The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-27
PROJECTIONS APOSTLE.

o. Ice Of silver in this country Wouid
II not defeat. international olmet-
r[-.-n and unless an internallohal 49,
.sv, be had every interest requires
lie. -.fnrsfn our present standard IN /
= -s,r free coinage Of silver al a ra-
IS ounces of silver to ounce OF
-- ,-11Id insure the speedy contraction
The volume OF our curreh-
II would drive at least
es-.1,a OF gold dollars, which
,ou- have. permanently
W che trade Of the country and greatly
5'..---s9za our per capita circulation II Is
~ -,-,,osed by the republican party 10
pa e-o-, the circulating medium OF the
-.---- any Of the silver We now nave
l. --4 contrary. il is proposed 10 Keep
IN ~ -re silver money no" IN CT c4ia eloA
a. -aritv with gold by maintaining the
o- ~ the government that all OF II
i-i7 ts equal to gold. This has been the
S--11-l-.r nolicy Of the republican party
49, ISIS II has inaugurated no new pol
81. Tr will keep in circulation ana as
- as gold all of the silver ana paper
-9o,4v which are now included IN the cur
80 NJ the country. 1t will maintain
$50 rsritv. Il viii preserve their equan-
d. he future as IL has always done IN
rast Il will not consent 10 put TINS
-~- on a silver basis, which would
e-,--sb1v follow independent free coinage
--e ratio Of 16 to /. 1t will oppose the
-,,ulsion Of gold from our circulation
rorvoars and Laborers Suffer Most-lt
~. fs any one thing which should be
g. from speculation and fiuctuatlon II
q. .ts money of a country. II ought never
- b.. The subject Of mere partisan cone
.,,for When we part with our labor,
olr products, or our property, we shoulo
receive in return money when Is as sta-
bIa and unchanging in value as the lngeh-
,5+v IF honest men can make 1t. Debase-
tI-a destruction
~ values No one suffers so much from
cbaap money as the farmers and laborers.
Tbev are the first to feel its bad effects
and the last to recover from them Ihls
has been the uniform experience OF all
countries and here, as elsewhere, the poor
and not the rich, are always the greatest
erferers from every attempt to debase
our money II would fail with alarming
severity upon investments already made;
iInon insurance companies and their poll
cv holders; upon savings banks and their
depositors: upon building and loan assoc
cations and their members; upon the saw
ines Of thrift; upon pensioners and their
families, and upon wage earners ana the
purchasing power Of their wages.
Unlimited Irredeemable Paper Money
The silver question is not the only issue
affecting our money in the pending con-
test Not content with using the free
coinage Of silver, its strongest champions
demand that our paper money shall be is
sued directly by the government of the
United States. This is the Chicago demo-
cratic declaration. The st. Louis peoples
party declaration is that our national
money shall he issued by the general gov
eminent only without the Intervention
of banks of issue, be full legal tender for
the payment of all debts, public and priv
ate" and be distributed direct to the
people and through lawful disbursements
of the government Thus, in addition
TO the free coinage of the worlds silver,
we are asked to enter upon an era of I'M
limited, irredeemable paper currency. The
question which was fought out from 1865
to 1879 IS thus to be reopened with all its
uncertainties and cheap money expert
ments of every conceivable form foisted
upon us. This indicates most startling
TeactiOnary policy. strangely at variance
with every requirement of sound finance;
but the declaration shows the spirit and
purpose of those, who. by combined ac-
ton. are contending for the control of the
government. Not satisfied with the de-
basement of our coinage, which would
inevitably follow the free coinage of sill
Yer at l6 TO /, they would still further de-
grade our currency and threaten the pub
lie honor by the unlimited issue of an
irredeemable paper currency. A graver
menace to our financial standing and cred
it could hardly be conceived, and every
patriotic citizen should be aroused to
promptly meet and effectually defeat it.
In the Highest Degree Reprehensible.-
1t is a cause for painful regret and solicit
tude that an effort is being made by those
high in the ccunsels of the allied parties
10 divide the people of this country into
classes and create distinctions among
us, which, in fact, do not exist, and are
repugnant to our form of government.
These appeals to prejudice are beneath
he .9v~fe 49,
PIE and should be met with stern rebuke
by those they are sought to influence, and
believe they will be. Every attempt to
array class against class, 1.-The classes
against the masses" section against sec-
ton; labor against capital, the poor
against the rich" or interest against in
terest in the United States is in the high
est degree reprehensible. 1t is opposed
10 the national instinct and interest ana
should be resisted by every citizen. We
are not nation of classes, but a sturdy.
1ree Independent and honorable people.
despising the demagogue and never ca,
pituIating to dishonor This ever recur.
ring effort endangers popular govern
ment and is a menace to our liberties II
IS not a new campaign device or party
appeal 1t is as old as government
amongst men, but was never more un-
uInely and unfortunate than now Wash.
hston warned US against it, and Webste~
sdid IN the Senate in words which | feel
are singularly appropriate at this time:
admonish the people against the object
oI questions like these. / admonish every
INDUSTRIOUS laborer of this country to be
on ms guard against such delusion.
teH MIN the attempt is to play off his
passion against his interest and to prevail
on MN, in the name of liberty, to destroy
al the fruits of liberty"
protection of Supreme Importance-An
o'Her Issue of supreme Importance is
mat OF protection. The peril of free sill
1eI Is menace to be feared; we are al
teady experiencing the effect of partial
-t7o trade. The one must be averted:
.Ie otner corrected. The republican party
u welded to the doctrine of protection.
anu was never more earnest in its sup
p'It and advocacy than now If argu-
u'ehl We're needed to strengthen its devo-
, ToH 70 the American system, or increase
-ii9 Hold Of that system on the party and
t9opIe' It is found in the lesson and ex-
r1Iience of the last past three years. Men
tgo-@e IN their own daily lives what be-
~ was to many of them only report.
t-.s'ofy or tradition. They have had a
Ia Ia OF both systems and know what
'-n mas done for them.
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