The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-06-20

| to effect IL into law.
| If the voices which have sounded to us
from every state in this Union are an in
| dication of the real feeling this year is the
| appointed time for the people to assert
themselves through such mediums as
may give best promise of the achieve
ment of justice. But whether we are
mistaken or not concerning the general
sentiment in the United States, we have
| not mistaken our own duty in withdraw
ing from the Republican convention, feel
ing that 1t is better to be right and with
the minority in apparent defeat than to
be wrong with the majority in apparent
| triumph.
| We hold that in the great work of So
cial evolution in this country monetary
| reform stands as the first requisite. No
policy, however promising of good results,
can take its place. Continuation during
| the next four years upon the present
| financial system will bring down on the
American people that cloud Of impending
| evil which should be the first thought of
| statesmen and the first prayer of patriots.
Our very institutions are at stake. To
| day, with rapidly increasing population,
widely swelling demands, the basis of our
| money is relatively contracting, and the
| people are passing into servitude all the
more dangerous because it Is not physic-
ally apparent. The nation itself, as to
! other nations, is losing the study courage
which can make it defiant in the face of
| injustice and international wrong. From
| the farmer and the tradesman to the gov
| eminent there is apparent the same
shrinking from giving Offense, lest the
vengeance of some offended financial
power shall descend. The business man
submits some portion of his international
rights lest some foreign creditor shall
make destructive demands.
Where will all this end if the people
shall decline to assert themselves. Where
will it end If the older parties in their de
termination to maintain themselves in
power for powers sake alone, shall refuse
to recognize the right and the hope of
humanity
This co untry can not m Ich longer exist
| free and independent against all the rest
of the world, nor can its people much
| longer be free in the noblest sense of the
term If the United States a debtor ma
ton, shall follow a policy dictated by
creditor nations. We produce all of the
| necessaries of life. Other nations con-
sumo our product. In the race for exist
ence it is constant struggle between pro-
ducer and consumer
Our present system of money deliber-
ately submits to the desire and the profit
of creditor nations, leaving us in the mass,
and as individuals, a prey to the money
gathering and deadly cheapening of the
old world. AS the debt to creditors
abroad increases on the masses of the ma
ton, the price Of human production on the
farm and in the workshop is decreased
with appalling lapidity, exacting more
and more toll from our citizens TO meet
the giving demand, and holding over their
heads u threat of the day when cOnfisca-
ton to meet their obligations will leave
them bare and defenseless. The only
remedy is to stop falling prices-the dead
lest curse of national life Prices never
will cease falling under the single gold
standard.
The restoration of bimetallism by this
country will double the basis of our
money system. In time il will double the
stock of primary money the world over,
will stop falling prices and steadily Gle |
vate them until they will regain their
normal relation to the volume of debts |
and credits in the world. Bimetallsm
will help to bring about the great hope of
every social reformer every believer in |
the advancement of the race who realizes |
that the instability of prices has been the |
deadly foe of our toilers and the servant |
of the foreign interest gatherer. Bimet- |
allism will help to bring the time when
certain expenditure of human toll will
produce a certain financial result. Who |
among the great masses of our people in
the United States but feels that his lot
would be made better, his aspirations
take new wings, If he could know in the
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the price of his product.
Is not this purpose worth the attention
of the people as individuals, and worth |
the attention of political conventions yet
TO be held in this year, 1896 Is not this
so great an end that all who believed in
the probability of attaining it by the
means proposed can yield something of
their partisanship both in conventions
and at the pollsY 1t is in the hope that
the masses and the remaining conventions
will have the courage and the generosity
to unite for this purpose that we have
dared to offer our views to the people of
the United States; and because in the
past their has lacked q rallying point for
the masses, who hold as we do to this be-
lief, we venture an act trusting that 1t
will be received in the same spirit of con-
Citation, concession and hope with which
we put it forth.
We have endeavored in plain way to
set the matte, before the eyes of our fell
low citizens We invoke the union of all
men and all parties who believe that the
time has come for the triumph of justice.
1t is an hour when people may speak for
themselves as individuals and through
conventions yet to be held.
1t is the right of every citizen to indi-
cate his pr eference. With this in view we
offer to the forthcoming convention and
to the people the name of man for the
presidency of the United States whose