Show I 1 THRESHING OLD STRAW crisp and smith continue their debate big AUDIENCE TO HEAR THEM the secretary denied that the act of in 1873 caused the coincidental ran rail in prices mr crisp the dead ay parallel and shows how the views of mr smith in 1801 differed from uis his views in 1890 1803 lach loudly applauded atlanta go ga abill 2 six thousand gnp people I 1 gallic d to in lh big tabernacle to in heir boar tit the second of the series of joint llo lb bates ats on tho the currency between of 0 the interior smith arid and ex ec speaker charts F CHIP ci 1 hatli speak vi i i were greeted t ill ivos of checha on in their appearance that ne corded the secretary bem baini the iho h altier per liapi linfoR because of the fact that thai atlanta li 14 its ills home arid it a pronounced sound round money benter thoi tho speaking began at 9 secretary Secre smith lieving bavin the opening nang and speak lair ini tor for an hour and ten minutes secretory secretary smith began by savins paving that ho he opposed the free arc and uI billin llin lied coinage ot of at IS 14 to I 1 for or the patina reason that benjamin 11 II hill had bill opposed it and h he read from that dla dim Geor georgians glans speech on tte subject lit in the oitis senate lie ile declared flint tant lip he 1130 opposed i ased free coinage because lie ho wonted wanted elt vi I 1 I 1 I 1 ja ji K I 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 k faar I 1 IZZ ot tv 1 Z 7 j I 1 k it fl 2 1 I ivam 1111 I 1 i if 7 i k vly if 1 I 1 I 1 F 47 I 1 secretary hoke smith to seo see genuine obtain in this country the advocates of free coinage coln aee when they called ihna Ihan elves selves under a title they did not deserve he fie eipl ly tut lined the history ot of coinage to lo show that HIP commercial value of bold old laid and sliver had regulated the 0 of the legal leal ratio ix the metals IN FRANCE mr air crisp hod stated staled in a late ifie feb in the house lint france had kept kep the legal and commercial ratio lher lie he mr smith had bad in augusta i I 1 reduced tho the evidence of 0 hI storla i 1 after ader historian to show that the stat staumont mont was incorrect arid and he be would woul I 1 not refer arfer to the matter again until mr 1 I cris crisp produced some borne authority to sustain lila him statement the tary denied that t the he act of 1873 had caused baua d the fall in the price of silver the law of if supply and demond demand and the th cheap cheapening of tile hie crt of mining hui had been potent factors in that depreciation it the ripe coinage of if silver liver would cause the th grains of silver liver in a silver d doll 11 ir to lo be borth as touch much as the 2322 3 22 chaltis of gold cold lit in a gold dollar if 1 it gouid sr is vc e it a roal ral bimetallism ilmet allam he would lie be in favor of it rut but he felt elt ashamed of for presenting such a east case even hv hvizo ito and common sense el R e showed that it wits was impossible 1 lie 1 e cited con walker prof andrews An diews mr A J balfour and other lending bibet allots as li claran that file evil r I 1 man I 1 of f fice face coinage without agreement would be instead of our currency being contracted since 1873 secretary smith closed ired it had been enormously increased lie ile denied the proposition ahat the currency could be increased by it a system of coinage billich alch disregarded the commercial ratio nillo and brought about with the cheaper metal alone in circulation we ha have e a greater arr carita CAPITA OF GOLD COLD AND SILVER in fr circulation now than ever before before 1973 only MM silver dollars had been coined exclusive I 1 of suba rubs I 1 airy IY coins since march during this administration which lied had ben been do clr blared hostile to silver more ill than in silver dollari had been coined tire tho hard times lial had beun begun with the I 1 sherman act the fear of free P I 1 v er cohr inre iliad had shaken public onn conna nee and caused a 8 contract contraction irin of the creola currency which blob carried can led wj joel cent of tin tit e busl lit I 1 sins ners of the country in leif mode modell ng ni our cu currency ir rency I 1 we e Ellona lat first 11 alx a stable stan dari 1 then retire the green greenbacks backs a ua rf comp ended by Calli adle give silver the right of nf way below tle 10 bild allow state barks the right to bisue notes lie WO boull libl undertake to pro Fint omit it ft plan but tile the central idea must ito be to have every I 1 cry dollar of equall volu the bond lapue waa ne cAury al to ray pay d emandi of the government when it was remembered that congress Coi Cov Kreas gress every year appropriated over four hundred Mil millions linn IL a bond abt of a little river oer SO OoOO wm was not wi fr formidable secir secretary Secret arv S smith concluded hy painting the that woula woul A result from the ilc tiec cllon tron of a contreas Cons con great reas und ind it a favorable a rable to flee let silver eoln nice the secretary was wa cheered for a full minute as a he strat mit down THE SILVER CHAMP mr criep wits wad given give it a rousing reception hen bell he