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Show Silver Eloquence. Washington, February 3. Mr. Mills, of Texas, yesterday made an address on the silver question to a House Committee. If silver was stricken down, he said, then the value of all products of labor would de-o de-o rea se just one-half. Whenever prices were falling, money would go out of circulation. There was no such curse in existence as the contraction of the volume of the currency. When this contraction was brought about there would come sorrow to the bosoms of the people, tears to their cheek3and hunger, want and starvation. That was what the advocates of scarce money were asking Congress Con-gress to do , and to do so in the interest of the laboring men. In conclusion, Mr. Mills said: This scourge which is sought to be visited on the people of the United States comes from the cold marble and phlegmatio avarice which seeks to impale the whole country on a bed of suffering in order to gratify its lust for gold, In this hour, fraught with peril to the whole country, I appeal to the unpurchased Bepresentatives of the American people. Let us stand up and call the battle on, and never leave the field until the people's money shall be restored re-stored to its full value. |