Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01

ing in 1890 an assessed valuation of 8. o5s.-
/ l7s.lA and yielding annually from your
100000 acres sl7S.oo0.e00 worth of prod
ucts
Eastern Farmers Are Interested.
Your farmers, therefore. are quite as
much interested in the proper settlement
OF the silver, tariff and reciprocity issues
IN this campaign, which in importance
dominate all others, as the farmers of anv
section of the country; and so. whatever
may be said on these subjects the fact
ought TO be constantly borne In mind that
the farmers of New York are quite as
much concerned in point of actual property
at stake as those of any other state or Sec
ton of the union.
THE attempt to inhame the passions of
the west and south against the east IS
therefore, but a mischieyous and lInpatrf-
otto effort to arouse prejudice and hatred
against men of their own calling, affected
by the same causes and feeling the same
business depression as those who disturb
and harass the whole country. (AppIause).
have no sympathy, my fellow-citizens.
with cause based upon mere hate and
passion 1t is beneath the aims and pur-
poses of patriotic freemen. and am glad
to note that II receives no encouragement
from the sturdy citizens of New York.
(Applause)
How strikingly the names of the Illus
trious Hamilton and the Empire state of
New York are inseparably connected. We
cannot think of the great events of our
history without at once associatiny them
together; and we cannot recall any ex-
ample of like nature so conspicuous I'M
less 1t be the inseparable association of
Washington and Jefferson with Virginia
and Lincoln with Illinois. (Applause).
Fortunately, these statesmen are our own
countrymen. and we cannot too highly re-
we're them, and. however much they may
have differed in administrative policies.
they were always and al all times to-
gether for the honor of the country. Great
applause).
mo man of his time left a more lasting
impression on public legislation than the
eminent leader in New York, Alexander
Hamilton, who. more than anyone else.
secured her ratification of the United
States constitution, and to whom we are
more largely indebted than to any other
citizen for our protective tariff system,
which he always steadily supported, and
for our excellent monetary system, for
beginning with the first coinage act, April
2, 1892, every law enacted down to and in
Guiding the act of May, 1875, providing for
the resumption of specie payments. was
based upon the principles laid down by
Alexander Hamilton and supported almost
in their entirety by Thomas jefferson
(Applause).
I'VE have heard a great deal in this
campaign about the doctrines of the ia
theirs. Hamilton favored both gold and
silver as money, though he preferred gold
alone himself, and the government of
the United States entered upon the use OF
both. Hamilton announced the great funda-
mental principles when he said;
There can hardly be better rule for
any country for a legal than the market
ratio. In other words, every coin should
contain enough metal so that when melted
it will be worth just as much as when IL
is stamped as money. the bullion or market
values always to be the same as it's legal
or money value Great applause).
Doctrine of Hamilton and Jefferson.
This was the doctrine of both Hamilton
and Jefferson. This has been the undevi-
ating policy of the government under every
administration. and has been the settled
policy of all the great parties of the coun-
try from the beginning of the government.
BY the act of July. 1890, commonly known
as the Sherman law, we insisted upon put
ting into that law the doctrine of HamiI-
ton that the parity of the two metals must
always be sacredly maintained Cap
plause). The republicans wrote into that
law, for both branches of congress and the
presidency We're in the hands Of the repub-
lican party, a solemn pledge, which is is
binding a contract between the govern
ment and the people as ever male Here
is the language:
1t is the established policy of the
United States to maintain the two meta is
other upon the present legal ratio or at
such ratio as may be established by law
This was the act of the Fifty-first con-
gress. passed by the republican party for
the purpose of preventing the free coin
age of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one
but. nevertheless, giving TO silver the
greatest possible use as money and for
that purpose providing for the utilization
of substantially the full product of the
American mines. (Applause) This is not
"a rat in 9nv4t tn
support of the Hamilton idea of this par
ity. The Fifty-third congress, elected in
1892, and democratic in both branches
with President Cleveland as the chief ex-
ecutive. elected by the democratic party |
also recognized the doctrine of the par
fty
with what bad faith, therefore, with
what disregard for the right, for justice
and honor, can any citizen now demand
that the government shall enter upon any
settlement of our debts or scheme of coin |
age, the confessed result of which would
be 70 destroy the parity between dollars
drive gold from circulation, and reduce the
value of silver and paper dollars still cir
cnlating near one-half? Hamilton and
Jefferson. Jackson and Lincoln, or Grant
and Cleveland, never taught a doctrine so
perilous as that Great applausel
The people of the United States will
never adopt so discredtable and danger
Gus course; nor win they fail to brand
with their condemnation whenever an op- /
portunity is given them through the bal
lot {Cheers), The idle talk about the
Dollars of the fathers and The PRINCIPLES
and men of 1776' viii do no harm: but It
VIII never convince the honest citizen that
Hamilton or Jefferson, or any other of our
reVered fathers or PATRIOTS ever viewed
with federation any scheme of dishonest /
finance or contemplated for an instant the
idea that the United States would cheat
the people in their money, or repudiate
any obligations 1t ever made either by ex-
pressed terms or implication. (Great
cheerinc)
Ny fellow-cttizens, il must never be
written that this nation either encourages i
or practices dishonesty Good money we
win continue 10 have. (Applause).
Want Chance to Earn Money.
What we want now is a chance 10 earn
more of our good money. (Renewed APP
plause) We never had better currency in
the world than we have to-day and we
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