People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-07-02
ny Valedictory to the Republican
Party.

DER silver dollar, ana taxing the unit
Of value out of silver and placing il
in gold, was procured by fraud, and it
being a Republican measure the party
should be held to account for the
fraud.
| will proceed to introduce testimO-
ny supporting my fourth allegation
and will first introduce Mr.. Bright Of
Tennessee. He said:
ut passed the house by fraud, never
having been printed in advance; being
q substitute for the printed bill; never
having been read at the desk; it was
passed without discussion; the debate
being cut off by the previous question:;
aye, sir, it was fraud that smells TO
heaven; it was fraud that will stink
in the nose Of pOsterity, and for which
some person must give an account 10
the day Of retributi0n."
i Mr.. Allison said:
1T was fraud from beginning TO
end the bill was dOctOred; changed
after discussion"
Mr.. Holman said:
"The measure and the manner of its
passage was colossal swindle."
i Mr.. Carlisle said;
1 THE conspiracy which seems TO
have hecn formed here and in Europe
to destroy by legislation and otherwise
! from three-sevenths TO One-half of the
metallic money Of the world is the
most gigantic crime Of this or of any
other age; the cOnSummatiOn of such
scheme would ultimately entail
more misery upon the human race
than all the wars, peStilences, and
famineS that ever occurred in the his
tory Of the world"
Mr.. Voorhees, said:
ats enactment was as completely
unknown to the people, and indeed to
fOuT-ffthS Of congress itself as the
presence Of burglar in a house at
midnight TO its sleeping inmates.
This was rendered possible partly be-
cause the ciandeStiue movement was
so utterly unexpected"
Senators Stewart, Teller, Jones and
Platt have al given evidence Of the
fraud.
Mr.. Ingalls, has substantially said
lin an irOnical way that he had never
been able to find man who knew
anything about it or voted for the
bill.
Blaine, Hawly and COnkling public
ly stated that they voted for the bill,
not knowing what 1t accomplished.
The honest Garfield in a speech to
his Ohio constituency, with self-con-
fesSed shame, acknowledged that he
knew nothing about it at the time
and said he did not know whether he
voted either for or against the bill.
Mr.. Grant, the president whOsigned
the bill, said he did not know at the
time he approved the bill, its'ScOpe or
extent as to the demonstration of
silver.
The commission Of 1876 heretofore
cited agreed in reporting that 1.-THE
act when passed was not read except
by title, and said, ut is notorious
that this tranScendent change in the
money system of the country, threat
ening the most vital interests was
carried through without the knOwl-
edge OF the country. 1t was neither
demanded by resolutions of public
meetings or political conventions, nor
asked for in the petitions Of the
people"
| 1t, further reporting, said that the
press OF the.Gountry was e0tirely un-
1 observant or-Silent when it was pend
ling and when it passed and for three
4 years afterYa-d."
/, 1t further reported that "the most
'1striking evidence Of the public mat
! tentiOn to the effects Of the coinage
.Es2ct Of 1873 is the fact that President
1Grant. who sigped the bill, and who
was critically observant Of the legis-
llation had no knowledge of what it
really accompli lied in relation to tie
decentralization OF silver, and was
| still uniformed about it as late as the
following October If the president of
the United States In daily intercourse
with the public men of the country,
had failed to hear certainly during
eight months that the law no longer
perRitted money TO be coined out Of
silver, it must be true that the ignor-
ance on the subject was general and
profosnd,"
l believe the general public would
sustain my fourth specification were
| to rest here, but forethe benefit Of
the incTedulOus. now introduce the
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