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1 aa beseitinaatinnrveetrenn te “THE CRIME OF 773.” 1f the Demonetization of Silver Was Not a Crime What Was It? Rev. Dr. Lambert in New York Freeman’s Journal. The Rochester Post Express is indignant at the use of the above phrase by the advocates of free sil ver to characterize the act of 1873, by which the silver dollar was de- monetized. It says: “How it can be considered a crime passes ordinary comprehension.” We propose to show that it comes within the easy reach of ordinary intelligence. That a crime was com. mitted is beyond all doubt—a crime which should have landed its perpetrator or perpetra- tors in the penitentiary, if it could have been brought home to him or them at the time. This will appear in the course of our remarks on our esteemed contemporary’s article. The Post-Express says: “Tt is said that the act was sur- reptitiously adopted. This is a downright falsehood. No act can be secretly adopted under the parlia- mentary rules that obtain in con- grees. This act especially hada flood of sunlight thrown uponit. Sub- mitted by the secretary of the treas- ury, April 25, 1870, it was under the review of two congresses, was print: ed, reported upon, amended, debat- ed, referred to conference commit- tees, whose reports were approved by the senate and the house, and finally became a law on the 12th of February, 1873, nearly three years after it was proposed. It had large majorities in both houses, the vote in the lower house being 110 ayes and 13 nays, many of the affirmative votes being given by the very men— such of them as survive—who are now most clamorous in denouncing it.” We propose to refute the above statements by unimpeachable testi- mony, and show, first, that the sec- tion of the bill demonetizing silver was surreptitiously altered after it left the hands of the committee on coinage and before it ultimately passed the house; second, that it passed the house in an unparliamen- tary mannor, without being printed, read, or discussed; third, that the members of congress were deceived and led to believe that the bill pro- vided for the standard silver dollar when in its ultimate passage it did not so provide. We now present our witnesses. Judge Kelly of Pennsylvania was chairman of the committee on coin- age, weights and measures in 1872, when the bill originally passed the house. When charged with having advocated the demonetization of sil- ver,he said on the floor of the house: “In connection with the charge that I advocated the bill which demone- tized the standard silver dollar,I say that,though chairman of the commit- tee on coinage, I was as ignorant of the fact thatit would demonetize the silver dollar, or of its dropping the silver dollar from our system of coins, as were those distinguished senators, Messrs. Blaine and Voor- hees, who were then members of the house, and each of whom, a few days since, interrogated the other: ‘Did you know it was dropped when the bill passed?’ “No,” said Mr. Blaine, ‘did you?’ ‘No,’ said Mr. Voorhees. ‘I do not think there were three members in the house that knew it. Idoubt whether Mr. Hooper, who, in my absence from the committee on coinage, and attendance on the committee on ways and meuns, man- aged the bill, knew it. I eay this in justice to him.’ ” (Congressional Record, vol. vii, part 2, Forty-fifth congress,second session page 1,605 ) In the Forty-sixth congress, the same Judge Kelly threw an X-ray into the mystery when he said: “All Ican say is that the committee on coinage, weights and measures, who reported the original bill, were taith- ful and able, and scanned its provi sions closely; that as their organ I reported it: Har IT CONTAINED PRO VISIONS FOR BOTH THE STANDARD SILVER DOLLAR AND THE TRADE DOLLAR. Never having heard until a long time after | j 2 | ; . its enactment into law of the substi-) occasion, he said: “The bill which | committee adopted and embodied in | '€28¢ earnestness and enthusiasm of the coming election, and that all | | tution in the senate of the section | which dropped the standard silver | dollar, I profess to know nothing of | its history, but I am prepared to| say that in the legislation of this| Country there is no mystery equal to reasonable! committed on that bill after it had |’ | the demonetization of the silver dol-| a MaMatanan ana 4s; <> 3b ROR OR. lar of the United States. I have)“ ove oF THE MOST VALUABLE INGREDIENTS | never met a man who