If Senators want cheap money and to advance prices, free coinage is the way to do it; but do not call it bimetallism.

The problem we have to solve is how to secure to our people the largest use of both gold and silver without demonetizing either.

Our country is under the pressure of a currency famine.

Industries, great and small, all suspended by the owners, not because they cannot sell their products, but because they cannot get the money to pay for raw material and the wages of their employees.

Banks conducted fairly are drained of their deposits and are compelled not only to refuse all loans, but to collect their bills receivable.

This stringency extends to all trades and businesses; it affects even your public revenues, all forms of public and private securities, and, more than all, its stops the pay of a vast army of laboring men, of skilled mechanics, and…

It is the movement of fear, the belief that their money will be needed, and that they may not be able to get it when they want it.

Now, as representatives of the people, we are called here in Congress to furnish such measures of relief as the law can afford.

In the discharge of this duty I will sweep away all party bias, all pride of opinion, all personal interest, and even the good will of my constituents, if it were necessary; but, fortunately, I believe their opinions concur with my own.

The production of silver is a great interest, and the people of Ohio are as deeply interested in the success of that interest as the people of Colorado.

There could be no desire on the part of any portion of the people of the United States to strike down silver.

I say that instead of desiring to strike down silver we will likely build it up; and any measure that could be adopted for an international ratio that will not demonetize gold will meet my approbation and favor.

The question is what ought to be done for the people of the United States in their length and breadth.

Are we bound to build up the interest of one section or one community at the expense of another or of the whole country?

I heartily and truly believe that the best thing we can now do is to suspend for time, at least, the purchase of silver bullion.

I would give them power to protect the credit of the government against all enemies at home and abroad.

In the meantime let the United States stand upon its strength and credit, maintaining its money, different kinds of money, at a parity with each other.

If we will do that I think soon all these clouds will be dissipated and we may go home to our families and friends with a conscientiousness that we have done good work for our country at large.

Never before had he seen such obstruction in the Senate, never before the force bill had he known of a measure which failed, after due deliberation, to come to a vote.

The Republicans had remained steadfast to the President, although under no obligation to him, and now the time had come when the Democrats must take the responsibility.

If you,' he added, looking the Democrats in the fact, 'cannot do it, then retire from the Senate Chamber, and we will fix it on this side, and do the best we can with our silver friends who belong to us, who are blood of our blood, and…

The free coinage of silver is still upheld by a large body of those who are interested in mining it, or who want to pay their debts with a depreciated coin; but the danger of the adoption of this policy is lessening daily.

The bimetallic system of maintaining all forms of money at par with gold will probably soon be fully established.

To complete this system and to extend it to our paper money it would be wise to gradually withdraw treasury notes and silver certificates and replace them with United States notes supported and maintained by large reserves of gold.

They must be treated as United States notes, and maintained at par with gold coin, or the parity of our coin and currency will be endangered.