The Irish standard., 1896-11-14
THE FIGHT STILL ON.

THE FIGHT STILL ON
The god bug papers are Mortified to
think that the free silver men intend to
keep up the agitation for the next four
years, and one of these papers in this city
after being fearfully worked up over the
matter seems for the moment to have for
gotten itself and thus told the truth, for
it Immediately adds that the gold bugs
must keep up the fight all along the line
ard not permit the enemy to gain another
feothold." And Mark Hanna proposes to
keep the National Republican committee
at work for the next four years, with
headquarters in New York or Chicago, the
mails to be continually flooded with gold
bug literature, and speakers are to be kept
on the stump during all this time. This,
he explains, is ''for the good Of the country
and the salvation of the Republican party"
In further explaining his intentions, Mr..
Hanna said: y.
eff you want to stamp out completely
this political disease Of silver Reputation
and riot, you must continue applying the
remedy. The election shows the treatment
administered during the campaign has not
worked a cure; it only checked the prog
ress The medicine was all right as far as
it went, bit we must continue the doses.
Then. too, this old-timeaplan of leaving the
disease half cured won't do. It will be
twice as hard to master the next time, and
the doctor will have grown rusty and in
experienced for want Of practice 2:
In other words, the snake has been
scotched, but not killed, and in coming to
this conclusion the Mckinley manager
shows that he thoroughly understands the
situation. The fight on silver will so on.
But think of this organized power Of
money and what 1t intends to do. 1t has
Its hand now firmly on the threats of the
people, and 1t does not intend to relinquish.
no matter what the cost. Heretofore ma
tonal committees disbanded after the cleo
ton returns were in, but since the people
have awakened to the horror Of the situa-
ton and have made such fierce struggle
for the recovery Of their rights as they
did in the last campaign, new practices
must be adopted-the machinery must be
kept in perpetual motion and not an inch
must be lost, not a jot or title relin-
quished, SO that the people may know
what to expect for the future. Is 1t not
the notification of what Lincoln saw when
he said he trembled for the results Of the
combined power OF money In this country?
In this connection the thought arises
that il 1t shall require all the vigilance of
a national committee continually in ses-
sion. the issuing Of unlimited quantities Of
gold bug literature. the use Of orators per-
petually haranguing the people from stump
and platform in order that the silver idea
may be suppressed or overcome. what be-
comes Of the idea found in the oft-repeated
statement that the silver heresy'.''Sls dead
that the last election tore 1t up root and
branch, burned its every fragment and cast
the ashes to the four winds Of heaven?
All this proposed election machinery is not
going to be put lin motion simply for the
purpose Of keeping committeeman en-
.ployed and having the country edited by
listening5to the, cries OF impending danger
from frantic spellbinders There must be
something to fear. III The money power.
the greedy, grinding, gluttonous money