La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-24

ridiculmg him. how lie stood true to
the people. how. being Christian
man, n man OF courage. but II man OF
peace. abhorlng war. hut ahhorinS un-
righteousness more, lie stood ike
stone wall against war, until VI became
| Il necessity. and then he invoked the
god of battle and led us Ia glorious
victory. The Democrats tried TO em-
barrass the administration by compell-
ing him to recognize the independence
of the insurgents. As near as we can
find out. there are not really any more
insurgents in Cuba than there are
Blood Silver Republicans in Colo
rado. Then came the revenue bill. The
war was upon us: we felt the time had
come and the President felt the time
had come for us TO embark upon this
war of humanity. the greatest the
| world has ever seen. and by far the
shortest, and ii became necessary To
put our boys in the Philippines. and
our soldiers in the field. and to equip
our navy and buy new ships. The IL
| nance committee took hold OF II and
prepared n bill with uniform multi
/, farious taxes, all burdcnsome. but
none heavy and after wrangling and
disputing their issues, we carried out
| that part of the measure. And then
| we provided that in order to raise this
| money there should be per cent
bonds issued not gold bonds. as has
| been announced and announced again
| and again. These bonds are payable
| in lawful money, lawful money only.
| and IL we shall have blmetallism. or
any other standard of value, these
bonds. by their terms, are payable In
| that: they are legitimate coin bonds.
payable in lawful money. 1t seemed to
| x,Ei.y. .,T niS Sin ~ ltn
money. We provided that they should
not 20 to the banks. and they should
| not go to syndicates, and they should
| not go to the highest bidder. but they
should be offered all over the country.
| and that the smallest subscribers
should he first satisfied. | am proud
| to say that the $500 subscribers got
practically all of the bonds. and that
| there is not II state in fhc Union where
citizens have not subscribed for them
largely. and that the citizens of Colo
RADIO have taken n very respectable
number of them.
THE SEIGNIORAGE AMENDMENT
Now offered the Democrats the fur
ther amendment ,hn, the scigniorage
in the treasury should he coined. Ii
was the most remarkable amendment
| that WAS ever heard Of. They pro-
vided that in place of these bonds loo
million dollars of legal tender notes
should be issued. Now. fellow cti-
Zcns. ! want you TO 20 back with me
one minute Ia the silver question. Er-
cry man and every woman who is n
bimetalliSt hascs his or her faith in
bimetalIism upon the theory that they
are believers in hard money. gold and
silver. the money of ultimate redemp-
ton. They are bitterly and unalter-
ably opposed. except The Populist
wing of the party, who do not care
much for silver to paper money un'
less II has gold or silver back of IT.
and. fellow citizens. If this Demo
cratic amendment had been adopted.
: it would have been the most cruel and
fatal strcke that could have been ad-
ministercd to the cause OF silver and
bimetallism. or that could be devised
| in the mind Of man. for ID would have
, given us 80 million dollars additional
circulation. which we claim is the ren-
, son why more silver should be coined
but il would have given II 10 us In pa
. per money: there would have been no
5 gold or silver back of IL. and you
l never could have got gold or silver
5 back of II unless You borrowed the
2 money to put II there. And that Is I;
i pretended bimetnllc suggestion from,
= TIE IODt1IlSl anu Duiki'N
: Their amendment on seigniornge was
i good. and twelve Republican senators
stood firm in insisting upon IL, and
in conference after conference he
. tween the committees of the Senate
and the House. finally the House gave
way. and this bill now provides that
!. The seignorage shall be coined. and
that IL the first direct legislation We
, have had respecting silver since n
Democratic Congress repealed the pur
uhnsing clause Of the Sherman bill.
| EFFECT OF THE WAR.
And then what happened. fellow ell
ZensI The war was upon us. and tho
Democrats We're T7ibid. and the Popn
lists. that the war should be com
4nenced mt once Soldiers had to b,
paid. revenue had to is raised, tht
hill was all ready for passage. the
amendments had been voted upon
With three noble exceptions, to whicl
I shall call attention. every Democrat
and every Populist. and every assist
! ant Democrat voted against the revc
nue. bill entirely. There We're three
men. Senator Morgan Of Alabama
Senator Turpie OF Indiana. the leader
. OF the Democratic caucus. and Sen
ator Mantle Of Montana. who put theif
country above party and voted to
give our President and our country
the revenue to carry Oh the war You
will notice in all these little. miserab BILE.
fac:ionnl conventions. that they have
been carrying on here at Colorado
Springs they hid their heads in shame
and did not dnre mention the fact
that they voted to prevent the coun-
try from having the revenues TO carry
on the war. Then came the Hawaiian
question. Whatever doubt any man
might have had OH the Hawaiian ques-
tiOn. the developments In the Philip
pines demonstrated TO every intelli-
gent man that we should have this
important cOaling station and port on