The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-13
TILLMAN'S SPEECH
Continued from Page 4.

the exports Wuloh Wo Seiu MIN. 4 VIII
take the liberty, with the senator permits
sion, to Insert as an appendix the figures
furnished from that English paper tho
other day In regard to the profit of one
years purchase of cotton and wheat as
showing the cause Of this deficit requiring
tho export of gold.
Then mark the result. With the gold
being exported TO meet our foreign obliga-
tions and the public credit attacked by
the gold gamblers with the encouragement
and oonniyanoe1o OF tho PRESIDENT, Roths-
child and his American agents graciously
condescend to como to tho help of the Unit
cd States treasury In maintaining the gold
standard, which has wrought the ruin, and
only charge q small commission of Sl0,-
000, 900 or so on one little transaction.
Great Godi That this proud government,
the richest and strongest on the face Of the
globe, should have been brought TO SO low
a pass that o London jew should nave
been appointed its receiver, TO have charge
Of the treasury. with an option on any adj
ditional issue Of bonds, and presumes to
p%atronize us and promises to take care of
IA great country Is there q man here
who can think of 1t without blushing?
A Question For Republicans.
Now, again I regret tho absence of the
senator from Ohio Mr.. Sherman, because
II be were present L should ask him this
question, and IL he deems II worth while
no can answer 10 hereafter: II, as / have
said, with only 20, 600, 900 people at that
time floating the enormous amount OF cur
renoy issued TO carry on tho war, with
1000, 900 men or more withdrawn from
productive industries to BIO marshaled M
dor tho ctnrg ,nA Cfrfnnn o., ,ho ..of.,x
nance Of tho Union, the country was SO
prosperous, with Industries thriving, no
tramps, no bcgRars, what did IL? Enough
money, perhaps 800 much money, but still
enough.
If In 1878. I believe il was, when con-
gress, In obedience 90 the orders Of the
people, declared that those g~reenbacks
should not be- retired, but should be reis-
sued, we could float that much paper
money before we had any gold or any sill
yer basis, in the name OF common sense
and the idea Of prosperity, which seems to
have departed from this Legislative assem-
bly,, why can we not now put out $780,
600, 900 or $500, 600, 900 OF greenbacks?
Give US the double standard, and we can
float that many greenbacks at par with
gold and silver any day in the year, and
there will be 10 more talk Of the public
credit and OF the honor of the nation.
The struggle, and the only struggle, Is
whether we shall have all government pa.
Der or all national bank paper, and If un-
der the behests OF the gold ring we are 60
20 10 n monometallic standard and to ma
tional bank notes alone, / ask some man
to answer why the governments primary
notes are not as good as It's secondary
hottest The reason Is you have your 1000
millionaires. You want q few thousand
more, with about go, 900, 900 paupers.
And what are the people going to do
about 1t? Why are these iniquities per-
mitted and the outrageous and unlawful
actions OF the executive uncheckedP No
man hero denies the assertion that 1t Is
unlawful TO issue bonds to pay the current
expenses Of the government, and yet II has
been done. There has been q lame ex-
planation attempted, that redeemed green
backs had to go into tho general fund and
be relssued, but IL they wero received for
the gold for which the bonds have been Is.
sued, and they were not used TO pay cur
rent expenses, where are theyp The re-
sponsibility of providing revenues and
looking after the ~solvency Of the treasury,
which rests with congress, has been
usurped 10y the president.
Now comes the crucial question for the
Republican party. Why have you not i'm
peached him? You have nearly a three
fourths majority at the other end OF the
capitol, which alone can formulate articles
of impeachment. Why have you not i'm
'peachcd himg
A Note of Warning.
The money changers are in the temple
Of our liberties and have bought the senti-
nels on guard. 1t may be too late. God
grant IL be not SO, but this great republic
car only DO saved from the miseries Of
revolution and internecine strife In tho
near future by its citizens casting aside
blind allegiance to party and marshaling
themselves under the banner of Jetforson's
democracy and Lincoln's republicanism,
determined to restore tho republic to tho
form in which 1t was left TO US by the
fathers and since consecrated by the blood
of brothers shed In civil war, ~engendered
and brought about by just such statesman
ship as we have here. The encroachments
Of the federal judiciary and tho supineness
and vcnality-corruption, l may say--of
the representative branches OF the govern
ment are auses of deep concern to all
thinking and patriotic mon. We arc fast
drifting into government by injunction in
tho lhNcIcsb VI IHOnOlUi4ts hht oifDia-
tions and tho supreme court by ono corrupt
vote annuls an act of congress looking TO
tho taxation of the rich,
Sir, the struggle from 1861 TO 1865,
which drenched this fair land In blood,
was to emancipate 1000, 900 black slaves.
We are fast approaching a condition which
will place the collar of industrial bondage
around the neoks of ten timos that many
white slaves. 1 would not predict reyolu-
ton or wal IL l did not feel TINT relief
must come either by the ballot or that an
effort will be made I'm a few years to OBJ
tain IL by bullets. You may look upon
me as an enthusiast, rs an alarmist or an
anarchist, but with the sober convictions
OF common sense l tell you that tho teach
ing of all history IL Boiled, n we must
surrender the belief that like causes pro-
duce like effects il mon expect that tho
millions now out of employment and the
other millions who are working out a
hopeless existence Of toll year In and year
out, the women ''stitching In poverty,
hunger and dirt" depicted this morning
by tho senator from South Dakota (Mr.