The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-19

people could understand a salary grab
but they could not understand scien-
tific spoliation of their rights. ZAP
plause) To make plain how the fraud
was .practiced, l copy into my remarks
sections Is and 16 of the bill supposed
to have been read when on its passage,
together with the words fraudulently
omitted, in brackets. Omit the words
in brackets and you have these sections
as they now read in the statutes; include
the words in brackets and you have the
sections as the bill was supposed to have
passed congress"
Mr.. Horr: where is that from; I
don't understand"
Mr.. Harvey: 81 take the two sections
as they now appear in the statutes and l
add between the brackets the words that
were erased from the bill"
Mr.. Horn: "By Whom?"
Mr.. Harvey: (Continuing)-surrep-
titiously in its passage.
Mr. Horr: "By whom; what proof have
you that anything was erased?"
Mr.. Harvey: "IIl get to the proof of
that little latter. The standard silver
dollar was fraudulently omitted after
the bill had passed the house. ZAP
plause)
alt will be questioned by our best citi-
zens that such fraud could be Eracticed
and the hesitancy with which they &C
cept its truth attests the integrity of our
citizenship. Before offering my proof,
and promise you it shall be conclusive,
Iwish to speak of official crimes"
Mr.. Harvey quoted Judge Kelly, chair
man of the committee reporting the bill,
to show in 1878 we were not using coin,
and that neither house appreciated the
magnitude of the bill, or to have given it
special study, particularly as it was a
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the coin money of the country. Continu-
ing Mr.. Harvey said:
Secretary of War Belknap committed
a crime and confessed it as have many
others in high official life and it is be-
lieved because it is confessed. The per-
centage of those who confess to those
who are otherwise found guilty and pun :
ished is probably not to exceed one per
cent and only small proportion of those
corrupted are ever arraigned
"a few years ago. within our own rec
objection, few prominent members of
the national legislature of France were
found guilty and sentenced to punish
ment for accepting brides to control
their votes in connection with the con-
struction of the Panama canal
mo people are naturally more tena-
cious of their liberty than the Irish, yet
under the efforts of the INSCRIPTIONS
Lord Castlereagh, English gold, supple
mented by royalty's gifts of titles, pur-
chased the dissolution of the Irish Parli-
ament. Since then home rule in Ireland
has been prevented by the influence of
the aristocracy of England 'sidetrack-
ing the issue of home rule As long as
the dominant power can prevent it from
coming to political issue, each side re-
! calling the people with party platforms,
or by preventing an issue from being
made up, they can continue to accomplish
| the work already begun. Home rule in
| Ireland is in that condition. The Chicago
Post of yesterday, gold standard paper,
says: For all political purposes the free
! silver dogma is as dead in the United
| States today as the home rule doctrine in
! England Both are out OF the range of
practical politics.' Such insidious state
ments as that, telling them it is not an
issue, in other words, that they can no
| get an opportunity to vote for that which
| they have a right to vote for, is theil
method of suppressing popular liberty
Mr.. H0rr: "Mr. Harvey still continues
! to rest his case upon an attempt to prove
that the human family is made up OF
scoundrels: that there is no such thing as
honor among the people of this or any
| other country.
"The Infamous statement that every
man has his price ought to be branded
upon the brow of every man who will
| quote it in earnest, because it is lie
against humanity. (Long continued ap-
| plause@ And it is equaed only by the
other statement that there is no such
thing as virtue among the women of the
Uaited states and other countries"
Mr. Harvey: 81 don't make that state
ment."
MI Horr: "That was motto that no.
body but d villain like Aaron Burr ever
could have originated, and I am sur
| prised that in the nineteenth century a
| man will stand up before an American
| audience and base his case upon the
proposition that the people of our grand
republic are mostly villains, because
say to you, in all caudor, the mem bers of
congress are fully up in honesty and de-
| cency to the average American people,
| know it. because have been one myself
you know. (LaughterG
''But what has all that to do with
| whether this bill was properly presented
and discussed? l am familiar with what
Mr.. Kelly said afterwards, but l now
| read to you what he said when this bill
was up in the house report of Mr.. Hooper
and it is not a speech that was printed by
! leave This took place right on the
floor of the house
"'1t is impossible to obtain the double
standard. The value of gold and silver
continually ductuates. You can not de-
termine this year what the relative value
of gold and silver will be next year
They were Is to 1 short time ago, they
are 16 to 1 now. Hence all experience
has shown that you must have one stand
ard coin which shall be a legal tender
for all others"
Mr.. Horn then took up the history Of
the demonstration act, showed the
stages through which it had passed and
declared that its final enactment was no
till after it had been before congress fo
nearly three, years.
MIR Harvey then returned to the attack
upon the honesty of Legislators through
out the country, including members O
congress and of the Illinois and Colorado
legislatures. This venality was sappine
the foundations of the government as