could tell just | * | how it came about or why.” (Con- gressional Record, vol. 9, part 1, | Forty-sixth congress, first session, |page 1,231) Again Judge Kelly said: “It (the bill) was passed with- lout any allusion im debate to the |question of the retention or the} j abandonment of the standard silver | | dollar.” Drug Expense. oO If you've paid too mvch for drugs,you may know : 3% how much too much by | Here we have the chairman of the Se buying here. Our prices | committee that prepared the bill de- Sa are just zight. We have the best quality of gocds no matter how far we have to go to get them. | claring positively that it made no jprovision for the standard silver | dollar. Yet, after it passed the stand- ‘ard doliar was found to be ommit- ted! Now, the crime of 1873 was = Thirty years exper ience bas taught us where to find them and ‘ what to pay for them. H. L. left the hands of the committee, and before it was voted on in the house. Congressman Bright of Tennessee thus tells how it passed: It passed by fraud in the house, never having | ; been printed in advance, being a}} substitute for the printed bil]; never | having been read at the clerk’s desk» THAT CAN GO INTO YOUR PRESCRIPTION IS THE DRUGGIST'S EXPERIENCE. WE 5] HAVE A THITY YEAR QU eal BULTER BALDWIN ia leva Dicgea WA Caney ‘Maem: sota by 30,000. ALITY. j Say Republicans Are Coming Ont Flat footed for Free Silver. Buffalo, N. ¥., Aug. 10. —Lawyer O. W. Baldwin of Duluth, president of the leading Bryan club, was at the Iroquoise. Mr. Baldwin has |has been a republican of prominence for years, but is now engaged in the | campaign for Bryan and Sewall. The }elub of which he is president 1s |known as the Bryan and Towne club. lt was organized in the inter- est of the national democratic ticket, and the candidacy of Charles A. Towne. the brilliant young republi can whose speech in the house of representatives on the silver ques- tion last session attracted widéspread attention. Mr. Towne was among the republicans who boited the party after the St. Louis convention, and - who has since declared for the dem- Careful People. —-9—___ Me 33 SA \ We like particular peo- ple—people who bring all their judgment to bear in their buying. People who want reas- vns tor things,who scan goods closely, who watch quality and prices. Peo- ple who examine, com- pare and look around. We like such people be- cause they eveatually do all their trading here. TUCKER, P NOESY SY SA WY WZ the reading having veen dispensed with by an impression that the bill made no alteration in the coinage laws; it was passed without discus sion, debate being cut off by opera- tion of the previous question. It was passed, to my certain informa- tion, under such circumstances that the fraud escaped the attention of some of the most watchful, as well as the ablest statesmen in congress at the time. Ay, sir, it was a fraud that smells to heaven. It was a fraud that will stink in the nostrils of pos terity, and for which some person must give account in the day of retribution.” (Congressional Record, vol. 7, part 1, second session, Forty- fifth congress, page 584 ) tion.” forty-fourth congress.) that bill which demonetized silver, the United States, and practically | about his missionary work in Amer- abolished silver as money by failing | ica. to provide for coinage of the silver ; dollar. It was not disused, as shown | a former member of the New York by the record, and neither mem- bers of congress nor the people un- lin which the following statements derstood the scope of the legisla- | occur: (Appendix, page 197, Con- | gressional Record, vol. iv, part 6, Senator Hereford, discussing the which I was interested. I took with subject in the senate, said: ‘So that | me letters of introduction to many I say beyond the possibility of | gentlemen in London, among them doubt (and there is vo disputing it) | one to Mr. Ernest Seyd, from Robt. as it passed never was read, never | phia. was discussed and the chairman of | with Mr. Seyd and with his brother, the committee who reported it, who | Richard Seyd, who, I understand, is ocratic nominee. Heis running for reelection to congress on a silver platform, and has the democratic and populistic endorsements. “Throughout the state of Min- nesota,” said Mr. Baldwin, ‘hun- dreds of republicans have ecme out flat-footed for Bryan and Sewall. The ablest republican speakers, who have fought many a campaign for the republican party, have taken the