The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-07-15

magnificent patronage. That bill got
its death blow in the Seuate but there
was not 4 single Democrat III New
York or New England to vote against
it
No man, gentlemen. in this high
noon Of our country>s fraternity can
revive force bills now in this recon,
ciled ard reunited republic Oar op.
ponents themselves have abandoned
them. There is none that can stand
between the union of hearts and
the union of hands that Grant
in his dying vision saw coming on an,
gels wings to all the sons of our com.
mon country. When Chicago dressed
Southern graves in flowers she buried
sectionalism under a mountain Of fra.
GRANGE. When Southern soldiers yes
terday cheered the wounded hero OF
the North in Richmond the South an
swered back: Let us have peace;
peace, union and liberty now and for
ever.
LAS the majority of Democrats is
not sectional neither does it stand fol
any privileged or class legislation
The active business men Of this coun
try, its manufacturers, merchants
farmers, sons of toll, in counting room
factory, field and mine, know thai
contraction of the currency sweeps
away with the silent and resistless
force of gravitation the annual profits
of their enterprise and investments.
They know too that the gold standard
means contraction and the organiza
ton disaster. What nope is there fot
the Democracy unless the views of the
majority here shall be adopted ?Do not
the people know that it was not silver
Legislation but legislation dictated by
the advocates OF the gold standard that
has caused and now continues the tin'
ancis, depression Do they not know
that when their demands upon the
Democracy were complied with in 1899
and the Sherman law repealed without
substitute that the very States Of the
East that demanded it turned against
the Democracy who granted 1t and
swept away their majority in torrent
of ballots Had the silver men had
their way then instead of the gold
nlonometalists, what storms Of abuse
would here today be emptled upon
their heads; but the people, applying
the power of memory and analysis
alike to discover the causes Of their ar
rested prosperity, need not go to lind
them. They do not forget when De
mocracy came to power in 1898 it IN
herlted from its Republican predeces
sor the tax system and the currency
system of which the Mckinley law
and the Sherman law were the cul.
minating atrocities. 1t came to power
amidst panic, which ftly followed
upon their enactment with strikes,
lockouts, riots and civic commontions,
while the scenes of peaceful industry
in Pennesylvania had become military
camps breakfast.
Besides manifold oppressive features
the Mckinley law had thrown away
fifty millions of revenue derived from
sugar under the sceptral plea OF a free
breakfast table and had substituted
bounties to sugar planters, thus de,
creaing revenue and increasing eXpen-
diture, thus burning the candle at both
ends aud making the people pay at
least for the alleged free.
From the joint operations of the
Mckinley law and Sherman law an
adverse balance OF trade was forced
against us in 1888, a surplus OF one
hundred millions OF dollars in the
Treasury was converted into a deficit
of seventy millions in 1894, and en-,
sraved bonds prepared bv Republl'
can Secretary TO borrow money to sup.
port the government, were the III
omens of the pre-organized ruin that
awaited the incoming Democrats, and
depleted Treasury. More significant
still, the very authors of the ill-starred
Sherman law makeshift were already
at confession upon the stool of penl
tence, and were begging Democratic
help to put out the conHagratlon OF
disaster that they themselves have
kindled.
So far as revenue to support the
government is concerned the Demo,
cratic party with but slender majorl'
ty in the Senate was not long provld
ing il and had not the Supreme Court
Of the United States reversed its settled
doctrine Of the 100 years, the income
tax, incorporated in the tariff bill,
would long since have abundantly
supplied it.
The Republican party has now re.
nounced the creed of its platform and
of our national pledges and presented
to the country the issue of higher taxes
more bonds and less money. It has
proclaimed at last, throwing away the
disguises, the British gold standard.
We can only expect should they sue.
ceed, my countrymen, specimen OF
panic and long protracted period OF
depression. Do not ask us then to
join them in any oftheir propositions.
Least of all ask US not to join them
upon the money question and fight a
sham battle over settled tariff, for the
money question is the paramount issue
before the American people and 1t In
wolves Americanism more than any
economic issue that was ever presented
at Presidential election.
We pray you, no more makeshlltS
and straddles. Nex not the country
with your prophecies of smooth things
to come from the sh-Republican
propaganda. (Applause.) The fact
that the European nations are going
to the gold standard, renders it all the
more impracticable that we should dc
so, for the limited stock Of gold IN the
world would have longer division and
smaller share for each nation. Pre-
vious predictions have been punctual
| ly refuted when prosperity was proph
ecied to come upon the unconditlona.
repeal OF the Sherman law. Instead
of protecting the treasury reserve, as
was prophecied it would do, an unpre
cedented raid was promptly made on
it and two hundred and sixty-two mil
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