'THE CM HE OF W
If the Demonetization of Silver
Wag Sot a Crime What
Wa Jt?
Rer. Dr. Lambert In New York Kreeman'i
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 saye:
"How it cm 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 reasonable
doubt a crime which should have
landed its perpetrator or perpetra
tors in the penitentiary, if it could
hare 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:
"It 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
greos. This act especially had a flood
of sunlight thrown upon it. 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
bouse. 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 wera those distinguished
senators, Messrs. Blaine and Yoor
hees, who were then members of the
house, aad each of whom, a few days
since, iaterrogated 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.
I doubt whether Mr. Hooper, who.
in my absence from the committee
on coinage, and attendance on the
committee on ways and means, man
aged the bill, knew it. I say this in
justice to him.' ' (Congressional
Record, vol. viL, part 2, Forty-fifth
congress,eecond session page 1,605 )
In the Forty-sixth congress, the
same Judge Kelly threw an X-ray
into the mystery when he said: "All
I can 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: that it contained pro
VISIONS TOR BOTH THE STANDARD SILVER
DOLLAR AND THE TRAPE DOLLAR. Never
having heard until a long time after
its enactment into law of the 6ubsti
tution in the senate of the section
which dropped the Btandard silver
dollar, I profess' to know nothing of
its history, but I am prepared to
cay that in the legislation of this
country there is no mystery equal to
the demonetization of the silver dol
lar of the United States. I have
never met a man who could tell just
bow it came about or why." (Con
gressional Record, vol. 9, part 1,
Forty-sixth coDgresp, first session,
page 1,231 ) Again Judge Kelly
said: 4'It (the bill) was passed with
out any allusion in debate to the
question of the retention or the
abandonment of the standard silver
dollar."
Here we have the chairman of the
committee that prepared the bill de
claring positively that it made no
provision for the standard silver
dollar. "Set, after it passed the stand
ard dollar was found to be ommit
ted: Now, the crime of 1873 was
committed on that bill after it had
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 bill; never
having been read at the clerk's desk
the reading having ueen 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 iu the day of
retribution." (Congressional Record,
vol. 7, part 1, second session, Forty
fifth congress, page 584 )
Senator Allison, late candidate for
the Republican nomination, ought to
be good authority for our Republi
can contemporary. Here is what he
said in reference to the subject:
"When the secret history of this bill
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: "I said I used
the word in no offensive sense. It
was changed after discussion, and
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 damonetiza
tion bill) never was understood by
either house of congress. I 6ay that
with full knowledge of the facts. No
newspaper reporter and they are
the most vigilant men I ever saw in
obtaining information discovered
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,
regular coinage and fix up one thing
and another; and there is not a sin
gle man in the senate, I think, unless
a member of the committee from
which the bill came, who bad the
slightest idea that it was even a
squint toward demonetization."
Mr. Holman said in the house o
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
the moral force of law.' Congres
sional Record, vol. iv , part 6. Forty
fourth congress, first session, appen
dix, page 193.) Again, on another
occasion, he said: "The bill which
ultimately became a law was certain
ly not read in the house."
Representative Cannon said: "This
legislation was had in the forty
second congress, February 12, 1S73,
by a bill to regulate the mints of
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the United States, and practically
abolished silver as money by failing
to provide for coinage of the silver
dollar. It was not disused, as shown
by the record, and neither mem
bers of congress nor the people un
derstood the scope of the legisla
tion." (Appendix, page 197, Con
gressional Record, vol. iv , part 6,
forty-fourth congress.)
Senator Hereford, discussing the
subject in the senate, said: "So that
say beyond the possibility of
doubt (and there is no disputing it)
that bill which demonetized silver,
as it passed never was read, never
was discussed and the chairman of
the cjmmittee who reported it, who
offered the substitute, said to Mr.
Holmau, when inquired of, that it
did not effect the coinage in any way
whatever." (Congressional Record,
vol. vii , part 1, Fifty-fifth congress
second session, page 989.)
In view of this testimony the ad
vocates of silver, and every one else
who has a shred of moral sense left
to him, are justified, nay, bound by
the obligation of veracity to desig
nate the law demonetizing silver as
the ' Crime of 1873," the as yet, un
punished crime that has brought
untold miefortune on the American
people. The St. Louis convention
has resolved to maintain the fraudu
lent law and perpetuate its evil
results. The Chicago convention
has resolved to blot it from the rec
ord and remove as far as possible
the evils it has produced.