stump for the democratic ticket. Frank Day, republican lieutenant- governor of the state, is one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Bryan. County attorney Frank Nye a brother of the late ‘Bill Nye,’ who is a brilliant orator, is booming the In i892 Frederick A. Luckenbach, | Stock exchange, made an affidavit “In 1865 I visited London, Eng- ‘land, for the purpose of placing | there Pennsylvania oil properties in iM Faust, ex treasurer of Philadel- I became well acquainted Senator Allison, late candidate for the Republican nomination, ought to offered the substitute, said to Mr. | yet living, I visited London there- Holmav, when inquired of, that it | after every year, and with each visit did not eifect the coinage in any way | renewed my acquaintance with Mr. ticket. He has always been a re- publican. Ihave forgotten to mention ex- be good authority for our Republi- can contemporary. Here is what he whatever.” (Congressional Record, |Seyd. In February, 1874, while on | congressman Lind, just nominated said in reference to the subject: “When the secret history of this bil of 1873 comes to be told, it will dis- close the fact that the house of rep resentatives intended to coin both gold and silver, and intended to place poth metals upon the French relation instead of on our own, which was the true scientific position with reference to this subject in 1873, but that the bill afterward was doctored. if I must use the term, and I use it in no offensive sense, of course———" Mr. Sargent interrupted him and asked him what he meant by the word “doctored.” Mr. Allison said: the dollar of 420 grains was substi tuted.” (Congressional Record, vol 7, part 2, Forty-fifth congress, sec ond session, page 1,058.) Senator Beck, in his speech in the senate, said: “It (the demonetiza tion bill) never was understood by I say that with full knowledge of the facts. No newspaper reporter—and they are the most vigilant men I ever saw in information—discovered either house of congress. obtaining that it had been done.” (Congres sional Record, vol. 7, part 1, Forty fifth congress, second session, page 260.) Senator Thurman said: “I cannot say what took place in the house, but I know, when the bill was pend- ing in the senate, we thought it was simply a bill to reform the mint, “I said I used the word in no offensive sense. It was changed after discussion, and vol. vii, part 1, Fifty-fifth congress | one of these visits, and while his second session, page 989.) | guest at dinner, I among other 1} In view of this testimony the ad-j things, alluded to rumors afloat of vocates of silver, and every one else| parliamentary corruption, and ex- who has a shred of moral sense left | pressed astonishment that such cor- to him, are justified. nay, bound by | ruption should exist. In reply to the obligation of veracity to desig | this he told me he could relate facts nate the jaw demonetizing silver as | about the corruption of the Ameri- the ‘Crime of 1873,” the as yet, un-| can congress that would place it far punished crime that has brought| ahead of the English parliament in untold misfortune on the American! that line. After dining he invited ;|people. The St. Louis convention | me into another room, where he re has resolved to maintain the fraudu-| sumed the conversation about legis lent law and perpetuate its evil |.ative corruption He said- “If you results. The Chicago convention! will pledge me your honor asa gen has resolved to blot it from the rec-| tleman not to divulge what I am ord and remove as far as possible | about to tell you while I live, I will the evils it has produced. | convince you that what I said about According to the statement of | the corruption of the American con- Judge Kelley, given above, the silver | gress is true. I gave him my prom -| bill, when it left the hands of the! ise, and he then continued: ‘I went -|committce on coinage, did not de=!