Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-28

Chauncey VI. Depew.
full of hope and promise for the future.
In the Sc days of theory and fancy and fol-
~ run mad, we calmly point TO the four
years under Harrison and confidently say
that the policies of sound money and the
protection which then prevailed with
WISE and capable President will come again
to The people of this country when the
policies OF sound money and of protection
once mere prevail with another wise and
caps bile President
Currency Debascmcnt.
Prom the dawn of recorded history
Down to MeX:,o and South America, des-
Ictisms, constitutional monarchies and re-
TuhlCs have tried dehasinS their currency.
In every case the county has lost It's cred
it. its business. ana lis industries have
feen demoEalzed or raraiyZed. and its
Pee pie haze Eeen reduced "a poverty and
despair. Tier il n" instance in the whole
range OF history of wealth, national or
Individual flow ng from reputation or dis
ECresty. from 1n:Srcprt sentation or fraud.
from putting the government stamp
onto measure value ami declaring il
to be double measure the value.
"fart.sanship and patriotism can ordi-
Marty in d free country travel upon par
aHei lines Those institutions the safer
and tfaJ country is better governed where
two great parties STRIVING for the mas
terry and most equally divided.
But when the question is a moral one
striking at the very foundation of natu-
raj justice and the rights of man, like
slavery. or one affecting the salvation of
the country, like effort to divide Ii
by secession and rebellion, or an attempt
to put stain upon the national honor
and doubt upon the national credit, then
petr!t Is must act together. and there can
only be Ollie side; then part:sanship and
party Obligations are in allegiance while
tie intelligence and patriotism of the ma
tic
life or uphold:ng it's honor Here. again.
We have the lessons of experience and
the lamp of history
National Honor Involved.
I'm this crisis, when the national honor
and all that that involves the business.
the employment and the prosperity of the
country, is at stake, the republican party
welcomes with open arms the assistance
of patriotic democrats who care more for
their country than for an organizati,
which has been temporarily seized by the
tumultuous and evanescent forces of reyo-
luton. of communism. of anarchy and
OF rcpudiation While we are fighting the
platform which means all of these we
find that upon II is placed a ticket with
one head and two tails, one tail wagging
to deiude the farmer in the west and in
the south.
This effort to array one section against
another by an appeal to prejudice and
ignorance Will be stamped out not by
bullets. but by ballots; will be stamped out
not by two millions OF men in arms, but
by the Intelligence and the patriotism, by
the knowledge that each section has of the
other. by the feeling that We are one peo-
PIE ana that our grea tness is in our ole
ness. which will move to the polls a ma
Jestic army of 100000 of voters.
All Equal Here.
There are no classes thank God in
this country There are no places of
power Or wealth to which the humblest
boy may not aspire. Every President
elnce Washington has come from the
ranks. and all our prosperous business
men are OF the people and have climbed
from the bottom.
The pretense that 100000 bankers and
money lenders will be at each one of the
!o"o voting places influencing or con-
trolling the vote of 100000 voters, or
that there have been in prior presidential
or congressional elections, is an assump-
tlon more monstrous than the destruction
OF this earth by having swung around il
the atmospheric tail of a flying comet.
The gold confidence man. who has
been governing this country since the
war, mas paid OF most of our national
debt. mas more than doubled the mileage
OF our railways and telegraphs and near-
ly doubled the number of our states has
furnished homes and employment for TO-
m oo Of people to live better than So
eOO.oOO did before, has created the new
south, has advanced wages and decreased
the cost of living.
A Confidence Game.
and what has the free coinage Of sill
Yer confidence man done simply by the
promise of what he will do? Let the dis
tressed farmer and the unemployed mill
Ions of the United States answer at the
ballot box.
Every day I receive marked copies of
populistic papers attacking me as enc
of the enemies of mankind because of
my presidency of the New York Central
railroad, and of my clients as a lawyer.
Their candidates for President and Vice
Pres dent both started in life as I did.
with no other capital than education and
profession. We all three hustled for
clients. for income, and careers That the
business OF one is reputed to yield larger
ret''"rS than that of the other two is rot