The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-03

Thara is where we stand. There is
ubera we propose to stand, Mr.. Presl-
dent and we are not to take any bl-
metallism which will make one ooll .ss
more valuable in its debtpayin9 dlt '
purchasing power than any other u0i-
lar
Mr.. Stewart-Now, VIII the eei@'Oi
answer question?
Mr.. Gear-Mr President
Mr.. Platt-No; I can not ylela'
Mr. Stewart-The senator is not very
polite. ~,
Mr.. PIatt-Mr. President, we nave
five different kinds of doilars IN us s
country. We have the gold ooilar' t tne
silver dollar, the greenback DOLLAR, lle
treasury note dollar; ana the 4 +bose
certificate dollar. Each one VI IT,
dollars is just as good as the other
in this country
Mr.. Stewart-No, no -
Mr.. Platt-Because we have kept
them at a, parity. Each one in debt,
paying and purchasing power Is equal
to any other dollar in this country.
Mr.. Stewart-Why do you Iol pdS
bonds with it then and redeem them!
M Platt-Mr President, 1 have
spoken of our FIVE different KINDS VI
dollars. Because they have been Kept.
of the same debt-paying ana pur-
chasing power, our finances are IN
condition where the country Is not
distressed and destroyed, so Tar as
! currency is concerned; but you Can
take the silver dollar Of ours ana go
down into Mexico, where they nave
free and unlimited coinage OF SILVER,
and you can buy two Mexican oollaiS
with our one dollar. m
Mr.. Gallinger-And each one Win
more silver in it.
Mr.. Platt-Each one with more sIl-
yer in it than our dollar What the
advocates of bimetallism, which IS ST.
yer noonometalHsm, would drive TINS
country to is just to that condltlon
in which one dollar would buy twice
as much in this country as announcer
dollar.
No. the Republican party does not
believe in that binetallism, and the
Republican party does not propose to
! take protection when coupled with that
/ bimetallisn as a threat that it can
not have protection without [ want
! here to say to those who advocate
/ that kind of bimetallism, which means
| silver monom etallism, and one dollar
worth twice as much as another IN
/ this country, and who take the stdnd
that protection is to fall in this coun-
! try unless the Republicans who favor
/ protection accept that kind of bimetal-
! lism. that they can not stand against
! or stem the tide of protection Sent1-
ment in this country and in their own
communities 1t will override all
such decisions The people of this
country have fully determined one
thing, and that is that in the year of
grace 1896, in the early November OF
that year, they will make their voice
heard for that protection which VIII
fill both the treasury of the United
Tonc1xafS nf the work
ingmen, and woe be to silver or any
thing else that proposes to stand in
the way of that verdict Of the people!
Mr.. Aldrich-We stand on that now.
Mr.. Teller-No, we do not.
Mr.. Allen-The platform OF 1892 pro
ceeds:
1.-THE interest of the producers of
the country it's farmers and its work
ingmen, demand that every dollar,
paper or coin, issued by the govern
ment shall be as good as any other.
We commend the wise and patriotic
steps already taken by our govern
ment to secure an international con-
ference to adopt such measures as
will insure a parity of value between
gold and silver for use as money
throughout the world
Mr. AIdrich-I suggest to my friend
from Nebraska that he has had great
difficulty in times past in calculating
the platform of his own party
Mr.. Allen-Never in the world.
Mr.. AIdrich-And it seems to me
that it would be more becoming in
him to allow the platforms of the
other parties to be explained by per-
sons who were members of such par
ties. respectively.
Mr.. AlIen-No: that is altogether
wrong. I wanted to bring out in this
discussion, and we do bring it out, the
fact that the claim of the Republican
party as being a bimetallic party was
falsehood
Mr.. Allen-There has never been
time when you have been in favor of
bimetaIIism.
Mr. Platt-Mr. sPresident-
Mr.. Palmer-WiI the senator from
Nebraska allow me to ask him ques-
ton?
Mr.. AHen-Yes. sir.
Mr.. Palmer-Will the senator him
self take the Mckinley bill with free
silver?
Mr.. Allen-I have made no o65ffer or
agreement to give it to these gentle
men.
Mr.. Palmer-I think the most danger
Gus and alarming symptom is the
possibility of some combination be-
tween those who demand protection
for domestic industry, as they call it
Mr.. Aldrich-There is not the slight
est danger.
Mr.. Palmer-And those who own sill
yer bullion That is the dangerous
combination.
Mr.. Plat ITO Mr. PaImer)-Do not be
alarmed on that score.
Mr.. Stewart-There is no danger of
that. The combination is with the
Democracy
Mr.. Allen-I simply wanted to say
to the Republicans on the other side
of this chamber you have forty-four
votes. If you want to take your tariff
bill with a free coinage amendment
attached to it, the Populist party
stand here pledged to give you six
votes to carry the Joint measure. Now,
will you do it?
MIR President. the trouble with the
senator from Nebraska is that his
only definition of bimetalliSm is the
unlimited coinage Of silver at the ratio
or 16 to by the United States alone
I say that is no honest definition Of
bimetaliism. The only honest defini-
ton of bimetallisnl-"
Mr.. Teller-Will the senator from
Connecticut give us a definition of BIZ
metallism?
Mr.. PIatt-The only honest defni-
ton of bimetallism that has been put
forth in this country is the definition
put forth in the platform of the Re
publican party in 1892. What the
senator from Nebraska means is sill
yer nonometalIism. and nothing else