Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-08-02

Here, we want gold, you must be con-
tent with bad silver, and we can not
give YOU much because it is inconven-
lent to US and with this offal, which
even in that sense is not supplied freely,
and is kept within very narrow and UNI
natural limits, the people must be salts
fed
"a curious feature in connection with
this matter is the oft-repeated saying
There is no demand for silver Blow
ing hot and blowing cold. First prais-
ing supply of gold, then calling for a
demand OF SILVER before it is supplied.
say the demand for silver has been
DESTROYED. the strength to use it is gone,
pauperism is too great to make a demand
such Us would satisfy the authorities.
And what kind of form must the de
mand' take in order to force a supply?
How far mnst the agony go in order TO
burst its bonds? Some time ago gen
eral cry arose throughout the country on
account of the scarcity of silver. There
were people who asciibed this 10
Colonel TOmlin's effort to agitate the
subject. as if that gentleman had
brought up and hidden many millions
of silver. But the demand seemed gen
une, for it was impossible in some parts
Of Engla nd to find silver. The author
tiles took care to show that the demand
was accidental, and promised that as
soon rs the mint had finished coming
gold, in IA few months, it would coin sill
YER Yet during this time the demand
had to wait and many hundred thous-
ands and millions of modest transac-
tions between the poorer and industrial
classes, from which they might derive
comfort and sustcnance, could not take
Il Il Ill
yer was mighty effort of the crippled
intercourse, caused by offers for mutual
exchange, which exchange could not
take place because the means were alb
sent. The sick man tried to rise, and
had a craving for nOurshment; he fell
down again because it could not be
given him when he wanted it.
lessons like these are lost upon our
economists. Who can wonder that they
utterly fail to recognize the silent suf-
fering of our poorer classes less versed
i'm social economy than themselves,
when they refused even to profit by such
manifestations which so completely bear
out all that we, the advocates of the
double valuation have brought forward:
And if you bear in mind the great gulf
that exists i'm Europe between the ruling
classes and the people, the deep root of
prejudice against their rising, the pecu-
liar kind of charity and charitable social
economy whose stock arguments rest on
abuse of the lower classes with just so
much effort for elevating them as eau
ton may admit, you might come to the
conclusion that scarcely anything short
of rebellion will be found strong enough
to serve the authorities as sufficient
manifestations of demand for silver TO
this point am certain we must uti-
mately come. Grave political questions
may occupy the world for some years to
come. but this question will be one of
the rest. Rebelions for similar objects
have happened before in this present
age"
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"Men like yourself, on framing
coinage bill, undertake a gigantic
responsibility. which strongly affects,
not only whole nations welfare and
happiness. but also that of the world at
large. Pray do not despise this lam
guage. The deep study of all the prin-
cipes and interests connected with the
organization of social life warrants it,"
This letter, for the first time given
to the American people in 1893, TO de-
fend the committee against charge of
bribery, demonstrates that the atten-
ton of the committee was called In a
most fcrcible manner to the character of
the bill that they were endeavoring to
foist upon the American people. And
it also shows that this committee, in
stead of consulting the American peo-
pie, or their representatives, as to their
wishes in the matter, which they were
exceedingly careful not to do, consulted
governor of the Bank of England,
whose name Mr.. IIOar assures us was
Latham.
1t seems to us that it would be i'm
possible to conceive, so far as the COM
mlttee is concerned, a more disreputa-
BILE condition of things than this. Why
committee of the American congress
should in considering a bill affecting
every citizen of the United States, most
carefully conceal its scope from all
Americans, while sending copy to a
governor of the Bank of England we dc
not know. If it was not bribery that
! brought about such condition as this
what was it?
In the debate on the financial ques
ton now in progress in Chicago between
Mr.. Harvey, author of "Coin's Finan
cial School and Ex-cOngressman Horl
of Michigan, the following pertinent
facts have been brought out:
Mr.. Harvey-Now | proceed with thi,
argument as to what occurred in Con
gress, and | shall pass the books to Mr.
Horr. will give page references, so the
readers of this debate can check on me
There will be no uncertainty as to any
thing that say being authentic. | viii
quote nothing that is not here present
in the room. BY examining the record,
of the day and the newspapers we fine
that there was an era of corruption in
Congress at that time. Clinton Colgate
confessed before the ways and means
committee of 1873 to the use of money
to influence the incorporation of special
features in the internal revenue bllt, tes-
tifying among other things that Charles