Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1891 — MR. SHERMAN ON SILVER. [ARTICLE]

MR. SHERMAN ON SILVER.

The elections hill having thus been diss placed and the financial bill taken upin its stead, the latter will be read by the clerk, and Mr. Stewart moved to amend it by adding his free coinage provision. Mr. Sherman said that the sudden andunexpected change of scene and the intro* duction of a new topic of debate, should not revolutionary measure now proposed (Mr. Stewart’s amendment) to pass without the serious and sober attention of every Senator. The fact that there had an unexpected defectiun in the minority of this body from its responsibility if It supported that measure. He appealed to the sober sense of responsibility on the Democratic side of the Chamber against a measure which he regarded as revolutions ary and dangerous, and the effect of which' (if it should becomS a law) would be more destructive than that of any measure tha has been proposed for years. If thefrieuds of silver bad only patience, and would wait until the element of time acted on the silver law of last session, the policy of the United States Government and of the French government, together; with the use of silver in the South American States would lift up silver again to the gold standard. and that would give them gold value for their silver. He did not believe, from what he knew now, that the. bill could pass; and if hi* Democratic friends desired some measure for the relief ot the money market, they woald throw away the only chance that they had to aooompllsh the result which they desired. f