Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-27
|: The Republican Party stands
for honest money and the chance
to earn it by honest toll.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
A POLITICAL PAPER,
And a Good One, Written by DIR. NJ. v.
Hardy of Marietta.

Hardy of Marietta.
Installment No. -
Our democratic administration has
suddenly changed the long standing
policy of the republican party, under
which our nation grew in wealth and
power beyond precedent.
1t has destroyed the Mckinley tariff
law which was producing revenue suffi-
cient to pay our government expenses,
protecting our capital and labor, and
affording us surplus which was much
needed to liquidate our Indebtedness
created by the exigencies of war
1t has abrogated those reciprocity
treaties inaugurated by the republican
party for the purpose of increasing our
commerce and in which we received
free from duty those articles which we
could not manufacture or produce in
sufficient quantity to meet our every
day demands.
1t has enacted a law for the purpose
of creating revenue for the purpose
of defraying the expenses of our gov
ernment, which law has proven inetfi-
cient for the purpose it was intended.
Now this is no political balderdash,
it is a portion of our nations unfortu-
nate history, and cites US to the prime
factor of all our troubles The only
name it can have that is plain and easy
to understand, is democratic bunglipg
inefficiency.
1t has surely been the prime factor in
breaking down confidence, checking
progress. emptying our treasury, caus-
ing continued revenue deficits and en-
forcing idleness among the millions of
our willing workers
Is this not cause sufficient, and shall
we continue it? Nay, verify.
After being instrumental in bringing
about all these disastrous consequences,
and trying to exonerate themselves,
they tell us that our currency system is
the parent of all our ills, but they for
get the fact that our currency system
is the identical same system under
which we achieved such grand results
while under republican administration.
The other day, in convention at the
City of Chicago, after carefully diagnos-
ing our diseases, they came forward
with panacea which they declare to
be sure cure for all our troubles, and
which they claim is quite easy to take.
! conclude there is no secret, as yet,
ahnnt - ic cd ~ 10 &.
national political platform.
The recipe is "the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to ~
at the same time knowing that the
commercial ratio of silver to gold, all
oyer the world, is almost S2 to 1.
OF course they expect to keep it on a
parity with gold in purchasing power,
but how, they do not inform us. No
other nation on earth can do it, nor
can our nation. alone, do it.
We are keeping limited quantity of
it on a parity with gold, but if we
should make our government mints
the dumping ground for the unlimited
coinage of the worlds silver at the
ratio of IS to l, while the commercial
ratio is almost 32 to /, we would be
placing ourselves under circumstances
which we could not control because we
do not possess all the gold in the world
with which to exchange for it, or with
which to redeem it, thing which
would surely be expected of MS.
II an international monetary confer