Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-05-31
Carlyle Answered by The Ne
braska Congressman.
IN The ARENA AT MEMPHIS
Following Closely the Sound Money
convention Comes "a Demon.
stration for Silver.

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ton at the Auditorium, at which tn,
economic views of the secretary of tn,
treasury were expounded, comes a rous
ing meeting tonight of an equally nu
merous class of citizens, whose slogan
is honest money" and whose guest OF
honor was the eloquent young Nebras-
ka congressman, William j. Bryan
The meeting was held at the Grand
opera house tonight. That structure
seats only about one-third as many as
the Auditorium, in which yesterday
convention was held, and a large num-
Der who sought admittance could not
be accommodated. MI Bryan was in
troduced by w. H. Carmack, editor of
the Commercial-Appeal and received an
enthusiastic reception. A considerable
part of his speech was taken up with
| comparisons of Secretary Carlisle's La ST
| speech with the utterances said to have
been made by him in 1878. The telling
points in Mr.. Bryan's speech were loud
| ly applauded. He was followed by Con-
gresham j. M. Allen of Mississippi in
humorous and interesting speech Mr..
Bryan said in part:
COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS.
Il have read the speech delivered by
Mr.. Carlisle in this city, also that de-
livered by him at Covington, Ky, last
Monday evening, and have compared
them with the speech delivered by him
eFebruary Fl, 1878, in the house of rep
resentatives, and / am reminded of the
language used by David in lamenting
the death of Saul, How are the mighty
fallen
In 1878 Mr.. Carlisle was hurting the
pebbles of truth at the giant of Phillis-
tines, John Sherman; today, as a Co
hath, he daily issues challenges to his
former friends. Mr.. Carlisle did not
REFER while at Memphis to his speech of
1878, but he did refer to it while at Cow
lngton, and said, Some of the opinions
expressed then have been modified and
some changed altogether by subsequent
events and by more thorough investi-
cation of the subjects to which they
related, but on the question of free
coinage my convictions have never
been shaken for moment but he did
not state, even at Covington, what parts
or his former speech he repudiated and
what parts he modified. He served in
the house and senate about fifteen
years after the making of that speech,
ana never, upon a single occasion, did
he attempt to withdraw the utterances
of 1878 or to modify the emphasis with
which he then spoke
He explains that he voted for free
coinage In 1878 in the hope that it would
be amended in the senate, but he never
again voted for free coinage. 1t is
true that in 1878 Mr.. Carlisle did not
say he was opposed to the free coinage
of silver. but he ought, in all fairness.
to have stated that he was at that time
opposed to the free coinage of gold also.
He said in his speech in 1878, I am op-
posed to the coinage of either gold or
silver, but in favor of the unlimited
coinage of both metals upon terms of
exact equality Not only was his pres |
ent language contradicted by his for
mer speech, but letter written in 1890 |
by him says he was at that time in ia |
vor of the free and unlimited coinage |
of silver.
PROPHETIC WORDS.
Mr.. Carlisle in 1878 said: The strug- |
gle now going on can not cease and |
ought not to cease until all the indus
trial interests of the country are fully
and finally emancipated from the
heartless domination of the syndicates,
stock exchanges and other great COM
binations of money-grabbers in this
and Europe Now Mr.. Carlisle
Is the honored guest of a convention
attended by bankers and financiers
who are opposed to the use of silver
as standard money. Mr.. Carlisle
asks why the advocates of bimetallism
Are not in favor of the restoration of
silver gradually. What mockery this
81 Did they not secure the passage of
coinage bill after the repeal of the
sherman law and did not Mr.. Carlisle's
thief, Mr.. Cleveland, veto this bill, not
the fact that it was voted
or by more than two-thirds of the men,
'ers or both houses? Did not the advo-
'ates OF bimetallism in the senate offer
o support bill providing for the I'M
United coinage of silver with the pro-
'lsion that the government should
harge seigniorage equal to the diff
erence between the bullion and coin
Ige values? Did not the opponents of
liver oppose this measure, as they did
he free coinage of silver?
I'm 1878, when Mr.. Carlisle was in
with the masses Of the peo- ,
lie, he said: Let us, If we can do no
etter, pass bills embodying In each
ONE one substantial provision for re-
eff and send them to the executive for 5
Is approval. If he withholds his sigma
IRE and we are unable to secure the
ecessary vote here or elsewhere to en- ,
ct them into laws, Notwithstanding Q
Is veto, let us, as last resort. sus- I
end the rules and put them into a gen. |
raj appropriation bill, with the dis d
net understanding that If the country s
an get no relief the government can I
et no money These are the words of a
lie same distinguished statesman who | =
Memphis and Covington, assures the f
eople there is now no need of relief +
al that we have only to enjoy the a
'osperity guaranteed by a gold stand
d.
JOGGING HIS PERCEPTION. h
Mr.. Carlisle. in discussing the legal n
Ito, assumes that the United States Ct
n accomplish no more by free coinage
an our little neighbor. Mexico, and b
CROOKS entirely the effect which will o.
produced upon the value of silver n
lllion by the unlimited use of silver m
otner words, he does not take into s,
nsideration the fact that this coun-
is, In commercial standing, more | Y
an III times as great as Mexico, and
does not take into considerati ton the ID
81 that an increased demand such as
'uIo be furnished by the United States
'uio AFFECT the price of the portion of e
yer which falls upon the market. In m
imating the amount of gold avail cl
lie Tor coinage annually, he fails to b
lsiuer the great increase in the con- n
hptlon or gold in the arts and the in w
ase IN commerce in the last 100 years. bl
: carlisle holds out no hope of inter pc
liohal oimetallism, but insists that it