554 THK IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



circulating medium uniform in amount. [Applause.] I 

 ask you to stand where Calhoun and all the other great 

 leaders of your party stood in the past and purer days of 

 your history. 



And I ask my Republican friends here to repudiate 

 the doctrine of the gentleman from Ohio. You owe it to 

 your dignity and to the American people to repudiate the 

 doctrine that you cannot trust yourselves as the people's 

 representatives. ' ' 



The yeas and nays were ordered. 



The question was taken; and there were yeas 85, 

 nays 117, not voting 90. 



The resolutions were lost, less than one-third of the 

 people's representatives voting for them. We ask a close 

 examination of the above resolutions. They are in exact 

 accordance with the demands of labor organizations, yet 

 there was no disposition on the part of Congress to carry 

 them into effect. A bill to refund the debts into bonds of 

 long time was passed, and now the government is buying 

 her own bonds at 28 per cent, premium because those same 

 long time bonds are not yet due. Was ever such infamous 

 legislation inflicted upon a debt-ridden people? 



And now, it is said, we have a surplus in the treasury 

 that is endangering the stability of trade and commerce. 



Out of 292 congressmen only 85 had the courage and 

 honesty to vote for the above resolution. 



Here is the only surplus connected with the present 

 condition of the treasury we have ever been able to see: 



A surplus of 207 dishonest, scheming, cowardly and 

 inefficient congressmen; a surplus of ignorance or dishon- 

 esty; a surplus of lawyers and bankers; a surplus of 

 rascally raiders upon the rights of the people; a surplus of 

 fools in the guise of statesmen; a surplus of Shylock's 

 agents robbing the people; a surplus of men wanting to 



