The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-05
An OUTSIDE VIEW.
From the Chicago Record.

From the Chicago Record.
One Of the most notable features Of the
presidential campaign is the unusual IN
terest manifested by the religious press OF
the country. Heretofore, as q class, the
church papers have refrained from the ca
preston of what their readers might con-
strue as partisan opinions. This year wit
nesses change. The issues seem to them
to have moral phases, and some Of them
feel 1t their duty to express decided opin-
IONS Upon the money question the en-
pressed sentiment, with but Few excep-
tions. Is AGAINST free silver. The New
York Independent referring to the action
of the Chicago convention declares: X
Is as though the great Democratic party
had been led into some wild orgy in which
it made its eXcesses its policy, threw all
that Is honorable in it's history to the
winds and started on a career of utter
madness We do not wonder that decent
Democrats, north and south. east ana
west, turn from the convention at chicago
with anger and disgust, and repudiate 1t
utterly. That is what the people will do
in November. The danger Is akin to that
which confronted the people in 1860. but
We have the most perfect confidence as
to the outcome. Common sense, common
honesty and common devotion to our in
stitutions will triumph, as they have tri-
umphed before, and save to us our honor
our Institutions and our government
The Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Field, brother OF
Justice S. J. Field. OF the United states
Supreme court. and editor of the New
York Evangelist, one OF the leading Pres
byterian papers,, asserts that no man ls
free from guilt Who. for mere party rea-
sons, gives his vote to policy which may
not only bring disaster to thouands of IN
diyiduaIs but which may Involve the
whole country in q wreck and ruin, from
which II will take generation TO recoV-
err" The Congregatonalist Of Boston, the
mcst widely circulated paper OF its de-
nomination, declares: 'The Issue Is not
whether the candidates are statesmen,
not whether the demonet!2ation of silver
by the United States in 1873 was w!llful
or unintentional wronging Of the debtor
and enriching of the creditor class. not
whether gold has appreciated, and II SO
whether II has caused low prices not
whether the United States can by Its fiat
make SO cents OF silver worth 100 cents In
gold, not whether the tariff SHOULD be
for revenue only CIR for protection as well,
although thes are aspects OF the problem
which must be. and viii be, considered,
but the issue now is whether our national
obligations to foreign ard native creditors
are to be deprived Of all power to defend
the national credit in times Of stress or
poplIar madness, whether the federal au-
tncrity H. to be supreme when state or
local authority fails to cope with organ
iZed laWlessn5ss. whether the federal jul
dietary IS 10 be honored and kept secure
in its life tenure subject always 10 GOOD
behavior whether the civil service rs again
to become the prey of the SCOTSMAN, in
short, whether a revolution backward is to
booin, which would set at naught the prin-
ciples which underlie the republic and ci-
vilization."
Il Il \
One OF the most noteworthy utterlnoes
IS that Of the outlook of New York, edit
cd by DR.. Lyman Abbott and Henry w.
Mabie This paper is strongly bmeta!iic,
and at one time favored the free coinage
Of the American product OF silver. 1t now
says: 'Tnc free coinage OF silver by this
country alone would invite disasters
greater than those which have fallen upon
our productive interests and fasten
upon the country for an indefinite period
the policy of mouometallism-not the mon
ometallism Of gold, from which the coun-
try is now suffering, but the monometal-
lism of silver, which, save that the silver
product is larger than the gold product,
would in our judgment, be even more un-
scientific and unsatisfactory. It would
postpone Indefinitely the adoption of a
genuine bime.all,c policy among the great
commercial nations"