The record-union., 1896-09-09

Cotn tumble together.
Cheap money never did cheaper the
necessities Of life, but it cheapens men.
LOOK at Mexico, China, India. Silver
men can be made to see, too, that MAX
ing more money does not put more in
their pockets. The bullion owner may
get hundred times more silver than
Is now stamped into dollars, but he will
not be any more willing to give the
wheat raiser a single one of them with
out getting round 100 cents worth of
Wheat for 1t. An ignorant voter thinks
that when more metal is stamped at
the Mint he can somehow get dollar
for less than what the open market
calls hundred cents in value. The
real authors of this movement have
other views. What they want is to find
some way of paying something with
rothing. 1t is merely the old unlimited
greenback fiat money craze in new
form. 1t had been tried one time or
nearly always led to ruin. 1t met it's
first great defeat with us in the Ohio
campaign, led by the Ohio soldier whom
that campaign made President.
This time 1t will be finally crushed
under another Ohio soldier, who will
become President by the largest popu-
lar majority of this generation. Yer
mont points that way.
Next to an attack on the eighth
commandment in enOrmity is the attack
by our opponents on the Constitution
and courts of the United States The
protest against the use Of the constitu-
tiOnal power for the suppression of riot;
the proposal to pack the Supreme
Court; the attempt to destroy the valid
ity of contracts-these are not mere
demagogism or even intelligent COM
munism. They are formal naturaliza-
ton into the United States OF Russian
anarchy. Little better is demanded
than that every thrifty, economical,
prosperous citizen shall be discrimin
ated against and taxed, not merely once,
like other people, but twice, first on
what he has, then on what he earns.
Let us be as cOnSiderate as you please of
our erring countrymen who have been
honestly misled: but let us indulge in
on disguise as to the unpatriotic, un-
american, revolutionary character of
this whole programme.
There have been ill-considered ap-
peals to Republicans to keep our dis
tinctive principles out Of sight in view
of the national danger from the mon
strous proposals. But we cannot, if we
would. The Government is without rev.
enue for it's current expenses. 1t must
raise more if it would not go into bank
ruptcy. Our way of raising it is by
tariff; there is no other except by taxa
ton or by more borrowing Would the
f11 11a.yl hn harr - -
favor either? And yet the tariff they
are afraid we may touch is the very
tariff Cleveland considered so discred-
liable that he did not sign it. We cannot
seek the suffrages of the American peo-
pie under DISCUSSES. Patriotic Demo-
Gratis who rise above party in this ma
tional peril, as they did in 1861, ought
not to ask us to lower our flag on the
eve of battle because they are going to
bring us some reinforcemnets They
could not respect us if we did, and,
what is more, thousands Of voters we
now have would desert Us.
Forgive these crude hints about our
editorial work in this campaign. You
know / should not have ventured upon
them except at your renewed request.
and that l certainly should not address
them to you, who need them so little.
The campaign you are already making
gives assurance Of the happy result Yet
neither the editors nor the great ora
tors or the party are making this cam
paign. The plain people are thinking
1t out for themselves. Even the best
speeches are not those made on the
stump. They are coming from the porch
or the little, two-story wooden cottage
In Canton; and they make us as proud.
In this crisis, of our leader as we are of
our cause"
The President of the Editorial Asso-
citation was instructed to inform Mr.
Reid by telegraph at his camp in the
Adirondacks that vote Of thanks had
been given him.
The afternoon session was given over
to the address of Charles Emory Smith.
There was large audience assembled
in the hall. Mr.. Smith was warmly
greeted. He said in part:
When jefferson said that he would
rather have newspapers without a gov
ernment than a government without
newspapers, he indicated the vital part
which newspapers play under free insti-
tutions. That was one hundred years
y
pers were sentinels at the outposts. To-
day they hold the central position: thev
are the very life blood of free discussion.
This is pre-eminently campaign of ed
ucation. 1t is thus peculiarly our cam
paign. The journalists are the real ed
ucators. 1t is true there are great text
books from the masters. There is new
Adam Smiths Wealth Of Nations with
American application, a new Bunyans s
Pilgrims Progress through the slough
OF despond Of Democracy and up the hill
of difficulty, new Baxter's Saints
Rest under assured Republican restor-
alton. The other titles of these master
pieces are William McKinley's complete
political economy of Open mills for full
labor rather than open mints for free
silver; Benjamin Harrison's 'Satirical
reflections on the absurdities of a boy
orators idea of independence of the law
of gravitation'. and Thomas B. Reed s
Old Orchard 'Plums of political philoso-
ply Bue the old text books are ex-
pounded by the professors in the class
room, and so the new text books are ed
tied with notes and index and daily elu-
citations by the schoolmasters of jour-
nalism.
I'VE must first educate ourselves. We
are already grounded in right principles
But we want more earnestneSs. more
moral courage, higher sense of respon-
sibility. a true appreciation of the ardu-
Gus duty of this crisis. We want more
real and lasting enthusiasm-a deeper
and grander conservation to the high
mission which is before us. We must
educate the people in elemental prin-
cipleS. We must educate tharo ~ ,,pdar
stand that we cannot have two stand