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MR. CRISP SPEAKS.
BE GIVES IIIS VIEWS ON THE
FINANCIAL QUESTION.
*be Ex-Speaker is For the Free Coin¬
age of Both Gold and Sliver.
Before a joint session of the two
houses of the Georgia state legislature
Wednesday night, ex-Speaker Charles
F. Crisp spoke upon the financial
question. The distinguished Georgian
had been invited by the unanimous
▼ote of the two houses of the general
assembly to address them on the po¬
litical issues of the day. They were
in joint session to hear him, and threw
the doors of the house of representa¬
tives open, admitting the general pub¬
lic.
Besides the members of the legisla¬
ture and the state officers a number of
the Georgia congressional delegation,
Congressman Bankhead, of Alabama,
and scores of the most prominent men the
iu the state were present. Among
well known faces were those of Hon.
Fleming G. duBignon, Chanceller
Boggs of the State university, Dr. H.
C. White, Mr. W. S. Baoul and hun¬
dreds of others.
Mr. Crisp spoke for two honrs, con¬
fining himself exclusively to the finan¬
cial question and coming out emphat¬
ically for bimetallism—for the free
coinage of both gold and silver at the
present ratio—and asserting that the
United States, with her seventy mil¬
lion of people, was sufficiently power¬
ful to establish bimetallism the world
over. He cited the fact that the mere
passage of a free doinage bill by the
United States senate several years ago
bad caused the bullion value of silver
in London to advance 23 cents an
ounce in ten days, and held that the
rehabilitation of silver by the United
States would re-establish it the world
over.
The speech was on practical, argu¬
mentative lines, just as Mr. Crisp
speaks on all occasions. It was gen¬
erously applauded throughout aud at
its conclusion tbe audience applauded
loud and long and crowded about to
extend congratulations to the speaker
for what all termed the most logical
and concise statemeni of the financial
issues ever made before a Georgia au¬
dience.
In beginning his address Mr. Crisp
said: “Profoundly grateful for the
honor which you have conferred upon
me, I shall endeavor to manifest my
appreciation : by a frank, honest and
fearless presentation of my views on
the public issu“s of the day. Of course
it goes without saying that I shall
speak to you as a democrat; one, too,
who feels proud of the record of real his
party and one who feels that the
and best interests of the masses of the
people of the United States are linked
indissolubly with the destinies of that
great party. (Applause.)
“Iu a government like ours, where
the people rule, it is essential that wa
should have party government. Where
all men must vote or should vote in
the Beleotion of officers it is natural
that those men who agree upon main,
essoutiul principles should vote to¬
gether, and thus form a party.”
“Now, tho democratic party stands
for certain principles. It stauds for
local self-government. It stands for
eoonomy iu the administration of pub¬
lic affairs. It stands against class leg¬
islation. It stauds for equal rights to
all of the citizens of the country and
special privileges to none. It stauds
against high tariff, which is class leg¬
islation ; and in my judgment, gentle¬
men, it stands, and has always stood,
in favor of bimetallism. (Applause
and cheers.) Aud that is the question
I propose to discuss tonight.
“What is bimetallism? The equal
coinage of gold aud silver at the mint
without discrimination against either
at a ratio fixed by law. (Cheers and
applause.) Anything short of the ab¬
solute equality of those metals at the
mint, whatever it may be, is not bime¬
tallism. (Applause.)
“In 1792 we established a mint in
the United States. The constitution
of the United States provided that
congress should ‘coin money and reg¬
ulate the value thereof.’ That is the
exact language', of the constitution. coin¬
“In 1792 was passed the first
age law. That law provided that every
fifteen pounds’ weight of pure silver
should be of equal value in all pay¬
ments with one pounds’weight of gold,
aud all the gold and silver coin which
has been struck at and issued from the
mint shall be a lawful tender in all
payments whatsoever. This is bimet¬
allism. There is nothing about a unit
■of value, but it fixed a ratio between
the two metals and provided by law
that either of them at that ratio should
be a lawful tender for all debts, public
and private.
It was found in 1834 that there was
a disparity between the coinage value
and the commercial value of the two
metals, growing, my friends, as I hope
to demonstrate to you, out of the dif¬
ference of the ratio in this country
and the ratio abroad. Did the peo¬
ple of that day propose to discontinue
the coinage of either metal because
there was a difference in the ratio?
