The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-12

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go"oocracv if this bill were coupled
l;tb provisions carrying out the plat
W. - for. in that case, [ do not sup
III there is a Democrat in either
RGoTso that would refuse to support it.
I repeat, if we are IN good faith, why
- DO it now? NOV is the accepted
nv o,o , and NOW is the day of saliva
I'm :, ito day, if you will hear the
tlon Of the people, harden not your
Loorts"-''here is water, what doth
Finder me to be b~aptized?"
Is it to be done hereafter7 Who says
% with authority to speak. Who says
~ with authority to give an assurance
44Iot il can be done at all If postponed.
Iov do we know that when sOmeo other
Hi comes up for the benefit Of capital
tbase thread bare and contemplate
nr1mises to pay will not pop up again
Ekn Jack in a box as a substitute for
the performance? If we let go what
We have bafOre we get something else
IN exchange, how shall we justify our
ooIvas to that portion Of u cOnstItu-
onts who are supposed to have common
sense? Why cannot the bankers and
~Sfockbr0kers wait for the repeal OF the
Sbnrman law until the remaining legis
1ation which we have promised to en-
oct shall be prepared and ready7
The last excuse for it's repeal, except
tho trr1n one. which they do not give,
hos been knocked from under them.
Thnv know it did not take gold from
this country, because in the face OF
their nrOtes5ations they e that gold
"a returning in obedience to wel-known
laws Of trade. and all that they now
Lanc up0n is that they have not con
f3p6ce'7 in the government of their
country that it viii redeem It's obllga-
lions in cold. That is equally false as
the other; they know that every dollar
that is due from the Government of
fhe United States that is properly and
honestly redeemable in gold coln will
he so redeemed. They see the Secre-
tarv of the Treasurs with theapproval
of the President, every day redeeming
silver obligations in gold, even where
his discretion permits him to redeem
in silver.
Now, if asked why Icannot trust the
future for the enactment Of those laws
which ought to come concurrent with
the repeal Of the Sherman act, my an
sWer-and with much more truth than
thpirs-is. I have no confidence. When
q mar promises me that if | will put
him in q position which will enable
him to DO so he will pay me a thousand
dollars. and when have performed my
mart of the contract and put him IN
that position and he refuses to pay me,
and applies his money to some other
purpose, and proposes to promise me
the same thing again, | refuse to &c
cent his promise as that Of an honest
and responsible man; my confidence IS
gone.
The Senator from Georgia Mr.. Cor
don who the other day entertained US
with a very eloquent speech with a
most illogical conclusion, demanding
to know why we halt between con
ditiOnal and unconditional repeal. He
says:
If the friends of bimetaIisn are
strong enough to impose conditions on
the repeating bill, will not that same
strength suffice to enact bimetalism in
separate bilI?'
Mr.. President, I will tell you why l
halt between conditional and uncon-
ditional repeal. Unconditional repeal
is unconditional surrender. In the
first place, by conditional repeal we
unite the Democratic party, or at least
all true friends of bimetalIism. know
that they all came here, as I did, hop
ing, praying, that some compromise
could be found between them and the
President, the chief Of our party, by
which they could stand with him. By
the proposition Of unconditional repeal
that is Impossible.
In the next place, if we repeal with
out doing other things which we prom
ised the people at Chicago we would do,
neither that Senator o any other can
give assurance that these other things
will ever become a law in separate bills.
Toe Senator must know that every
gold mOnOm65alli5t in the House voted
for unconditional repeal as every one
IN this body will, and against the coin
age Of another silver dollar at any
ratio WhateVer-including the resur-
rectI1n Of the Bland Allison act Of coin
ing 1000, 600 a month. Where then
can be found evidence of the strength
for a separate bill, favorable to silver
IN that body? It has been tested; ours
has not. And should such a bill pass
that body and this one, can that Sena-
TOR give Us any assurance that it would
not meet its death blow elsewhere? We
have every reason, as he has, to know
that 1t would; therefore, as it seems
TO me, to vote for unconditional repeal,
IN the face Of these undeniable facts,
amounts to anunconditional surrender,
a giving up Of the cause of silver,
winch we all profess to love, and an
abandonment Of our promises to the
people that We would do every thing to
MAINTAIN it that was necessary to be
oone by legislation. The Senator also
says that it is perfectly immaterial
whether the panic was caused by
.53gNlmate arguments or was caused by
sne Vaccinations of designing men; he
says the results are upon US we must
deal with them.
II Is quite true, Mr.. President, that
Il Iae panic Is upon Us we must do the
osst we can t0.evade its dangerous con-
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