The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-28


Once we were told and n grave oues-
ton was raised whether the United
states could pass its troops through Ken
tucky TO meet a rebel army in Tennessee.
My friends, this constitutional question.
this division between the general and
local authorities is plain and easy one.
When law of the United States is in
vaded and broken it is the sworn duty
of the president to execute it and this
convention arraigns the president for
doing what his oath compelled him to do.
Il do not intend TO spend any time in
the discussion of the tariff question. That
debate has been won and need not be pro-
traCtcd We needed an experience of our
own and we have had it. 1t has been a
hard lesson, but a very convincing one, and
everybody was in the school house when
it was given.
"a panic in 1893 of most extraordinary
character has been succeeded bya grad ual
drying up, less and less, and less, unit il uni
versal business distractionan anxiety pre-
walls all over our community. do not be-
lieve there has ever been q time except, per-
haps, in the very heat of some active panic
when universal business fear and anxiety
and watchfulness characterized this great
metropolis as it does today. Men have been
afraid 60 60 away for q vacation.
so eager We're our Democratic friends
% relieve their embarrassment and to put
directly upon our people according to the
English system tax to support our gov
ernment that they passed an unconstitu-
tional act in order to levy internal taxes
and help out a tariff bill which had re-
duccl the duties upon imports
in connection with the financial mat
ter do we all realize how important is the
choice Of a president, Do you know that
rs the law is now without the passage of
any free coinage of silver law at all it is in
the power Of the president of the United
States to bring the business of this coun-
try to a silver basis? All he has to do is to
let the gold reserve go, to pay out silver
when men ask for gold, and we are there
already. 1t is only because the presidents
of the United States that we have had, and
the one we have now, have regarded it un-
der the law as his public duty to main
tain the gold basis, maintaining that parity
between our silver and gold coins which
the law declares is the policy of the gov
ernment
The silver question-what is it? Do
we want silver because we want more
money, a larger circulating medium?
haven't heard anybody say so. Mr..
Bryan is not urging it upon that basis.
If anybody were to seek to give that as a
reason for wanting free silver he would
be very soon confounded by the statement
that free silver would put more gold out
of circulation than the mints of the
Unitel States could possibly put in in
years Of silver and thot instead of having
more money we woA4d have less.
"It is not more dollars, but cheaper
dollars that are wanted. 1t is n lower stan
dard Of value that they are demanding.
They say gold has gone up until it has
ceased to be proper standard of values
and they want silver. But how do they
want it, Now my friends there is IA great
deal of talk about bimetalhsm of the
| double standard and "A great deal of con-
fusion in the use of those terms.
"Bimctallism is the use of the two met
ais as money where they are both used.
BY IA double standard they mean that we
shall have a gold dollar and a silver dol
lar which shall be units of value by which
all property and all wages and everything
is 10 be measured. Now our fathers
thought that when they used these two
metals in coinage they must determine
the intrinsic relative values Of the two so
that a comparison of the markets of the
I
ounce of silver bore to one ounce of gold.
Now what do these people propose to
do to take any account of UhUusandthsy
No. When the markets of the world fix
the relative value of silver or gold at
thirty-one ounces of silver to one ounce
of gold they propose to say sixteen. Well,
my friends, there has been nothing more
amusing, and yet / fear that with the
thoughUless it may have been in some
measures misleading then the repeated
declaration of Mr.. Bryan that everybody
admitted that bimetallism was good
| thing-there is no debate on that subject
and that the debate of the campaign has
| come down to this by Gresham that the
| cheaper dollar drives the better one out
II will tell you what this government
! can do alone. 1t can fix its money unit
1t can declare by law what-shall be the
| relative value of an ounce of gold and an
ounce of silver, but 1t cannot make that
last declaration good. 1t is unquestion
ably fully within the power of this gov
ernment to bring this country to silver
basis by coming silver dollars and max
ing them legal tender, but it cannot say
and enforce its decree if you should cal
out the regular army and navy and muster
all our great modern ships and add thC
militia and put William j. Bryan in com
mand of them.
My friends, these men surely do moi
contemplate the irretrievable and exten
sive character Of the disaster and disturb
ance and disruption which they are pro
posing for all of us in all our business
affairs, great and simple, Take the labor
ing man, how full of sympathy they ar,
for him. My counuymen, never spokl
false word to the laboring man in m,
life have believed, and / believe today
that any system that maintains the pric
of labor in this country, that brings mop,
into the life of the laboring man, tina
enables him to puy by that, gives him
stake in good order in the property of tn
country is the policy that should be GU
American policy
A little daughter Of Mr.. Lewis Dayton, a
old and much respected citizen of Barniti
Pa, occasionally has trouble with he
stomach which gives her considerable di