The Dickinson press., 1895-07-27

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are silver standard nations.
Ne OO0ble.0taAdaFA Nation. r
"There IL to-day no nation on the face
Of the earth that 10 actually using q double
standard. The actual measure OF value In
each OF the countries Of the world 10 either
gold alone. or silver alone. except In some
countries where deprecated paper money
10 the only Giro ulating medium and metal
money 10 bought and sold ~ q commodity,
Just ~ was the case In this country dur
ing the suspension Of specie payments. Mr..
Harvey claims that the law Of 1873 was &C.
deny that he claims that. That I have de-
MED and still deny. l say that there 10 not
q grain Of truth In such a statement. Hut
we both agree thst the law was passed and
10 In force to-day. Now the important ques-
tion before the American people at this
moment. and the one we are here to dis
cuss. 10 this: Ought the Law to be repealed:
Ought We to again throw open the mints Of
the United States to the free coinage Of
ne sssss sct SsGn ratio sae 81 81 v sfa,e n q tn L %.r Il srs e
the world b fully 80 to II"
ed record Of what Mr.. Horr has just now
said. 1t will be time enough for me to take
up Q new subject. I nm not done with the
present subject yet. The act Of 1853 served
the purpose of the men who were seeking
to overthrow our constitutional standards
Of money In this way. In 1853, on account
Of the expectation Of our silver coins, BY
ing less b ours, 10 to I, congress, pre-.
serving the silver unit, ordered by act that
the fractional silver nifty cents n less
should be cut down In size to the French
ratio. to stop Its expectation. The silver
unit was preserved and could be preserved
without even coming a single one of them.
It would regulate the other coins all the
same. Now his fractional silver has ita
legal tender character taken away from 1t.
because It was not Of full weight. 1t was
not made full weight because Of the o..
portation and 1t was made non-legal ten.
der, because 1t was not Of full weight,
awaiting further consideration whether We
not. So that when the bill in 1873 was be.
ing considered at a time when nobody was
thinking about coins and very few knew
anything about 1t, these men who were
steering the bill said:
I'VE IRE rt.enacting the act of 1853.
There ant be anything wrong about that
and that Is what they made senator's and
congressman believe they were doing, II
cept that they were going to reduce the
size Of the silver dollar, to put us on the
French ratio. but talking to men who
knew nothing about bimetallism or the pre-.
vlous history Of coinage. the act Of 1879
served that purpose to get the language In
the bill concerning the fractional coin and
the preceding clause that had the dollar in
1t, into language Of the act of 800. So that
all they had to do was to strike out the line
that had the dollar in 1t In the words Of the
act Of 1858. which was a free coinage dol
lar, and there you had an act without any
free coinage silver In 1t.
This bill wal passed in the senate on
Jan. II. 30 that the morning papers of the
18th would contain any news. II there were
any, showing that the fundamental laws Of
the government had been changed.
The only reference that appears in the pa
per Is a press telegram from Washington.
which says this: "Mr. Sherman called up
the bill to revise and amend the avs re.
lating to mints, assay Offices n coinage
Of the United States, which was amended
as passed." That Is oil, not another word.
One Of the money metals Of the United
States. as Is now conceded. was struck
down by the bill; the constitution had been
overthrown; the dollar that had regulated
oil other coins had been abolished. A great
war debt to be paid OF and one of oul
money resources for paying 1t had been de-
stroyed. Long continued applauss.)
No Information Of that fact was con
veyed to the people through the newspa
pers Of the country. Applause.) The 70
porters at Washington did not know 1t
The money of the people that had served
them we'll was destroyed. and now I chal
lenge Mr.. Horr to show me anywhere II
the newspapers Of the United States dur
ing the passage Of the bill which he say
has no faint Of fraud attached to 1t, wher,
the public knew that a bill was being con
sidered by congress that was to DESTROY
as money one-half of the money metal O
the country. or that they had passed sucl
a BILL. l have charged that 1t was passet
secretly. The fact that a fundamental Law
of the government had been reversed an,
that no information Of 1t had gone to tn,
/ nQnnIa UyIhnoo nnvornunAnA a. -oa askH.~
before or after the passage of the bill
until 1t was discovered several years al
terward, is one Of the best evidences O
Its secret passage.
The contestants being clearly at logger
neads as to the point Of discussion. littl
ment was taken till Monday. The debat
prior to running against the big snag ha,
been full Of interest.
Mr.. Horr. In opening, declined to allo,
Mr.. Harvey to accept as admitted an
statement of Mr.. Hervey's which Mr.. Hor
had failed to deny. Mr.. Horr said NJ,
Harvey had been reading q series IT care
could not be expected to remember all q
the statements made In them. He would
however, furnish Mr.. Harvey a rule to z
by. He might take 1t for granted that b
CHorr) denied everything except what b
expressly assented to. Mr.. Horr too
up the
International Monetary Conferenc
in Paris, of 1867, at which the leading ri,
ilized nations Of the world were renr
scented, and pointed out that after eial
days consideration, the Representatives I
oil the nations present, inc udlng the Unite
States, voted unanimously. with the exec,
ton Of the representative of Holland.
favor of a gold standard. It was after tn
that our statesmen began to consider III
question of our currency and It was openl
and as a legitimate outcome of this int
national conference that the act of ia;
was passed, Mr., Horr then argued
length. quoting from letters and documan
to proye that the charge that tha 4
monatization act was nassed through ~
influence of British brides was false.
Mr.. Harvey. replying. said that the arg
ment n to show that the most !,
norfant letter submitted Nv Mr. Horr sho,
mo that tho man WIN Woo .,nnn.od
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