The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-22

Pr tNiib tAill4-o w hiiON, lOI IL
ante is just as anxious to make
money as sound money man is, then
why vote for change? Does NJ. A..
Y. imagine that successful man will
be less successful under free silver
than now, or that an unsuccessful
man will be more successfuH Is it
then while the money is to be changed
the people are to be changed, too
the rich made poor and the poor rich;
and yet to read M. A. Y.'s article and
to follow Bryan in his speeches that
is the sum of the Bryanistic belief.
The crime of 1878 is as nothing to
the crime of 1893 which has robbed
our country of some one hundred and
fifty millions Ofrevenue. The passing
of the Wilson tariff was a deliberate
blow to the prosperity of our country
not only in the loss of revenue but in
the loss from decreased exports. The
great card with the promoters of the
Wilson tariff was that it would open
Aup the markets of the world and in
crease the sale of agricultural produc-
tons. But the facts turn out other
wise. The value of all exports for
the year ending December 81, 1895,
was $4,000, 900 less than the last wear
under the Mckinley tariff. Add this
amount to the revenue lost under the
Wilson tariff and we have a loss of
$240, 100000 which sum would have
been shared by the workingmen as
well as by the farmer and manufac-
turer.
NJ. y. Y. is pleased to refer to Mex
leo as a paradise for worllingmen:
why then, if that is SO, don't some of
the 100000 tramps go there. Why
don't the tide of foreign immigration
turn to that silver cline? But NJ. A..
US statements do not agree with the
report of the Labor committee sent to
Mexico to investigate the facts. They
reported that it was no place for an
American wOrkingman, that wages
were scanty and the houses and food
of the poorest kind. They further
advised that anyone going there
should be sure to take enough money
to get back home on. | am afraid NJ
a. Y. must be misprint and Y. A. NJ.
was intended.
The kind of money our country
needs, the kind of money that the
foremost nation should have is money
that is international in character.
Money that will represent the glory
and the grandeur, the enterprise and
power and last but not least the COM
mercial and moral honor of a people
who believe in liberty and equality
and equal and exact justice to one
and all.
1t is beyond the power of human
legislation to redress all wrongs, but it
is not beyond the power of legislation
to give its people an honest and a
stable currency. The chief creditor
class of a nation like ours is its work
ing people, and our laws should guar
antee to the laboring man just as
good a dollar as it gives the bond
holder; a dollar that has the same
purchasing power as that of any other
nation of equal standing; a dollar that
the workingman can take to England
and get full value or take to Mexico
and get t1Co dollars worth.
The day for the isolation of nation
from common intercourse with other
nations has happily gone by. Even
China, the ancient and barbarous, is
giving way to the magical influence
of modern civilization. But the Bry-
antics insist upon building a wall
around our country more impregna-
BILE than the Chinese wall-thus ignor-
ing all their one time beautiful rain
bow hued theories of free trade and
dealing in all the markets of the
world. Oh, Democracy! thou art even
yet. consistent in thy inconsistencies
and art willing to risk all to carry
out thy beliefs, even as thou didst
when the first shot was fired at Fort
Sumpter.
AS to Biblical history perhaps NJ
A. Y. has not lost sight of the use to
which the silver of Judas was put
perhaps another potter's field may be
bought in November.
One more quotation and | have
done:
And all King Solomon's drinking
vessels were of gold, and all the ves-
sells of the house of the forest of Leb-
anon were of pure gold; none were of
silver: it was nothing accounted of in
the days of Solomon
THE TRAMP.
Monarch, Pa, Oct. Is, 1896.
Communicated.
TO the Editor of The Republican.
AS my study of the political situa-
ation noNU auito tipn 1,onu ,ninJp &c