Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-07
TO THE CLEVELAND CLUB.
Address or HON. WILLIAM POM
DEXTER AT THE CITY HALL.
An Exhaustive Arssument on the sil-
Yer Question ana a Warm EuioEy
o. the National Administratioa
With Some Sarcastic Aiiusious.

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HIS address was devoted princlpa,sx
to an exhaustive nnr,,r,ar, a., ~ II,
v.r o,,a,,ts,, XII, ~ -
'AesNVA anu Nihuioation OF the
national administration In the course
which had been ID s,'sued In tcpard 10
mis- ana other r,a,,sr.
No.
'''or . d. JARVIS. president OF The
clup. introduced the speaker, who
opened with words OF Modification ,or
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eoiilelde IN all respects with those
he was about to express dwelling cs-
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w peH'0SFA' ahoulu ne allpwjd tull
liberty Of speech upon matters Ia
which there were differene.s NJ onir.
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s.SttS utsssss 'he iu'l intrinsic Vaiue
"nieu - pulporteu 10 represent as
a.. ''id 1,s.. Va yNrn'i,ise' un this point
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g. - u , "ea Simply ceruieate
s,,". siv NY,n Sohtiileu the amount
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100 ,, su."siN". 70 "'AN' u'e Intrinsic
'",uS " ny ",Nn' cuhtNneu IN the
~ a, NNN'' ''V N"'us rep'e'ehteu
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Ae .raNeu me history OF american
VVlhuhe hslsiauph ON thls point rom
W t"liVa' uu9H VI the htpNpl'S re-
Trims 70 'euvtspn ana oiher allnE
pengcratN huthvrlurh IN support OF
nls uvOierhllVhh ne reieffeu 70 tht
eAWnhahlneht OF the r7'lo % " 20 l.
WV h'st ratio uetWeeh tulu anu SILVER
III INC Vhilta states ahu me tr1uple
Whlch mao ehs0sg. 20 ne Aad, W con-
sequence OF the umeFehce IA CONNER.
/ clAi value hetWee'l inc American goa
! ana sllNei dollars Wi'ieh appeared some
! cara niler IN CONSEQUENCE OF the N--
pleelaNoh ~ the NAlue OF silver Rha
! stated mat the goEernmqnl ia order
10 prevent me urain OF gold from mo
( country hau mol ISSUED any silver u9l-
mrs from lso1 TO 1855 ana that me
/ diihculties OF the situation, whieh hai
! engaged the attention OF American
| statesmen from lSlt TO lSco, mai NOT
| been met until IN the later year mo
ratio was changed to ~ to ana the
| coinnge OF silver dollars resumed.
1 Coming down 10 recent years he said
mat up to mat time only eiBht mlllion
dollars OF round silver dollafs had bean
! Gained, together with ilrty three mll-
! lion dollarb OF fractional currency.
! Tht dempiltlHatloh OF sliNer AZ that
/ time he SAID was an outrage ana he
was of opinion that much OF the IL
| nnncial trouble which hnd occurred
AT that time and since then might
| have been averted " the country hnd
! then entered upon the free coinuBe or
| gold and silver at the proper ratio.
He said decentralization OF silver by
| this country had no doubt taken away
/ from II u portion OF it, commercial
/ value but that a resumption OF freq
coinage at this time would not restore
the value which silver possessod for
morly. for fifteen Of the commercial IA
tons OF the yorld had also ceased the
free coinage Of silver, and each of these
nations by 40 doing had taken from
silver a portion OF It's commercial value.
The full difference between the fsrmer
and the present value of silver could
not be restored TO II BY the rcsump-
ton OF It's free coinage by any Of the
nations which had iemouollis1 H. He
then explained how. IN his nplnion, the
/ enactment of free coinage ,sN would
operate NJ the resent tinlc, saying that
II there should be fcea and nnlini'tel
coinage cf silver ipl'ars NJ az liz
grains, with gold dollars OF Is s-leo
/ grains when tile lntta- was worth about