The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-22
those contracts should be met had sunk

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to minimum. A great panic threat
ened the country, which was not due
to the crime OTIS, but to the crime of
1872, when the people put out of office
one of the best presidents the United
States ever had Benjamin Harrison,
and put out of force the Mckinley bill.
They had sickened, apparently, of
prosperity, and wanted a change,
which change they soon realized.
Grover Cleveland did the wisest possi
bic thing under the circumstances and
by the issuance of those bonds floated
the country in the following years of
hard times. This act of wisdom and
patriotism the Chicago platform like
wise denounced. They would deprive
the government of the right that has so
often proved of avail in threatening
conditions. the right of the issuing of
bonds, and demand the repeal of the
law giving the right. 1t denounces
private contracts. Shall the law pro-
hibit parties contracting in gold9
The Palladium of Our Liberties.
Another plank in that platform de-
clares the intention of recognizing the
Supreme court. 1t would take away
the independence of that tribunal and
make it secret body. The trainers OF
the constitution were wise lot of men,
men learned in constitutional history
and in the modes of government. They
saw the necessity of three branches in
perfect independence of each other
the legislative, the executive and the
judiciary. The Supreme court, sub
servient to no power on earth, an in
dependent and impartial tribunal, has
thrown luster upon our history since its
very dawn. 1t has stood for justice
and Justice alone, waiting upon the
action of no body and taking dictation
from no power or powers. 1t has stood
between the government and its peo-
pie and crime, disorder and mob law,
dispensing justice impartially to all,
both rich and poor, and this grand in
stitution the convention of populists,
anarchists, etc., at Chicago declared
should be reorganized anu made the
tool Of government.
Stamp Does not Make Value.
The next plank that the speaker
touched upon was the one of which we
have heard so much, the coinage
plank. The speaker briefly defined
the meaning of free and unlimited
coinage. 1t merely means that all the
great amount of silver IN coin and
| bullion living idle in all the countries OF
! the globe may be brought here and
turned into United States coin free OF
charge. The ratio of value of the two
metals cannot be retained by legislation
any more than value can be made by
the enaction of law. That the people
demand a coin of intrinsic value and
that human nature is too incredulous tC
accept a thing for value simply be-
cause it bears a government stamp, the
speaker showed by the confederate
money. The gold coin of the confed-
eracy is worth as much now and vii
pass current as freely now as when the
confederate government issued it. The
paper, however, which bears the stamp
of that government is OF 10 further
value. Stamp does not make values
Value is the product Of the joint action
/ Of labor and capital When Mr.. Bryan
goes about the country trying to di-
vorce these two forces created by God
| for the function tley perform he is
preaching an infamous doctrine and
undermining the substructure of our
nation. Labor and capital must go
hand in hand. The laboring man is
making the mistake of his life when he
chooses to create hostility between
himself and the capital that employs
and pays him.
The Redeemer Liveth.
The question long since asked MIR.
Bryan, whether he could find gov
eminent that had succeeded in keeping
the two metals at parity, has never
| been answered. No such a thing has
ever been done. The reason men now
take our silver dollar, which in bullion
value is worth only so cents, is because
| the promise of the government is be-
hind it to pay in gold; because he
knows that the woman whose face is
on the face of the silver dollar can her.
self say, know that my redeemer
| liveth."
The protective tariff was touched
upon, the speaker showing that the
republican party was the party of the
laboring man and by protective
plank intended to protect them against
competition with cheap labor over the
sea. AS an illustration of the effect of
no protective tariff Senator Spooner
told the story of the bridge 900 feet
long correcting two American lumber
coz panies, the lumber for which came
| from Canada, while the lumber in the
American yards lay idle.
| Prosperity Surely Coming.
The speaker closed by saying that
this is critical campaign, one above