The evening world., 1894-02-23

ference between the true value and the
value at which the dollar was coined-is
what Is called the seigniorage. Now, this
snam and fraud is proposed to be coined
isn59 more money. More han that, every
y represented by a certificate by which
the owner has a right to demand a dollar
US geod as a old dollar. That is the Law
" wen az the foundation of public credit.
NOW, II all the silver In the Treasury to-
dav were sold at Its market value there
would be a shortage of 500, 900, 600 in gold
70 redeem the silver dollar. l said we
n II wnrs as well try to coin a vacuum. 1t
Gentlemen, public credit cannot be
maintained unless you can teach your
Iehow-citizens OF the South that there
Southern Representatives to rise to he
standard of those great men who. from
the foundation of the Government down
TO- lS6o. stood in the Congress of the
United states. not only as statesmen
representing the whole country. but as
men who understood that the fmidamen-
tai principles of value and property were
.ne creations or a higher power, which
no man, by act OF Congress, can undo
or overturn.
II see that other Representatives from
me South have succumbed TO the falsity
preme Court of the United States are
local, questions, to be settled by the de-
mand OF some local politician upon the
PRESIDENT to consider how the appoint
ment VIII affect his political ]ospec
and his following in some remote part of
the Union. Heretofore had supposed
that the Supreme bench represented the
whole OF the United States. and that
every Senator and every member of
Congress and every citizen, whether in
congress or out of it, had n right to
demand that that place should be free,
WITHOUT regard to party politics and
without regard to locality; that the man
who should sit upon that bench should
be above suspicion and whose character,
as to command universal respect. and
that his great place was not to be made
a. football of by the politicians to kick
about from one end of the city or State
OF New York., or from one end of the
United States to the other.
THE SOUTH IN CONGRESS-.
GO and tell our Southern Senator's
thai Calhoun and Benton and Crawford
and Reeves, and the other great men
Who tor 50 many years represented them
would have abandoned even the high
position Of Senator and gone home in
sackcloth and ashes rather thar TO have
degraded the great commission which
they held from their States into the
mere sery1tude of a politician without
reputation. without character, without
right to speak for the State of New
York. Great cheering.)
Il suppose j am only a reminiscence
and a back number that ] can afford to
speak. You. who are younger than |
am. If you have convictions, ought to
have the courage of your convictions.
Your people had them even when they
went to the dread arbitration OF war
m sacrificed all that they held dear
ciple in which they believed. Are you
less brave now are you less ready to
sacrifice now than you We're thirty years
ago, when you went into that great con-
Hfntp ITnlagp .xASntt hos .I.nrar nFn 4 Oh
from the hign STANDARD OF conscience on
which then they acted-although. as l
believe you know, It was a mistaken
atea' vou owe Il to 'H vours nIvs 1 nad the
Southern men owe it to themselves. to
express to their. Senator's the opinions
they hold regarding the recent rejection
of fit and able men for the Supreme
Court of the United States.
The representatives who sit in Con
gress from the South are not up to the
standard either OF the great men who
the situation. How do you account for
it? l account for 1t this way. At the
close of the war everybody in the
any ability Immediately betook himself
to some kind of business by which he
could support himself n his family.
aut Of md the woo aont fad T Ihe m %ho D aonId 6St
get out stayed and devoted themselves
to the development of the resources OF
which l have spoken. Those who could
not get away. and could not make a
living at home in any regular branch of
business. went into politics, and they
were mostly men who had not been
trained as their fathers had been. They
had not gone to college and received
that mental discipline which comes from
the study of fundamental principles.
They We're trained on the field of battle,
brave, gallant, noble men. ready to die
for the South, as they are now ready
to die for the Union. tCheers.)
And this Is the lesson / would like to
drive home to every Southern man to-
night and to all related to you in the
There is no enemy of public vel
fare so great as the fool who steps in
where angels fear to tread" lCheers.)
Other toastS We're responded to by
James Lindsey Gordon. Elihu Root and
Isidor Straus.