The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-06-27


rpsnt sof justice but whether we are mis- +
taken or not. concerning the general senti-
ments in the United States, we have not
mistaken our own duty in withdrawing
from the Republican conv entton feeling
that it is better to be right and with the
minority in apparent defeat than to be
wrong with the majority IN apparent trl-
unaph.
We hold that the great work OF social
evolution in this country, monetary reform
stands as the first requisite. No policy
however, promising Of good results, can
! take It's place. Continuation during the
| next four years upon the present f1nan-
ciaI system will bring down on the Ameri-
can people that cloud of impending evil
| to avert which should be the first thought
| Of statesmen and the first prayer Of pat
riots. N
! Our institutions are at stake. Today,
with the rapidly increasing population
with widely swelling demands, the basis. OF
our money is relatively contracting and
the people are passing into a servitude
! all the more dangerous because 1t is not
| physically apparent. The nation Itself,
i as to other nations, is losing the sturdy
courage which could make it defiant in the
I face Of injustice and international wrong.
| From the FARMER and the tradesmen to the
! government, there is apparent" the same
shrinking from giving otrense, lest the
vengeance Of some offended finacial power
SlFAil descend. Ane BUSINESS SlDuilo SOuS
| portion Of it's international right lest some
| foreign creditor shall make destructive de-
| mands. Where will all this end if the peo-
! pie shall decline to assert themselves?
Where will 1t end if the Older parties in
! their determination to maintain them
selves in power for powers sake alone
! shall refuse to recognize the right and the
! hope Of humanity?
This country cannot much longer exist
free and Independent against all the rest
! of the world nor can its people much
| longer be free In the noblest sense OF the
term If the United States, a debtor ma
| ton, shall follow a. policy dictated by cred
| itor ma tons.
| We produce all Of the necessaries Of life.
| Other nations consume our product. In
| the race for existence it is a constant
| struggle between producer and consumer.
our, present system Of money deliberately
| submits to the desire and this profit OF
! or creditor nations, leaving US in the mass
| and as individuals, a prey to the money
gathering ana the deadly cheapening Of
the old world. AS the debt to creditors
| abroad increases. on the masses OF the
nation the price of human production on
the farm and in the workshop is decreased
with appalling rapidity, exacting more
| and more toll from our citizens to meet
! the given demand and holding over their
ton to meet their obligations will leave
them bare and defenseless. The only rem
edy is to stop falling prices-the deadliest
| curse Of national life. Prices never will
cease falling under the single gold stand
ard
The restoration of bimetallisn by this
country will double the basis Of Our money
system In time it will double the stock
Of primary money of the world, will stop
falling prices and steadily elevate them
until they will regain their normal rela-
ton to the volume of debts and credits in
+ ofo will hell hiring
about the advancement Of the race who
realizes that the insta biltty Of prices has
been the deadly foe Of our tollers and the
servant of the foreign interest gatherer.
Bmetallism will help to bring the time
when certain expenditure Of human toll
will produce a certain financial result.
Who among the great masses of our peo-
pie in the United tSates but feels that his
lot would be better, his aspiration take
new wings, if he could know in the per-
Torrance OF his labor would be the price
of his product?
Is not this purpose worth the attention
Of the people as individuals and worth
the attention Of political conventions yet
to be held? Is not this so great an end
that all who believe in the probability
OF attaining it by the means proposed can
yield something Of their partisanship both
in conventions and at the polls? 1t is in the
hope that the masses and the remaining
conventions will have the courage and
the generosity to unite for this purpose
that we have dared to offer our views to
the people of the United States: and be-
cause in the past there has lacked rally
ing point for the masses who hold as we do
this belief, we venture an act trusting that
it will be received In the same spirit Of
Cancellation, concession and hope with
which we put it forth
We have endeavored In plain way to
set the matter before the eyes Of our fell
low citizens. We invoke the union Of all
men and all parties who believe that the
time has come for the triumph Of justice.
1t is an hour when the people may speak
for themselves as individuals and through
conventions yet to be held. 1t is the right
Of every citizen to indicate his preference.
With this in view we offer to the forth
coming conventions and to the people the
name Of a man Tor the presidency Of the
United States whose life In public and
private represents those distinguished
virtues which adorned the days and the
deeds of the earlier time of this republic:
a return to which virtues is requisite for
the prosperity and contentment of the
| people and the perpetuity and command
Ing example of free institutions.
That name is Henry M. Teller, man
of the people and for the people. He Is
Of no section, his experience and service,
his devotion to the common justice and the
common cause of his fellow citizens, has
been as wide as the country. We believe
the people have him in their hearts, as he
has had their interests in his purpose
through all the work Of an exalted life.
1t is not merely as the exponent of mon
etary reform that we present this man
to the people. It is true that he has waged
a mighty war for the restoration of the
! money Of the constitution and his name
has been identified as that OF no other
living man with this great cause. But
! had his services been less demanded and
less noticed in this direction the people
would still have recognized in him for
other labors q statesman of the purest
type. His only poverty has been that of
purse; In all things else, in the generosities
Of man to man, in kindness of deeds for
his fellows, and in the study and the
doings Of a mighty career, he has been
|; one of the most opulent American citizens
of any age
In submitting this name to the people
we remind them that just generation
ago from the heart of the boundless West
alad touched by the finger of God there
arose an emancipation who was powerful
in the work of human deliverance BY his
wisdom and courage providentially di-
rected, millions were set free and the ma
ton kept in its holy union. If others shall
|see this opportunity as we see it; If our
| fellow-citizens shall see this duty as we
see it; If our fellow citizens shall see this
duty as we see it, that sublime history
may be repeated and another 1nan-cloth-
| ed in the ma jorlty Of devotion to the race
will be lifted to power where, by his wis
dom and courage, providentially directed,
| more millions may be made free from
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