The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-08
THE COUNTRY WILL NOT STAND TT

The COUNTRY WILL NOT STAND IT.
In an authorized interview with Mr..
Hanna, sent out by the press the other
day, he is reported as using this Ian
guage:
The truth is, our currency matters are in
pretty good shape, | think There is nothing
alarming about the currency question. There
is no question about the Republicans of the
West wanting a conservative tariff bill passed
by congress.
This represents quite faithfully, we
believe, the prevailing attitude of the
Republican party on the issues now be-
fore the country. We want to say to
them right here and now that it will
not do; that they are taking the surest
course to offend and outrage those by
whose votes they were returned to
power; and that if the tariff question
is taken UP and the currency question
let alone they will be beaten as badly
as they deserve. Before the 4th day Of
last November we heard of nothing
but the money question. Since that we
have heard Of nothing but the tariff
question. The most that the partisan
time was that the tariff "a1so ran"
We cannot say that those who insist
now that the Republican majority has
a right to go over the tariff schedules
are illogical, however ill-advised and
outrageous we may consider their ac-
ton to be. But we do say that when
they make tariff revision the sole end
and object Of their victory, and pre-
pare to send to the rear the all-im-
portant question Of currency revision,
they are traitors to their trust
The one thing which the people Of
this country decided a month ago is
that our currency affairs are not in
good shape. If they had been, if our
system We're anything less than the
dangerous nakeshift that it is, the re-
cent campaign would have been fought
on far other lines. It Is because the
greenbacks are outstanding that we
have had bond issues and runs upon
the treasury. 1t is because we have
no consistent principle and no sound
basis for our monetary system that the
free silver theory obtained so general
a hearing. Whatever the people may
have thought or intended to do about
the tariff at the last election, and what
ever warrant the Republican party
may feel in changing the duties, there
is and can be no question about the
command which it received from the
people to revise our currency system
and make it in harmony with sound
ideas. Yet here is Mr.. Hanna, presum-
ably representative Of his party and
close to its president-elect, who seems
to confirm the fears felt of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's soundness and earnestness
long ago. Mr.. Hanna says that we
may get along pretty we'll with the cur
rency as it is.
Neither the country nor the Republi-
can party can afford to occupy that po-
sition for one moment If that is to be
the financial policy Of the new admin
istration, a policy of let-alone, a pol
icy of maintaining our wretched patch
work as it is, policy of hoping that
another crisis will not come for four
years. policy of delay and coward
ice, then we can say to Mr. Mckinley
and to Mr.. Hanna as the agitated man
in the congregation said to the revival
list who pictured the torments of the
lake Of fire and birthstone, that sthe
American people will not stand it,