The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-12

coinage at a ratio OF Nc TO I. II viii oppose
the expulsion Of gold from our circulation.
DECEASED Money Destroys values.
III there is any one thing which should
be free from speculation and huctuation,
II is the money OF a country. IL ought
never 20 be the subject Of mere partisan
| contention. When We part with our LABOR,
our products or our property, We should
receive In return money which Is as stable
and unchanging In value as the ingenuity
| or honest men can make II. Debasement
OF the currency means destruction of VAL
ues. No one suffers so much from cheap
money as the farmers and laborers. They
are the irst TO feel its bad effects and tho
| last 20 recover from them. This has been
tie uniform experience % all countries,
and here as elsewhere the poor and not
the rich are the greater sufferers from
every attempt 10 debase our money. II
would fall with alarming severity upon
/ investments already made, upon insurance
companies and their policy-holders. upon
savings hanks and their deposltors upon
tuildlng and loan associations and their
members. upon the savings OF thrift.
upon pensioners ana their families. AID
upon wage earners and the purchasing
power Of their wages
Cheap Money Experiments.
The silver question is not the only
I
contest Not content with urging the free
coinage Of silver. its strongest champions
demand that our paper money shall he
Issued directly by the government OF the
United States. This is the Chicago Demo
cratic declaration. The ST. Louis Peoples
party declaration is that Our national
money shall be issued BY the general gov
erament only without the Intervention OF
banks OF issue. be fun legal tender ;or the
islment OF all debts public AID private
and be distributed direct TO the people
aud through lawful disbursements of the
government. Thus. in addition TO the free
coinage OF the worlds silver, we are asked
10 enter upon an era OF unlimited ire
deemaole paper currency. The question
whieh was fought out from 1866 TO 1879 is
mus TO be reopened with all its cheap
money experiments OF every conceivable
form foisted upon us. This indicates
most startling reactonary policy, strangely
az variance with every requirement of
sound finance; but the declaration shows
the spirit and purpose of those who, by
combined action, are contending for the
control OF the government. Not satisfied
with the debasement OF our coin which in
evitabiy follows the free coinage of silver
at 10 TO /. they would still further degrade
our currency and threaten the public
honor by the unlimited issue Of an ire
deemable paper currency. A graver menace
TO our financial standing and credit could
hardly be conceived, and every patriotic
citizen should be aroused to promptly meet
and efectually defeat it.
Dividing the People Into Glasses.
1T is cause for painful regret and So
LETTUCE that an effort is being made by
those high in the councils of the allied
parties TO divide the people of this coun-
try into classes and create distinctions
among us which in fact do not exist and
"A aas g ant
These appeals to the passion and prejudice
are beneath the spirit and intelligence of
free ped0le, and should be met with
stern rebuke by those they are sought 10
influence, and believe they will be. Ev-
cry attempt TO array class against class,
the classes against the masses, section
against section, labor against capital, the
poor against the rich.' or interest against
interest in the United States is in the high
est degree reprehensible. 1t is opposed TO
the national Instinct and interest and should
be resisted by every citizen. We are not
a nation OF classes, but of sturdy, free. in
dependent and honorable people, despising
the demagogue and never captivating 10
dishonor. This ever recurring effort en-
dangers popular government and is
menace TO our liberties. 1t Is not a new
campaign device or party appeal. II is as
ola as government among men. but was
never more untimely and unfortunate than
HN"' w aHhihEtOH NdIutu us dRdlHsl u
and Webster said in the senate words
which ! feel are s.ngularly appropriate at
this time: I admonish the people against
the object OF outcries like these. I ad-
monish every industrious laborer of this
country TO be on his guard against such
delusion. tell him the attempt is to play
OH his passion against his interest and to
prevail on him in the name OF liberty TO
destroy ali the fruits OF liberty
Another issue OF supreme importance
is that OF protection. The peril of free
silver is a menace to be feared. We are
already experiencing the effect Of partial
free trade. The one must be averted. the
other corrected. The Republican party is
welded to the doctrine of protection and
was never more earnest in its support and
advocacy than now. IL argument were
needed TO strengthen its devotion 10 the
American system or increase the hold of
that system upon the party and people, Il !
is found In the lesson and experience Of |
the past three years Men realize In thei- |
own daily lives what before was to many |
OF them only report. history or tradition. |
They have had a trial of both systems |
and know what each has done for them. |
Washington. in his farewell address |
sept. IL, l19e. 100 years ego, said: AS a |
very important source Of strength and Sc
curity, cherish public credit One method |
OF preserving Ii is 10 use Ii as sparingly as |
possible; avoiding the accumulation of debt |
not only by stunning occasions OF expense |
but by vigorous eXertions i'm time of peace |
10 discharge the debts which unavoidable |
wars NAV have occasioned, not ungener-
ously throwing upon posterity the burden |
which we ourselves ought TO bear To |
facilitate the enforcement of the maxims |
which he announced, lie declared 1t is |
essential that you should practically bear
in mind that toward the payment of debts
there must nc revenue; that to have re?e-
nue. there must be taxes; that no taxes can |
be devised which are not more or less in
convenient or unpleasant; that the IN
trinsic embarrassment inseparable from
the selection OF proper objects (Which is
always a choice OF dificulties) ought to be
a decisive motive for a construction of the
conduct of the government in making Il;
and for a spirit OF acquescence in the
measures for obtaining revenue which the
public exigencies may at any time dictate
Protective Legislation De-
mandcd.
animated by like sentiments the people
Of the country must now face the condi-
lions which beset them. The public exl-
gency' demands prompt protective legsla-
ton which will avoid the accumulation Of
further debt by providing adequate revc-
nues for the expenses of the government
This is manifesty the requirement of duty.
III elected president OF the United States IL