The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-15
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Hepburn, republican, of Iowa, said the
gentleman from Pennsylvaia proposed tC
go back on the whole policy of his party
that had always pledged itself to maintain
gold and silver at parity. The secretary
OF the treasury was reported to have said
TO the committee on ways and means thai
II the gold proviso was put into this issue
OF bonds 1t must 60 into every future is
/ sue. DO you propose to do that?" he
asked, and there were cries of mo. no.
After reading the plank of the last ma.
tional democratic platform for bimetal-
lism, he said:
MIR. Speaker, / can imagine that your
heart has been warmed many times by
that ringing sentence" Whereat there
was great applause and laughter.
After reading the plank of the repub-
lican platform for bimetallsm he de-
clared that there was no difference be-
tween the moral and legal obligations ;
that there was not a debt of the govern
ment that could not honestly be paid in
silver.
Bryan made half hour speech against
the resolution. the passage of which. he
hogan by saying, would withdraw S65, 00), :
coo from circulation. tine president of
the United States" he said, lis a human
heing. The president is therefore liable
to err. He has erred. The democratic
party owes him nothing. Democratic APP
plauseI. 1t owes him only the gratitude
1t would owe the guardian who has squan-
dered n rich estate. He seeks to innocu-
late his party with the republican virus
that his party may die of blood poisoning.
democratic applausel. But he has yet
one tribute of sovereignty" continued
Mr.. Bryan, "'he chasteneth whom he low
eth.'" Laughter.
turning to the question at issue, Bryan
asserted 1t was a question IN which was
bound up the welfare of mankind. Pass
TINS resolution, no said, and SIG, 0O0. 900
would be saved to the people in 30 years
Pass 1t and they would be robbed of Sl6,-
OOO,OJo.OU in third of that time by the
men in whose interest it is passed.
The issue has come" said Bryan
you have got to meet this proposition.
On these questions we find the democrats
of the East and the republicans of the
East lock arms and proceed to carry out
their policy without reference to the rest
OF the country. But, Mr.. Speaker If they
do that they must expect, that, on the
principle of self-preservation, the rest of
the country will drop party lines and unite
TO preserve their homes and welfare.
[Applausel.
THE demand of our eastern brethren,
both republicans and democrats, is for a
steadily approaching stan larI of value.
They are creditors; they hold our bonds
and our mortgages, and as the dollars
come up here and debts increase they
gather an unearned increment. Another
time will come in this country when the
unjust exactIons and oppressive demands
of our eastern friends shall heal the di-
visions of the West and South and in the
end restore the doctrine of jefferson that
every man is the equal of every other
man and has an equal right to the consitl-
GRAFTON of the government" Prolonged
applausel.
Reed arose. "Mr. Speaker" he began.
that doctrine of the union of the South
and West has been preached before and
oy prophets whose inspiration lasted
onger than that of the gentleman
rom Nebraska. But 1t has been a fail |
Ire. 1t always will be failure.
We not only send our property west, but |
We send our children there, and no man |
who crosses from the East to the West
AN fail TO be struck with the fact that
here is, after all, a unity of consent be-
ween the two sections of the country that
10 language will ever blot out or destroy.
The southern and northern democrats
nay not be able to live together But |
Jay to YOU, republicans of the East and of
he West, and of the North and of the
south, you have always found some
Method OF living together, and you will
n the future. Applausel.
Now let me address myself to tho
small matter at hand. I
ave witnessed periods of great emotion
1 have hat 10
ems in the history of this house and of
his country, that even those matters
hich seem to be very stirring and strik.
lg, and to portend a tremendous future.
re not thought much of a fortnight after
heir occurrence. l admit, however. the
Importance in many ways of the proceed
1gs OF this house at this time. l wish the
esults were not foregone conclusion. l
lsh there was something more than LAM
lage left to use to-day. But that being
u there really is at stake, as the matter
Ill turn out. II see ms to me very imDor-
ortant that whatever we say here will s
ave a tendency to strengthen the credit
the government. l therefore feel called 4
pom to reinforce the remarks so ably b
ade by my friend, the gentleman from S
LIMOS, Cannon) as to what the govern :
ent has done in the past with it's bonds.
he bonds to-day ought to stand in the d
ont rank of national bonds if honesty of !,
Tort IN the payment of the same could q
unit Tor anything in the history of the g.
untry.
"Gentlemen say we are at liberty to nav S,
csc bonds in something else besides "
cir equivalent of gold. Whether we are d
not, the fact remains that, urged on
an inexorable law, we have thus far Il
I'D in gold or its equivalent, and every II
an in this house believes we shall do so il
the future. tApplausel. THIS does II
= IN ANYWAY initiate against anybody's
lief as TO bimetallism. whether interna. al
tional or national. For the men who Il
2 in favor of tho free coinage of silver OF
, so because they believe the free coin. CO
e OF silver would bring silver to a parity G.
tn gold. Therefore all sides of This ID
use-in the parties which are recog. al
led in the government of the conntry-