The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-15

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Mr.. Vest was most severe in his di-
rect Characterization of the conduct Of
the Justice who changed his opinion
after the first decision and before the
second was rendered. He would not,
he said, attempt to enter into that JUS
tees motives, but that Justice, and
he did not know who he was, had
been mainly responsible in fastening
the sordid despotism of wealth upon
the country oy his change of front.
Certainly he had the right to change
, his mind. but it was matter of regret
that he had not seen proper to put his
reasons on record for this far-reaching
and terrible decision.
Mr.. Vest ss:id he did not believe that
the terrible effec. Of this decision had
yet been apprehended by the people of
the country.
1T marks new era" he said, "and
1 greatly mistake, if the time does not
come when neither soft words nor
honeyed praises will prove sufficient
apology y
1t was beyond credibility that a Van
derbilt, with his hundreds Of millions,
should have to pay no more than the
poorest of men, and that the army and
navy must be used to support him in
his rights as must be the case if the
decision was to stand.
He predicted that the time would
come when the truth of Justice
Browns opinion would be everywhere
recognized, that the decision of the
Supreme Court had fixed for all time
the freedom from Federal taxation OF
the ''sordid wealth of the land.
He reviewed the record Of the last
three administrations. Though he diff
fered with the head Of his party in
many things, he declared that no ad-
ministration in the history of the
country had been more successful than
the Cleveland administration from
1SS5-S9. He admitted that his side
was divided on the subject of silver.
The country was divided. There was,
he said, an irrepressible conflict in the
land, as irrepressible as that which re-
suited in the clash of the armies of the
North and South.
II trust Mr.. Vest said, that the
issue will not be submitted to the arbi-
trament of violence, but that the con-
t1ict between those who believe IN the
use of silver as money of ultimate
redemption along with gold and those
who believe in the single gold stand
ard. To evade it was impossible. The
quicker it was decided the better it
would be for the public and private
life of the land"
Recurring to the financial question,
Mr.. Vest admitted that the financial
influence of the world was against
silver. Europe feared that we would
60 on silver basis. When the Presl-
ident had sent his Venszuelan message
to Congress it had been received with
acclamation by the people and he had
heard the hostile guns booming in this
chamber. How had England respond
ed2 Not with shot and shell and sabre
stroke and battleships, but by throw.
ing-our securities on the market.
The power of money was to be used
to crush us. On Monday when the
tSecretary of the Treasury had issued
his circular CHS only complaint was
that it was not issued sooner notify
ing the country that the bonds should
60 to the highest bidder, Wall street
was dissatisfied. Two syndicates had
cornered the gold-one paper said
S4o0, 100000. They were opposed to
selling bonds to the public. It was
humiliating that the most intelligent
people on the globe, whose heritage
was a continent, should, wheu they
undertook to protect their financial
system, be met by an autocratic ukase
-"We've got the gold and you must
get it from us at our price.
Mr.. Vest, with glowing eloquence,
said he would rather have war. There
were calamities greater than war.
Better anything than to have US man
acled and gibbeted as we are now.
In concluding, Mr.. Vest said one of
the chief regrets of his public life had
been that he had found himself in an
tagonism with the head of his party
and the Secretary of the Treasury on
the financial question, but he could
not subscribe to their views. He had
always been opposed to the extensions
of the powers of national banks. If
the administrations proposition to re-
tire the greenbacks and Treasury notes
and permit national banks to issue
circulation in their stead were to be-
come law, we might as we'll abandon
forever hope Of escaping from their
thralldom.
THE WORLD IS HAPPY.
New YORK, Jan. 7.-Concerning the
proceedings of the Senate today, the
World tomorrow will say editorially
Senator Lodge yesterday relieved
the dreariness of political debate and
added TO the gaiety of nations by quot
ing in the Senate the celebrated Sec
ton 5,335. This is undoubtedly law.
1t is on the statute books. 1t is Sec
ton 5,335. 1t is reinforced by Section
2,113 of the same era, which forbids
corresponding with foreign govern
ments to 1ncite the Indians to raids on
the settlers. 1t is unquestionably the
duty of Secretary OIney to enforce
this law. He should punish with the
full severity of its penalties-not fine
or Imprisonment, but fine and impris-
onment-any one who has wilfully
violated it. The World pleads guilty
in advance to having, without the
permission or authority of Mr.. Cleve-
land or Mr.. Olney, carried on utter
course by cable with Lord Salisbury,
the Prince of Wales and the Duke of
York, the Rothschilds and other for
eign dignitaries. The statute cited is
aged, obsolete, mouldy, moth-eaten,
dust-covered and was forgotten until
resuscitated by the watchfulness of
Secretary Olney. The World will
not descend into the dungeon and put
out its million candle power torch of
liberty and intelligence without a
struggle.