The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-20

| civil service reforms thar mean some
| thing and not q civil service law that
| permits the President to suspend the
| civil service law until he can get his
| friends into office, ,and permits another
| President to extend the service just as
| he is going out to keep his friends in.
| (Applause.) We believe in appoint
| ments based upon merit and such a
| method of appointment as will open
the offices to those of ascertained fit
| ness. (Applause) We are in favor of
| fixed terms of office in the civil depart
| ment of the government. We want it so
| that when a man goes in he will know
| now long he is going to stay and when
| he is going out.We do not want to build
up an office holding class and fill our Of
fiices for life. A man when he gets his
appointment will then have no more
concern about his country except to
draw his salary when it Is due. (Great
applause.) We believe that the life
tenure which relieves a man from all
other further care, is destructive to
the higest forms of citizenship and
should not be tolerated in a country
like ours. (Applause.)
| SECRETARY CARLISLE1S LETTER.
Now, my friends, / want to call
| your attention to one other subject.
Our opponents are doing as much for
| us in~this campaign as we are able to
| do ourselves. fApplause). And of all
| the public documents recently issued,
| the most important one is a letter just
| given TO the public, written by the Sec
1 retary of the Treasury, from which /
| desire to quote one sentence:
Il 4 IS bxN I41fx aF ha tar |f
| the Treasury and all other public Off
cials. to execute in good faith the pol
| icy declared by Congress- and mark
| these words But whenever he shall
| be satisfied that silver dollar cannot
be kept equal in purchasing power
/ with gold dollar except by receiving
! such exchange is demanded, it will be
| his duty to adopt that course.
Il want you to mark these words
| because in those words the Secretary
| Of the Treasury tells you that when
ever the Secretary is satisfied that it
is necessary he will commence redeem
ing silver dollars in gold. (Great APP
planse). I call your attention to II, my
| friends, because / want to emphasize
the deception that has been practiced
by this administration on the money
| question. Great applause). When
this administration advised the repeal
| Of the Sherman law you we're told
| that the repeal of the Sherman law
| would remedy the difficulty, and yet as
| soon as the Sherman law was repealed
| the same authority which promised re-
| lief as soon as that law was repealed,
| came to Congress with a demand thai
| the Greenbacks and Treasury notes
must be retired BY the issue of gold
bonds in order to stop the drain on the
| Treasury's gold; and now the Secre-
| tary of the Treasury informs You that
! even if the Greenbacks and Treasury
notes were all retired, it would be his
| duty, whenever in his opinion it be-
| came necessary. to redeem silver dol
| lars in gold. and start another endless
| chain that would drain the Treasury.
| (Applause) According to the doctrine
laid down in Mr.. Carlisle's letter, you
cannot stop the drain of gold from the
| Treasury until you retire all the silver
| dollars and silver certificates and leave
| nothing but gold as the money Of this
| country. Great applause). | am glad
| that this declaration has been made
| / am glad that our opponents are, step
by step, revealing to the public their
/ heartless, merciless, criminal policy
| Great applause). =
/ II denounce the policy as more cruel
| and heartless than political doniRa-
1 ton Of a foreign power I would RAJ
| ther as some one has said, | would ra-
| ther put our army in the hands of a
| foreign general, or our navy in the
| hands Of a foreign admiral, than to
| rntthe Treasury ID the hands OF Sec
retary who would barter it away.
lGreat applause). | would resist such
financial policy as ( would resist the
| progress OF an invading army to at
tack our homes. Q3reat applause).
REPEAL or THE SHERMAN LAW.
Let me ask you a question Did
the administration, when it recon-
mended the repeal of the Sherman law,
believe that ii would cure our troubles?
III it did then, my friends, it has been
50 badly mistaken that you have the
right to mistrust the knowledge of the
administration on this subject. Great
applause.) If the administration knew
that the Sherman law would not bring
relief and concealed the knowledge
from the American people, then you
have right to distrust the honesty
Of an administration that would ask
one thing of the people and demand
another. (Great applause.) Did the
administration know when it recon-
mended the retirement of the Green
backs and Treasury notes, as a means
Of stopping the drain upon the gold
La the Treasury, did the administra-
ton, when it recommended that, know
that after they were all retired it
would propose the policy which the
Secretary of the Treasury has out
lined? II it did, and did not tell the
people, it was dishonest in not taking
the people into the confidence of the
administration, and if it did not know
that then, will it confess it's ignorance
of the monetary law and the finances
Of this country? Great applause.)
Does the administration know now
that when it starts to redeem silver
dollars in gold that it will start an
other endless chain that will drain the
Treasury indefinitely and increase the
bonded debt without limit unless they