The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-11-03

lodged in those who are willing and
able to pay for the perpetuation of
privileges originally conferred by
contiding people for preservation invi-
olate OF their own government. There
is no longer a pretext or excuse for
the maintenance of a war tariff in
times of peace and more than a quar-
ter of century after the armed conflict
has ceased. The platform of the ma
tlonal Democratic convention demands
the reform of this system and the adop-
ton OF one in it's place which will insure
equality to all our people. l am in
full and hearty accord with these pur-
poses of the convention.
l also declared its position on the
currency question in no unmeaning
words when it said in it's platform:
1--WE hold to the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money
OF the country, and to the
coinage of both gold and sill
yer without discrimination against
either metal or charge for mintage,
but dollar as the unit of coinage of
both metals must be of equal intrinsic
and exchangable value or be adjusted
through International agreement or
by such safeguards of legislation as
shall insure the parity of the two met
ais and the equal power of every dol
lar at all times in the markets and in
payment of debt, and we demand
that all paper currency shall be kept
at par with and redeemable in such
COIN"
To this plain and unequivical de-
claration in favor of sound, honest
money subscribe without reservation
or qualification. A safe circulating
medium is absolutely essential to the
protection of the business interests of
our country, while to the wage Garner
or farmer it is all-important that
every dollar, whatever its form, that
finds its way into his pocket shall be
of equal, unquestioned and universally
exchangable value and equal purchas-
ing power.
Another issue of great moment in
the pending contest is the force bill,
the magnitude of which can hot be
overstated. 1t may mean the control
of the election of representatives in
COuSICoo Wy uiO Ddy ohCU. liz lGcpuU'
lican party by its acts in the Fifty-first
congress and its platform in the late
national convention stands pledged to
pass this bill, That it will pass when
it has the power, no sane man can
doubt. To all our people who
desire the peace and prosperity
of our common country this question
is all important. Since my nomination
l have been in eight of the southern
and Southwestern states and talked
with men of all classes and conditions
there. found general and growing
apprehension of the evils, which it is
believed would result from the pas
sage of the Lodge bill or slln-
liar threatened legislation. l found
industries established by Northern
capital during Cleveiand's sdministra-
ton in languishing condition; that
immigration of labor and investment
of capital invited to these states by
their then peaceful condition had in a
large measure ceased. The enactment
of the force bill into q law, while it
would threaten the liberties of the en-
tire people would undoubtedly retard
the material growth of the
states at which it is specially
aimed, would inciUe in many commun-
ities race troubles and invite retalia-
tory legislation which would disturb
property values and discontinue and
destroy the security of northern in
vestments, and its reflex action upon
the northern states would result in
consequent loss of commercial and
trade relations with vast territory
now becoming tributary to their wealth
and prosperity.
will say nothing now of the inner
ent vice, of the un-American and
revolutionary spirit involved in the
Lodge bill, which was pronounced by
a Republican senator the most in
famous that ever crossed the thresh-
old of the senate. | appeal to the in
stinct of self-interest and to a sense of
common Justice in the American peo-
pie. The era of sood feeling and re.
newed commercial relations com
mencing with the administration OF
Cleveland in 1884 should not
be interrupted by the Inauguration Of
policy, which tends to destroy the
popular representation and purity Of
local self-government, which furnishes
an instrument to discredited federal
power to perpetuate itself, which
seeks to keep alive sectional jealousief
and strife, which threatens important
and material interests, and which Of
fers no excuse or palliation for its
existence, except the perpetuation in
power of political party which has
lost public confidence.
/ accept the nomination rendered
me, and should the action of the con
vention meet with the approval OF my
countrymen, will, to the best of my
ability, discharge with fidelity the
duties of the important trust confidet
to me. ADLAI E. STEVENSON.
Railroad employees all believe in DR.. Bull
Cough Syrup, the old standby.