The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-18
BLAND ON SILVER.
The Missouri Congressman speaks In Fa-
yor of Free Coinage.

1 WI VI re tOtHdSt-
WASHINGTON. Aug. I2-In the house
yesterday after Mr.. Raynor. of Mary
land had spoken in favor OF the uneon-
ditional repeal of the Sherman law and
against free coinage. he was replied to
by Mr.. Bland MOI substantially as
| follows:
Mr.. Bland, rising to open for the
free coinage side of the question. ex-
! pressed his regret that a number of
gentlemen. of whom the speaker who
had just sat down was one of the most
| capable, had seen fit to change their
| position upon this question. toa bandon
a large portion of the voters who had
| aided in giving them the seats they
| occupied to turn their faces to the
| east aud backs to the west As
/ to the declarations in the democratic
| platform, il was the understand
/ ing that the free coinage silver neces-
sarily meant the repeal of the Sher-
man law, the two being so antagon-
istic that they could not exist at the
same time But, ne went on. 1--WE are
met now with the suggestion that we
/ legislate by piecemeal-repeal the Sher-
man law and take our chances of secur-
ing anything in its place. which shall
meet the pledge of the platform to coin
both silver and gold-aud this is be-
cause panic IS upon us The voting
masses of the country may become
panic stricken on election day: and if
they do, I'm afraid that those. like the
gentleman from Indiana, will feel the
force of that panic
Mr.. Bland sketched briefly the his
tory of financial legislation in recent
years and asserted that the same cry OF
Going TO a silver basis" had been
raised against the bill of 1873. with
which his name had been connected
Upon the question of ratio Mr.. Bland
argued in favor of Is to 1. He said that
if the United States would maintain
the parity of gold and silver on that
ratio the world would buy American
products. This country had the prop
erty to sell and should induce purchas-
ers to come. France maintained gold
and silver at a parity on the ratio of
15}1 to for seventy years because she
had property to sell
The money requirements of the
United States with the vast wealth. in
dustry and energy of its people were
equal to those of England. France and
Germany combined. and that the
whole civilized world would have to
look 70 this country for its future
monetary supply.
And Vet. he said. with vehemence.
we are asked here to-day to Law the
bloody hand OF confscati0n or millions
OF our population in order to satisfy the
greed OF England. VIII congress do it?
VIII YOU trample down the interests Of
your own people and destroy the value
of one Of the precious metals. simply to
crafty the greed OF Wall street. mere
agent OF Lombard street? 1t can not.
it shall not. be done. Applause
Speaking for the mass OF the peo-
pie Of the Mississippi valley. and Of the
people west of 1t. | say You shall not
co it Renewed applause.
And anybody or any party that
undertakes to 10 1t will in Giod's name.
be trampled-as 1t ought TO be-in the
dust Of condemnation now and in the
future. CONTINUED applause on the
floor and in the galleries.
Il speak as democrat. but vet as
an American above democrats
[CheerSI
I'VE 90 not intend that any party
shall survive. if we can help It. that will
lay its confScatinC hand on America
in the interest OF England or OF Eu-
rope. That may be strong language.
1,T-% -, - - f.aa
democracy. we VIII bid you farewell
when you do it. IApplausel. Now
you can take your choice of
sustaining America against En-
gland. OF sustaining American
industries and American laborers
against English industries and English
Ia borers. or OF our going apart We
have come 70 the parting way. l do
not pretend 20 speak of anybody but
myself and my constituents. but I be-
lieve that I can speak for the masses OF
the great Mississippi valley when I say
that we viii not submit TO the DONNA
ton Of any however much we love
democracy if It lays its sacriicial
hands upon silver and wounds it IN this
country.
For myself. I viii not support such
Z party here or elsewhere; but VIII de-
nounce 1t as un-democratic and I'M
american. and the democrats engaged
in it VIII ask the people of the coup-
try to condemn as the agents and tools
no. I will withdraw that epithet-as
the Representatives Of the moneved
power and rloreyed interests instead
as Of Representatives OF the American
people.
You cannot hold the democratic
party together on that line" lap
plause-
N closing his argument (which. he
said. was entirely without preparation
before Nj Bland declared that the
time had come TO decide whether or not
the country was 10 go 10 bimetalIisn-
he thought It tie duty OF the hou.s
Especially OF his democratic assOciatesl
to settle the money question and 70 set
tie It Ct once on democratic lines
II would not do 70 demonetize silver
and then 70 undertake 10 restore it
There was time enough
now TO arrange i according to the
p LII l-c> u Dl-AAc s-L-t Ii d Ll<1t
ner confornabiy to the promises OF the
democratic party. II. he said. II con-
clU>ion- addressing his words particu- (
larry 70 eastern democrats you do not /
do It yours i the responsibility, not |
ours iApplause-
4 Big Cattle Company Involved
VERNOS. Tex. Aug. I2-The district /
court has appointed receiver for the !
FShr,Ia Land y Cattle co Al Fu-Iish /