No( ■»; but they carefully considered
all surrcnndiugs and came to the con
elusion that there was too much gold
in the gold dollar, and they reduced
the quantity of gold in the gold dollar
and thus sought to bring ' about a parity,
That wa R in 1834. .Still another
change was made m 1837, and the
ratio was changed from 15 to 1 to 16
to 1, so that sixteen pounds of silver
should equal one pound of gold and
either should be permitted to be used
in tile payment of debts. That con¬
tinued the law of the United States
down to 1873. Before the war, dur¬
ing that long period wo bad i» th*
United States, no great discussion as
to the respective value of gold and sil¬
ver ; no great disturbance of the hard
monetary system nor no great attack
upon it.
“The people of that day believed
that there was such a thing as bimet¬
allism and they believed that on bimet¬
allism depended the interest and prop¬
erty of the people of the United
States.
“But in 1873 silver was demonetiz¬
ed. It was not demonetized, my
friends, because it was cheap, for at
the time of the passage of the act, the
bullion value of the silver dollar was
worth three cents more than the bull¬
ion value of a gold dollar.
Speaker Crisp reviewed the action
of congress when the question of free
coinage was before that body, and
said: "In December, 1876, we had a
vote of the house on free coinage.
The yeas were 168 and the nays 53.
The democratic yeas were 124 and the
democratic nays were 17. In 1877,
one year thereafter, another vote on
free coinage was taken. The demo¬
cratic yeas were 97, democratic nays
10. Ninety-seven to ten was the pro¬
portion at that time of the democrats
who favored the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
“Now, why was it demonetized?
There can be but one reason. It was
to increase the value of a gold dollar.
Now, those who oppose silver say, ‘We
oppose it because it is cheap, because
the bullion is cheap.’ But in 1873, as
I have told yon, when it was struck
down, the bullion in a silver dollar was
worth 3 cents more than the bullion in
a gold dollar. That act was passed
without knowledge on the part of the
people, or of the people’s representa¬
tives, and I never heard it questioned
in democratic circles until within the
last year or two.
“On the Bland-Allison law in 1878 s
the democratic yeas were 122, nays
21. One hundred and twenty-two to
21 were the friends of silver. On the
free coinage bill in 1886 the demo¬
cratic yeas were 96, nays 70. The
nays, yon see, were then increasing,
but still a majority of the democrats
stood for the free coinage of silver.
“In 1890 the free coinage democrats
were 101, nays 13. In 1890 again the
democratic vote was 112 yeas, 22 nays,
in favor oi free coinage.
“In March, 1892, on a motion to ta¬
ble a free coinage bill the yeas were
148 and the nayB 147. I was speaker
at that time and voted with the nays
and that made a tie and the motion
failed. (Applause.)
In August, 1893, the free coinage
democrats w ere 101, nays 103. For the
first time in the history of the demo¬
cratic party in 1893 a majority of the
democratic representatives in congress
—a majority of two—voted against
free coinage. They voted against free
coinage then because that was a prop¬
osition to repeal the Sherman law,and
they were urged to let that proposition
stand by itself, and when it was dis¬
posed of further legislation should be
had in relation to silver. Following
that, in March, 1894, we had the
seignorage bill, more legislation in
the interest of silver, and how did that
result? Democratic ayes 135 and nays
50. The hour had come when some¬
thing should be done for silver, and
many of those gentlemen who had
voted against free coinage in 1893 on
the seignorage bill voted in favor of
silver. So that the vote was demo¬
crats 135 to 50, and when the bill was
vetoed the democrats voted yeas 117,
nays 50.
"Taking all these votes together,
my friends—taking the fact that silver
was demonetized in a republican con¬
gress—am I not justified in saying
that the establishment of the single
gold standard in the United States was
a republican measure and has never
met with the approval of the majority
of the democratic party? (Applause.)
The Amount of Gold and Silver in the
World.
“Think of it for a moment. There
is about three and a half billion dol¬
lars of each of these metals in tho
world, the money with which all duties
are to be paid and all business trans¬
acted. If by a single act you strike
down one-half of that money neces¬
sarily the other half must bear the
whole burden. But our friends tell
us—our single standard friends—that
Ihey are the friends of silver. There
is no advantage, gentlemen of the as
sembly, there is no rdvantage in hav
ing silver as a money unless it is a
legal tender money and stands upon
its own feet. (Applause.) supported
“If it is to be in some
way oy the gold standard, then, my
friends, the money you pay for the
silver is wasted. You had better take
paper, which costs nothing, and print
dollars. (Great Applause.)
