The morning times., 1896-06-24
NO GREAT TDIsAsrER WILL ENsUE


Of disaster chronicled by leading politicians
the precise political location OF this trouble
stricken country can be found somewhere
between the devil and the deep sea. The
silver leaders claim that the election OF
Mckinley would insure tyrannical regime
OF Hannaism, gold syndicates, railroad
corporations aud soulless trusts, and the
goidbugs are holding up u financial panic
bugabuo in an attempt to frghten voters
away from the support OF the silver party.
According to politicians. no matter which
intoa deep, dark, hcllflaming pit of double
trouble disaster. and therefore mist either
sacrifice what little substance an unfor-
tunate Cleveland administration has lef.
us Ia n ruirous financial upheavai or sur
render it To tie sweat -distilling dollar-mills
of the money barous.
All this would he disheartening were it
not for the fact that politicians are noto-
has already overcome several more des-
perate situations than the one that seems
to impend Should the Democrats aud Pop
ulsts combine. the present outlook indicates
that they will sweep the country with the
silver wave; but even should that sentiment
pre- vail it is doubtful if an unlim ited and
independent silver coinage policy could or
would bc enforced. 1t is presumed that this
is country OF patriots, Of people willing
to sacrifice their convictions for the genera>
good, and when it is shown to them that
free coinage means the withdrawal OF
5000, 600 200 Of gold and gold certificates
from circulation without providing an i'm
mediate substitute, they will prove their
patriotism by demanding an adherence to
our present money standard.
1t will also lie quickly demonstrated by
IIlt IllODlpI InltItStS budt Qt-
pendent as we are on foreign markets to
dispose of our Surplus products, and upon
foreign capital TO develop our resources.
can afford to entirely ignore the estab
ished money Of the world and adopt a
debased and variable standard. Nor dare
,re ros;s IN. dem,pds of tho money I,;,rnns
and defy them to withdraw or foreclose
their holdings in the United States, for
such defiance would result in the complete
ruin and overthrow of seyen-tenths OF the
business enterprises of the country, and
bring on a disastrous panic. This may
sound like rank heresy to the swivel
toDgued financial fire-eaters, but it is an
assertion that Will prove its own truth
on our statutes, and also one that 1t wiz
pay to remember when ney-lenders begin
to put the screws to their debtors.
All money is sound in a country that
prospers, and no country can prosper unless
its money is sound" Its credit. its
money, and its prospects must be ut
parity to assure good times, and the dark
prospect, of which politicians now COM
plain, prevents this country from reaping
the full harvest of good times that its
money and credit should warrant. For
that reason the present financial contro-
versy is to be deplored. Until injected into
the campaign by the st. Louis platform.
it had no real standing in the contest be-
tween the two great parties. But it has
been made an issue, and must be fought
out at the polls, and while the fight will
be bitter and intense, let it be understood
that we are country of patriots, and no
great disaster will eDsue.
REFORM IN CRIMINAL TRIALS.
There is no other civilized country on
Gods green earth where as many mur-
ders are committed. in proportion to the
population, as in the United States. The
figures are simply appalling. Within fif-
teen years the number has increased over
LOCO Der cent. In 1880 and the years
preceding that, about / 900 murders were
committed; in 1886 the number was
1,449. and gradually the horrible list has
swelled until the record for 1895 stands
at 1929. England, with 4 population
about half as large as ours, has only $50
murders on an average every year, and
Italy has less than one-fourth of our
number.
The most natural question is: What is
the cause? Go into the criminal courts and
INTO the prisons. Murder has come to be
popular, and the people have made it so.
Not only are assassins treated with great
consideration by prison authorities and
sought out by foolish numbskulls to be
loaded with flowers and daipties, but the
law connives at making them feel that
they occupy a distinguished position in
the criminal ranks, and by that reason
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