Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-17
TUE FUSION SILVER POLITICIANS.

clal doctrines that are enumerated IN
these columns. Their free silver efforts
are now directed to running the Rt"
publican party of Oregon, as their IL
nancial fulminations are addressed 10
Republican members Of the legislature
for the purpose of getting the Repuoll-
can party of Oregon committed to
financial policy that has helped wreck
the Democratic party, and upon which
the Populist party cannot make ary
headway. The hopes of these financial
agitators and political silver demago-
CUES now centers upon building up
distinctively silver party and getting
enough Republicans into it to galv' n
ize this corpse of Democratic Populistic
financial nonsense into life and respect
ability. Pandering to ignorance IN
one hand and the silver barons on the
other, these free-silver politicians how
for unlimited coinage as the last resort
of the defeated ambitious political
mountebanks who would get office and
power at any price. They cannot she W
why, il it is bad thing, as II certainly
Is, to found our whole finance system
upon q limited quantity of gold, it is no.
equally as bad and unsound PROPOSE
tiou to found our national currency
upon an equally limited quantity OF
silver. A true and flexible national
currency can only be founded on the
wisely adjusted credit Of the nation,
resting upon good and stable revenue
policies of a wisely conducted national
government.
They cannot show why free-silver
party, to coin value into silver, is any
more rational than free-wheat party,
or a free-wool party, to issue paper GER
tificates or warehouse stamps to give
wool or wheat (of which Oregon pro-
duces ten times as much as of silver
double its present value. They want
to force the Republican party Of Ore.
gon into an untenable position, so far
as the national Republican party is
concerned, and give new life and hope
10 eastern and southern Democracy.
But successful administration OF ma
tlOnal affairs, 30 essential to our finance
system, and 10 the immense operations
necessary In our conntry's treasury
and 10 the stability aud confidence and
security OF the business Of seventy mil
lions Of people, In just what these
fusion free,silyer Democrat POPullsts
cannot furnish. Because they do not
know enough 10 frame sound policies
Of government 10 keep our industries
alive, our laborers employed, our far rm'
ers prosperous, and business flourish
Ing, they resort 10 financial quaekery
~ the easiest way 10 help out their
Ignorance, ,ineapaelty aud general uDht.
mess 10 rule the affairs Of great nation,
Like Ihe doctor who was great op cur
ing fts, aud threw patients With other
diseases into them 80 he could apply
hls posSum for that dlfieulty, these
fusion guaeks attribute all the ills Of
our country " 0ne cause sud dsoiaIs
they have tbe 0ply speei1e
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