Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-09-08
. EST AFTER s'I,Ey I'll AND.

~ lpe Senate fos silver was d
gratifying surprise to the silver
men He called up the resolu-
l'on offered by him last Tuesday.
sayoring himetallism and the
free and unlimited coinage Of
both geld and silver, without
discrimination against either
metal, but maintaining their par
! ny. Before hsgianing his speech
IN support Of the resolution, Mr..
Ess read the declarations il the
Republican and peaocsatis plat
forms on the subject Of silver in
order to show that both parties
were practically agreed on that
question, He said that it
was time for the people Of the
United States to know whether
politics were q juggle and fraud
or whether the solemn DECLARE
tons OF parties were worthy the
confidence OF free people.
Taking up the Sherman act,
Mr.. VEST spoke of it as a house
less and homeless dog, with no
one even to give 1t bone and
without being able to find a ken
mel in which to hide it's dishon-
ored head. And nevertheless he
would vote against its repeal
without a guarantee as solemn
A. the great necessity of the peo-
pie that silver exists in the Uni
ted States as a, money metal.
He had been known as the firm
and anshrinking friend of the
President of the United Stales
and had in all his campaign
speeches in Missouri declared
Mr.. CLEVELAND to be a bimetal-
list like himself, and that they
only differed in reference to the
ratio. He had the right to make
the statement because Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND had accepted the, nomi-
nation on platform which
pledged the Democratic party to
bimetallism.
1t had been as we'll known
that the Democratic party stood
ca the doctrine OF bimetallism as
that it had met in Chicago and
nominated GROVER CLEVELAND
for the presidency. He did not
undertake to say now that the
President was opposed to bimet-
allism or that he would not give
his executive sanction to a me as-
ure to coin silver at CONNER
cial ratio with gold; but he did
undertake to say that the Presi
dents message was most signifi-
cant for what it failed to say.
He undertook to say, with the
greatest respect for the President
and without the slightest doubt
of his honesty of purpose, that
when he failed Tin that great
state paper) to say one word in
respect to bimetalllsm, he GER
tainly meant that a considsra-
ton Of, the question of the free
coinage of silver at any ratio
was SO impracticable that it did
not need executive notice.
As to the assertion that silver
ahopld be demonetized because
it fiuctuated in value
while the gold was stable, he
read an extract from what. he
called 4 F5iriaS kaabble p q2l applet
written by Mr., MoNTEITH Doud-
LASS, a business man of London,
before the closing of the Indian
minis, pleading with. the people
of Great Britain in favor of BIZ
metallism as the only sure foun-
dalton for financial existence and
declaring that silver has really
fiuctuated much less than gold.
In replying to questions by
Mr.. GRAY, Of Delaware, Mr..
VEST asserted that any discussion
on the subject would be imper-
feet and unsatisfactory which
did not admit on both sides what
was known to every intelligent
man that as the volume Of mon
,ey was increased the prices OF
commodities went up and that if
the volume of money was de
creased the price of commodities
went down.
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