The morning times., 1896-10-04
women TALK ON FINANCE
Mrs. John A. Logan Advocates
the Gold Standard.
SOUND IDEAS ADVANCED
Other Bright Washington
Women Express Their
Views on Gold.

women know little aud care less about th,
great financial aud political problems o
the day. They seem to think that tt~
members OF the gentier SEX are content witt
the.r absorbing domestic and social du
ties, having no interest whatever beyond
the limits of these peculiarly feminine
spheres.
and nowhere, not even in the States where
women are allo wed the voting privilege
is there Eeener, more comprehensive IN
terest manifested in the affairs OF gov
ernment than III this city.
The women OF soc.ety, as well as those
whose professional and business care, r.
necessarily give them broadencd and en-
| iarged IDEAS, have grown to regard tn,
| knotty questions which are of such MO
mentous interest TO their husbands and
fathers. as demanding some attention from
| themselves
The advent of the new woman has stiinu
lated TINS progressive spirit to degree
| that is surprising, even to the women them.
| selves.
Tie ever-increasiDg number OF clubs and
| SOCIETIES Tor mental development aud in
teiiectuai advancement tend to expand the
| understanding andproducel libcraIiZed vie ws
in many who, otherwise, would merely
be as a Critical and dyspeptic old bachelor
recently dubbed couple OF his lady ac-
| quaintances: Nice creatures with only
TWO IDEAS apiece IN their heads and nothing
new to say about either one of them"
| MRS. LOGAN'S VIEWS.
There is, perhaps, no woman in this citv.
OF even throughout the entire country whu
mas given the financial question more thor
| ough consideration than Mrs. John A. Lo-
| gan, who, upon beng asked Ler opinion,
| upon the subject by Times representative
| said:
1ou wish TO know my views on finance.
cannot Imagine that anyone would be in
| lerested III anything ] nIgnt say on the
subject, but have no hesIlancy in stating
| that am for sound money no matter i'm
what form II may be Issued, VIII thcr raper
| or silver, so II is on a gold basis, AMI OF
the required standard
No country on the globe has more reason
man ours TO preserve its money integrity
ia"Hiui!, because IN the darkest hours OF
the nation shistory there has ever been some
nation that would loan us money. even dur
ing the Inostcritical period OF the Rebellion
Ahd why? Because hitherto there has
never been suggestion by any considerable
nnmDer oil loyal citizens OF the United
States that the national debts would not be
PAID, principal and interest According TO
the provisions of the loan
"RepudiatiODists are the most despsol
of an other class of individuals. You NAV
say that The members of the Bryan party
are not repudiationists. II they are not.
then why should Mr.. Bryan appeal 10 the
masses 10 cleSt him President. SO that the
debtor Gould pay the creditor in 53-cent
silver dollars?
POOR FINANCIAL MANAGERS.
If such thing could obtain for private in
dividuaiS, the government being only an ag-
gresatioD Of individuals, it would be ap-
pnSable 10 Obligations oil the government
"One has only TO look back 10 the condi-
ton oil the Treasury a the UIca king out Of
the Rebellion i'll 1861 and to review the
whole financial history of the government
during the forty years of Democratic con-
trol prior to that time, TO be Convinced
OF the incapacity of the Democratic party
10 manage the finances OF the American
republic.
why thisis so do NO pretend TO know.
All my an:ecedcnts and associations were
Democrats and have many dear friends
IN That party, but the fact remains that for
some reason they are not financicrs as a
party. 1t is also u curious fact that ,ene-
sade Republicans generally Join the Dem
ocFatic party after a series OF failures
financial and political. You never heard
OF prosperous, cnterpTising Republican
leaving his party.
There We're, of course, innum cradle
things which contrhutcd to the INA! col
lapse of business and the prostration of
the industries Of the country. Oyerpro-
duction and the failure OF crops on ac-
count Of unfav orable seasons, etc. but
nett her OF these has been half 81 Io-
tent US the Importation, through the Ian
ity In our emigration laws, OF the hordes
OF malcontents. socialists, anarchists and
the Whole list Of Instructors, who have
brought with them their natural hatred of
government and the greed of their ra-
paciouS natures.
Not satisfied with the manifold bless.
ings they have here, they try TO grasp
everything. Political dema gogues have ca
tered to their prejudiccs for their support
until they have concluded that they can
control the government and inaugurate
their theory of division OF everything
and general change in accordance with
their anarchicai theories.
They are told by Mr.. Bryan that they
are competent 10 manage great corpora
tions instead Of working for them; that
their eloquence is lost to the world be-
cause they are enga ged in manual labor, or
words To that effect. Capitalists, many Of
whom have been continuing their indus
trial enterprises without profit, to give
their employees something to do, have been
accused of dishonesty, tyranny and all
manner or outrageS, almost to the incite-
ment of violence, until there has been wide
spread discomfort.
THE silver men in the West, unable tn
dispose OF the product Of the great mines
that have been developed by the expendi-
lure OF foreign capital, procured through
loans or the sale OF stocks, have to their
shame, helped all they could to increase
the discomfort, until the climax was reached
In Chicago.
THINKS MCKINLEY WILL WIN.
II was in London when the tcleera nh
announced that the people or the IInifed
states mad gone Wild and lest all their wis.
dom and honor, and that our republic like
all others, was failure. The unbounded
confluence winch HIS furnished 81 Ier
cent OF the capital upon which we have
done SO much business was withdra wn
In twinkiing and but for the sound
policy enunciated in the Republican plat
form, and The evident disrelisn of the a tIcst
men in the Democratic party. the manic
would have been greater than it was and
is.
AS each week passes, the faith 10 the
election OF Mckinley and Hobart increases.
ana Lave no doubt of their success. As
a result. We Will see the immediate res.
toration of confidence in tie perpetuity
OF the government, which is all any nation
desires ,oknow to furnish m oney with which
the heroic capitalists OF this great republic
can continue their gigantic enterprises.
lookiDsJo the developments fonrexhaustIess
resourccsandth the employment of the millions
who are today idle through their own
madness in demanding change in 1854.
"A change that was the beginning of
subsequent business prostration and from
which this country did not wholly recover
during Mr.. Harrison's administration. n
is iDcompreheDsible how any loyal, in
telligeot citizen, W ho has been In nthiscountry
for the past decade, can, for moment.
hesitate about his duty 10 this crisis.
The Republican party, as of yore, met
in convention, adopted platform announc.
ing its principles. and took an unequivocal
position Oh the issues of the Campaign