The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-10-10

people OF Poland. Turkey has de-
! stroyed the people of the Danubian
provinces, and the same power will de-
stroy the mass Of the American people
II that power is not sought out and de-
stroyed.
:" | have no sympathy with commu-
nistio views or with anarchism. I be-
lleve in the right of person and prop
erty, but, Mr.. President, when YOU
give control such as has been eXer-
cised, to bring on this panic, to any set
OF people, you approach the conditions
brought about in France by Napoleon
the Third, who established, under the
rule of universal suffrage, the direst
despotism of modern times. He said ::
The Empire is peace" and he formed
his battalions to enforce peace. He
issued his plebiscite for the exercise of
the right of suffrage, and the voters
marched up to the ballot box between
an avenue of bayonets, and when the
result was announced, he said: "I am
the Emperor of the French by virtue
lege of universal suffrage of the French
people," The Empire was peace. The
empire of money in this country, they
will tell us, is peace, But it is the
peace under and by virtue of the
shackles Of dependency and slavery,
which will be forged for the great
silent masses of the country.
After some further remarks Mr..
Butler pleaded fatigue, and said that
he would now yield the floor to the
Senator from Kentucky (Blackburn).
although there were some other points
which he wished to discuss.
Mr.. Blackburn addressed the Senate
In opposition to the repeal bill. He
was not, he said, friend or apologist
OF the Sherman act, but, bad as the
measure was, unfair and uncandid as
he believed it to be, he did not believe
that 1T had been the cause of the finan-
clal woe which the country has suffer-
ed, nor did he believe it's repeal would
prove the panacea for all the financial
ills under which the country was strug-
CLING. He did not favor either the bill
passed by the House OF Representative
or the substitute reported from the f.
nance committee, but he thought bet
ter bill than either could be devised
and passed. He declared that an in
ternational standard of value was a
myth. There never has been, never
would be and never needed to be an in
ternational standard of value. The
trouble lay farther back than the
Sherman law. The tariff system of
the country needed revision and the
financial system needed overhauling.
He stood here to-day to advocate both
these necessary works.
He made an eloquent appeal on be-
half of silver. He said: "Silver has
not lost any of its intrinsic value. II
it be debased money to-day, it is only
when compared with gold. Subject to
it any other Test, however crucial or
severe, and it stands, as it has ever
stood, the fairest and most honest of
all the standards of value which the
people have ever known. pray you
not to strike it down. l appeal to Sen
ators now as did the Senator from South
Carolina (Butler) this morning. Letus
look and see if there be no basis of ad-
justment on which this issue may be
determined. There are those who sit
on this side of the chamber who know
with what persistency and earnestness
] have struggled from the day that
Congress met, down to now, to find a
basis of compromise. 1 will myself
tomorrow submit to the consideration
of the Senate an amendment which
propose to offer. looking in that dir
ection. l am compromise man
will go as far as the farthest and then
| will go farther still, to adjust the
issue which we are now considering."