The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-02
NUMBER 40.

any other sense2 Must we while denying right OF any
the gobs republican monarchcal liberal
despotc to dictate olhe character Of legislation
upon any all Of the great questions touching industrial
and commercial interests questions involving the right Of
patration the character Of people we sha sdm Shores
the encroachment OF alien systes to as Tar beyond
our national borders but upo the upon which we
vequesons involving our honor and every concey
aoe subject pertaining to present and uEe weaf and
oNEthat relating to monetary systemaad s 10 tat
must we be forever subservent the will and the WISH
and the dication Of Great Britain p
is now found at Woodburn, making the folio wihgip
depreciation of the gold standard plank Of the nation
al republican platform as adopted at ST. Louis
This financial plank therefore, it must be perfectly plain to
all who ead contains not only positive declaration In
Of the coinage silver by international agree
ment with the leading commercial nations the world but al
positive pledge in which the republican party should t
power oemnly pledges itself promote but until
this can be further insists that ho existing standard
must be preserved
That absolutely right in my construction Of this plank
in the platform is than confirmed by the following stae
men IN MAJOR admirable letter q acceptance he
ternaona agreement and elected president will be my
duty to employ all proper means to promote It"
1t will not do therefore, for those who oppose eecting the
republican ticket to insist that those who favor that ticket
gold monometass that the republican platform declares
in favor OF pepetuatng existing gold Standard except only
until such time the bmeac standard be secured through
agreemen and to promote which the republican
s not therefore, single gold standard platform but bmeta
ic platform.
And the man who had in the halls ofcongress fear
lessly and impressively sad
All seem to agree that bmetaism would be good thing
IL could be brought about by international agreement but
there not Senator in this Chamber who has thoroughly
studied this subject and who fully understands the history of
the several international monetary conferences that have
had in the past thirty years. that does not know that such
consummaton is just impossblethat is say that
will include Great Britain, and long that power stands
back neither Germany France Russia other
of the great powers will is to expect that will
either hereafter railroad connection between
here and the planet Mars
stood up before 5000 intelligent Oregonians at Wood
burn, and mastcated in toto the above when he de-
clared:
But upon the contrary the position and policy OF the repub
can party always has been is today and declared in
the St. Louis platform that the bmesc standard the double
standard sometimes erroneousy called that the free coin
age and Of both gold and silver at fixed ratio the bet
ter policy in the true interests Of the country than is that Of
single standard of either gold silver And hence Ia that
the late republican national convention at St. Louis decaedn
the most unqualified terms in favor Of the bmetaic standard.
This however in the Judgment Of the republican party
pressed in it's ST. Louis PLATFORM only be obtained through
International agreement with the leading commercial
on OF the world and until this be secured the platform
declares the exising gold standard must be preserved