New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-11
TILE STRAIGHT ROAD.

II would be great thing for some people anu
for the country if they could only get hold of the
truth that their worry about the money ques-
ton is unfounded and wasteful They are
gratutously spelling business for themselves,
and for others as far as they can, by lying
awake nights for fear some ghost may carry
them off Are they not able 10 see, what many
millions Of the plain people" have seen all the
time that the money question Is rendered harm
less and empty by making the tariff the con-
trolling issue? Give the millions prosperity,
good wages and plenty Of work, and the agta-
ton about money dies Of starvation. Put into
the Treasury a sufficient revenue to meet all pub
lie expenditures, with a reasonable surplus Tor
eyigencies or for reduction Of the Nations debt,
and there is no room for fear about the ability
of the Government to maintain gold payments
Give the people ample employment for their
funds in active business. and they are not going
to lock them up in idlcness by boarding gold,
or by sending it away to any other country
where 1t cannot be as profitably employed. Put
the Government into the hands of men who rep
resent the great producing interests of the Ma
ton. and are not mere Democratic or Popuiist
demagogues. and there is not the slightest dan
ger they will fail to protect those interests by
maintaining the soundness Of the currency.
These statements sound SO much like trusms
that there would be 10 excuse for repeating
them. if there were not sundry people going up
and down in the land perpetually worrying
themselves and everybody else by their efforts
to protect the money of the people without pro
tectlng their industries. 1T Is like wearing out
ones life in trying 10 make the cart draw the
horse Take Of the wages and employment
and personal well being Of the millions, and
they will have and use just as good money as
there is anywhere on earth. If at any time they
have not enough Of the best money, their indus
tries will bring ii in plenty, and the eagcrness OF
capital everywhere to share the profits Of those
Industries will bring it. All know how it was
| for many years under an undiluted Republican
policy; how many hundred millions of foreign
capital came hthcr for Investment, and the
| stock Of gold in the country mounted many mill
| ions year without borrowing a dollar, and
| nobody cared what kind Of money he had. be
| cause it was all money Of the United States, and
as good as the best in the world
There has not been a day since resumption Of
specie payments was accomplished in spite OF
the opposition and the abuse Of the entire Dem
| ocratc party, when there has been the slightest
! danger Of a change Of the monetary policy OF
| the Government by Republican votes. In every
moment OF risk or emergency. the danger has
come from the desire Of large majority of
Democrats to break down the Republican policy,
and to substitute free silver fiat money. wild cat
| banks, any kind Of money except the best Be
| cause this majority Of Democrats has been at
| times able TO get the help of minority OF Re
| pubcans. all the trouble and dispute and APP
| prchcnsion have arisen. The simple and straight
| forward way to put an end 10 agitation and APP
prehcnsion is to put out of power completely the
men who have caused them Whether they are
| Democrats or assistant Democrats. whether the
fiat money followers of bill" Allen. or the State
bank followers of Carlisle. or The silver boilers,
! they have made all the mischief and the way
| TO get rid of It is to get rid Of them.
| The logical way. the straightforward way. the
| sure and safe way to settle these questions, Is
| exactly that which the plain people are TAX
| ing They have deliberately set themselves 10
| straightcn matters regarding their industry and
their wages first Of all, being perfectly aware
! that when those things are set straight. money
| questions will be settled rightly Also and that
| the men who can be trusted TO protect the in
| dustrics of the country are also the men and the
! only men who can be trusted to protect the cur
| rancy