The Republican journal., 1896-06-18

| maps as the great American desert.
Cities have sprung into existence and
spanned the continent with steel bands,
making those living in distant states our
neighbors, and bringing their products to
Four years ago deluded and deceived
by the specious pretense of tariff reform
and other false promises the voters of
ing classes. once more elected a Demo
cratic President, Senate and House of
Representatives, upon platform inim-
zion as legalized robbery, and demand.
ing a tariff for revenue only. They
placed this government in the hands of
party that had been driven from power
in 1861 for its disloyalty and rebellion. A
party which ever since that time has
been one of negation and opposition,-a
the benefcent measures which has made
| us indeed a nation commanding consider
alton at home and respect abroad. When
the country had fully comprehended what
had been done, CONSERVATION and fear
supplanted confidence and hope Bust
ness was paralyzed. many banks broke
ana SUSPENDED epde Mills and factories shut
| ceived largely reduced wages. Our agri-
cultural, numbering and other industries
HranS crippled I4e a and injured by being
| own markets with the products of Can
| ada and other foreign countries. A new
tariff bill was finally passed, sectional in
| its preferences based upon no well de-
fined or sound economic principle,-which
President Cleveland denounced as
measure of dishonor and refused to sign
which does not and will not produce
| sufficient revenue to pay current ex-
penses. Under it we have increased the
national debt some 900 and we are
adding to it every month We have aug
mented our interest bearing debt some
sag, 100000 by disposing of. bonds under
doubtful authority for the ostensible pur-
gold reserve which rapidly disappeared
when the Democratic party came into
power. Much of the money received from
the sales of these bonds has in fact been
used to make good the constantly in
| creasing deficit caused by this revenue
reform tariff legislation. When con-
revenues equal and exceed our expendi-
lures the gold reserve will be all right
and take care of ITSELF We shall no
longer be compelled to mortgage the
country to foreign bankers by selling
bonds. agree fully with Senator Sher-
mans views on this subject whom 1 re-
gard as the greatest tinancier this
country ever produced.
The Republican party believes in sub
stituting for this Democratic sectional
free trade deficiency tariff a protective
tariff which shall produce revenue enough
to pay the necessary expenses of the gov
eminent economically administered leav-
ing. small surplus 10 apply toward the
eXtinguiShment of our national debt A
debt that had been rapidly reduced and
paid off under every Republican admin
1Stratlon since the war A debt every dol
lar OF which is Democratic legacy to the
people OF this country. We believe fur
Their that this tariff should be so framed
as TO make protection an aim and factor,
mot mere incident or accident-as to
all things that We can with reasonable eft
tort produce and manufacture ourselves.
The empty tin cans of the laboring men,
prosperity and enterprise, sitting in sack
cloth and ashes at the outer-gateS imper-
atively demand a return to this sound
protective policy. And it will surely
come, Nearly four years of Grover
been a great educator to the average
voter. We know that a nation to be
great, independent and powerful, must
have a diversity of industries, must be
able to supply largely within it's own
borders those things essential to its well
fare. Our Democratic friends can no
longer deceive by shouting in their plat
forms and by their speakers and press
about the markets of the world, and at
the same time ruthlessly strike down the
reciprocity treaties lnat were given as a
What we desire first of all, is our own
markets. They are the best markets in
the world; We have a population that
on the face of the globe.
They claim to admit, free of duty what
they call raw materials, unmindful of
the fact that what is one mans raw ma
terial is usually anothers finished pro-
duct-and that the line of demarcation
| between them is very uncertain-and as
an Illustration, they open our markets to
Australia and Canada and place the
wool OF the farmer and the rough lumber
of the saw mill on the free list. We in
slst that the correct principle is to put,
SO lar as we can, upon the free list those
things, luXur1eS excepted, which we can
not produce ourselves and to tax those
which come into competition with us in
our own markets. We contend that every
dollar sent abroad for what we can easily
raise or manufacture at home injuries our
Workingmen by depriving. them of en-
country. We believe it is the part of wis
dom and patriotism to enact such tariff
laws as shall be in the interest of our
country and our own people, rather than
We advocate an honest dollar that shall
be good everywhere. We claim to have
the best government,-our people are
equally entitled to the best money. We
demand and now have a sound currency
based upon gold, the standard recog-
nlzed and adopted by every prosperous
there is a limit to the amount of silver
currency that a fiat of the government
can f1oat and use at d par with gold. We
the many tons of silver piled in the vaults
of the treasury of the U. s.. which no
effort can scatter abroad and keep in Cir
culation. The insane cry for a free COIN
age OF silver at a ratio OF sixteen to one
means d silver basiS,-a debaSed and de-
preciated currency and a radical change
IN all Values,-a scaling down of all the
deposits in our savings banks and trust
companies 1t would rob every deserv-
ing soldier and soldiers widow OF near
one-half their pensions. 1t means that
gold shall go into hiding and flee from our
land; cease to be money and part of our
circulating medium, and become COM
modify. 1t means in part at least, both
national and individual reputation, dis
honor and bankruptcy by paying all pub
lie and private obligations in a currency
worth some so per cent of it's nominal and
face value. A contamination which can
only be beneficial to the improvident
debtor class; which would sacrifice the
best interests and honor of the whole
country to enrich a few silver states and
silver mine owners. 1t is a delusion of
the same genius as the fiat money craze
which was SO prevalent in this country
some Is to 20 years ago, and is equally
pernicious. To yield to it would be to cut
loose from progressive and highly CIV
lllzed nations and adopt the currency sys>
tenn of China, Mexico, and Peru. The
purchasing power of the dollar would be
so reduced that labor would be insidi-
ously robbed of a large share of it's earn
ings and especially would this be true of
all fixed salaries. History furnishes no
Instances Of a wealthy, progressive ma