The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29

The Republican National League
convention is in session in Denver,
COL, this week. Many prominent re-
publicans are among the hundreds
present, and letters were read from
others. The letter of Senator Don.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, undoubt-
eddy, sets forth the situation and Will
interest our readers.
Your invitation comes at moment
when congress requires the attention
of its members. 1 should be glad to
accept it for we have entered trouble
some time and we need mutual coun-
sci and support, but whatever l am TO
say can be said only in writing. inns
is not a moment for stimulating bit
terness or inhaming passions. we
need all our powers OF fOrbearance and
self-control. Let us give credit to our
opponents at least for good Intentions
even though they give no credit to US.
All Europe and all America are IN
trouble. Every one admits that the
world stands on the edge OF revolution
social and political, but every one
shrinks from it. Neither North, or
South, or East or West, neither capl-
talist nor laborer, wants to create
caste or classes, or to spread misery,
oppression or violence. We see
danger before us. We all want to
avoid it. Our only dispute is about
the path. To those of us who have
had chiefly in mind the struggle be-
tween silver and gold this is the ques-
ton which for the moment presses
hardest. The single gold standard
seems to us to be working ruin and
violence that nothing can stand. Ii
it's influence is to continue for the fu-
ture at the rate of it's action during
the twenty years since the gold stand
ard took possession of the world, some
generation not very remote Will see IN
in the broad continent of America
only half-dozen overgrown cities
keeping guard over mass of capital
and lending it to population of de-
pendent laborers on the mortgage Of
their growing crops and handiwork.
Such sights have been common
enough in the worlds history, but
against this we all rebel. Rich and
poor alike, Republicans, Democrats.
Populists, labor and capital, railways,
churches and colleges, all alike, and
all in solid good faith, regret such a
future as that. This is the least part
of the situation; at least, we can be
sure that no one is deliberately con-
spring against our safety.
Gwen those who oppose the return
OF the Republican party to its old
principles will admit that those prin-
ciples would give it power for another
generation. We need only to be true
to ourselves. We need only so to as
sist and maintain our own convictions
and no other party, born or unborn,
can take the field from us as long as
we choose to hold it. No other party
can represent, as we do, the whole
national institutions, all our indus
tries, all our industries, all our popu-
lar energies, all our conservative eau
ton. AS long as the Republican party
holds to its duty of representing the
whole nation, it must hold sway unless
something stronger than the nation
arises. The task before us is to re-
store normal activity to industries, to
break down the barriers to sectional
ism, to check the increasing tension
between the rich and poor, to relieve
agriculture and to save the small far
mer and manufacturer-in word, to
smooth away the threatening dangers
OF discomfort. The Republican party
alone has power to do this, and to
carry on our society for at least
another generation without further
disaster, you have only to adopt a
platform of four words, and to take
your stand on it firmly, courageously,
with honest determination to be true
to it. The party has always main
tanned the national principle of high
tariff. You whose deepest and best
interests depend upon its success have
alone the power to add free silver :"