The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-10
NOW IT IS HOBART
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will record as to the action of a party con-
vention which offers an inducement to national
dishonesty by a premium Of At cents for
every hfty-three cents worth of silver that
can be extracted from the bowels of the whole
earth, with cordial invitation to all to
produce 1t at our minis and accept for 1t
full silver legal tender dollar Of 100 cents rated
value, to be coined free of charge and unlim-
tied in quantity for private account.
But vastly more than a mere assertion of
purpose to reconstruct the national cur
rency is suggested by the Chicago platform
IL assumes, In fact, the form Of a revolu-
tionary propaganda 1t embodtes a menace of
national disintegration and destruction. This
spirit manifested itself in deliberate propo-
sitton to repudiate the plighted public faith,
to impair the sanctity Of the obligation of
private contracts, to cripple the credit of the
power to borrow money the urgent ext
gencies of the treasury may require and in
word, to overthrow all the foundations of
financial and Industrial stability
Nor is this ALL Not content with a propo-
s1tion to thus debauch the currency and to
unsettle all conditions of trade and commerce
the party responsible for this platform denies
the competency Of the government to pro-
tect the lives and property of it's citizens
against internal disorder and violence
SUPREME COURT.
1t assails the judicial muniments reared
by the constitution for the defense of indi-
y1dual rights and the public welfare, and it
even threatens to destroy the integrity and
Independence of the supreme court which has
been considered the last refuge of the citizen
against every form of outrage and Injustice
In the race OF the serious peril which these
propositions embody, 1t would seem that
there could be but one sentiment among right
thinking citizens, as to the duty of the hour
All men, of whatever party, who believe in
law: and nave some regard for the sacredness
Of individual and institutional rights. must
unite in defense of the endangered interests
of the nation.
While the financial issue which has been
thus considered, and which has come, as
the result of the agitation Of recent wears
to occupy peculiar conspicuousness, is adj
mittedly of primary Importance there il
another question which must command care
full and serious attention. Our financial and
business condition Is at this moment one
industrial system is seriously paralyzed Pro-
duction in many important branches of man
ufacture has altogether ceased. CAPITAL is
without remunerative employment. Labor
Is idle. The revenues of the government are
insufficient to meet its ordinary and neces-
sary expenses. These conditions are not the
result of accident. They are the outcome of
mistaken economic policy deliberately enact
ed and applied. It would not be dificult and
would not involve any violent disturbance of
our existing commercial system to enact
necessary tariff notifications along the lines
Of experience. For the first two fiscal wears
OF the so-called Mckinley tariff the receipts
from customs were $3.50, S07, $780, At this writ
ing the Wilson tariff act has been in force for
nearly two full fiscal years; but the total re-
.ceipts, actual and estimated cannot exceed
$S12, AL, 947. steady deficit constantly de-
pleting the resources of the government and
trenching even upon the gold reserve has
brought about public dstrust and business
disaster. 1t has. too. neeessitated the sale of
$685. 100000 Of bonds, thereby Increasing to
that extent the national debt. It will be re-
membered that in no year Of the more than a
quarter of a century of continuous Republic
can administration succeeding the civil war,