According to the statement of
Judge Kelley, given above, the silver
bill, when it left the hands of the
committee on coinage, did not de
monetize the silver dollar. On the
contrary it made provision for its
continued coinage. After the bill
was passed it was discovered that
the provision for the silver dollar
was omitted had been surrepti
tiously obliterated from the docu
ment! Here we have the crime of
i
73 Who did this nefarious work?
By whose request or suggestion was
it that this doctored substitute for
the original printed bill was not
read in the house? Who shut off
debate by a demand for the previous
question?
To bring a crime home to its per
petrator, the first question asked is:
Who benefitted by it? The foreign
and Wall street bondholders millions
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," eaye:
"The English capitalists raised
$500,000 and sent one Ernest Seyd
to America to have silver demone
tized. He came. In the bill was
skillfully inserted a clause demone
tizing silver. Before the bill pass
ed a member of the committee which
had the bill in charge stated that
'Ernest Seyd of London, a distin
guished writer and bullionist, who
is now here, has given great atten
tion to the subject of mint coinage.
After having examined the first draft
of this bill he has made various
sensible suggestions, which the
committee adopted and embodied in
the bill. (Congressional Record,
April 9, 1S72 )"
As Ernest Seyd is an interesting
and important character in this con
spiracy, we will f ollew him to Lon
don and see what he has to say
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In 1892 Frederick A. Luekenbach,
a former member of the New York
Stock exchange, made an affidavit
in which the following statements
occur:
"In 1865 I visited London, Eng
land, for the purpose of placing
there Pennsylvania oil properties in
which I was interested. I took with
me letters of introduction to many
gentlemen in London, among them
one to Mr. Ernest Seyd, from Robt
M Faust, ex treasurer of Philadel
phia. I became well acquainted
with Mr. Seyd and with his brother,
Richard Seyd, who, I understand, is
yet living, I visited London there
after every year, and with each visit
renewed my acquaintance with Mr.
Seyd. In February, 1874, while on
one of these visits, and while his
guest at dinner, I among other
things, alluded to rumors afloat of
parliamentary corruption, and ex
pressed astonishment that such cor
ruption should exist. In reply to
this he told me he could relate facts
about the corruption of the Ameri
can congress that would place it far
ahead of the English parliament in
that line. After dining he invited
me into another room, where he re
sumed the conversation about legis
iative corruption He said- "If you
will pledge me your honor as a gen
tleman not to divulge what I am
about to tell you while I live, I will
conviuce you that what I said about
the corruption of the American con
gress is true I gave him my prom
ise, and he then continued: 'I went
to America in 1S72-3, authorized to
secure, if I could, the passage of a
bill demonetizing silver. It was to
the interest of those whom I repre
sented the governors of the bank
of England to have it done. I took
with me S400.000, within structions
if that was not sufficient to accom
plish the object, to draw for another
S500.0C0, or as much more as was
necessary. 1 saw the committees
oi the house and senate and naid
the money, and staid in America
until I knew the measure was safe.
Your people will not comprehend
the far reaching extent of that meas
ure, but they will in after years.
Whatever you may think of corrup
tion in English parliament, I assure
you I would not have dared to make
such an attempt here as I did in
your country'."
Such is Ernest Seyd'a confession;
such the history of the "Crime of
1873;" such the way in which the
standard dollar was dropped from
our coinage.
Strange and incredible as it may
seem, the platform of the St. LouiB
convention maintains as a party
principle that the law thus passed
by the intrigue of English capital
ists must not be abolished without
the consent of these same consrjira-
tors against the welfare of the Amer
ican people: Our national honor, we
are told, require that we must con
tinue iodfinitely to suffer the evil re
sults of that criminal conspiracy.
Every effort to free ourselves from
the iniquitous burden is called repu
diation. In view of these thinsj it
is not difficult to understand the in-
tense earnestness and enthusiasm of
the common people at the Chicago
convention and the brusque manner
in which they treated the profession
al politicians, the political hacks,
the pliant tools of the organized and
conspiring wealth that caused the
evils of which the laboring people
are the victims.
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BOLTER BALDWIN
Says Bryan Will Carry
Minne
sota by 3O,OO0.
Sav Republicans Are Com in 2 Out Flat
footed for Free Silver
Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 10. Lawyer
O. W. Baldwin of Duluth, president
of the leadiug 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 Bryau andSewall. The
club of which he is president is
known as the Bryan and Towne
club. It was organized iu the inter
est of the national democratic ticket,
and the candidacy of Charles A.
Towne. the brilliant youug republi
can whose speech in the house of
representatives on the silver ques
tion last session attracted widespread
attention. Mr. Towne was among
the republicans who bolted the party
after the St. Louis convention, and
who has since declared for the dem
ocratic nominee. He is running for
re election 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 come 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, republicau 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
ticket. He has always been a re
publican.
I have forgotten to mention ex
congressman Lind, just nominated
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."
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