Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-18

which is just now coming around the cor
Ter is the one of sound money. and we can
no more dodge it than We can gravitation.
In this respect the situation Is. easily
simple. but certainly serious. A decision
Upon this important question must be made
by this convention. and. remember. gentle
Hen. nation listens to catch the click of
its fate. For Senator Allison you cannot
build too strong a platform for sound
money. and # you place him upon it he
will see to It that the dry rot of IS to does
not steal through It's stanch timbers.
The Making of Money.
1.-The United States cannot any more
make good money by simply placing the
symbol of sovereignty or mark of authority
any kind of metal regardless of its
commercial value relations to foreign
countries, than it can extend its domain by
calling furlong mile. He believes that
The American dollar should have some
grains of sense well more of silver
That there can be no stability to our cur
rency money if we keep adopting such
shifting policies as that under them the
same piece may be a copper cent in one
hand. or a dollar In another. He believes
that unlimited coinage would soon lead to
unlimited bankruptcy.
No honest farmer would borrow from
his neighbOr JO-cent buShel of wheat and
insist upon paying him back with bushel
ment cannot expect to keep it's credit at
the highest point if it borrows dollar gold
and insists upon paying back with 5O-cent
silver. any other construction of the word
coin in any laws or any contracts to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
For Sound Money.
THE platform of this convention must be
for sound money, in clear. ringing unmis-
taxable terms. On any other construction
of it the party may get into power, but the
country would De in danger of falling into
the batch of bankrupt governments and at
the end of the partys administration it
" Ould probably have no Iaofe-of an estate
than did Rabelais, whose will. when OPEN
ed, read: In the name of God Amen. l
have nothing. 1 owe much. l give the rest
to the poor
AT :, time when nation wildly looks at
ration. standing with mute lips apart. Al
lison did not meet with a clenched fist the
proffered hand of international adjustment.
However. he has stood unwaveringly by
the Monroe doctrine, and insisted that the
United States should recognize any people
struggling for liberty and republican insti-
buttons, even if they were insurgents in
Cuba.
Il ask you to nominate him. If YOU do.
the people from the sand-enshrouded Mex
lean line to the lIve-wire that separates US
from an unborn daughter on the north, will
shout as in one glorious glad anthem The
old temple of repubiicanism still stands
Flock to it for shelter If you do. every
keynote of the campaign will be kept at
concert pitch. If you do, the White House
will be used no longer as an experiment
station.
Nominate him, and not now perhaps,
but when the strife is over his name will
fall like millenntal music on your ears
Nominate him. and shrill of joy will go
from the west to the east, carrying on its
trembling way the songs of our reapers.
only to be lost in the roar of your furnaces
Nominate him. and when our corn grows
gold in autumn's time. our fiocks teemng
and our oranges full every spindle will be
turning day and night upon the Merrimac.'
Reed Put in Nomination.
Maine called. Senator Lodge ascends
platform and dominates Reed.
-Four years ago we met, as we meet
now. representatives of the great republic
can party. Prosperity was in the land
Capital was confident and labor employed
There was the good days wage for the
sood days work and spirit of American
enterprise was stirring and bold. The
treasury was full; the public revenues am
pie for the public need. We were at