Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09


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cial nations of the world with which We
trade" ought, at least, to be OF some
importance in bringing about the de-
sired object.
He declares that protection has lost
none OF its virtue and Importance. The
| first duty of the republican party, II re-
stored to power in the country, will he
She enactment of a tariff law which
| will raise all the money necessary TO
conduct the government, economically
and honestly administered, and 20 ad-
jusred as to give preference to home
manufacturers and adequats protection
to home labor and she home market.
Economically and honestly admin
| istered'' somehow sounds democratic,
and was perhaps injected to catch tue
ear of tine gold democrats, who were
shortly to be assembled in national cois-
yention ait indianapolis But did MI.
| Mckinley really mean 10 say "all the
money! liz so. then the internal rev
enue tax on whisky, tobacco, etc., VIII
have to be repealed If he did not
mean all" then why did he say 1t!
Was il because of the mental strain"
already suggested as accounting for
some of his peculiar assumptions!
Mr.. Mckinley deliberately says all
that about ''the first 6uty Of the repoo-
lican party" in face Of the fact that
even II his party is fully and wholly as
successful as. it's most sanguine menu
her believes il rsossible' to- be in TINS
campaign it will nevertheless be utter
Nv impotent to enact tariff law dii1eN
emf from that now on the statute DOCKS
because the silver senator's from inc
west have fatty laid down the ulti--
matum mo silver, no tariff" and the
time of none of ItheIa expires under two
years.
In view of the help, which he desires
from the goldbug democrats, was'it not
a little undiplomatic, not to say cruel
to resurrect and quote Mr.. Cleveianu's
message written for" the express pur-
nose of influencing the extra session Oh
congress to repeal the Sherman silver
law? part of Cleveland's message
quoted by Mckinley is as fol!oWs:'
"With plenteous crops with abundant
promise Of remunerative produstion'
and manufacture, with. unusual invita-
tion TO safe investment, and with sat
isfactory assurances to- business enter
nrises suddenly financial distrust and
fear have sprung up on every side.
Now since Mr.. Glevsland's' object in
writing thus waste prompt congress to-
destroy the last vestige of silVen as
money and thus bring about the gold
standard in all it's purity, wfiich the
republican party says must be main
tanned and, since Mr.. Cleveland, by the
help. of John Sherman, Tom Reed. and
the republican party generally, accom-
nlished his purpose, it does seem
| little unkind in Mckinley to- quote that
very message to, show how terribly tho
"tbreat of democratic free trade was
already beginning to, affect the country
But he does quote it., and with that
very object in, view, and then further
on in his letter he himself declares:
"Tt is not an increase in the volume OF
money which is the need Of the time,
but an increase in the volume OF bust
ness. Not an increase of coin, but an
increase of confidence.
Thus 1t will be seen that these two
| great statesmen, Cleveland and Mckin-
lev agree upon what is lacking. 1t was
a want of confidence" shown by
Financial distrust and fear" which kept
the people from enjoying the rich har-
vests of Investments, ETC., In Cieve-
lands time, and it is only lack OF the
same ingredient in McKiniey's estima-
ton that still holds us plunged in the
depths df despair. One more quotation
from this surprising letter:
I'VE avoid no issue. We meet the
sudden. dangerous, and revolutionary
assault upOn law and order, and upon
those to whom is confided by the con-
stitution and laws the authority to up
hold and maintain them, which our OPP
moments have made, with the same
courage that we have faced every emer-
gency since our organization as party
more than forty years ago. Govern
ment by law must first be assured;
everything else can wait. The spirit of
fawlessness must be extinguished by
the fires of an unselfish ana lofty patri-
otism.
Every attack upon the public faith
and every suggestion of the repudia-
ton of debts, public or private, must be
rebuked by all men who believe that
honesty is the best policy, or who love
their country and would preserve un-
sullied its national honor"
These are consecutive paragraphs
taken from near tho close of the letter.