Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-07-18
SENATOR'S PETER, DAVIS, COR
tDON AND DANIEL.

De reg ulaUeu Dy law anu pau pTOLupG
ly in money: third. that all coal beds
ought to be owned and worked by the
government, aud that the wages of the
employees should be paid in money
when due; fourth, that all money used
by the people ought to be supplied
only by the government of the United
States, and that the rate of interest
ought to be uniform in all States; fifth,
that all revenues of the government
ought to be raised by taxes on real
estate The resolution went over un
til Tuesday without action or com
ment.
On Tuesday he made II speech in
support OF his resolution. in which he
gave expression to socialistic and an
archistic language, when he was re-
piled to in severe terms by Senator
Davis of Minnesota. Senator j. y.
Gordon, of Georgia. followed Mr.. Dasis.
and spoke as follows
Mr. President" he said, 1.-THE Sepss;
ator from Kansas clothed his some
what extraordinary speech with an
assault on the two leading political
parties occupying this chamber, and
he appeals for third party. AT
time like this, when the peace of great
communities is not only threatened
but broken, when law is defied openly,
when great central city, one of the
first in this or any land, has its pros
perity threatened by reign OF blood
shed and fire and terror; when great
communities are looking hither and
thither for some method of escape
from the terrOrs which surround them;
when our very civilization, not to say
the form of government under which
we live, is heaving under mad ground
swell of great agitation, it seems to
me that any representative on this
floor has descended very far from the
lofty plane of craftsmanship and pa
triotism who stands at such an hour to
appeal for party. What matters it to
us whether we be republicans or demo
Gratis, what matters it to any lover of
his country on which side we stood in
that great American conflict in the
past so now we stand shoulder to
shoulder for the peace of the country,
for the enforcement of its laws, for the
support of it's dignity and the perpe-
tuity of it's personal liberties-for the
liberties of its people? l do not wish
to speak to a subject like this from a
Southern standpoint; | will not. 1t
matters not to me whether the woe
which threatens Chicago be Western
or Eastern or Northern or Southern, 1t
involves in its meshes the very life of
this republic. which is a republic OF Or
der if it is a republic at all. We are a
peculiar people. We are people who
govern their country by vote, by bal
lot and the will of the people is its
law, and when the will of the people
fails to support the law the govern
ment must become defunct We have
+ Mt hn
recognized and upheld by the free will
of the people, Law governs by the
popular will and protects private prop
erty and private life. 1t protects the
right of the laboring man to dispense
with his labor and sell it where he
pleases, and when that right is invad
ed by Mr.. Debs or Mr.. Anybody Else it
is a defiance not only of the law Of the
whole country, but it is an Inaugural
top of a system of slavery never known
in the past history of this country.
The institution of slavery has been
wiped out in the blood drawn from the
veins of Northern and Southern kin
dred, and there never has lived man
on this continent who had the right to
order a man of his own blood to cease
from labor.
| THE SOUTH FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
why. sir, where is this country to
dav? | stand here in this high cham
Der and recall, with some misgiving, |
confess, the woeful prophecy of Lord
Macaulay that in some great public
upheaval, like that which confronts us
to-day, this fair republic would either
lose its civilization through mob law or
in putting it down by the strong arm
of power would lose its liberties.
1 L. hat
that il such doctrines as we have heard
on this floor this morning become pop
ular, well may we pause and consider
whether Macaulay's prophecy is to be
fulfilled or not Rather would think
with the great Gambetta when he said
that all the liherty-loving people of the
country would unite to save the coun
try, however much they might fight
parties.
1.-The day is on us right now, and L
stand here, not as a Southern man,
but as an American citizen, and | wish
nv voice could range through the
hearts of every lawbreaker on the con-
tinent when l say that the men who
wore the gray from 81 to '65 and con-
fronted the stars and stripes will be
found side by side with the men who
wore the other uniform, following that
flag and upholdihg the dignity of the
country oyer which it floats. APP
plause.
lone more thought: The distinguish
ed Senator from Minnesota, Mr.. Davis,
said truly and wisely, the great back
bone of this country was the common
class. l belong to that class-I am a
farmer and only farmer-and as their
representative 1 stand here to day to
say that south of the Potomac river
you will not see a farmer, be he white
or black, who will not rally to the sup
port of the government, in the support
of the power which the people have
elected. l wish the matter could have
been settled. regret the bloodshed,
but | want to say as an honest man
that the blood which has been shed or
will be shed, be it an ocean or not, is
not the price of this republic and its
value, and the sons of the men who
made it will save it, whatever may be
| the cost"
This speech evoked prolonged and
enthusiastic applause, which made it
necessary for the Vice President to
admonish the gallery.
| SENATOR DANIELS RESOLUTION.
Senator Daniel offered a resolution
as substitute to Peffer's resolution.
1t went over to Wednesday, when, af
ter amendment, it was without division
adopted as follows =
Resolved, That the Senate endorses
the prompt measures adopted by the
President of the United States and the
members of his administration to re-
pulse and repress by military force the
interference with the lawful processes
of the laws of the United States and
with the transportation of the mails of
the United States and with commerce
among the States.
THE action of the President and his
administration has the full sympathy
and support of the lava abiding masses
of people of the United States, and he
will be supported by all departments
of the government and by the power
and resources of the entire nation"
Lifes often lost from little ills
| Which might be saved by little pills,