Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-10-18

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an honest money party, and 1T would be
III IL could; but while it demanded in-
creased bounties for its favorite manu-
facturers it could not refuse increased
bounties to the silver producers, as the
votes thew control were ,,ro|.I,l,, ,,ocos-
sa,.v To tGe 90 ,f tb NT,.Tr;,,Ia,. LII
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So ,s,,' situateu' .he ttepuDhcan Marty had
no alternatlVe out to pass the silver law
OF lS9O, doubling the purchases of silver
and requiring the building of more
warehouses in which to store the useless
metal. Tho total purchases mnde bv
tho governments ,,,nornt IN b,,r,I,el,s 20
n;lliors cF IolIo.s ,,,S ,,..,,i1 80 80,
~ va e0IietS' anu wos'lu NOV real
.Io' ~ IesOiu' Otie-ht'lL tnelr cos1, Whlle
inc poison OF q debased currency, whose
work, however slow, is sure, is making
itself daily more and more felt in every
channel of business and finance. and ia
inevitnblv dr;,-;,,c, ,,,l5 ,l,,+ 80 a., ,,,,,,,,
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a,'ot,.ot;.,e "o W on S.i9 l.I, eYlls Vi
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o"seu upon siAHer uIohe. me he-
puOllcan party cannot take any effective
steps toward repeating the bill, for tho
silver men are very likely, If their boun.
ty is stopped, to SO vote that the boun.
ties of the NTcEiy,la,, hill will sto,, olsn
The ohnses of ths ,,a1,sion sS,ste,N F,,r.
nish another ant ilInstrntion Cf the ax,ii,
sure to follow such a system of Iooislo.
ton. If congress- was to law faxes
upon the people to confer bonntfes unOr1
certain classes of InanuFactnrera n IUua
verv, natural tint tLo ,,orsiC,, csro,,ts
IN "a gNf lN1fNs
fees nv nm indiscTiminafe tSrs%fing of
nensions Tho TesnIt 10 that neari,,
frenerntion after tSa close of tho no..
there is n steady increese Of tho vast
sums passing through the pension npents'
hands. until now tI5e totnt amonnt stee-
gers belief and has beco1ne Of itseIF :,
Yery serions burden nnon tbe tres ssIirv
From the day of Lees surreninr unfii
now no single voice has ever, hean roigs,i
against the most renerous nroyision For
every person who had anY inst claim
upon the gratitude of the country: bnt
surely there is neither reason nor iustice
in leSislatio,, 1vbicb des+roy,a o1I Sisti,,cl
tion between the discbarge of duty and
the shirking of II. between loval service
and desertion of the colors. between
wounds RECEIVED in hattle and diseoscs
contracted in the T1ursI1its oP ,,eaI,p
There is still another 0reat and IN.
creasinp evil. chiefly traceabie in mr.,
opinion, to the 1naif,tenance Of nm eX-
cessive tariff since the wa. and +ba CIV
sfaI,t ,ned6i;ng Will II IN make q i,;oTor
and that is the bringing to orr shores
of those vast sIyaT1ns Of 1indesirnbIo inn
migrants who degrade American labor
by their conpetition and threaten the
stability of institutions based nnon nm
intelligent love of country. .Just ns the
duties upon imported rnerchandise have
been Increased 30 has the Grade of i'm.
ported labor been lowered. until now.
under the Mckinley bill. there are com,
ing here every month many thousands
of more ignorant and therefore less de-
sirable laborers than ever before IL ia
not easy to exageerate the moral eviis
they are likely 10 inflict unon orIr social
order and our national life
AS the Republican party ia now def
nitely committed TO the policy Of taxint,
the people for the purpose of giyin9
bounties to such persons or interests as
can secure the necessary votes in con-
gress, SO the Democratic, patty Il now aa
definitely committed to the policy of re-
stricting taxation to the needs OF the
government for public purposes alone,
I1be pulf fixed between these two ,roIi.
cieg Of taxation is as wide and door, ne
can well exist between toIitfcal 11arfjea
and am also Convinced that The old
causes in which / am interested cannot
hope for success until the ayowed poIicv
of the Republican party on this siIbiect
is overthrowp.
Until then the right of each state IN
control elections Within its f1order.s viii
not be secure. Until then tbero :. ne
Trosnect of ma enioy,inoS TIC s;,,s,l1. ,,I'i
stabfa standard az So1SJa ,,I,;is 81.
CIVILIZED and commercial nations possess.
Until then there is no hone Of nlarinv
either our pension systeIn ~, the roert,ias,'