Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-07-01

ana IN all Indebtedness OF ever Character was |
paid in deprecated legal-tender greenback |
| paper money. Was there any question oil
honor and good faith in issue? Was the pay |
ment Of debts cheated prior to the existence
Of legal.ender greenback paper money in
such deprecated and dishonored money an
! act of republication! Why Of course not. Ii
| it had been an act Of bad faith, our great and
good Republican friends would not have done
| so,
But nov, in the estimation of these same
Republicans, 1t is an act Of dishonor and bad
faith to pay these bonds OIL in the standard
silver dollars, worth 100 cents in gold, THAT
We're bought and paid for with greenbacks
not worth over 40 cents on the dollarin silver
at the time the bonds were bought and paid
for. But after peace was restored you good
'antiscalers" over there on that side thought
that greenbacks that were good enough for
the soldiers and sailors who fought the battles
of the war; and good enough for all private
creditors, were no longer good enough for
these untaxed bondholders who paid for their
bonds in the sellsame greenbacks, and so you
passed the credit-strength act, by which
YOU made these bonds payable in coin.
Mr.. Speaker, how can Republicans who
are not capitalists, who are not protected
holders, who have to earn their daily bread
by the sweat of their faces, who produce cot
ton at less THAI five cents bound and other
farm products at like prices, how can they
longer vote for a political party who says that
the money they have to take for their labor is
not good enough for the holders of idle cap
ital, whose only labor is to study how by the
subseryiency of political party they can, by
E la IF a
, dollars of valueeout of the pockets OF the
thrifty and industrious producers of the land
into their own.
. Mr.. Speaker if am wrong in my conclu-
sions want to be set right. II the party to
which you belong is right, why not give your
very able representatives on this floor an OPP
.portunity TO reason with us and show us the
error of our wayl | assure you that we are
honest, that we are patriotic and if we are ig-
norant and misguided, wc,want to be set right
Why not. give your great champions an OPP
pJrtunity TO reason with US! II the single
: godstandard is best for this country we ought
to know it. Ifyou believe it is best for this
, country, you ought, at least, to make a
reasonable effort to convince us of our er.or
Then, Mr.. Speaker, why have you, rs
Chairman of the Committee on Rules agreed
to 4 rue limiting debate on this resolution to
: about four hours! There are $50 members
in this house. If this four hours is equally
divided between all the members, il will give
each member about two thirds of one minute
in which TO present his views to the House.
The humblest member Of this House has 4
right to a reasonable time in the discussions
OF great questions in which his constituents
j are interested. Ii is not simply melaber
9 that you are suppressng on this floor by
l your yrannical rules, but you slille the voice
: Of the 100000 population that we each repre-
sent.
l. am forced 10 the conviction, Mr.. Speak
a er, that yoy and your party are afraid to per-
nit free and fair discussion by those Of Il;
!. who differ with you and your party on the
e questions involved in this resolution. Mr..
- Speaker, you permitted more than one whole
/. week to be consumed in an idle and useless
!, debate on the civil service law, pending the
u consideration Of an appropriation bill, when
!. under the rules oGthis House not .eYG9 an a,
l. civil service law.
q Yes, Mr.. Speaker, you had time to burn
= then. When your most obedicnt servants in
Q this house wanted to make ant-cyl service
q speeches to send home and scatter among
their constituents, abusing the civil service
J. law and using it as an excuse for not getting
9 pie for each hungry ofiicesecker, you gave
l. them all the time they desired. But when q
q great question Ike this comes up for discuss
ion only four hours can be spared to it.
C l certainly hope that the people can and
n will see through the hypocri,ical preten Sc.
y used to Justify the course Of suppression en-.
S forced in this House. Mr.. Speaker, | am
>, forced by the facts ard circumstances TO con.
+ cude that two causes operated to cut off de.
70 bate IN this resolution. One is that YOU
: party is afraid Of fair and free discussion, the
u other and more potent is the demand for ac
Il ton by the House 10 counleract the effect o
the Senates action, made on you by tn,
bondholders themselves.
The Senate voted on and passed this reso
luton on Friday last p. m. The House il
st to vote on and reject it to-day at p. m
lie Only one market day is permitted to pass
&c after the Senatc's actlo! until this House il
forced to act. The reason is obvious. Bond
&c and like securities may suffer slightly in a few
Ne days if discussion is permitted in this House
a. This will never do. The voice of 100000,
X people must be suppressed rather than risk
nc Slight decline in premium on the untaxeC
n, bonds, Was ever such spectacle witnesse,
ny in free country What country can lonl
a Iemain free under such tyranny as we arr
st subjected 10 on this occasion?
I'd BY the rule brought in under which TIT
10 tariff bill was considered in the extra session
in last Spring, daily sessions 'or ten days, wer
in prov ded for discussion on the bill, and th!rt,
h. days leave was given in which to print In
e, views of members in the Record, while in tn
of present instance four hours for debate is pro
IS yidcd and five days allowed for prin I'M
IN views of members in the Record. This i
ed conclusive evidence that it is the object an,
f. purpose of the majority to prevent the dis
no cussion OF this question, even by the silen
so and humiliating method of printing argu
OF ments in the Record that they are not per
miued to make on the floor Of this House.
IT. Mr. Speaker how can freedom survive in
nd land where the representatives OF the pcop
he are objected to such humiiating tyranny q
or we have 10 endure at the hands Of the ma
" jority in this House day after day and mont
it. after month? | am, sir, not without hope.
do not believe the liberty-loying people c
rs this country will much longer endure til
all spectacle daily presented 10 them in thi
ny House believe wave Of popular resent
lily ment will sweep over this year that will re
nd store the true representatives OF the people t
es power in this House in such numbers that n
lis bondholdng, bond-dealing syndicate wi
er ever again have the impotence to drag il
he Shiny folds through the corridors Of this Car
IT. tol.
on Most editors are familiar wit
- the man who takes more paper
Ike than he can read" and consC
ed qucntly has no Use for his count