The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-10-26
SENATOR VANCE'S VIEWS.
EXTRACTS FROM HIS SPEECH AT
THE STATE FAIR
He Thinks That Compromise VIII be
the Result OF the Finan-
cIaI Discussion.

| From the Raleigh News-Observer-
| Chronicle, of this morning, which
contains a full report OF Senator
Vance's speech at the opening of the
State Fair on yesterday, we clip the
| following extracts, touching upon the
financial situation:
Now it is known to you that great
| contest is pending in the Congress Of
| the United States and is dividing and
| agitating the people ali over this
great land on the question OF their
money. Propositions have passed the
House of Representatives and are
pending now in the Senate which
would demOnetiZe One-half If our cur
rency. Do you.knoW what that means
my friends? You do not. You think
you do but you do not. If you would
take the trouble to sit down and read
the history of the English people
about the time that Great Britain
demonetized silver and destroyed one
half of the currency of the people and
read of the vast muititudeS of hungry
men that paraded the streets of Lon
don and OF wailing women that sur
rounded the parliament house, hold
ing up children crying for bread, and
of the horrors of actual starvation
through which those people had to
IasS to come to gold standard: if you
could bring those times back, you
would see something of what was be-
fore you in case that Onehalf of Onr
money is wiped out.
The silver fight is now nearing its
completion. 1t is so near that a few
days ago l received belated petition
praying for the passage OF the uncOn
RI Of hn l1y
and | refused to present it, on the
ground that l belonged to a church
which does not belive it is lawful to
pray for the dead. We will get
compromise, fellow citizens We
are bound to have a compromise, and
that is being realized among all those
who favor unconditional repeal and
the return to the gold standard. The
constitution itself is a compromise of
conflicting interests. There is not a
law on the statute books of our State;
there is not statute of any State in
the American union, that is not the
result of compromise. All human
institutions are the result of a COM
promise. Even marriages are the re-
suit of compromise. If it had not
been, where would most of US have
been? That compromise will embrace
the continuance of the coinage of sill
yer. There are several of them offer
ed. / do not know which one will be
agreed upon; but it was well aScer-
tanned when | left Washington that
there was strength enough en- the
moderate side of the question to pass
one or the other of them. Probably
the compromise introduced by Sena
tor Harris, of Tennessee, will be
adopted, which provides for the coin
age of all bullion which is now in the
Iron nd I,o5 raI,
of silver at the rate of two millions
and d half ounces per month for five
years during which time we can see
better what we do) and that the
small bills of the national banks and
the greenbackS under ten dollars were +.
to be taken up and cancelled in the
Treasury, in order to give silver
chance to supply its place as money of
the people. Some compromise of this
kind will be undoubtedly adopted,
and that is bound to be the result of
the determined efforts of men who
possess devotion to silver money as
was done and has been done at every
convention in the State Of North Car
Olina for several years past and all
over the Union. | say that is So, and
it will have been effected by the de-
termination of those who were in dead
earnest when they said so. Men who
did not profess devotion to silver
money in order to secure an election,
and then went to Washington and de-
MED it thrice before the cock crew