People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-07-25
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knew nothing about bi-metalliSm or
the previous history Of coinage, the
act of 1873 served the purpose to get
the language in the bill concerning
the fractional coiD, and the preceding
clause that had the silver in it into
the language Of the act of 1853. So
that all they had to do was to strike
out the line that had the dollar in it
ih the words Of the act of 1853, which
vas a free coinage dollar, and there
you had an act without any free coin
age in it.
II have before me on this table the
flies Of the Chicago Tribune for 1913.
This bill was passed in the senate on
January Il, so that the morning pa
lers of the 18th would contain any
news showing that the fundamental
Aws of the government had been
changed. The only reference that
appears in that paper in a press tele-
gram from Washington is: Mr..
Sherman called up a bill to revise
the laws relating to the assay offices
If the United States, which was
amended and passed.
"That is all. One Of the money
metals of the United States, as it is
p5w conceded, was struck down by
that bill; one of the monies Of the
constitution had been overthrow;
the dollar that had regulated all other
coins had been abolished. A great
var debt had to be paid off and one of
eur money resources for paying it had
been destroyed. Long continued ap-
plause.
''No information of that fact was
conveyed to the people through the
newspapers of the country. ZAP
plause.) The reporters at Washing
ton did not know it; the congressman
as a whole did not know it. The
money Of the people that had served
them well was destroyed, and l now
challenge Mr.. HOrr to show me any
where in the newspapers Of the Unit
edStates during the passage of the bill,
which he says has no faint of fraud
attached to it, where the people knew
bill was being considered by con-
gresS that was to destroy as money
one-half Of the money metal Of the
| country, or that they had passed such
Ia bill.
n l have charged that it was passed
NSecretly. The great fundamental law
0f the land had been reversed and
n that no information Of 1t had gone to
d the people whose government it was,
either before or after the passage Of
I the bill, until it was discovered sever
/ al years afterwards, is one of the best
evidences of its secret passage"
Mr.. HOrr in replying said: Gall
this talk about striking down the
money Of the people is the mereSt rot
|k-it's the only word that exactly COW
2krs that kind of bOSh. The money Of
I aIae people should be just as good as
4 the money of the nabOb, and before l
get through l will show the people of
1.-THE United States that | have come
here to defend the rights of the mil
lions who live by toll, who live by
work, whose wages would be cut ia two
by the passage of this law which my
friend advocates. (Long continued
applause.)
'If Mr.. Harvey-nOw liSten-shall
succeed in proving that the people Of
the United States in 1873 were mostly
a set of corrupt scOundrels and that
he is really the only pure and upright
man left in Chicago, it won't avail
him anything in this debate. These
questions are not pertinent to the
questions in dispute"
The contestants being clearly al
loggerheads as to the point of discus
sion, little further progress was made
until adjournment was taken until
Monday.
The debate prior to running against
the big snag has been full of interest
The attendance showed no apprecia
BILE difference from that which char
scterized the previous sessions. 4.
Mr.. Harvey opened the days talk
with review Of the points so far es.
tablished. They were that prior to
1873 gold and silver were the money
Of the constitution: that silver was
the unit Of value; that up to that time
the debtor was permitted to pay in
the cheaper money, and that silver
\ was not demonetized because of any
other production at the time the act
of 1873 was passed. Then taking up
/ the debate proper he denied that be
! had at any time tried to impeach The
integrity of the American people, but
he did not propose to allow corrupt
Legislators to throw the mantle of na
tioual honesty around them for theil
! own protection. He recognized the
q INTEGRITY of the American peOple anC