The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-04

out the.dOIl8r ne gave me on Saturday
was struck by nation that had progress
IN II. 1t did very well at that time, but
now we are not the same country. When
l moved, or more properly, when my
people moved me, from the hills of Yer
mont into the woods Of Ohio, we were
- days In a covered wagon going the
distance. Now cross the continent in
five days. The whole nation has been
built up, and with it has come this new
monetary system with gold for the CEN
ter.
Listen, Brother Harvey. The sun is
the center of our system. The world re-
wolves around the sun and the moon re-
wolves around the world-the lesser al
ways around the greater So in the use
OF metalas money you should plan the
more valuable where civilizati de-
mands it and make that the center, silver
to revolve around it and copper around
that, but the yellow metal should always
be the center, as is the yellow orb of the
universe. (Applause.)
THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE.
Don't forget it, The people of this
country, Mr.. Harvey. are going to de-
eide this question. I do not say they will
decide 1t as think they ought to, but
will say this-if they G0cide it as you
think they will will base my reputation
as prophet and as a man Of sense on
the result, and if live-I may Motif
do not will look down from my seat in
the heavens QaughteD and will see this
nation of your suffering as l have told
you today. No people can violate the
great laws of the universe and go I'M
hurt.
"A single standard, the best metal in
the world, should be used as the basis of
money and the center of the monetary
system. If am right time will demon
strate it.
Il desire now to thank you for the kind
treatment have received at your hands
The little discomfort that l did receive
was not your doing. I have nothing but
the kindest feelings for Mr.. Harvey in
this whole controversy. OF course it is
hard for me to see how a man can be-
leve as he does Qaughter), but on that
account l do not denOunce him. He
spoke in his remarks the other day of
some unkind words that I had used in
conversation about him here in the city.
1 suppose I know the report he refers to-
and I want to say I never uttered a
word of the kind published in the news
papers. not syllable (Applause)
Mr.. Harvey-Mr. Horn presents me
with a silver Chinese piece. I accept it,
believing that it comes with good grace
and a kindly feeling from Mr. Horr I
object to what he says in that presenta>
ton as reflection upon that metal. The
United States is the chief producer of sill
yer; tens of thousands Of miners are now
in our Rocky mountains who went there
by the encouragement Of the laws of our
country that made silver the money met
al Many of them who are yet living are
today sitting by their lunch buckets upon
the mountain sides waiting, anxiously
waiting with patriotic hope of this
great battle that is waging in the states
OF the east Their cheers are for us. The
laws of jefferson and Jackson sent them
there. Until 1873 that metal that this
coin typifies was the most sacred metal
of our monetary system. 1t is a unit
regulated the value of all other coins
(applause) and it was an honored metal
until it was sturck down in it's own
country-struck down. I have a right to
say, by a dagger; struck as Caesar was,
and the same men who drove that dagger
to the heart of this nation in the de-
struction of that metal as money now
say the same things that the assassins
of Caesar said: we are honorable men,
(Applause)
''The stoppage of free coinage of silver
by substantially all the European gov
ernments and by the United States i'm
mediately gave an impetus to the trade of
India with the silver-using nations of the
world, and her exports were also largely
increased to gold-standard countries. In
1873 she was almost unknown as a COM
mercial country and her people were re-
garded as indolent and shiftless. How
ever, her soil was rich and her natural
advantages great, and under the vitaliz-
ing effect of increased silver currency
that has poured into her since 1873 her
people became more Industrious and a
complete change took place. In 1873 she
produced only $4,000 bales of cotton,
while in 1890 she had increased her crop
to 2,238,000. In 1873 her exports of wheat
were only nominal while in 1892 they
were to England alone $4,000, 900 bushels.
In the statistics compiled by Archbishop
Walsh, of Ireland it is shown that prior
to 1873 the exports of yarn from India
were practically nothing. In her exports
OF this one item of yarn to China and
Japan alone the following table shows a
marvellous increase:
Pounds. Pounds
1874. 1000, 900 1885 $4,000, 900
1S75....... 5,000,000 1889. :. 1877 900, 600
1880. .25, 900, 900 1891. . 1855 O0O 900
In 1891 she imported from China 2,42O,-
295 tens of rupees of merchandise, while
during the same year she exported mer-
chandise to China of the value of 1885,
1874 tens of RUPEES. Nor did her vastly in
ing nations. In her commercial relations
with the gold standard countries, begin
ming with and after 1873, the balance of
trade was in favor of India.
READS A DISPATCH FROM MEXICO
II hold in my hand a newspaper press
telegram from the City of Mexico. 1t is
dated July 16, and reads as follows:
Many print cloth mills are running
night and day and even now are unable
to supply orders Native mills are find
ing an increase in business as a result
of the depreciation in silver, which rem
ders importation of ordinary classes Of
print cloths excessively costly. High ex-
change. on the United States and Europe
protects native mills. (Applause)
Japan is now coming into existence as
wonderfully commercial country. It
has been under her increased supply of
silver. Papers of this city have been
having special articles from Japan in the
last week or two which area lesson upon
this financial question. It is their use of
silver and our limited disuse of it that
has given to Mexico, India and Japan the
stimulus in civilization that they have re-
ceived recently, and if it were to con-
tinue with their monopolizing of silver,
even as against the deterioration of the
climate in which they exist, they would
advance to a period of civilization under
that influx of money that they never
possibly could reach without it. (Ap-
plause.) Any panics in those countries
from now on, If they have monopoly
of silver, will be on account of the bank
credit system, which may relax and con-
tract to choke prosperity.
FAvoRS INDEPENDENT ACTION.
II am in favor of Independent action Of
this country because it rights a great
wrong. If it be said that some one will
be injured, the answer Is that more have
been injured by the wrong. And again
that more will be injured by the continu-
alton of the crime. Again, the answer
is, to continue it is to sacrifice the life
and the happiness of millions and to in
vite destruction of our national exist
ence. Where there is necessity there