Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19


democrats held a meeting which was
addressed by Congressman Bryan, of
Nebraska. Among other things Mr..
Bryan said:
Il have read the speech delivered by
Mr.. Carlisle in this city on yesterday:
also that delivered by him at Coving-
ton, KY, last Monday evening, and 1
have compared them with the speech
delivered by him on the 21st of Febru-
ary, 1878, in the house of representa-
tives, and l am reminded of the Ian
guage used by David in lamenting the
death of Saul: How are the mighty fall
LEM
"1n 1873 Mr.. Carlisle was hurting the
pebbles Of truth at the giant of the
Philistines-John Sherman. Today, as
a Goliath, he daily issues challenges TO
his former friends. His speech of 1878
was made when he was 43 years old, in
the full possession of his physical
strength and mental Figor. He had
then been a practicing lawyer for 20
years. member Of the state legislature
OF Kentucky and lieutenant governor
OF that state, and was then a member of
congress. Mr.. Carlisle did not refer at
Memphis to his speech of 1878, but he
did refer to 1t at Covington, and said:
Some Of the opinions then ex-
pressed have been modified, and some
OF them have been changed altogether
by subsequent events and by a more
thorough investigation of the subjects
to which they related, but on the ques-
ton OF free coinage my convictions
have never been shaken for a moment
But he did not state. even at Gov
ington, what parts of his former speech
he repudiated and what parts he mod
flied. He served in the house and SEN
ate for about fifteen years after the
making of that speech, and never upon
single occasion did he attempt to
withdraw the utteranceS of 1873 or to
modify the emphasis with which he
then spoke. He explained that he vot-
ed for free coinage in 1878 in the hope
that it would be amended in the sem
ate, but he never voted against free
coinage until after the nomination of
Mr.. Clevland in 1892. 1t is true that in
1873 Mr.. Carlisle did say that he op-
posed 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 of 1878:
Compromise Measures
"1 am opposed to free coinage of
either gold or silver, but in favor of
the unlimited coinage of both metals
upon terms of exact equality
mot only is his present language
contradicted by his former speech, but
letter written in 1890 by him says
that he was at that time in favor of
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer.
Mr.. Carlisle, in 1873, said: The
struggle now going on cannot cease
and ought not to cease, until all the
Industrial interests of the country are
fully and finally emancipated from the
heartless domination of syndicates,
stock exchanges, and other great COM
binations Of money grabbers in this
country and Europe Now Mr.. Car
Isle is the honored guest at the con-
vention attended by bankers and flnan-
ciers who are opposed to the use of
silver as standard money.
Mr.. Carlisle asks why the advocates
OF bimetallism are not I'm favor of the
restoration of silver gradually. What
mockery this is! Did not we secure the
passage of the seigniorage bill Just aft
er repeal of the Sherman law, and did
not Mr.. Carlisle's chief, Mr.. Cleveland,
veto this bill. Notwithstanding the fact
that 1t was voted for by more than two
thirds Of the democrats of both houses? :?
Did not the advocates of bimetallism in
| the senate offer to support a bill pro-
viding for the unlimited coinage Of sill
yer, without the provocation that the
government should charge a seignior-
age equal to the difference between the
bullion and coinage values? Did not
the opponents of silver oppose this
measure as violently as they did the
free coinage of silver?
I'm 1878, when Mr.. Carlisle was in
sympathy with the masses of the peo-
pie, he said: Let us, IL we can do no
better, pass bill after bill, embodying
in each some one substantial provision
for relief, and send them to the execu-
tive for his approval. II he withholds
his signature and we are unable to Sc
| cure the necessary vote here or else
where to enact them into laws, notwith-
standing his veto, let us, as a last re-
sort, suspend the rules and put them
into general appropriation bills, with
the distinct understanding that IL the
| people can get no relief the government
can get no money
An Argument Answered.
These are the words of the same dis
! tinguished statesman who, at Mem
phis and Covington, assures the peo-
pie that there is now no need of relief
and that we have only to enjoy the
prosperity guaranteed by a gold stan
dard.
"Mr. Carlisle. in discussing the legal
ratio, assumes that the United States
can accomplish no more by free coin
age than our little neighbor, Mexico,
and overlooks entirely the effect which
will be produced upon the value of sill
yer bullion by the unlimited use IL II
in the United States. In other words
he does not take into consideration the
fact that the United States is, in COM
mercial standing, more than ten times
as great as Mexico, and he does no,
take into consideration the fact thai
an increased demand, such as would be
furnished by the United States, will af-
feet the price of that portion of silver
which falls upon the market.
I'm estimating the amount Of gold
available for coinage annually, he fails
to consider the great increase in the
consumption Of gold in the arts and
the increase in commerce In the last
hundred years. Mr.. Carlisle holds out
no hope Of international bimetallism
but insists that 1t is the duty Of this
government to maintain a gold stan
dard, and trys to show that 1t will
cause no appreciation in the value OF
the dollar