The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-27

uncertainties, and cheap money eXperi- ments of every conceivable form foisted upon us. This Indicates a.most start | ling reactionary policy, strangely at variance with every requirement. of sound finance; but the declaration shows the spirit and purpose of those who, by combined action, are contend ing for the control of the government, Not satis1ied with the debasement of our coinage, which would inevitably fol- low the free coinage of silver at 16 to l, they would still further degrade our currency and threaten the public hon. or by the unlimited issue of an ire deemable paper currency. A graver menace to our financial standing and credit could hardly be conceived, and every patriotic citizen should be arous- ed to promptly meet and effectually | defeat it.
 In the Highest Degree Reprehensible. | It is a cuse for painful regret and solicitude that an effort is being made | by those high in the counsels of the al- lied parties to divide the people of this ] country into classes and create distinc- l tions among us, which, ih fact, do not exist, and are repugnant to our form of government. These appeals to pas sion and prejudice are beneatl! the spirit and intelligence of a free people and should be met with stern rcbulSe by those they are sought to influence and I believe they will be. Every at tempt to array class against class. the classes against the masses" section against section, labor against capital. ''the poor against the rich" or interest | n, ;,,r,& ,xo+h ;,, TY,St tnt l is in the highest degree reprehensible It is opposed to the national instinct and interest, and should be resisted by every citizen. We are not a nation Of classes. but of sturdy, free, independ- ent and honorable people. desrising i the demagogue and never capitulating to dishonor This ever-recurring effort endangers popular government and IS | a menace to our liberties. It is not new campaign device or party appeal It is as old as government among men, but was never more untimely and uf1- fortunate than now Washington warned us against it, and Webster said in the senate, in words which l feel are singularly appropriate at this time:
 T admonish the people against the object of outcries like these. I admon- ish every industrious laborer of this country to be on his guard against such delusion. I tell him the attempt is to play off his passion against his inter- i est and to prevail on him in the name l of liberty to destroy all the fruits of liberty
 Protection of Supreme Importance.
 Another issue of supreme importance is that of protection. The peril of free l silver is a menace to be feared; we are l already experiencing the effect of par tial free trade. The one must be avert l ed; the other corrected The republi- can party is welded to the doctrine of protection, and was never more earn l est in it's support and advocacy than now If argument were needed to | strengthen it's devotion to the Ameri- l can system, or increase the hold of 1 that system on the party and people, it l is found in the lesson and experience of the past three years. Men realize l in their own lives what before was to many only report, history or tradition. They have had trial of both systems ] and know what each has done for | them.
 1 Demanded by the Public Exigencies. | w dS111IS III HIS lctiSfNsA eeNeAA NN'-t September 1T, 1796 a hundred years | ago, said.
 .tAs 8, very important source of strength and security, cherish pubnc credit One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding the accumulation of debt, not only by stunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions i'll time of peace to discharge the debts which un- avoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon pos terity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear"
 To facilitate the enforcement of the maxilns which he announced he de- clared
 Tt is essential that you should prac- tically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be rev. enue; that to have revenue there must | be taxes, that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less fnconvenient or unpleasant; that the intrinsic em barrassment inseparable from the selec- ton of the proper objects (which Is al- ways a choice of difficulties) ought to | be a decisive motive for a candid con- struction of the conduct of the gov- ernment in making it and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for ob taining revenue which the public exi- gencies may at any time dictate"
 Animated by like sentiments the peo- pie of the country must not face the conditions which beset them. "The public exigeneies" demand prompt pro- tective legislation which will avoid the accumulation of further debt by pro- viding adequate revenues for the ex penses of the government. This is manifestly the requirement of duty. If elected president it will be my aim to vigorously promote this object and give that ample encouragement to the oc- equations of the American people, which above all else is so imperatively demanded at this juncture of our na- 1 tional affairs.
 Our Condition in December, 1892.
 In December, 1892, President Harrison sent his last message to congress. It was an able and exhaustive review of the condition and resources of the country. It stated our situation so ac- curately that I am sure it will not be amiss to recite his official and valua- ] ble testimony. There never has been time in our history" said he when