The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-08-08

adoption, and yet he pledges the people to
support and maintain that system, and
fasten upon them all the evils of the fnan-
cial system which he has heretofore repu-
dated, if they will make him president.
Whatever may have been his attitude
on the money question in the past, he
must inevitably hereafter support the same
financial system that the present Demo
cratic administration has, and, if elected
must continue the policy of Mr.. Cleveland
in the sale of bonds in time of peace.
Hence, with the success of Mr.. Mckinley
we may look for continued increase of
the public debt and the sale of bonds to
maintain the gold standard
coUNTRY's DEPLoRABLE CONDITION.
1.-The condition of the country is not
satisfactory, all admit. The producers of
wealth are not receiving fair and proper
compensation for their labor, whether in
field, factory or mine; enterprise has ceased;
values are constantly declining; labor is un-
employed; discomfort and distress prevail
to an extent never before known in the
history of this country, and no reason can
be found for such an unhappy condition
save in vicious monetary system Those
who profess to deplore the present financial
condition and oppose the free coinage of sill
yer are divided in opinion as to the cause of
the present condition Some declare that
it is because we have too much tariff, 9TH
ers that we have not enough, while the
fact exists that every gold standard coun-
try in the world, whether it has high or
low tariff, is now and has been during re-
cent years in the throes of financial pan
ic, and every silver standard country, com
pared with its former condition, is enjoy
ing an industrial development and degree
of prosperity hitherto unknown in its his
tory. While thus differing in opinion,
they unite in asserting that the gold stan
dard must be maintained until foreign
countries shall signify their willingness
that the American people shall exercise
the rights of free men and create fnan-
cial system of their own. If we overlook
the humiliation and degration We must
leol oi aCcouut VI SUCH uecidIdtloH vi
financial dependency, we may well inquire
when the consent of the leading CONNER
cial nations will be obtained
FRUITLEssNEss OF CONFERENCES.
''No one who has read the proceedings
of the three international monetary confer
ences that have already been held, or who
examined the practical propositions pre-
sented at those conferences can for mo-
ment believe that any International bimet-
allie agreement can ever be made with the
consent of ''all the leading commercial
nations of the world When will Great
Britain, controlled as she is, and ever will
be, by the creditor classes who collect vast
sums of money for interest due her and
her citizens, who buy of us annually many
more millions than she sells to US, and
whose interests it is to make the pound
sterling purchase as much of our products
as possible, consent that we shall be fnan-
cially independent, as we are supposed to
be politically Independent? When did the
creditor classes of Great Britain ever give
up or in any way yield an advantage such
as they now possess through the mainten-
ance of the gold standard ? There is no
hope for international bimetallism until the
United States shall establish bimetallism
for itself, and when that is done, interna-
tional bimetallism may be secured without
the consent of Great Britain. The United
States, on other subjects of legislation,
acts independently of any other nation on
EARTH By what process of reasoning is
its rights, authority or ability to legislate
upon this, the most important subject with
which it has to deal, questioned or denied.
REPUBLICAN cowARDIcE.
''With nation equal in wealth and
power to one-fourth of the world, it is
cowardly to say that we must ask the per-
mission Of Great Britian. to establish and
maintain financial policy of our own
Believing, as we do, that a return to the !
monetary system especially recognized in
the constitution aad completely provided
for by law from 1892 to 1873, affords the
only ground of hope for the betterment of
the distressed condition of all the class ex-
cept those who live by the increment that
money loaned gives to those who loan it,
we appeal to all classes to rally to the sup
port of the only candidates whose success
indicates any hope of relief
Let the merchant and business man
whose dwindling and lessened profits have,
despite his care and economy, brought
him face to face with prospective bank
ruptcy and ruin; the professional man,
whose best efforts scarcely afford him com
pensation for his labor alone; the farmer,
the continually falling prices Of whose pro-
ducts have left him no returns for capital
invested and work performed; and last,
but no least, let the grand army Of labor
ing men, socalled, the artisan, the me
chanic, the miner and everyone who de-
pends upon his daily labor for his daily
bread, look about him and observe the
great number of those who yainly seek for
a chance to work-upon the great army
of enforced idlers-and one apd all resolve
to try, not an experiment 6for bimetallism
is not an experiment, but rather return