The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-02

thus every home In the land Is directly
and Indirectly connected with their
proper settlement. Great are the issues
involved in the coming election, and
eager and earnest are the people for their
right determination. Our domestic trade
must be won back, and our idle working
people employed in galnful occupations
at American wages. Our home market
must be restored 60 its proud rank Of first
in the world, and our foreign trade, so
precipitately cut off by adverse national
legislation, reopened on fair and equitable
terms for our surplus agricultural and
manufacturing products, Protection,
reciprocity, twin measures Of true
American policy, should again command
the earnest encouragement Of the govern
ment at Washington. Public confidence
must be resumed, and the skill, the
energy and the capital of our country
find ample employment at home, sus-
tained encouraged and defended against
the unequal competition and serious
ulshuNdnJdBes Witu WhlOh Ohoy ue uOW
contending
The government of the United States
must raise enough money to meet both
its current expenses and increasing needs.
Its revenues should be so raised as to
protect the material interests of our peo.
Pile, with the llghtest possible drain upon
their resources, and MAINTAIN that high
standard of civilization which has dis
tinguished our country for more than a
century of its existence The income of
the government, repeat, should equal its
necessary and proper expenditures. A
failure to pursue this policy has COM
PEELED the government to borrow money,
in time of peace, to sustain It's credit
and pay its daily expenses. This policy
should be reversed, and that, too, as
speedily as possible 1t must be apparent
to all, regardless Of past party ties or
affiliations, that it is our paramount duty
to provide adequate revenue for the ex-
penditures Of the government, economi-
cally and prudently administered. This the
Republican party has heretofore done,
and this confidently believe It will do in
the future when the party is again en-
trusted with power in the executive and
legislative branches of our government.
The national credit, which has thus far
fortunately resisted every assault upon
IL, must and will be upheld and strength
ened. If sufficient revenues are provided
for the support of the government, there
will be no necessity for borrowing money
and increasing the public debt. The COM
plaint Of the people is not against the ad-
ministration for borrowing money and is
suing bonds to preserve the credit of the
country, but against the ruinous policy
which has made this necessary. 1t is
but an incident and necessary one, to
the policy which has been inaugurated.
The inevitable effect of such a policy is
seen in the deficiency of the United
States treasury, except as it is replenished
by loans, and in the distress Of the people
" ho are suffering because of the scant
demand for either their labor or the pro-
ducts Of their labor. Here is the funda-
mental trouble, the remedy for which is
Republican opportunity and duty. Dur
ing all the years of Republican control
following resumption, there was a steady
reduction of the public debt, while the gold
reserye was sacredly maintained, and our
currency ana credit preserved without
depreciation, taint or suspicion. If we
would restore this policy that brought
us unexampled prosperity for more than
thirty years under the most trying con-
dition ever known in this country, the
policy by which we made and bought
more goods at home and sold more
abroad, the trade balance would be
quickly turned in our favor, and gold
would come to us and not go from us In
the settlement of all such balances in the
future.
The party that supplied, by legislation,
the vast revenues for the conduct of our
greatest war, that promptly restored the
credit Of the country at its close, that from
its abundant revenues paid off large
share Of the debt incurred in this war,
and that resumed specie payments and
placed our paper currency upon n sound
and OF during basis, can be safely trusted
to preserve 10th our credit and currency,
with honor, stability and inviolability.
The American people hold the financial
honor Of our government as sacred as our
flag, and can be relied upon to guard 1t
with the same sleepless vigilance. They
hold is preservation above party fealty and
have often demonstrated that party ties
avail nothing when the spotless credit of
our country is threatened. The money of
the UnitedStates, and every kind or form
of it, whether Of paper, silver or gold,
must he as good as the best in the world.
1t must not only be current at It's full
face value at home, but 1t must be count
ed at par in any and every commercial
center of the globe. The sagacious and
far seeing policy Of the great men who
founded our government, the teachings
and acts of the wisest finanoieis at every
stage in our history, the steadfast faith
and splendid achievements of the great
party to which we belong, and the genius
and integrity Of our people have always
demanded this, and will ever maintain 1t.
The dollar paid to the farmer, the wage