The herald., 1896-08-27

MCKINLEY LEAVES NOIf1ENG
tending for the control of the govern
ment. Not satisfied with the debase-
ment of our coin which inevitably fol-
lows the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1,
they would still further degrade our cur
rency and threaten the public honor by
the unlimited issue of an irredeemable
paper currency. A graver menace to our
financial standing and credit could hard
ly be conceived, and every patriotic cit
izen should be aroused to promptly meet
and effectually defeat
HIGHLY REPREHENSIBLE.
1t is a cause for painful regret and So
licitude that an effort is being made by
those high in the councils of the allied
parties to divide the people of the cour-
try into classes and create distinctions
among us, which in fact do not exist
and are foreign to our form of govern
ment. These appeals to passion and to
prejudice are beneath the spirit and in
telligence of free people, and should
be met with stern rebuke by those they
seek to influence, and I believe
they will be. Every attempt to array
class against class, 'the classes against
the Masses section against section,
labor against capital, the poor against
the rich, or interest against interest, in
the United States is in the highest de-
gree reprehensible. 1t Is opposed to the
national instinct and interest, and
should be resisted by every citizen. We
are not a nation of classes but of sturdy,
free, Independent and honorable people,
despising the demagogue and never
capitulating to dishonor. This ever re-
curing effort endangers popular gov
ernment, and is a menace to our liber
ties. 1t is not a new campaign device or
party appeal. 1t is old as the govern
ment among men, but was never more
untimely and unfortunate than now.
Washington warned us against it. and
Webster said in the senate in words
which I feel are singularly appropriate
at this time: Il admonish the people
against the object of outcries like these.
I admonish every Industrious laborer
of this country to be on his guard
against such delusion. I tell him the
attempt is to place his passion against
his interest, and to prevail on him, in
the name of liberty, to destroy all the
fruits of liberty"
PROTECTION OF SUPREME I'M
PORTANCE.
An issue of supreme Importance is
that of protection. The peril of free sill
yer is menace to be feared; we are al
ready experiencing the effects of par
tial free trade. The one must be avert
ed; the other corrected. The Republi-
can party is welded to the doctrine OF
protection, and was never more earnest
in it's support and advocacy than now
If argument were needed to strengthen
it's devotion to the american system
or increase the hold of that system
upon the party and people, it is found in
the lesson and experience of the past
three years. Men realize in their own
daily lives what before was to many
of them only report, history or tradi-
ton. They have had a trial of both
systems and know what each has done
for them.
DEMANDED BY PUBLIC EXIGEN-
= CIES.
Washington. in his farewell addres
September II, 1776, a hundred years ago,
said: "As a very important source of
strength ana security, cneflSn puDnc
credit. One method of preserving it is
to use it as sparingly as possible; avoid
ing the accumulation of debt, not only
by stunning occasions of expense, but
by vigorous exertions in time of peace
to discharge the debts which unavoid-
able wars may have occasioned, not
ungenerously throwing upon posterity
the burden which we ourselves ought
to bear"
To facilitate the enforcement of the
maXims which he announced he declar-
ed: 1T is essential that you should prac
tically bear in mind that toward the
payment of debts there must be reve-
nues; that to have revenue there must
be taxes; that no taxes can be devised
which are not more or less inconvenient
or unpleasant; that the intrinsic embar-
ra5sment inseparable from the selec-
ton of proper objects (Which is always
choice of difiiculties) ought to be de-
cisive motive for a candid construction
of the conduct government in max
ing it and for spirit of acquiescenca
in the measure for obtaining revenue
which the public exigencies may at any
time dictate"
Animated by like sentiments the peo-
ple Of the country must face the enndi-