The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-11
nR0uC or Ene mining

Of civilization there must needs be wrecks
left In the wake, and society cannot afford
10 pay for all Of the losses that are oCca-
stoned as the great army Of the people
move forward. We could not with any de-
gree Of consistency, either in law or in NOR
ais, stop to pay our friends in the mining TO
Rions the value Of their interests before we
shall conclude to coin their silver and their
gold into money. The people need money;
Che people want the gold, and they want
che silver for public purposes-to make
money out of-aN for that reason and that
reason alone do / insist upon the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver.
Mr.. President, in the great war through
which we passed some years ago, the phys
ical courage and the prowess Of the people
were exhibited in such marked degree
that the whole world looked on In admira-
hon. We have no question about that to
day; we are all Americans, all Anglo-Sax-
Ons. Now, / submit there is coming a war
Of greater Importance, a war in which there
Rhall be no south and no north, and pray
that there may be no east and no west, but
that we shall have one undivided country,
that all Of us shall be actuated by patriotic
principles, and that we shall consider these
questions from q patriotic standpoint and
only that. It is war of reason now, and
not war with engines Of destruction In
our hands.
Ineed not call the attention OF the senate
10 the Importance Of the subject. II was
expressed in the message Of the president
very plainly and very succinCtly; that it
reaches out into all the avenues OF trade
and Of commerce. / need only so back
about 20 or 20 years to the time when tbs
distinguished senator from Ohio who sits
upon my left Mr.. Shermanl stated in this
chamber the proposition still more distinct
II, II possible, than the president has done
He said then that in all of our legislation
touching finance we are treating Of mat
ters which pertain to the vital interests oi
the people, that our laws upon finance reach
TO the homes OF the poor, the humble, the
lowly, and that when we are proposing to
decrease the volume of our currency and
appreciate the value of the basic metals
we are adding to the debts of the people, az
was the case at that time; when we prom.
ised to pay 100 bushels Of wheat, we shall
have to pay 185 or lao; that where we prom.
ised to pay 500 we shall have to pay Sl40.
So today the legislation which we enact
will have its effect for good or evil in every
dwelling in the land, for we are touching
upon a subject which is of vital interest to
every human being in this and IN every
other part Of the world.
The people of this country are not afraid
Of the public credit. They never were
afraid of it. In the time Of the nations
need we were all pleased to receive and to
use as money that which the congress Of
the United States authorized and directed
that we should receive as money. And 80
Il Is today. There Is no clamor upon the
part of any class except the usurers. They,
and they only, are clamoring about the
credit Of the government. and it is only be-
cause they desire to add to their already
I'll gotten gains.
II the people were afraid Of the credit Of
their government and feared that we would
dishonor our notes, they would not hoard
them as they are doing now, and the ma
tional bank would not feel themselves COM
PEELED to issue clearing house certificates
and require that they shall be used az
money, nor would they be paying a pre-
MUM upon currency.
Let us think moment about this mat
ter. 1t cannot be that our protective policy
has injured as to this extent or that ID
would ever do IL, for If | should cite no
other argument one alone is sufficient. To
day more than one-half in value Of the
goods that we are receiving from foreign
countries come in free of duty, and the duty
we pay upon the rest amounts to only about
$3.50, 200, 900 year.
Then, on the other hand, I take issue
with those friends who insist that 1t Is the
free trade tendencies Of the Democratic
narky that ara causin0 all the trouble In