The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23
ing fast to the best money the people
would always have the best things that
money could blly

money could buy.
Net us preserve the credit and honor of
your country and we will always have the
respect and confidence of the world and
can command its surplus capital on the
most favorable terms for the development
of our resources and the Improvement of
our social conditions. Let us see to 1t
that labor is not cheated with false
token and that the farmer shall not be
required to exchange his products for a
deprecated currency. Let us preserve for
fathers, dollar worth 100 cents every
where.
Turning to other parts of the plat
form, Mr.. Carlisle said:
That the people We're threatened with a
social and political revolution of the
gravest kind a revolution which If sue
cessful, would subvert the fundamental
principles upon which the government
was founded, tax the private industries Of
the people out of existence and convert
our system into socialistic despotism.
When to this extravagant and demoraliz-
ing scheme was added that other revolu-
tionary feature of the Chicago platform,
the substantial avowal of a purpose to
make the judiciary part of the political
machine by reconstructng the supreme
court in order to dictate its judgments
upon questions of constitutional law, q
plan of operations. was proposed more
dangerous to our institutions than was
ever suggested by any party in the past.
In concluding his remarks concerning
money. Mr.. Carlisle said:
If not artiiicially obstructed by bad
local laws, or by war or other adverse in
Huences, the supply of good money would
always maintain its proper relation to the
demand of every country, because, when
the volume becomes unduly depressed in
one place, the deficiency will be mmedi-
ately made good from other places where
the demand is not great and where the
profits of it are not SO large.
what do we see going on at this very
moment? BY reason of excessive accumu-
lation of money at the financial centers of
Europe. the high rates of interest pre-
vailing at New York and elsewhere in
this country and the condition of our in
ternational trade, more than sixty mil
lions i'm gold have been brought mere dur
ing the last two months, and it is still
coming. | can assure our suspicious
friends that there is nothing artificial in
this movement of gold that 1t Is the ma
tural and necessaryOresult of the existing
of the Atlantic and that it will cease
whenever the equilibrium is substantially
restored, whether that Is before or after
the election ii will certainly cease after
the election whether the equilibrium Is
restored or not. If the people of the Unit
ell States by their votes inaugurate the
policy of free coinage at the ratio of l6 to
|. and the gold which favorable balances
and proftable rates of interest have ie-
Gently brought to our shores will depart
from US as rapidly as the fastest ships
can carry III dcTosS tnt OctdI our tftdS-
ury reserve will be Immediately exhausted,
the gold held by the people and financial
institutions will cease to be used as money.
the circulation will be suddenly and enor-
mously curtailed not only by the with
drawal of gold. but on account of the in
evitable panic which will prevail in every
part of the country, ana we shall enter al
once upon "a long period of suffering and
distress unparalleled in our history. Tn
til | have not lost all confidence in the in
telligence and patriotism of the American
people and | cannot believe that they Will
deliberately incur the risk of industrial
and commercial ruin, merely for the pur-
pose of making financial experiment
which is opposed to all dictates of sound
reason and condemned by the experience
OF all mankind.