“The refunding act and the resump¬
tion act are provided for the payment
of the obligations of the United States
in coin—coin of the standard value,
At the time of the passage of the act
412J grains of silver was a standard
silver dollar. It was a legal tender
when the act was passed, and yet 1 m
mediately after the passage of the act
yon find Mr. Sherman—and go where
you will you will find no man entitled
to so much credit or so much discred
it for the present condition as Mr.
Sherman—you find Mr. Sherman in
1875 writing a letter to the attorney
general—a republican attorney gen¬
eral— asking him whether he could is
sue the bonds payable in the coins of
the then present standard. If they
were payable in the present standard
they were gold bonds. If they were
payable in coin of the standard of the
date of the act, then they wero coin
bond*.
“The attorney general answers: ‘The
bonds are redeemable in the coin of
the standard of 1870, the date of the
act.”
Payable in Silver.
“Coming down to 1878, we find
Stanley Mathews, the republican sen¬
ator from Ohio, afterwards a distin¬
guished judge of the supreme court of
the United States—you find him in¬
troducing a bill that reads as follows:
, That all bonds of the United States
issued or to be issued under the said
act of congress hereinbefore cited are
payable, principal and interest, at the
option of the government of the United
States, in silver dollars of the coinage
of the United States containing 412£
grains each of standard silver and to
restore to its coinage such silver coins
as legal tender in payment of said
bonds, principal and interest, is not in
violation of the public faith nor in
derogation of the rights of the public
creditors.’ (Applause.) And that
passed the house by 159 to 79. After
silver had been demonetized it was re¬
solved by the house by that vote that
we had the power to proceed again to
coin silver at 412J grains and honestly
discharge the obligations of the Uni¬
ted States.
That Fifty-Cent Dollar.
“Then, we have democrats who tell
us—and I would like to run over th'eir
objections to free coinage, if I could—
they tell ns that they are opposed to
coining a 50-cent dollar. Now what do
they mean by that? A silver dollar
will buy anything that a gold dollar will
buy in the market, in this country or
abroad. Your silver dollar will pass;
your silver certificates can be used in
England; because they are good in
this country, and the Englishmen want
something we have got to sell. Why,
then, call this a 50-cent dollar? You
mean that the bullion in that dollar is
only worth 50 cents. Probably
that is true, but why is it true? The
value of everything, my friends, is
regulated by supply and demand.
Doubly is that true as to money.
The desire for money equals the de¬
sire for everything else on earth. You
can have no substitute for money. If
you fail to get flour to make bread,
you may buy corn. But there is no
substitute for money. You must have
it if you live in a community with
your fellow men. Therefore the de¬
mand for money exceeds the demand
for anything else, or equals the de
mand for everything else in the world
put together. Now, then, silver is
not coined except to a certain extent.
It has not the privilege r of free coinage,
About Values.
“Some of our friends tell us—dem¬
ocratic friends—the law doesn’t create
value. I agree to that. But the law
can create demand, and demand can
create value. Do you question that?
Strike down the demand for any com¬
modity and you diminish its value,and
increase the demand and you increase
the value.
“Suppose that there was a law pro¬
viding that no mill should grind win¬
ter wheat, for instance; what would
be the effect of that? Why, it would
increase the price of the spring wheat
and it would diminish the price of the
winter wheat. Wouldn’t it? I admit
the law can’t create value, but it can
create the demand and destroy the de¬
mand, and demand regulates value.
“Now, our democratic friends who
oppose this measure say that under no
consideration could they agree to coin
silver at less than its commercial value.
I agree with them. There is no
trouble between us on that. But bow
can we get at its commercial value? If
my democratic friends think to com¬
pare its value with gold now when it is
prohibited coinage, then I say to them
they are no friends of silver and are
enemies of a fair test.
“The way to test its commercial
value is to restore its status as it was
when it was stricken down. (Ap¬
plause.) There was no question of the
commercial value of silver in 1873. It
was worth 3 cents more to the dollar
than gold. Now I say if you are hon¬
estly a silver man, if you are honestly
111 having the use of the two
Antals at their commercial value, the
step for yon to take is to vote for
the rehabilitation of silver, that is a
bill to recoin it as it was in 1873 at
the ratio of 16 to 1 and discover its
value.”
In concluding Mr. Crisp eaid:
“Bear in mind what bimetallism is.
Bear in mind that it puts the bullion
value of silver on an equality with
gold, and bear in mind that it will re¬
store to the people of the whole Unit¬
ed States that prosperity to which
they are so much in need. ”
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
BRUSHES.
