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as the last spawn of the dying party that thought it had a 

 little life in it a year ago. It is put out at this moment to 

 test the courage of the two political parties; it is offered at 

 this moment when the roar of the presidential contest 

 comes to us from all quarters of the country. In a few 

 moments we shall see what the political parties will do 

 with this beast. All I have to say for one is, meet it and 

 throttle it; in the name of honesty, in the name of the 

 public peace and prosperity, in the name of the individual 

 citizens of this country against centralism, worse than we 

 ever dreamed of, meet it and fight it like men. Let both 

 parties show their courage by meeting it boldly and 

 piitting an end to its power for mischief Let the vote be 

 taken. 



Mr. Weaver I yield two minutes to the gentleman 

 from Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Kelley I cannot say much in two minutes. I 

 can, however, say that the announcement of the gentleman 

 from Ohio, (Mr. Garfield) that to require the government to 

 make our money tended to consolidation was idle vapor, as 

 there never was an honest dollar, or franc, or mark, or 

 shilling that was not made by a government. No other 

 power than government can make money. Currency there 

 has been which government did not create, bank notes and 

 notes of individuals promising to pay money; but money 

 other than that made and issued by a government by its 

 authority and upon its responsibility, has never existed 

 here or in any other country. And all that the gentleman 

 said on that point was, I repeat, balderdash. So was his 

 allusion to the wildest dreamer that ever lived. In voting 

 for this proposition I will stand with that wildest of dream- 

 ers, to borrow the gentleman's wild phraseology. Thomas 

 Jefferson who, when portraying the dangers of using bank 

 notes as money, as was the practice at the time he wrote to 

 Mr. Eppes, said: "The power to issue money should be 



