The record-union., 1896-12-17

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rates were practically prohibitory. He
also quoted Lawrence, whom he termed
the shepherd king of Ohio" as saying
that the enormous duty imposed on raw
wool by the Mckinley Act had not ben
Gifted the wool growers of the United
States
Referring to the late election, Vest
said @het the people had been told that if
Mckinley was elected prosperity would
shine upon the country, and confidence
would be restored. Had prosperity
come? he asked. Had confidence been
restored? 1t had not been restored,
and what was the result? The people
We're buying neither domestic nor for
eign goods Did Senators expect that
by increasing tariff rates more money
would be put into the pockets of the
people? Did Senators expect that they
would give to the people greater ability
to buy by increasing their taxes?
Speaking of Secretary Carlisle's esti-
mate of the amount of money in circu-
lation, Vest characterized it as "a moss
grown lie." and he declared that the
only relief which could be given to the
country-as much as it might be de-
rided, or as much as he might be
charged with being a lunatic and an
archist and repudiator-was giving
more money to the country. No coun-
try" he continued emphatically, "can
be prosperous with an increasing popu-
lation and a decreasing volume of
money. You have now got a system
which congests the money of the coun-
try. This issue cannot be smothered by
abuse and ridicule. The man who thinks
that this last election has eliminated the
struggle is unfit to legislate for a free
people. He knows nothing about the
popular impulses and the heart throbs
which go through the people of this
whole Union. If we are anarchists and
lunatics when we ask that the mints be
opened to free coinage of silver, then
this country is lost, because there were
$780, 600 American freemen who
stamped themselves as lunatics and an
archists at the election in November
last. William J. Bryan, this boy ora
tor, who has been caricatured and SLAM
dered and ridiculed, polled Al lilo per
cent. Of the entire vote, and the Nc
Kinley popular majority was barely
100000 in popular vote of Il, 900 ,0O0
If there be in this country over 100000
anarchists and lunatics and enemies of
the country'S welfare, God help the re-
public and free institutions. We are
lost. But it is vile slander. The men
who voted for Bryan are honest and pa-
triotic and law-abiding, and we do not
propose to be ridiculed out of what we
| believe right and just.
Va MT no ronnnnn1v M n lao
lation, no exclusive bounties. This sys-
tenn of a gold standard is the vilest mo-
nopoly ever maintained in the brain of
mortal man. do not care to say more
| of the last election than that in my mind
| 1t was a parody on popular government
and on free institutions. l am curious
to know what will be the result of the
investigation proposed under the reso-
tuition of the gentleman from Nebraska
Allen. would like to understand why
i In the new and growing State of Texas
and others in the West there has been
no increase Of population in four years,
while in the old and finished and COM
pleted States of Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nois there has been an enormous in
crease, such as was never found before
in any census of the United States. l
am constrained to believe that the SEN
ator from New Hampshire (Chandler)
was correct when he declared that the
st. Louis Convention was honeycombed
with corruption, and that the delegates
were bought and sent there for the sole
purpose of nominating Mckinley. This
was no mere ebullftion of zeal for Reed,
| for the Senator from New Hampshire
afterwards, in a deliberate letter. reit-
Grated the charge, and declared that
every word which he had uttered in re-
gard to the composition of the st. Louis
| Convention was true. The average
American citizen, when he hears from
such high Republican authority that the
| convention which nominated the candi-
date of the Republican party was pro-
cured by money and that the delegates
were sent there by the use of money, are
very apt to continue to inquire how the
stream which comes from so corrupt
source can be called pure
Ald1Ich controverted some of Vests s
statements as to the prosperity Of the
American wooden manufacturers, and
he declared there never was time
when that industry was SO depressed
y
were coming to the Senate every day
| imploring Congress to give relief to
| that industry.
At this stage of the discussion the
morning hour expired, and the unfin-
ished business-the immigration bill
was laid before the Senate. The tariff
discussion, however, having been fair
| ly started by Vest, was continued, and
| vas participated in by Senators Frye
| (R.) of Maine, Mills Cd of Texas, Vest
| D1 of Missouri and Mitchell (R) of
| Oregon.
| In the course of it Vest spoke of the
! Dingley bill as being dead and con-
| signed to the tomb of the CapuletS.
! While to an allusion as to President
| Cleveland being the leader to the Sen
/ ator from Missouri, Vest immediately
| interposed the correction mo, sir, no;
! former leader" Uaughter)
Mills created a laugh by describing
/ how, out of his coat, the cloth of which
was manufactured in New England, he
| had drawn several long horse hairs
| which had been worked in as sub
stitute for wool, and the hilarity was
| increased when Gear (R.) of Iowa sug-
| gested that the horse hairs had been
| put in by the tailor to stiffen the collar.
Gear also denied the statement of
Senators Vest and Mills that domestic
| ool had gone up in price since wool
/ was placed on the free list and said
/ that in Iowa wool which had sold at
from nineteen to twenty-one cents a
pound under the Mckinley Act had
been selling this year at eleven cents a
pound.