Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-04-20
A Sta rtling Suggest on,

Senator Quay's speech on the tariff bill Is
not only as the first Of length
V hieh he has made in the Senate, but 1t Is
one of the most significant yet delivered on |
this subject. Without any pretension TO
oratory, he has shown that while his
tongue was silent his brain was busy. He
has thought deeply into this subject, and
with his habitual courage he does not
shrink from his conclusions. He suggests
that If this destructive bill is made the law
over our business, 80 that we are made q
commercial dependency of Europe, it may
REQUIRE financial revolution to set US free
again. 1t may compel silver standard OF
money which would 90 effectively interfere
with our foreign dealings as to give Amer
lean manufacturers q practical monopoly
of American markets, until all nations
wanting to deal with us would be driven
to bi-metaliic coinage, with silver on
parity with gold. As he expresses it;
II we cannot have tariff of customs We
may have tariff of exchange which st tne
present price Of silver would exceed IoVpel
cent. ad valorem. This would amount 70
second declaration of American indepen-
dence. which would overthrow the contin-
ned power of the dealers in gold in our
great commercial metropolis and the ior-
eien importers Of goods. and isolate US IN
| the nroduction of all articlef which THIS
country is capable of manufacturing or pro
dncing. If protection by Gus
toms must fall l apprehend that silver
monometallism in the new world is neces,
sarily precedent to bimetallism In the old
| world.
This is q bold proposition, which, consld-
] cred in connection with the strong ano
aggressive force at work for larger use
of silver In our currency, must compel
some sober thinking. 1t is sensational in
the shock with which it must bring home
to business men the full gravity Of the con
dition in which the abolition of the protec-
tive theory in our tariff system would place
MS. It suggests desperate prescription
Mt who can foresee to what desperate
remedies q people groaning in extremity
may not turn, even to the revolutionar.
expedient of making money with which
the importer would find it impossible t.
buy goods abroadf Senator Quay ha
given the Senate surprise, first in max
| ing a set speech at all, and second, in adj
ing to mastery and destructive anaiysi
| Of the bill, which would alone make hi
speech take high rank in the current itei
at ure of the subject, suggestion OF conse
| ouen ces beyond what any other speake
4
THE determination shown by Senator
Cameron and Quay to force the free siive
question upon our next State Convenuo
sh ould cause Republicans all over th
state to question candidates for deiega'
tothe convention as to their views IN ths
question. =,
The Gazette of yesterday sounds tn
warning.
Senators Cameron and Quay are MAXIM
0 a mistake in trying to find an excuse it
Q | committing the next Republican state COZ
vention TO a declaration in favor OF Ire
silyer-based on the pretense that fre
. trade and the demonetization ofsilyer nav
It been forced by England's money lnteres'
b now in control at Washington. Tne pr
position that protection and the iree con
Ace of silver should 20 hand in hand, an
t6at Republicans should make their can
l. paien on that issue Ia fraught with dang
n Alike to the country and the party. Th'
protection will continue to be the policy
the country under Republican auspices ;,
sr as certain US anything can be, and that u
st bo on will be erjoyed without the sacrih,
IN Of q sound and stable currency Is equal
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