The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-21
Cincinnati Chronicle.l


The New York Freeman's J Journal has
at some length explained why the act de-
monet1zating silver is rightly termed
'"The Crime of 1872 After Quoting
from the Congressional Record the re-
marks of prominent members of the
Congress which passed the law, much
the same is given in The Enquirer, the
journal continues:
In view of this testimony the advocates
of silver, and everyone else who has a
shred of moral sense left to him, are ius-
titled, nay, bound by the obligation of
veracity to designate the law demonetiz-
ing silver as the "Crime of 1871 the as
yet unpublished crime that has brought
untold misfortune on the American peo-
pie. The st. Louis convention has re-
solved to maintain that fraudulent law
and perpetuate it's evil results. The
Chicago convention has resolved to blot
1T from the record and remove us far as
possible the evils it has produced.
THE CRIME OF 1873
According to the statement of Judge
Kelly, given above, the silver bill, when
it left the hands of the committee on
coinage, did not demonetize the silver
dollar. On the contrary, it made provi-
sions for its continued coinage. After
the bill was passed it was discovered that
the provision for the silver dollar was
omitted--had been surreptitiously oblit-
Grated from the document Here we
have the crime of '73. Who did this
nefarious work? BY whose request or
suggestion was it that this doctored
substitute for the original printed bill
was not read in the House? Who shut
off the debate by demand for the pre-
vious question?
To bring crime home to it's perpe-
traitor the first question asked is: Who
benefited by it? The foreign and Wall
street bondholders made millions by it.
This fact in itself is not enough to con-
Wet, but it affords clew. With
THIS CLEW IN HAND,
we introduce Mr.. Ernest Seyd into the
conspiracy. A writer, quoted by Samuel
Leavitt in his book, ''Our Money Wars ~
says:
THE English capitalists raised $500, 900
and sent One Ernest Seyd to America to
have silver demonetized. He came In
the bill was skillfully inserted clause
demonetiZing silver Before the Hill
passed member of the committee which
had the bill in charge said that Earnest
Seyd, of London, II distinguished writer
and bullionist, who is now here, has
given great attention to the subject of
mint coinage. After having examined
the first draft of this bill he has made
various sensible suggestions, which the
committee adopted and embodied in the
bill. '-(Congressional Record, April 8,
1S72)n
AS Ernest Seyd is an interesting and
important character in this conspiracy
we will follow him to London and see
work in America.
In 1892 FredericE Tucl,anhocb N
former member of the New York Stock
Exchange,
MADE AN AFFIDAVIT,
in which the following statements oc-
cured
''In 1865 I visited London, England,
for the purpose of placing there Penn
sylvania oil properties, in which Il was
interested. took with me letters of in
PRODUCTION to many gentlemen in Lon
don, among them one to Mr.. Ernest Seyd
from Robert NJ. Faust, ex-treasurer of
Philadelphia. / became well acquainted
with Mr.. Seyd and with his brother
Richard Seyd, who, understand, is yet
living. visited London thereafter every
year, and with each visit renewed my
acquaintance with Mr.. Seyd. In
February, 1874, while on one of these
visits, and while his guest mt dinner, /,
among other things, alluded to rumors
| afloat of Parliamentary corruption, and
expressed establishment that such cor
ruption should exist. In reply to this
he told me he could relate facts about
the corruption of the American Congress
that would place it far ahead of En-
glish Parliament in that line. After
dinner he invited me into another room,
where he resumed the conversation about
Legislative corruption. He said: If you
will pledge me your honor as a gentle
man not to divulge that am about to
tell you while live, will convince you
what / said
ABOUT THE CORRUPTION
of the American Congress is true
gave him my promise, and he then con-
tinued: Il went to America in 1928,
authorized to secure, if I could, the
| passage of bill demonetizing silver. 1t
was to the interest of those whom l
| representative governors Of the Bank
of England, to have it done. / took with
me $500, 600, with instructions if that
| was not sufficient to
ACCOMPLISH THE OBJECT,
to draw for another $500, 600 or as much
as was necessary. / saw the committees