Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-09-24

the issuance OF irredeemable paper meury,
TO which the allied party seems drmly com-
nftted. II proposes to keep that silver
money In circulation and preserve aide by
side gold and silver and paper each the
equal TO the other and each the equal OF the
best, and the best never to be inferior TO
the best money known TO the commerciAi
nations OF rho world II Will continue to
favor a policy that will give work to Amer
lean citizens, markets to American farmers
and sound money 10 both. We are now con-
WINGED, after three years of experiences.
whatever may have been our political rela-
tons In the past, OF the truth Of the OBJ
seryati0n OF Webster, made moro than II
half century ago. You will recall that he
said THAT Is the truest American policy
which shall most usefully employ Ameri-
car capital and American labor and best
sustain the whole American population. Ag-
riculture, ana manufacturing will
prosper together or langaish together
Equally true, also. were the words OF
John Quincy Adams: The great interests
Of this agricultural, mining and manufacture
Ing nation are so linked in union together
that no permanent clause of prosperity to
one of them can operate without extending
Its influence to the other
"We cannot have commercial growth and
expansion without national and Individual
honor: we cannot have commercial prosper
ity without the s~trictest integrity both Of
| government and citizen. The financial honor
of this government is of too vast import
ance. is entirely too sacred to be the foot
ball of party politics. The Republican party
has maintained 1t and Is pledged to main
tain it. It has more than once stood be-
tween good faith and dlshonor, and when 1t
gave up the control of the government our
national honor had never before been 80
high and unquastiohed. The Republican
party Is pledged To maintain the credit of
the government which is intimately ascot
a. .-N.l a. 80 IAnZ AN4NA and hnt.nF and
this will do under any circumstances and at
any cost. 1t taxed the credit OF the govern
menr in the days of the war to its utmost
tension to preserve the government itself
which, tnder God, 1t was happily enabled to
do. Following that mighty struggle Ii lifted
our credit higher than ii had been ever be-
fore and made It equal TO the Oldest and
wealthiest nations Of the world.
''It Is pledged to maintain interrupted the
| currency OF the country of whatever form or
kind that has been used by the national
authority. 1t made the old greenbacks as
good as gold and has kept IL as good as
gold ever since. 1t has maintained every
form or American money, whether silver or
paper, equal TO gold, and 1t will not take
any backward step No party ever went
out Of power which left so magnificent "a
record as the Republican party. Our great
war debt was more than Exo-thirds paid
off; our currency unquesticned; our credit
unta Finished; the honor of the Union unsul-
lied the country In its material conditions
stronger than Il had ever been before; the
workingm3n better employed and better
paid than over before with prosperity in
every part Of the republic and In no part an
id'e workman who wanted to work. Con
slider, my fellow-citizens. the advancement
we made between 1850 and 1890, and during
those wears we neither had free trade nor
free silver. The marvellous progress Of the
country between 1880 and 1890 Is worthy
the study Of all American citizens. 1t is
the best answer to the oft repeated but fall
lacious statement that the country has been
Nuffering from the effect OF the act OF '73
which stopped the free coinage OF silver. 1t
Is an cnanswerable argument for the restor-
alton Of a protective tariff and the main
tenance OF sound money"
Hon. Richard Kerens. national committee
man from Missouri. was at the Mckinley
home to-day. His state will send the first
big delegation of farmers from the West
Oct. 5 from along the Santa Fee road, which
passes through Northern Missouri. Mr..
Kerens says with four tickets In the field
in Missouri Republican success is highly
Probable. Everything cast of the Alie-
ghenies, he says, Is safe without any ad-
ditional work and the Western situation Is
entirely satisfactory.