News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-08-13
"LET US REASON TOGETHER"
The Political Situation as Viewed by
LamOilIe County Attorney.

NouhAy
"Human reason is like drunken man on
horseback set it up on one side, and it tum-
bles over on the other. Luther.
1t is said that every seven years
the human physical system under
goes a complete change. Change is
the order of nature and close Obser-
walton will make it manifest TO the
average obs 4rver that ten years usu-
allv intervenes between a suspension,
collapse or changein the financial sit
uation of this nation. 1t would seem
impossible TOR IA people constituted
and dispositioned as are the Amer lean
people to pass more than ten years
without general Knockout and all
around howl Frequently the coils
ion comes oftener. We are this year,
1896, in the midst of one of those
spasms, and business men Of expert
ence are waiting with bated breath
the result.
There are before this people to be
decided at the coming election, princi-
pies and conditions that will tell far
into the future for the veal or woe of
this nation. OF these, the more i'm
portant may be classified: first, the
tariff; second, the financial future in
connection with gold and silver;
third, the banking system. With
these three important issues settled
between the leading parties, there
does not much remain that is impor-
tant, and can not be easily cared for.
Now | will be brief. We have had
high tariff and low tariff. With low
tariff our country has generally met
with financial disaster and cOnse-
quent failure and distre IS. All this
is bad enough. With high tariff the
opposite has generally been the result
and that is good enough. That is
the shortest, longest, best argument
that can be made on this subject.
Now, gentlemen, take your choice.
As to the reconciliation Of silver,
the st. Louis platform says, do it
when it can be accomplished by the
union of international agreement of
the most favored nations upon a
ratio to be by them (including u.s.
adopted. By so doing, our advanced
civilization and commercial standing
fully sustains its present conditions,
and financial harmony meets every
business transaction, so far as none
tary exchanges are entertained and
consummated. As citizen of the
United States in any foreign country,
l am in my national personality re-
spected and protected and when ex-
pose my pocket-book and it repre-
sents the purchasing power of my
necessities or pleasures, that is also
more respected than | am, for it has
a full par value.
The article in regard to siIver which
entered into the platform adopted by
the Chicago gentlemen at a meetingre-
Gently held under the MON de plume"
of the national democracy says in
regard to silver: We want free coin
age of silver; we want it DIN bad
and want it now regardless of the
consequences. eve are the people,"
We are the world. We take our
drinks straight and often regardless
of company. Let disaster, destruc-
tion and damnation follow if they
wish to. Wheat is fifty cents a bushel
and we want fifty cents worth of
silver made into dollar shape. Do
you understand? We cannot wait
for the other peoples of this world,
&c. Now both parties ask for silver
coinage; the Republican with an in
ternational unit OF value, the Demo-
cratic immediate free coinage, regard
less of other nations.
The Republican party has always
been fully alive to the best interests
of this people and nation, keen to all
that would and will elevate and bet
ter the home and condition, from the
humblest to the most exalted, believ-
ing 10 and giving to all the full text
of our grand declaration of rights.
"That all men are endowed by
their creator with Gel lin unalienable
rights; that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
With an exalted idea of the highest
type of the civilization of the world,
and the necessity of an acknowledged
NHudi hiOhCOolJ ihlcI CudDRe, anu d
dollar that deals honestly with every
man, woman and child among our
seventy millions of people and the
rest of the world, it looks forward in
glad anticipation to the day when
true and universal moneyed value as
bullion will be placed upon silver.
This nation, producing more silver
than any other, and having unlimited
quantities in thu store house of our
mountains, the metal that God made
for money for the millions, and mans
mad mistake made old junk of-the
day cannot be far distant when by
universal consent this precious meta
will be acknowledged upon a condi.
tion BETTING it's creation, upon the
basis of a parity that will be satisfac-
tory to all and a fitting tribute to
the party which has always recog-
nized the right and reproved the
wrong, and that has furnished man.
kind more that is good and pre-emi-
nently beneficial to the world and
this people in particular than all
other parties combined.
There is the third important prop
osition, our banking system. At this
time we have the safest, most con-
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