Show THE DETROIT BANQUET stupidities comptroller eckell broke forth again at the detroit banquet the occasion tams to 10 h have been ai ranged ed tor for him and mr depew denew to air their stupidities mr depew as aa tar for as ai re reported ported however had less of 0 these than mr hr eckels but his reference to the needs of the country being that its ili standard money metal ahall be such that it nill mill bo be accepted at its mint value the world over whether in bar or in coin needs to be limited by the fur tiler condition that no discrimination shall be roads made against a rightful money metal by law so limited his statement Is a acceptable to silver men who maintain that silver la 13 eq equally u ally a royal metal of coinage with gold cold that it has even under the hie most adverse circumstances proved that it Is the more stalie stable and reliable measure of values and that all it needs to take rank again and at once on a perfect equality w with ith gold Is that it be given an equal recognition at the mints all ali the platitudinous inous of De pews based on the contrary assumption were mere roth froth tile the fact that silver always held its own and more until equal recognition was denied it surely overthrows any mere assumption that it would not do so eo again it if allowed an equal chance and justifies the silver mens proposition that with the abolition ot of adverse laws silver would vindicate itself the case a priori being so clearly and so BO plainly in their favor they are arc utterly at a loss to understand how low the gold goodites Ites can logically occupy the position they do ot of antagonism to the white metri metal that Is those of the goodites eold gold lles ites who pretend to argue the case but as to those of the gold eold ito side bide who cry out lor for gold cold alone merely that they may thus continue the scarcity of money so 0 o that they can secure the highest possible return for their loans find so no that the interest they receive will so go the farthest in purchasing power in the markets their position Is 0 clear enough they act for their own selfishness altogether alto sether and to the end that the mass of the people or of the country may be reduced to the condition of hewers of wood and draw ers era of water mr eckelsa Eck elss argument proceeded on the same assumption as that on which mr was based but it was more impudent as it went tato into details for instance ho he said that tho the reserved force of common sense and honesty among the people could always be depended upon to compel the right thing thine to be done assuming that this right thing thine Is the permanent enforcement of the single gold cold standard put hut la in this he loses his bearings the fact Is 1 it Is that reserve force of common sense and honesty that la is now coming to the rescue of 0 silver the swindling gold standard has cursed the land too long and the people are ace arousing themselves to shake it oft off and when in this connection sir mr eckels speaks ot of currency vagaries he would evidently be shocked were he be told that Is 13 precisely the term to apply to his talk but that la Is exactly the term to apply to it when he further speaks of the sliver silver men desiring to revolutionize the count rys monetary system one Is lost in wonder at ills his mendacious audacity lie he surely cannot be ignorant ot of tile the fact that silver men inert merely want a return to the monetary system established by the fathers and embodied in the constitution that what they seek to do Is not to revolutionize anything except a surreptitious plot carried carri cl into execution without the knowledge or consent of the iba people and in the interest of the moneylenders money lenders ot of the east and of europe in so ao far as any revolution may be involved it la in a revolution in the direction of constitutional principles popular rights and financial finan tat independence laid deep in the foundations of this government and never questioned on principle but set aside by stealth and treacherously to give the money power na is buch permanent control 0 of the country to the disadvantage 0 of its manhood As in ili other points sir mr eckels hen haa got cot this one lie in reverse I 1 it t is it his I 1 3 er brov v d that are and have been tile the revolutionists equally mendacious Is hla his outcry that silver la Is the aim of the silver r men and that the principle involved Is ilat ism the same in principle as tile the greenback movement that mr air eckels takes this lew allows that he has bits in fact no comprehension at all ot of tile die silver question lie he has haa merely assumed one or two positions that do not apply in the case and from these irrelevant premises lie he has built up a case against silver that has no application to balver As aa said above silver men contend that silver Is a perfect money metal and all it needs Is equal treatment with gold to bo be as good as gold in every respect in thus the allver position sir mr eckels does doca himself no credit and his talk Is weak even from the goldlee standpoint when mr eckels li finally nally announces that there Is no room for party in thlu this discussion lie he merely states once more what Is becoming pretty thoroughly understood that the gold goodites ites of the rest east are pre paled to break with either cither or both of the old parties in the interest of their pockets and without regard to principle the appearance ot of protective tariff depew and free trado trade eckels at the time function arguing on the same side for ill alie rule of gold to tho the opplee blon of the people Is an example of f 0 tile the ease case with this new political bed fel howship can call be but tile the taskmaster task master masters who ie luire bricks without straw are tec reckoning koning without their host bost in former times when this oppression pres slon was sore bore the rulers had no need ante 1 to consult the people but yet the escaped tho the thralldom how much more certainly shall they n now when n the people oppresses oppressed tire elves the hie |