives. The South and West are
intensely in earnest in their determi-
nation to throw off the domination of
concentrated capital operating from
one or two centers, and the great Dem
ocratic masses will not brook a viola
ton of party pledges without strict
accountability.
"If the present Democratic Admin
istration will move steadily and faith
fully along the lines of the Democratic
Platform it will keep the party solid
and insure party success hereafter. It
is rather early yet to pass judgment,
but we shall see within the next six or
eight months"
1.-THE anti-unconditional repeal Sen
ators have been accused of favoring an
unsound, dishonest currency. Is there
any foundation for this charge?"
Everybody who does not conccde
that gold is the only sound and honest
currency subject themselves to the
condemnation of the metropolitan
press, which is, for the most part, con-
trolled and directed by the gold mo-
nometallists. We are accustomed to
that, but if we can ever get the ques-
ton fairly before the people. we will
show those slanderers who are for
sound and honest money. If the silver
dollar is not an honest dollar, then che
government has perpetrated an uupar-
donable fraud in coming hundreds Of
millions of them and making them a
legal tender. And still greater
fraud has been inflicted on the people in
the issue of hundreds of millions of
silver certificates and greenbacks.
1.-The charge is false. The only dis
honest financiers are those who want
to make money scarce and dear by
adopting the single gold standard and
retain the power to oppress the people.
Nobody wants or advocates an un-
sound or dishonest currency, but! a
good many of us want enough of it and
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