The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-13
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The State Gs=sSte'pr.nted yesterday,
vita an enthusiastic editorial endorae-
mem. me resolutions of the O11o STAT
Convention urging a high protective
tariff. 1t altogether ignored, however, the
free silver plank. which, was linked there
tc. AID VIII Oh likewise had the advantage
Of being drawn BY Major Mckinley. This
is strange. II one part Of this platform
WIS gac1 enough to entause ever, why
ncs the rest? Can it be that the silver
l,taa,s IS designed for local use only?
Wa,ls trying TO sprinkle protection salt
or the tail CT the eastern manufactures,
IS il dss grei 10 csteA the wild and wool
" West with fiat money iaffeys The at
temps IS cute IN the spirit o. Republican,
issa, Dat It seems rather shallow IN these
newspaper days.
The Philadelphia Press is not quite
SO fatGous as The state Gazette" 1t
does not wholly 'gncre the silver break
Il ir.es 70 explain it away. It says
Mr.. AsJSinley has been accused of be-
ing unGuly friendly 10 silver, but the
CFS plank adopted yesterday, though
not IN the mos desirable form, is essen
f-2i.y s1uad 1t i conservative and con-
tions which it suggests fer the joint use
a s-G.s. Is Standard money is
tA&esf~1H-hf ot IL 49, P@--'~
IS kept in vew and made prominent that
gold and silver money must both be in
use and kept on a nast-5.
what a strange juhl5le os r~nrearing
words have we here. Mckinley s uaduly
friendly . silver ard MS plank IS not in
desirable form, bur - essentially sound.
tn s soundness consists in being c~oncilia-
tory to silver, in proposing a condition
which IS impossible of realization. We
vosder Il these are also the ~"conserva-
tive FEATURES of Il. The declaration that
g5ld and silver money mus be kept al 2
party Il sound if it means me right
thing; but what does It mean? Senator
Teller thinks that unlimited free coinage
is The true way ID create and maintain
q parity. President Cleveland thinks rlas
the closest restriction Of coinage IS the
ag. What we want TO know is now
MAJOR Mckinley would propose to mani
tain the parity. This he totally fails to
tell US. IS this conservative" or is it
'tcenciiiatory,' or IS It sound? Ii
Major Mckinley has views on tins ques-
tion, why does he not express them? Way
does he deal in evasions and platitudes?
Here is the resolution itself, as Major
Mckinley drew It. Does It mean silver
or does it not? If not, what does it mean?
W contend for honest money; for a
currency of gold, silver and papsr WITH
which 10 measure our exchanges, that
snail be as sound as she Government and
as untaTnishsd as ats noacr: and 10 that
end we favor b.mesaiits.a and demand
the uss OF both gold ami silver as stand
ARD money, either IN acecrdaacs with a
agreement, II that can De Obtained. or
under such restrictions and provisions
to be determined by legislation, as vii!
-.14--- -nr. n m tan 1ra nf rnn nGf1rfpa NJ
ra:uv Of the TWO metals, 50 that the
purchasing and d~ebt-paying power of the
dollar. whether OF silver. gold or paper,
shall be a. all tinles equal.
IT always makes US laugh to see the
Newar;- sunday Can" after support
arg Jcnn ". Grggs for Governor, pre-
tend to be Disguised because equal taxa
ton makes no progress. THIS week, it
sca,ds he estate Gazette" for being the
o7ssss - the railway Lobby. The fact is,
Il Is ssse1f me most useful organ the rail-
wa Lzefsy possesses n this State.
taa state Gazeete' is head
asd s.iaassasrs above the Call" for it is
fres frs.a ;:le aetestabie vices of pnarisee-
ism ard hypocrisy. which are prominent
In every nne of the disgusting Newark
publication. -
THE degree of common sense that di-
reefs the acton OF the average Cuban
crank was aptly displayed at Youngs-
t5wa. Ohio, on Tuesday last. In that
.place q banquet was given by the Minis
te.ias Association to q number of minis
ters from n~eignboring towns. As a side
dish to che CT the courses Spanish onions
were served. A resolution wa at once.
offered that the onions should not be eat
en-, thus ~nsur.n the course Spain is
pursuing in regard to the insurgents in
Cuba. TIE resolution was adopted, and
no onions were eaten. II drivelling idiocy
can get to a lower point than this it
must be in a speech by John Sherman or
Henry Cabot Lodge.
ADJUSTMENTS.