The great depreciation of silver bullion has resulted in a vast loss to the government and its disposition is the most serious problem pending in Congress.

It is manifest that the causes of the defeat of the Democratic party in the recent election were general and not local.

If the opposition to the Democratic party in Virginia had been organized and conducted by the Republican party, the results in that state would have been very different.

The ideas of the Populists are too visionary and impracticable to be made the basis of a political organization.

Whatever theories may be proposed, it may be regarded as an axiom that the protective principle is a well established principle in the United States.

It has been recommended by all the Presidents from Washington to Harrison, and by none more emphatically than Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson.

While the terms of our tariff laws provided for revenue, their foundation and background were to encourage domestic manufactures and diversify productions.

The extent of protection was limited to the want of revenue, but the duties were uniformly so adjusted as, while producing revenue, to encourage manufactures.

The future of parties will depend more largely upon the manner in which this condition of things is met by the present Congress than upon all other causes combined.

Nothing so important claims our attention, and nothing so clearly presents itself as both an opportunity and a duty--an opportunity to deserve the gratitude of our fellow-citizens, and a duty imposed upon us by our oft-repeated…

After a full discussion our countrymen have spoken in favor of this reform, and they have confided the work of its accomplishment to the hands of those who are solemnly pledged to it.

If there is anything in the theory of a representation in public places of the people and their desires, if public officers are really the servants of the people, and if political promises and professions have any binding force, our…

Nothing should intervene to distract our attention or disturb our effort, until this reform is accomplished by wise and careful legislation.

This cannot be while federal legislation, through the imposition of high tariffs, forbids to American manufactures as cheap materials as those used by their competitors.

This is the primary and almost the only cause of the financial difficulties of the present administration.

I made every effort to prevent this injustice.

Free wool was the culminating atrocity of the tariff law.

By it a revenue of over eight millions a year was surrendered for the benefit of woolen manufacturers.

I appealed to the Senate to give some protection to this great industry of our country.

This gross injustice is done under the name of free raw materials.

The Wilson bill sacrificed the interests of every farmer in the United States, except probably the growers of rice and of fruit in the south.

The McKinley act, I believe, was the most carefully framed, especially in its operative clauses and its classification of duties, of any tariff bill ever passed by the Congress of the United States.

Cleveland was a positive force in sustaining all measures in support of the public credit.

It is a marvel of the world that these humble colonies, composed of plain men, for there were no nobles or rich men in those times, furnished genius which brought to mankind greater wisdom in the framing of a government than ever elsewhere…

It was of these men that Lord Chatham said that they had prepared papers stronger than ever emanated from any court of Europe.