Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-01

,+s in 1879 after ING airaee. Mr..
pay silver dollar from sns ,,r circulation.
pryan said it contrac.ea know and every
How could ~, Knows anything apou .hat
man knows, no silver dollars 80. vas
that .neL ,rc,,lation, as the silver than the
time IN GU arts more on the doi is.ans ~ dol
VIA WI dollar was. Only elgnl aan coined OF
lars or tbereabouts zo mao a, 70 1873.
siIyar dollars since 17S2 UP ~
,,,.w SILVER Was Dropped
-. ,een on gold basis, ana a.; y an
I'VE have oeen ,snv Of you, gentlemen,
remelnos .aooI1ection goes Dack =. 30, sun
Wnose .ro,,, 1894 to 1873. why, .,,,ar was
, vas II that at that LILLY 1.nd had in
p9 uon, out of coinage. Eng Germany
1915 adopted the gold st ~ aii intents and
in 1871 nau tba gold standard. Tnat wei
purposes Tbe whole world, the cl;aaring
not an - tba world, had been co.'s. you'd
4hat question whether goid of ~ pa monetary
- tba standard Of value. A anc 1877 long
Convention in Paris, neiu 1s7s twenty
years. you W." were represented. There ~as
grea. .i po" baden. Bavaria, Belglum areat
Austria, 80 tinted States, France, .har.
m ra,ta;n Greece, Italy, the N Swe-
ia,ds Portugal. Russia, rrussT turkey
den Norway switzerlan anu one Of
and wurtenb .na N Sad as I
them DI ~ every one OF them l Know e,s
Ie'.nne voted in 1867 to do away WI
p .' on Standard and adopt the golu Ec.1an
= s "a rGreat applause] and TINS MA MA ~ the
e. telling the people from one enu of
country to the other, tnas n .n against
tbe gold standard was conspiaa . country
t ene s S,,,,,an race and put every couao,'
,,hich adopted it into slavery 70 .Td not
ysa,,rd burke said that you couiu -.
s.a,,,a an Indictment against Whole pu
Vic burke could not, but Bryan aroinp
" can. What do you THINK % graat
the representatives o. oh cSel adopted or de-
oidaa tn adopt the gold standard, ar .et IN. ana
snho+o and interchange OF views, wiz .
.en;,s into a conspiracy against the nulna a..
race and shutting the doors OF nueAs'
mankind?
Not Hostility to silver.
.>,o., that is not ALL Russia changed
- aold before 1870, the German emplto
IN 1S71 the Latin Union in 1873. 1ou sse
+bov we're following out the recomine .oc1
tions of the monetary convention =. +ha
In 1873 we dropped that dollar iroln 80.
coinage. But gentlemen, was ~ IL nO .5;Ia
nv to silver? Not at all, because WIZ
aronnino the old standard dollar from inc
coinage of the United States, that saIne
CONGRESS- inserted, upon the demand OF Inc
senator's from the Pacific coast, the llauo
dollar, and thirty-six millions OF them were
coined out of their silver LOT ulasAo =.
and unon their demand. They say, ana II
bas heen so many many times repeated
that the act of 1873 was passed secretly;
Tbare is only one difficulty with that ana
that is the record and the whole record
shows it to be utterly false. Inat OH was
recommended by the secretary OF the
treasrry in 1870. 1t was printed dozens OF
Years It was discussed in the senate and
discussed in the house; over 100 pages OF
The Congressional Record are taken up
with the discussion of it. The attention OK
the Pacific coast senators was called az the
time to the question of the dollar, because
IL was their demand then that trade
dollar be put into that bill, and 1t was
done. heard one of those Pacific coast
senators charge with the utmost virulence
upon Mr. Sherman that he passed that IN
famous crime which struck down at a
single blow half of the money OF the world;
and when Mr. Sherman came to reply he
showed that on the only aye and nay vote
that was had upon the bill he voted against
it and that senator voted for it. LApplause.l
''Talk about conspiracy! stand here to-
night to say, and l speak my conviction
when l say it, that there never has been
in the history of the United States con-
spiracy so strong, so well organized, SO
splendidly equipped, so pertinaciously
pursued as the conspiracy of the silver
mine owners of the United States to force
their silver upon the American people. Mr.
Bryan talks great deal about plutocrats.
He seems to be frothing at the mouth
about gold plutocrats forgetting that there
are such things as silver plutocrats; and if
am to be governed and my interests are
to be affected, so far as the currency is
concerned, by plutocrats, l prefer the plu-
tocrats of the world to the plutocrats OF the
14;G n
plutocrat in England can't do us half as
much harm as the silver bonanza king in
the senate Of the United States, can he?
Silver States for Free Coinage
''In 1889 there was what was called
National Silver convention at St. Louis.
have the prceedings here. Colorado was
represented by very large number Of
gentlemen appointed by the governor of
that state. California was there in force.
The great state of Nevada, which has a
smaller population than Dane county was
there, through it's United States senators,
and one or two distinguished gentlemen
from Nevada. Montana was there. ALI
the silver mining states were there. and
what do you think? They resolved in ia
vor OF the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver awful quick. Wonderful. wasn't it9
Iney did another thing. They appointed
National committee consisting of one
Inahh' lIoll eacn OF the states. You know
ar ABOUT that committee. addressing ex-
senator Sawyer.] We used to see them
every day while congress was in session in
washington, didn't we? The chairman of
mat committee was Gen. A. J. Warner of
ONO. Inc secretary of that committee was
MI. FRANCIS G. Newlands of Nevada. a
very delightful, elegant and accomplished
gentleman, son-in-law of William Sharon
ana somewhat interested in silver !
lLaughter.] II you have any doubt ahouf
tne emclency of that committee. their
tolllns early and late, in season and out Of
SEASON, acquiring newspapers, circulating
SILVER literature, putting circulars in favor
Oh free coinage on the desks of senator's
ana members of the house of representa-
ives, IL could easily be established. who
~ your suppose paid them? Do YOU sun
pose 20 tney were there solely for the beneft
al the human race? Laughter DO Won
LINK they were there working for yo,,
OF LOT me-? They were there ATTENDING
Strictly .. 10 business. l found Yesterday
t ~ soi9g over some papers, a book CON,
c 1a,ms testlmony taken before the house
,.udn OF Coinage, Weights and Mas
We VS. on tne senate Bullion bill Mr.. A. 7
warner marner came before the committee r.
appeared that he was not summoned tha,a ~
ne s;s SAID: have heard it stated that rH. ths
t saiser advocates ought to come hefo ore
cism. committee ,. to answer all crit.