Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-17

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shall they do to gather together all
their discordant forces iuto new
national party aud keep their hand
la the public treasury at the next
Presidential election? The plan Is ev
dently 70 organize new party-the
national free-siver party. Silver has
always been an honest money metal
and the word free has taking sound.
Free whiskey, tree trade and free silver,
is 90 ID enough war cry to make vot-
er,s mouth water and catch his vote.
That is the way they reason. That Is
what is behind all this present agits-
tion for free silver 80 far as the fusion
politicians are concerned. There are
honest free.siIver men In the Republi-'
can party and there are bo lest friends
of silver 10 10th parties who are not
free coinage men, or soft.money
men, or depreclated-currency men, O.
Mexicanizatiol- of silver men. But the
whole fusion, free-siver, combination
movement to divide the Republican
party or form new party or make
new issue 10 po'itic', looking to poli'-
ical revolution In 1896, is the same old
catch the. .laborer and catchrthe farmer
dema ogical polite Cal fraud now that it
has ever been, and true aud intelligent
men, be they Repub ice ms, or anything
else, sh 1u d not be deceived thereby.
he Argument that free and unlimit-
ed jiua4e of silver would be panacea
for the present depressed conditions Is
unsound. The depression is world
vid ;. 1t exists in Canada, in England
In G srmany, all over Europe, all over
the world. To blame the Cleveland
administrati IN for it is not the verdict
Of tn, shtful intelligent men. The
most that can be said is, that 80
Tar our country 10 concerned, the
Democr ltic administration has not
helped relieve the hard times, indeed
has made them worse. Our country
would have recovered sooner, labor
would be better employed, farm
products would bring better prices, in
dustries would be furnishing, silver
would bring a better price, If we had
had no Cleveland administration. No
body doubts this. Everybody knows
that all the conditions would be differ
ent, far higher grade of prosperity
would be the rule had Harrison been
reelected, and If Republican policies
carried out by Republicans had pre-
vailed since march 4, 1894. And we
all know il would have been done
without resort to free and unlimited
coinage OF silver. IL would have
been done by continual applica
tion Of the sound money principles Of
national Rspubllcanism. Good money
would have passed from hand TO hand
among millions Of laborers and for in
creased prices Of millions Of dollars
worth Of farm produce and other raw
material Of mine and forest, the pro-
ducts Of land aud ocean the only way
that money can circulate primarily
aud the only way its circulation car
be Of any benefit 10 the masses Of The
people.
Because of world-wide depression
Ia business, because Of ineapaeIty Of
the Democratic party 10 conduct sue
eessfully the afairs of the greatest com
meroial nation IN the world, because oi
t1e utter hopslessDess " the pollliea
outlook for bot VI fusion agitalors and
0ormoTants who viii have 10 40 4
work for living N they cannot yet ~
oilios in 1896 thsae are tho reasons
Why ihs Republican party u Oregon
should get upon platform " free aud
uDlimiied eolpage ~ silver They asa
noi good,
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