Evening star., 1896-06-18

free trade songs written and composed by
English bards. for having chiseled the prin-
cipleS of protection in his hearthstone he
VIII at the n .Xt election defend them at his
front gate. The great and important issue
which is just now coming around the cor
Fer 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
men, a nation listens to catch the click of
its fate. For Senator Allison you cannot
build too strong platform for sound
money. and # you place him upon it he
will See to It that the dry rot Of 1G to l does
not Steai through its Stanch timberS.
The Making of Money.
THE United States cannot any more
make good money by simply placing the
on any kind of metal, regardless of its
commercial value or relations to foreign
countries. than il can extend it's domain by
Calling q furiong mile. He believes that
the American dollar should have some
grains of sense as We'll as more OF silver.
That there can be no stability to our cur
rency or money if We keep adopting such
shifting policies as that under them the
same piece may be a copper cent in one
hand, or dollar in another. He believes
that unlimited coinage would soon lead to
unlimited bankruptcy.
No honest farmer would borrow from
HIS iitiSNDOE u .p-ctHt DuSntl OF wheat ana
insist uI,on paying him back with a bushel
of 2J-cent oats, and so this great govern
ment cannot expect to keep it's credit at
the highest point if it borrows dollar gold
silver, any other construction of the word
coin in any laws any contracts to the
Cf ntrary 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 1t 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
would probably have no more of an estate
than did RabelaiS, whose will, when open
ed, read: In the name of God Amen /
have nothing. 1 owe much. / give the rest
to the poor
AT 4 time when nation wildly looks at
ration. standing with mute lips apart Al
lison did not meet with 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-
tutions, even If they We're insurgents in
Cuba.
Il ask you to nominate him. If you do,
the people from the sand-enshrouded Mex
iCan line to the lIve-wire that separates us
from an unborn daughter on the north will
Shout as III one glorious Slad anthem, The
old temple OF republicanism still stands
Flock to it for shelter If you do, every
keynote of the campaign will be kept at
concert pitch. II 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 millennal music on your ears
Nominate him. and shrill of joy will go
from the west to the east, carrying on its
trembling Way the of
only to be lost in the roar of your furnaces
Nominate him. and when our corn grows
gold in autumn's time. our fiocks teeming
and our oranges full, every spindle will be
turning day and night upon the Merrimac."
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