Kitchen brushes can be put to a va»
riety of uses. For the washing of
dishes with handles, the outside of
iron kettles and other cooking utensils
made of iron, they are especially ser
viceable. The smaller sizes are also
excellent for cleaning cut glass ware;
in fact, any kind of ware with raised
figures or corrugated surfaces. For
cleaning a grater nothing is superior
to one of these little brushes.
Such a brush is also most useful for
washing celery or lettuce, as the ua
even surfaces of the stalk and leaves
make a thorough cleansing with the
hands a difficult operation. Then if
one uses a brush with handle,
water, which adds to the crispness of
the celery and lettuce, may be used
for the cleaning, as there will be no
necessity for putting the hands in the
water. A small whisk broom is also
valuable for the same purpose.
Such vegetables as potatoes, tur
nips, etc., are best cleaned with a
brush. It makes work less disagrees
hie, as the hands need not be soiled;
and in no other way can the cleaning
be so well and thoroughly done.—
Farm, Field and Fireside.
USES FOR CHEESECLOTH.
Cheesecloth is used for dishtowels,
scrubcloths, breadcloths, dusters,
strainers, coffee bags and even tea
bags, when the tea ball is out of order,
or has not yet put in an appearance
among the family silver.
Little bags with a thread run in to
draw up and wind around the neck are
a substitute for the tea ball and make
a cleanly method of making tea.
Sash curtains no less than longer
drapery prove how a small expendi¬
ture may be put to good and durable
purpose. and smooth cheesecloth,
Very fine speck,
without the familiar black cam
be painted in water colors, large flow¬
ers conventionalized being easily
accomplished by stretching the stuS
over a frame without a back,and paint
ing in air so to speak. oil
Cabinetmakers use it entirely to
furniture, providing three cloths in
every set—one to rub on the oil, one
to rub it off and a third for polishing
purposes. face it is soft, and for
For baby’s recommended
towels and squares it is
especially. The capacity to hold
water makes cheesecloth or cotton
material less irritating to chafing skins
than linen.
HOMINT BREAD.
A noted New Orleans housekeeper
with Woman’s World and Work said
she was quite interested in the query
of a Natchitoches “Country House¬
keeper,” with reference to the making
of cornmeal bread with sour milk and
the receipt given, Continuing the
talk of housekeeping receipts gener¬
ally, this lady, whose table is known,
as one of the daintiest and most pala¬
table in New Orleans, gave me one of
her own excellent receipts for the
making of corn or hominy bread, which
I reproduce for the special benefit of
not only “country housekeepers,” but
of city readers also,
Take three cups of coiled grits, one
CU teaspoonfuls P °* C0 J n m ot f a yeast ’ ^ wo powder e SS s anc Beat
well together, bake and serve hot with
country butter.
“And by the way,” continued this
interesting housekeeper, “I always
have made my own yeast powder for
the past twenty years, and will give
you my home recipe, which is unfail¬
ing in the proportions I have given
for hominy bread. Take one pound
of soda and two of cream of tartar and
sift them thoroughly together three
times. In using flour, the proportions
are two teaspoonfuls to a pint of flour.”
—New Orleans Picayune.
RECIPES.
Potatoes—Cook small potatoes in
the jackets. Heat a lump of butter iu
a skillet, peel potatoes and throw in
the butter; cover and shake till the
potatoes look rnealy.
Frizzled Beef—Shred beef, pour
over it cold water and let come to a
boil (must not boil, as it toughens),
pour off this water, add milk, a little
pepper, butter, a well-beaten egg and
thicken with smooth paste of flour.
Floating Island—One quart milk
set in sauce pan, let almost boil; beat
yolks of four eggs, one cup sugar, one
tablespoonful cornstarch together.
Pour in the milk and let boil until it
thickens. Flavor when cold. Beat
the whites very light with a little pow¬
dered sugar, lay by the spoonful upon
boiling water for two or three min¬
utes, and then place ou custard, drop¬
ping a little jelly on each.
Cornstarch Pudding—Boil one pint
milk with two heaping tablespoons of
sugar and some salt. "When boiling
stir in two tablespoons of cornstarch
mixed with some water; stir till well
ccoked and thick. Bemove from fire
and stir slowly into it two well-beaten
eggs; put on fire till eggs are cooked,
flavor with vanilla and cool. Serve
with preserves or gravy made in the
following way: Boiling water one
gill, good sweet jelly one-half cup, tea¬
spoon cornstarch mixed with cold
water, juice of half a lemon and the
yellow rind of one lemon, grated.
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