Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08
Republican Ammunition Prepared for
the Coming Strife.
INTERESTING PUBLICATION ISSUED
Literature Loaded With Arguments
Meant to Convince.
THE CONTENTS DETAILED


full of meat. 1t starts out with this state
Elent of the issues:
american Honor and American Interest.
business, the Source of Employment.
Coin, whether of Gold or Silver, must be
Equal to the Best.
Duties, Collected from Foreign Countries
Tor American Privileges.
Emigrants Who Are Willing to Live With
out Robbing Oh er Men Of Employ
Financial Integrity and Money Enough to
Pay All Bills.
Gold and Silver, Equal Dollars. for All
Business.
Home Markets for American Products
Imports Must Always Be Kept Below the
Exports.
judiciary Of the United States Must Not
Be Tempered With.
Keep In the Middle Of the Road.
Labor Employed Means Elevation Dignity
AMI Education for the Home.
Mckinley and Hobart Elected Means Bust
ness and Employment.
Nations Honor Must Be Maintained.
ownership of Rail- Dads by National Gov
eminent Opposed by Republican Party.
Pensions for the Veterans of the War Equal
to the Pledge Of the Nation.
0uorum-counting by Speaker Reed Justi-
fled now by Democrats
Revenue, Collected Equal to Expenditures
Necessity
Silver Dollars Good as Gold, the Repub-
Ecan Demand.
Tariff to Protect American Labor and En-
courage Home Industry
United States-the Hope of Universal Lib
erty and Law.
Voters Have an Opportunity; Vote for Nc
kinley and Business.
wages Meanc Home, Education and Com
fort to the ToiIer.
A-rosds -REPUBLICANISM OR Pop
CLISM-Which Way?
Your Opportunity to Restore Business.
Vote 1t.
Zeal In the Campaign Will Win the Vic
tory.
The Chicago Convention.
The following is the first paragraph in
the book:
Atandoned-Bryan and the Chicago Plat
form)
Wilmington, Del, Every Evening. dem.)
No. l.
The gathering at Chicago is far from
beirg representative convention of the
great democratic party of the country
Its majority is simply bowling mob Of
populists. free silverites and anarchists.
dominated by Altgeld and swayed by Till
man. The leaven of good sense and hon
est purpose supplied in the persons of the
gold-standard minority fails to have any
aprreciable effect. The convention has
been swung away from true democratic
principles, and is moving in a course that
promises to absolve all honest democrats
from allegiance to its declarations or feal-
ty to the candidates it may place before
the people 1t is idle to expect that hon.
est, sincere, seif-respecting democrats
throughout the country will sustain the
the name of democracy.
President Lincoln's advice in 1864 is
gwen prominent place in the book, as
fitting to the occasion.
That some may be rich shows that others
may become rich, and hence is Just en-
couragement to industry ard enterprise.
Let not him who is homeless pull down
hn 1f
diligently and build one for himself: thus,
by example, assuring that his own shall be
safe from violence when built.
The Balance of Trade.
The summary on the balance of trade
says:
1t Is a notable fact that for ten years,
from 1879 to 1885, the republicans never
had less than s72,000,00O of surplus in
any one year. except in 1882, when 1t fell
to S2o,OonWO, reaching the enormous sum
Of $259,OO0,ooO in 1851, while Grover Cleve-
land, at the close of his second year, In
1887, found the balance of trade to be
against us to the amount of $2S,0OO,UOO.
President Harrison, as soon as naugu-
rated, with the balance of trade against us,
brought this trade back to u.s. so that the
third year of his administration gave us
$2o2UOQ.VOO of an excess Of exports over
that of imports.
A study of these tables will show what
able 10 accomplish, as against the demo-
Gratis, in the holding of the balance of
trade. The following resume is given for
convenience:
The federalsts lost annually for twelve
years S1.OS2, 6i3. or in all $129,91S. 1856
The wings controlled the government for
eight years. with imports amounting to
$15S, S1S,331 and a total of exports of $47.-
t36.3I0, which gives an annual loss In the
744
The democrats had control for fifty-six
years prior to Cleveland's present term in
which they show gain of exports Of SILL
049.S91 against loss in the imports of
81 .O05 984, Isl. making the annual loss by
the democrats for the whole fifty-six years
$l4, So, Gas
eight years, in which they show a gain in
the excess of exports of 81 S75 $50 rs
against loss In the imports of 81. 124 141,-
034. or an annual gain in the excess of ex-
ports of So S25, $50.
Making final showing in favor of the
republicans with s26,OOO,OOO of a gain
against $14 900 600 of a loss with the demo-
Gratis, or $l2,OOO.OOO of a loss with the
wings annually.
What Bimetallfsm Ia.
Bimetallism is thus Officially defined:
The use of the two metals as standard
money at relative values set by legislative
enactment: the union of two metals in cir
CuldtlOH DIS IOHcy dt IAeu TdtlO. cpeCln-
cally, that system of coinage which recog-
niZes both coins of silver and coins of gold
legal tender to any amount, or the con-
current use of coins of two metals as q cir
culating medium at a fixed relative value
Bimetallism-The use of both gold and sill
yer as money, the issue for which the re-
publican party are to contend in 1895.
Under this head is given the platform
declarations on the subject. beginning with
that of 1854, and the following declaraJ On
is made:
The Republican Record.
For sixteen years the republican party
has contended for the largest possible use
of silver: and under the operation of the
acts Of 1873 and 1880 more silver has been
coined and put t. money use than in all
the years preceding such legislation. This
silver money was never discredited until IL
was assaulted by the pretended friends of
silver In demand for its free and un-
limited coinage. Silver coinage of standard
oollars was suspended in 1906 was SUBJ
1ected to mint charge by the act of June
~. 1884, OF one-half Of 1 per cent. which
was modifed by the act of January III
1887 (section 1S), to the reasonable cost of
pr eparing the metal. VI
Tine act of January q, 1853, reduced the
weight Of subsidiary coins, and provided
for all such coinage in the future to be on
government account. Government account
as applied to subsidiary coin was adopted