Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-17

grieved and bore 1t as long as they could
and then got up q panic.
Cleveland was induced to write q mes
sage" he said. and then he quickly cor
mo. I viii not say induced" he remark
ed drily. Il don't think Cleveland was ever
induced to do anything"
Continuing Mr.. Hutchins sketched the
history of the remaining financial legisla-
ton down to the repeal of the Sherman
purchasing law. In 1893 he declared that
the bankers got up panic and there were
own showing. in the country. and not a
man in New York could get check for
500 on an uptown bank cashed down
town.
The Crime of '73.
He then proceeded to arraign Senator
Sherman as the arch-criminal who was re-
sponsisle for the legislation which had led
the country to what he claimed was false
financial basis and its virtual ruin.
Il have read every jot, little. word, SEN
tence. paragraph and punctuation mark Of
the Congressional Record containing the
history Of this vicious legislation, and as an
honest man, conscious of the responsibility
which assume, l declare that If l We're In
Jury box. and under my oath to find
verdict according to the evidence presented,
I would send John Sherman to the states
prison for the balance of his natural life"
IF he did not know what he was doing, =
he continued after the noise had subsidized,
''he was not entitled to a seat in that body
by reason of his ignorance, and If he did
know what he was doing, he was not en-
titled to a seat by reason of his dishon-
esty.'
Mr.. Hutchns found that he had but
seven minutes left, and remarked that he
had some questions to put to his opponent
whom he characterized as pretty shifty
counsellor" who was well calculated to
showing q
because it was a part of his profession to
be able to do So He then read long Sc
RES of questions. including the following:
Do you know, and, II so, please state,
how much uncoined silver exists in the
world to be presented at the mints in the
event of the passage of free coinage bill?
Do you know of any period or date dur.
ing the eighty-one years of free silver and
free gold coinage when the market price Of
silver was below that of gold?
Whom does 1t benefit when you raise the
or the poor man. the creditor or the debtor 2
Will you. or will you not, admit that the
purchasing power Of the dollar has been
|. doubled in the last twenty years?
Which Is better for the general public, a
plethora or a stringency Of money?
Are we not now suffering under a great
scarcity of currency?
Has 1t not been very much reduced In
volume In the last two years?
AS you supported Mr.. Cleveland in 1892
on low tariff and silver platform, why
DO you oppose Mr. Bryan now!
Does he not stand for the same policies?
/ Were you misguided In 1892 and honest
now. or were you honest then and mis-
guided. too?
any greater purchase of imported goods
under a high tariff by people who can
not find the money to purchase Under a
low tariff. and who cannot even buy home
at lower rates than the same kind of goods
can be imported for under low tariff?
And If he can, will that not be to the
injury of the home manufactures and the
Which would you prefer, free silver and
plenty of business at home, or gold mono
n.etaIlism and less business?
Which would you favor. policy which
starves our own workingmen and enriches
foreign nations. or policy which foreign
nations criticfse as unjust to them, but
which helps US?
If forced to be unjust to one or the other,
which would you select for the infection
your own or a foreign country?
AS there are 900 millions of greenbacks,
treasury notes. gold certificates and silver
certificates put out by the government and
only $50 millions of gold In it's possession.
how are you going to redeem every dollar
in gold?
If England. by getting us to demonetize
silver, cuts its price down from 40 cents
to CD per ounce, and can buy with that
ounce of its silver. regardless of its market
value. bushel of India wheat. does she
in the reduction of our wheat crop of 400
UO.ON bushels from 500 to less than $50
millions in value?
And do you think 1t Is good business
sense or patriotism for us to assist in our
own impoverishment in that way?
Do you think it would injure this country
irreparably to get 129 cents per bushel for
our wheat and ten or fifteen cents per
pound for our cotton?
Do you hold that our national bonded
debt Is payable in gold coin only?
II so. what Is your authority for such
belief?
Do you believe in increasing, protecting
or abolishing the so-called trusts and syn.
dictate monopolies? :.
VIII you name single trust EXCEPT the
silver trust, that is not supporting Mr..
Mckinley?
Do you believe in supporting or Destroy
Ing the coal trust and the Oil trust?
Which do you think is most ADVANTAGEOUS
to country. rising or falling prices?
When Mr. Hutchins had concluded Ms
opening address there was evident surprise
that he had not entered more fully into an
argument endeavoring to show the merits
of the free coinage of silver but it was
manifest from his questions propounded. to
Mr.. Davis that he had taken interrogative
means Of considering that portion Of the
subject. When he concluded he was given
an ovation. which broke forth with an
parently redoubled strength when Mr..
Davis arose to reply.