The Butler weekly times., 1896-08-20

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the United States, and practically
abolished silver as money by failing
to provide for coinage OF the silver
dollar. 1t was not disused, as shown
by the record, and neither mem.
bers of congress nor the people un-
derstood the scope of the legisla.
ton" (Appendiz, page 1877, Con-
gressional Record, vol. iv,, part 6,
forty-fourth congress-
| Senator Hereford, discussing the
subject in the senate, said: 80 that
I say beyond the possibility of
doubt (and there is DO disputing it)
that bill which demonetized silver,
as it passed never was read, never
was discussed and the chairman of
the committee who reported it, who
offered the substitute, said to Mr..
Holman, when inquired of, that it
did not effect the coinage in any way
whatever" Congressional Record,
vol. vii, part l, Fifty-fifth congress
second session, page 9S9.)
In view of this testimony the ad
vocates of silver, and every one else
who has shred of moral sense left
to him, are justified. nay, bound by
the obligation of veracity to desig
nate the law demonetizing silver as
the "Crime of 1873" the as yet, un-
punished crime that has brought
untold misfortune on the American
people. The St. Louis convention
has resolved to maintain the fraudu-
lent law and perpetuate it's evil
results. The Chicago convention
has resolved to blot it from the rec :
ord and remove as far as possible
the evils it has produced.
According to the statement of
Judge Kelley, given above, the silver
bill, when it left the hands of the
committee on coinage, did not de.
monetize the silver dollar. On the
contrary it made provision for its
continued coinage. After the bill
was passed it was discovered that
the provision for the silver dollar
was omitted-had been surrepti
} tiously obliterated from the docu.
} ment! Here we have the crime of
'73. Who did this nefarious works
By whose request or suggestion was
it that this doctored substitute for
the original printed bill was not
J read in the house? Who shut of
debate by demand for the previous
question?
To bring crime home to it's per-
petrator, the first question asked is:
Who benefited by it9 The foreign
and Wall street bondholders millions
. by it. This fact in itself is 10,
enough to convict, but it affords a
J clue. With this clue in hand, we
introduce Mr.. Earnest Seyd into the
conspiracy. A writer, quoted by
Samuel Levitt in his book, sou,
Money Wars" says:
f The English capitalists raised
e $500, 900 and sent one Ernest Seyo
s to America to have silver demone
tized. He came. In the bill wa,
skillfully inserted clause demone
Q tizing silver. Before the bill pass
; ed member of the committee whicl
q had the bill in charge stated tina
e Ernest Seyd of London, a distin
t guished writer and bullionist, WHIT
S is now here, has given great atten
J. tion to the subject of mint coinage
y After having examined the FIRST draf
+. Of this bill he has made variou
= sensible suggestions, which tn
b committee adopted and embodied il
+ the bill Congressional Record
April 9, 1922"
s As Ernest Seyd is an interesting
: and important character in this con
!, spiracy, We will follew him to Lon
+ don and see what he has to sa,