| to America in 1872-3, authorized to monetize the silver dollar. On the | secure, if I could, the passage of a |contrary it made provision for its bill demonetizing silver. It was to continued coinage. After the bill | the interest of those whom I repre- was passed it was discovered that sented—the governors of the bank the provision for the silver dollar | of Kngland—to bave it done. I took was omitted—had been surrepti-| with me $400,000, within structions tiously obliterated from the docu-' if that was not sufficient to accom ment! Here we have the crime of ; plish the object, to draw for another “73. Who did this nefarious work? | $500,0C0, or as much more as was By whose request or suggestion was | necessary. I saw the committees it that this doctored substitute for of the house and senate and paid the original printed bill was not the money, and staid in America read in the house? Who shut off| until I knew the measure was safe. debate by a demand for the previous | Your people will not comprehend question? | the far reaching extent of that meas- To bring a crime home to its per- | ure, but they willin after years. petrator, the first question asked is: | Whatever you may think of corrup- Who benefitted by it? The foreign | tion in English parliament, I assure and Wall street bondholders millions | you I would not have dared to make by the democrats for governor of Minnesota, among the republicans in my state who have declared for Bryan and Sewall. > Bryan will carry the state by 30,- 000 majority.” Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, The Best Salye inthe world for Cuts Bruises,Sores, Ulcers,SaltRheum Fever Sores, Tetter,Chapped Hands, Chiblains Corns, tnd all Skin Eruptions, and posi- tively cures Piles, or no pay required. I {s guaranteed to give pertect satisfaction or money refunded, Price 25 cts per box Forsale by H. L. ucker druggist Gen. Gordon no Bolter. Senator John B. Gordon, of Geor gia, whose name has been mention- ed for Vice Presidency on a gold Democratic ticket, says that he would not accapt any nomination for any political position. He says while remaiving a sound money man, he will support the nominees and the Chiago platform. The Senator is opposed to a second Democratic ticket being placed in the field. He say he has been asked to take the stump in behalf of Bryan and Sewall in Georgia and said I may makea few speeches in their ‘bebalf. Re publican rule in Georgia, the Sena tor says, controlled by an undesir- able element of whites and negroes, would be a great calamity, on the State, and the fear of this has caused the sound money men to fall in line in support of the Chicago ticket and platform. All Free. Those who have used Dr. King’s regular coinage and fix up one thing aud another; and there is not a sin- gle man in the senate, I think, unless amember of the committee from which the bill came, who had the slightest idea that it was even a squint toward demonetization” by it. This fact in itself is uot enough to convict, but it affords a clue. With this clue in hand, we introduce Mr. Earnest Seyd into the conspiracy. A writer, quoted by Samuel Levitt in his book, “Our Money Wars,” says: “The English capitalists raised $500,000 and sent one Ernest Seyd to America to have silver demone- tized. Hecame. In the bill was skillfully inserted a clause demone. tizing silver. Before the bill pass- ed a member of the committee which had the billin charge stated that |‘Ernest Seyd of London, a distin- Mr. Holman said in the house of representatives: “I have before me the record of the proceedings of this house on the passage of that meas ure, a record which no man can read without being convinced that the measure and the methods of its passage through the house was a colossal swindle. I assert that the measure never had the sanction of this house, and it does not possesss|is now here, has given great atten- the moral foree of law.” Congres-| tion to the subject of mint coinage. sional Record, vol. iv , part 6. Forty | After having examined the first draft fourth congress, first session. appen-|cf this bili he bas made various dix, page 193.) Again, on another |sensible suggestions, which the ultimately became a law was certain-|the bili.’ (Congressional Record : ly not read in the house.” | April 9, 1872)” Representative Cannon said: “This | legislation was had in the forty.|and important character in this con- second congress, February 12, 1873, | spiracy, we will follew him to Lon- 2 oE8 to regulate the mints of | don and see what he has to say guished writer and bullionist, who | As Ernest Seyd is an interesting | |such anattempt here as I did in | your country’.” | Such is Ernest Seyd’s confession; | such the history of the “Crime of | 1873;” such the way in which the | standard dollar was dropped from our coinage. New Discovery know its value, and those who have not the opportunity to try it free. Callon the advertis- ed druggist and get a trial bottle, free. 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