Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-10-29
WHAT is AT STAKE.

Aoi iHoHleHl ana take IL calm survey
OF all that is at stake on the issue.
l. First OF AL, the business pros
perity of the country is staked on the
proposition to change the financial ba-
SIS OF our government from the BIZ
metallic to the single silver standard
by establishing the free coinage of sill
yer, thus retiring some six hundred
millions of gold from circulation and
| contracting the amount of money
available for business accordingly. For
. If anything has been made clear by
the exhaustive discussions of the past
four months, it is that the above
certain effect of free coinage.
VIII be followed by unlimited issues of
nat money, as openly advocated by Mr..
Bryan when in congress, and which in
turn would drive xix silver from circu.
lation.
2. Next, the election ON the Sd day
OF November will determine whether
the American government Will carry
out its pledge to its creditors and to
all its people to maintain its silver
dollars at par with gold, and, 10y tend
erlng payment of its obligations in
silver deprecated by its own act, re-
pudiate nearly or quite one.half of it's
obligations. In other words our ma
ttOnaI honor, hitherto uhsulled, is at
stake.
3. Upon the decision of the ballot
depends the question whether or not
our national supreme court shall be
recognized in the interest of Populism,
III order to secure Il majority of judges
favorable to any measure, now deemed
unconstitutional, which a Populist
president and congressional majority
may demand.
4. The voters of the United States
are called upon to decide whether the
forces of the national government can
be used to protect interstate COM
MERGE and the transmission of the
mails; to put down anarchy when the
red flag is waved in opposition to the
laws, and to enforce the mandates of
the courts. Bryan and his followers
declare in effect that IN anarchist mob,
backed by II recreant governor, is SUI
periOr to the authority of the United
States. The republican party declares
the constitution and laws of the United
States "the supreme law of the land"
Which is right?
5. The security of the civil service
system as now established, by which
all minor appointments in government
offices are filled by competitive examina.
tions, thus giving an equal chance to
every citizen, is staked upon the result
OF this election. Under The false cry
Of opposition to "lite tenure" Mr.. Bry-
an attacks this system, and proposes
return to the old spoils system, under
which government clerkships were dis
trlOuted us rewards for small political
services, without regard to competency
and under circumstances which eX-
cluded (and always vii! exc.Mdu) the
great majority Of self-reSpectimg citi-
liens from all opportunity.
6. Whatever of ,rorecliou Ia Amer
lean industries is left in our present
tariff is stnked uum tine resnIt Mr.
BRYAN is on record ~ nm .xtremp fr.e
trader. as having d.rIo,.d ,h,t tha
men who work in American .hons earn
too high wages. and rs IN favor ot ra-
moving all ba,rier, TO Eurnra,, and
\ .iatir eomuAti,io,, ,iis .,ooass
means the INSTRUMENTATION. i,oar,.,,l.-
hnr. AIciIipinvr, maa,,s its ax,1t.rn,,
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Z. Finally, excluding a multitude Of
lesser things stakrd on this issue,
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