Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-06-16

greenbaoks and Republican responsible
ity for them, but that was before til
Republicans had fallen into the habit
worshtping Mammon. The half of th
truth which The Post fails to state |
more interesting If possible than wha
it does state, in view Of charges mad
against us so fuently, falsely and ferc
ciously In the campaign of 1895 an,
occasionally heard even yet. May
I submitted certain remarks to tn
house in which I stated very briefly tn
half Of the greenbaok chapter in the bis
tory Of the Republican party which tn
Post SO charitably suppresses. In speak
ing of our proposition to levy on incom
tax, I said among other things:
1--WE offer you an income tax-th'
fairest and justest tax ever imposed. j
is q monstrous proposition that the alb
normal wealth Of the country shall no
bear its just proportions of the publ,
burdens We give you fair warning
that we will never rest till we get al
income tax.
"You Republicans fight it tooth anG
nail. You have suddenly conceived {
pathetic affection and wonderful rever
ence for the supreme court. You seen
to regard it now as o sacred institution
not even to be criticised by anybody
without sin.
when did you change your mind *
suddenly? Abraham Lincoln was not
only a wise man, but "a very gentle one.
He denounced the bred Scott decision.
That is not all of it I did not helI
make the greenbacks; 1 was too young.
You Republicans made them. Then
when that case came up, to test the con.
stitutionality Of the law, five judges de.
cided the legal tender act unconstitu.
tional and three held it to be constitu.
tional. It would never do in the world
for the Republican party to have such a
decision stand. What happened? One of
the five judges resigned t. go t o prac-
ticlng law and that only left four.
eff President Grant appointed a man
in his place in favor of the legal ten
ders, that made it four and four, and
the decision against their constitution
ality would stand. Congress went to
work and passed a law recognizing the
supreme court of the United States, in
creasing the number of judges to nine,
and General Grant appointed Justice
Strong and "Aliunde" Joe Bradley Of
New Jersey, and they reversed the de-
cision. You not only reorganized the
court, but you packed it. And yet we
are denounced as anarchists because you
say that we want to reorganize the su-
preme court
Happy Days For Goldbugs.
Now, if you can reorganize 1t once,
why cannot you do it again? If you
packed it once, why cannot you do it
again? I want to tell you all / have to
say about greenbacks and will do Ii in
very few words. If they were good
enough to pay men during the civil war
to leave their wives and homes and lit
tie children and risk their lives ON a
thousand battletelds in defense Of their
country, they r good enough money
to pay to the gentlemen who recline in
the shade of Wall street and mako their
living by cutting gold coupons off coin
bonds
"Let me refer to one thing that was
said over yonder the other night by
gentleman from Connecticut, I be-
lieve. He said that if the government
should now go into issuing greenbacks
they would d~epreciate as they did dur
ing the civil war. / tell you that a man
who would say a thing like that either
has softening of the brain or treason in
his cardiac region.
What made the greenbacks depre-
ciate? l will tell you--because there
was danger that this government would
be broken up, and they deprecated Just
in proportion as that danger grew i'm
minent. The happiest day that the gold
bugs saw during the civil war was
when a man could climb up to the dome
Of the capitol and see the CLINT of old
Jubal Early's bayonets down in v1r-
ginia. Why, sir, there was not q rebel
anywhere ON earth during the war who
prayed for victory for Lee as the gold
bugs prayed for it, Why? If Lee gained
victory, gold went up, and they made
q fortune.
"H Grant gained a victory, gold went
down, and they lost a fortune And If
there is any such thing as gambling in
stocks-I do not know whether
there is or not-those who are interest
ed in that investment are now in sack
cloth and ashes because brave Commo-
dore Dewey has set the stars and stripes
boating VIGOROUSLY in Asiatic waters. -
Now, I spoke those words in the pres |
ence of the whole house in O debate
which has caused a great deal of news |
paper comment and criticism by reason |
Of its bitterness. No soft words were |
used in that smuggling match by any of
The participants. I made the charge |
hat the Republicans reorganized and
the supreme court in order to Sc |
cure the legal tender decision without |
my circumlocution whatever and as |
as l knew how to make it. The |
has never been answered and |
never will be for the all sufficient rea- |
'on that it is true and therefore cannot
answered. Most of the Republican
,hieftains were in their places and
heard 1t. Governor Dingley was there, |
was Mr.. DalZell Of Pennsylvania. |
Mr. Payne of New York was in the |
house. The speaker came in from his |
DOM and heard it. A half dozen mem |
'ers answered other portions of the
but not n had "a single word |
# denial as to the Republican reorgan-
zation and packing of the supreme
curt in order to obtain the legal tender
They knew full we'll that the
ess they had to say on that subject the
nobody has yet expunged
rom the supreme court reports Mr.
Chief Justice Chase's dissenting opinion
n which he made certain comments as
o how that decision came to be made,
which Republican statesmen and jurists
re not overly eager to have circulated
s a campaign document.
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