prose arose in beginning lie raja kald lie he wanted to my ivay that its ills brother smith till as ile ho referred to the secretary mado made as good cooil an argument a ant he had ever heard in behalf of oc a couse cause so pao it intrinsically weik weak the trouble with M I 1 mr I 1 smith was wan iliac lio lie confounded it a bl bimetallic Illet allic standard taji larl with 1 I fill a bimetallic circulation cu lation it was not lint necessary noce fary tor for the preservation of a standard r for or the ilia two metals to circulate tope gt her lie he admitted that in fixing tile the ratio in tills this country jefferson haa counseled couns clel hi tile commercial ratio but nt at that time was waa admitted it to free coinage the world over it if you will give us u free coinage he declared and restore iet 0 re silver to in liberty then well talk with will you about rha chankler changing nging the ratio irei nar been intel 2 apted beveral I 1 thes s mr carit crisp tv bogged that tile the audience ittel COP juett rhio joint jint business may be fun n to my any friend smith ho he bald aid but it its not run fun f fr for r me im fin it a candidate tor rot tile the senate and im anlou to get through witla there theme joint debates and pet down to the business of a candidate my friend smith however la is not a candidate for the senate lie says bays lie ila has hafl no dealt deglio a to and I 1 havo have no idea that tho the people of georgia will milt force him hill to run I 1 jere here mr crisp read a letter written by secretary in favoring the tree free coinage of 0 silver enunciating its declarations with careful emp haals ho he olao also load lead what purported to bo be extra extracts CI S from 11 two del delivered vered by secretary smith one in III 1894 in which ho he opposed tile hie tingle single gold froll standa standard rJ and the other in augusta Au gurta two night agn in alch he advocated the single standard EFFECT or the of silver cau the tall fall lit in prices mr crisp e on tended he h are cited the reasons 1 I ter ilist it reduced tile the noney money hipply y 0 of tile the world them ind and been hard alm ilm alm 4 lot in this country of tile late As poo poon n as t 8 tile alic people found out lint hint silver la had a 1 be been c n dorn ou sized they horan began to nal af tile to for 4 i ita a restoration tills this arlt eLto n had deconno A crime in n tho the caps of 11 iho je men who had find it ft fixed axed income Inc envie which was wa 9 increasing every adny lie ill atie c feint that the eingle rold gold stan third wait waa in favor of tire the laboring mail tile the ad as of tree coinage he fie liged dia not want a disho nent dollar dolla r they did not lint want lint one dollar to have more value than another all this talk about cholar cheap tit money n ney was rot concocted by the imn ine n whose who Incz ecott it was to ceorl kap dorily dt ar mr crisp read front from tera of secretary Cail lele in favor of the free coinage of silver contrasting it milli his position now ile he reiterated his statement eta that lie ho was wa a candidate for the senate and by way of warning read from an editorial in the now york financial chronicle urging that money be fur fair nl ard to sound gound candidates tor for the senate in the South when n you priss pais pa is it a law lary providing for 11 7 1 I 1 1 1 k li binl irin 1 11 11 V Z 1 1 0 1 kp pa to at I 1 11 I 1 Z ri Z 1 V I 1 N I 1 40 J r I 1 e A 1 1 z 11 I 1 I 1 W I 1 IN 1 I 1 I 1 10 I 1 ili 1 1 congressman chas F crisp f free coinage col nape you mako make the koll gold n and nd silver of th ilia worm world of equal value the remedy of the sold gold standard men was more bonds bonda it was all for the none for us the first administration of mr cleveland did pay oft off a large amount of bonds but that did nt not ajar tile the fact that his hia present administration and he be paid it with shame had imposed on the people a debt that would amount to five hundred millions before it was paid mr SMITHS REJOINDER Gene generous roum applause accompanied 1 I i mr Carf crisps saps close vo which aich grew int into 0 a roar as aa secretary smith rose for hi ahli twenty minutes rejoin rJ ond dw r he declared that flint mr crisp had dodged the proposition that you could not have a bimetallic currency without hat haung ing the legal ratio the ramp as the ratio ile he was willinar to rest art the case cape on that proposition instead of answering answer lne the point war mr crisp had daxl indulged in small talk and demagogical appeals to prejudice against the on aal 1 wall street lie he was sorry the g naf nian inan hod had cast hla his candidacy for tho the senate on so low ow a plane the Secre rejoinder was interrupted by frequent outbursts of applause which in each case aroused up loosing cheers for crisp interspersed with hisses and cat calls the se secretary re called attention to the fa fact t that air crisp had bad nut answered I 1 the he clait off cal authorities on bloc bairam in france which he had rend read lit in augusta arid closed with mith a defense of the bond issues by the present administration |