The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-08-18
SENATOR VEST TALKS,
Mlssourrs Senator Addresses the Senat
in Favor CT Bimet etaliism.


Mlssourfs Senator Addresses the Senata
in Favor CT Bimeialiism.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-In the sem
ate yesterday Mr.. Vest introduced .
bill for the coinage of silver bullion in
the treasury. saying that it had been
sent to him from New York and that
it met his partial approval.
Mr.. Vest called up the resolution of
fered by him last Tuesday, favoring BIZ
metallism and the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver. with
out discriminating against either metal,
but maintaining their parity.
Before beginning his speech in favor
of the resolution, Senator Vest had read
the declarations in the republican and
democratic platforms on the subject Of
silver in order to show that both parties
were practically agreed on that ques-
tion. He said that it was time for tho
people of the United States to know
whether politics were a fraud or
whether the solemn declarations of
parties were worthy the confidence Of
a free people.
Taking up the Sherman act, Mr.. Vest
spoke of it as houseless and homeless
Legislative dog, with no one even to
give it bone and without being
able to find a kennel in which to hide
its dishonored head. And, neverthe-
less, he would vote against its repeal
without u guarantee as solemn as the
great necessity of the people that sill
yer shall exist in the United States as
a money metal
He had been known as the firm and
unshrinking friend of the president of
the United States, and has in all his
campaign speeches in Missouri de-
clared Mr.. Cleveland to be a bimetalist
like himself and that they only differed
in reference to the ratio.
He undertook to say, with the great
est respect for the president and with
out the slightest doubt of his honesty
of purpose, that when he failed lin that
great state paper) to say one word in
respect to bimetallism, he certainly
meant that Il consideration of the
question of the free coinage of silver at
any ratio was so impractical bic that it
did not need executive notice. As to
the assertion that silver should be de-
monetized because it huctuated in
an extract from what he called "a re-
markabIe pamphlet" written by Mr..
Monteith Douglass, business man Of
London. before the closing of the In
dian mints, pleading with the people of
Great Britain in favor of bimetallism
as the only sure foundation for finan-
cial existence, and declaring that
silver has really fuctuated much less
than gold.
In replying to questions by Mr.. Gray,
of Delaware, Mr.. Vest asserted that
any discussion on the subject would be
imperfect and unsatisfactory which
did not admit, on both sides, what
was known to every intelligent man,
that if the volume of money was in
creased the prices of commodities went
up and that if the volume of money
was decreased the price of commodi-
ties went down He had seen the day
in the vicissitudes of his life when
$50 of paper would not buy a
loaf of bread and when IS gold
piece would buy house and lot 1t
was not necessary for him to say when
and where that was, because he did
| not wish to review war issues. Laugh.
ter. And so, if onc-half of the coin
currency of the country were struck
down, the burdens of those who owed
money would be doubled and the prices
Of commodities put down beyond com
putation.
Mr.. Vest spoke of the bimetallism o.
France and declared that to-day the
French people are financially the frs
antry boarded their silver franc piece.
and SO, in the United States, the col
ored men of the south would hoart
silver dollars if they could get them
| Why, he asked, should not the United
States float $500, 900, 600 of silver in thi
country instead of being told the coun
try would be shipwrecked if silve
/ coinage was continued another day
1t was not, he asserted, the overpro
| duction of silver that had brough
down its value. 1t was legislation tina
had done it-legislation in German,
and the United States. How could i
be expected that silver would retaiI
its value when those two great nations
took away the monetary use of silver
With the resources and population o
the United States it was only necessar,
for the United States to fix polio,
and stand by it.
| Mr.. Vest spoke of the unfortunate
condition of the miners of the west
| and said that the somewhat drama I'll
| remark of an ex-senator recently, tha
in the extreme west the people wer
crying for bread and that in New Yorl
they were crying for gold, was LITERAL,
true.
| Suppose, said he, ''that we wer
called upon to-day to pass law stop
ping the factories of New England
what protests would we hear fror
that section? Suppose we wer
called upon to strike down the whea
culture of Dakota and of the Red rive
of the north, would we not expect t
hear protests against it? If i wer
here from one of the silver producing
states l would fight the demonetiza
ton of silver as fought the force bill
because it involves all that those pee
pie should hold dear in the way @
4 property rights and of the comforts @
| life. Arguments would have to b
brought here stronger than proofs G
Holy Writ to make me agree to it.
/ can, by any possibility, by legisls
tion, tentative or otherwise, keep thi
great disaster from these people-cit
zens of this great republic, of the sam
blood and lineage as ourselves-I wi
take the chances of even a mistake o
my part rather than perpetrate what
consider such an outrage upon them"
Won by Creedon.
RoBY, Ind. Aug. 15.-The Creedon
Greggains contest at Roby brough
fully 5000 people to witness one of tn