Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-30

in the land is directly and intimately
Ccnrected with their proper settlement.
Great are the issues involved in the
coming election, and eager and earnest
the people for their rights and deter
limitations
Our domestic trade must be won
back and our idle workingmen employ
ed in gainful occupations at American
wages. Our home market must be re-
stored 10 its proud rank Of first in the
world, and our foreign trade. 50 precipi-
lately cut off by adverse national legis-
l2tiO1. reCpened on fair and equitable
lerms for our surplus agricultural and
manufacturing products. Protection
and reciprocity. twin measures of a true
American p0&cy, should again con-
maDd the earnest encOurag cement OF the
government al Washington. Public
confidence must be resumed and the
skill, the energy and the capital of our
country find ample employment at
home. sustained, encouraged and de-
Tended against the unequal competition
and serious Disadvantages with which
they are now cOntending.
The government o. the United States
must raise mOCey enough 70 meet both
Us current expenses and increasing
needs. It's revenues should be raised
so as to protect the material interests
Of our people, with the lightest possible
drain upon their resources, and main
tain that high standard OF civilization
which has distinguished our country for
more than a century Of it's existence.
The income Of the government, l re-
peat, should equal its necessary and
proper expenditures. A failure 10 pur-
sue this policy has compelled this gov
ernment TO borrow money in a time Of
peace TO sustain its credit and pay its
daily expenses. This policy should be
reversed and that, too, as speedily as
possible II must be apparent to all,
regardless Of past party ties or affilia-
tiOnS, that it is our paramount duty 10
provide adequate revenue for the eX-
penditureS OF the government, econo-
mically and prudently administered.
The Republican party has heretofore
done this, and | confidently believe it
viii do il in the future, when the party
is again entrusted with power in the
executive and legislative branches OF
our government.
The national credit, which has thus
far, fortunately, res. .sted every effort
upon it, must and will be upheld and
strengthened. II sufficient revenues
are provided for the support of the gov
ernment, there Will be no necessity for
borrowing money and increasing the
public debt. The complaint of the peO-
pie is not against Tue administration
for borrowing money End issuing bonds
to preserve the credit of the country,
but against the ruinous policy which has
made this necessary. II is but an inc
dent and a necessary one. TO the policy
which has been in21gurated. The in
evitahle cffc~t Of s- 3 policy il seen
il the deficiency OF the United States
treasury, except as it is replenished by
lcRnS, and in the distress Of the people
who are suffering because Of the scant
demand for either their labor or the
products Of their labor. Here is the
fundamental trouble, the trouble for
which is Republican opportunity and
duty. During all the years of Republi-
can control following resumption there
was a steady reduction of the public
debt, while the god reserve was sacredly
maintained and our currency and credit
preserved without depreciation, taint or
suspicion.
IF We would restore this policy that
brought us unexampled prosperity for
more than thirty years, under the most
trying conditions ever known in this
c0ur try, the policy by which we made
and bought more goods at home and sold
more abroad the trade balance would be
quickly turned in our. favor and gold
would come 70 us and not go from us
in the settlement of all such balances
in the future. The party that supplied
0y LEGISLATION the vast revenues for the
conduct Of our greatest war and prompt
ly restored the credit OF the country at
its close. and that from the abundant
revenues paid off a large share of the
debt incurred in this war, and that re-
sumed specie payments and placed our
paper currency upon a sound and en-
during basis. can be safely trusted TO
preserve both cur credit aud currency
with honor. stability and iCviOlability.
The American people hold the tinan-
c.al honor Of our government a. sacred
IS our flag and can be relied upon to
guard it with the same sleepless vigi-
lance. They hold its preservation
above party fealty and have often dem
onstrated that party ties avail nothing
when the SpOtlesS credit of our country
is threatened. The money Of the Uni
led States and Of every kind of form OF
it. whether of paper, silver or gold. must
be as good as the best in the world. II
must not only be current at its full face
value at home but it must be counted at
p3r ir any and every commercial centre
of the globe. The s2gaciOus and far
seeing policy of the great men who
Founded our government, the teachings
and acts Of the wisest financier at every
stage in our history, the steadfast and
sDlendid achievements of the great par
~ 10 which we belong and the genius
ard integrity of our people have always
demanded this and will ever maintain
ir The dollar paid to the farmer, the
w8re-esrnsr and the penSiOner must
continue forever equal in purchasing
and debt-paying power 10 the dollar paid
TO any government creditor.
The contest this year will not be
Uaged up0n lines Of theory and spec
ulation. but in the light Of severe prac-
tical experience and new and dearly
ACQUIRED knowledge. The great body
of our citizens know what they want
and that they intend TO have. They
know for what the Republican party
stands and what its return to power
means 10 them. They realize that the
Republican party believes that our
sboD work should be done at home and
not abroad. and everywhere proclaim
their devotion to the principles of
.-,.ontira rariff which while sunnly-