The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-03

Investments already made; upon insur'
ance companies and their policy holders
upon savings banks and their depOsitors;
upon building and loan associations and
their members; upon the savings of thrift;
upon pensioners and their families, and
upon wage-earners and the purchasing
power of their wages.
The silver question is not the only issue
affecting our money In the pending con.
test. Not content with urging the free
coinage of silver, its strongest champions
demand that our paper money shall be is
sued directly by the government Of the
United state. This Is Thc Chicago Demo
cratic declaration. The st. Louis people
declaration Is that ''our Ldtional money
shall be issued by the general governmen,
only, without the Intervention of banks oi
issue, be full legal tender for the payment
of all debts, public and private, and b,
distributed direct to the people and through
lawful disbursements of the government,
Thus in addition to the free coinage of
the worlds silver, we are asked TO enter
upon an era of unlimited irredeemable
paper currency The question which was
Fought out from 1855 to 1879 Is thus to be
reopened, with all its uncertainties and
cheap money experiments of every con.
ceivable form foisted upon us. This indi-
strangely at variance with every require
ment of sound finance; but the declara-
ton shows the spirit and purpose OF thos,
who by combined action are contending
for the control of the government. Not
satisfied with the debasement of our coin
which would inevitably follow the free
coinage of silver at 10 to /, they would
still further degrade our currency and
threaten to the public honor by the un-
limited Issue of an igredemable paper cur
renCy. A graver menace to our financial
standing and credit could hardly be con-
ceived, every patriotic citizen should be
aroused TO promptly meet and effectually
defeat IL.
In the Highest Degree ReprehensibIe.
1t is cause for painful regret and solic.
itude that an effort is being made by those
high in the counsels of the allied parties
to divide the people Of this country into
classes and create distinctions among us,
which in fact do not exist and are repug.
nant to our form of government. These
appeals to passion and prejudice are be.
meath the spirit and intelligence of free
people, and should be met with stern re-
buke by those they are sought to influence
and believe they will be. Every attempt
to array class against class, "thc classes
against the Masses" section against sec.
against the rich, or interest against in
terests in the United States, is in the high
est degree reprehensible. 1t is opposed to
the national instinct and interest and
should be resisted by every citizen. We
are not a nation Of classes, but of sturdy,
free, Independent and honorable people,
despising the demagogue and never Capi-
tulating to dishonor. This ever recurring
effort endangers popular government and
Is "a menace to our liberties. 1t Is not a
new campaign device or party appeal. 1t
Is as old as government among men, but
was never more untimely and unfortunate
than now. Washington warned us against
it, and Webster said in the senate, in
words which l feel are singularly appro.
pirate at this time: 81 admonish the
people against the object of outcrics like
these. L admoniSh every industrious
laborer of this country to be on his guard
against such delusion. l tell him the at
tempt is to play his passion against
his interest, and to prevail on him, in the
name of liberty, to destroy all the fruits
of liberty"
Protection of supreme Importance.
Another issue of supreme Importance Is
that of protection. The peril of free liver
is a menace to be feared; we are already
experiencing the effect of partial free
trade. The one must be averted; the
other corrected. The Republican party ia
welded to the doctrine of protection and
was never more earnest in its support and
advocacy than now. If argument were
needed to strengthen its devotion to 'the
American system" or increase the hold of
that system upon the party and people, 1t
is found in the lesson and experience OF
the past three years. Men realize in their
own daily lives what before was to many
of them only report, history or tradition.
They have had trial of both systems and
know what each has done for them.
Demanded by the Public Ezigencies.
Washington, in his farewell address,
Sept. II, 1895, "a hundred years ago, said:
"As very important source of strength
and security, cherish public credit One
method of preserving it is to use 1t as
sparingly as possible; avoiding the accu.
mutation of debt not only by stunning
occasions of expense, but by vigorous eX
ertions in time of peace to discharge the
debts which unavoidable wars may have
occasioned, not ungenerously throwing
upon posterity the BURDEN which we our.
selves ought to bear" To facilitate the
enforcement of the maXimS which he an
nounced he declared: 'lt is essential
that you should practically bear in MIND
that towards the payment of debts there
must be revenue; that to have revenue
there must be taxes; that no taxes can be
devised which are not more or less incon-
venient or unpleasant; that the intrinsic
embarrassment inseparable from the So
lection of the proper objects (which Is al
ways "a choice OF ditllcultiesl ought to be
4 decisivejmotive for q candid construc-
lion of the conduct of the government in
making 1t; and for spirit of acquies-
eence in the measures for obtaining rev.
snue which the public exigencies may at
any time dictate"
Animated by like sentiments the people
Of the country must now face the condi-
lions which beset them. THE public ex-
lgencies'' demand prompt protective legis-
lation which will avoid the accumulation
Of further debt by providing adequate
revenues for the expenses of the govern
ment. This is manifestly the requirement
of duty If elected of president the United
states IL will be my aim to vigorously
promote this object and give that ample
Encouragement to the occupations of the
American people, which, above all else, Is
80 iIhperatiyely demanded at this junCture
Of our national affairs.
Condition In December, 1902.
In December, 1899, President Harrison
sent his last message to congress. 1t was
an able and exhaustive review of the con-
dition and resources Of the country. 1t
stated our situation so accurately that l
am sure it will not be amiss to recite his
official and valuable testimony. "There
never has been time in our history" said
he, when work was so abundant, or when
wages were SO high whether measured by
the currency in which they are paid or by
their power to supply the necessities and
comforts of life. The general average OF
prices has been such as 10 give TO agricul-
ture fair participation in the general
prosperity. The industrial plants estab-
lished since Oct. 6, $780, and up TO Oct, %,
1899, number 345, and the extensions of ex-
isting plants, 10S. The new capital in
vested amounts to SAC, 10000, and the
number of additional employees, 1926.
DurinU the first six months of the nresent