Arizona republican., 1896-07-08

De OVeroSLl1ndI6u. mere Call Do uO financial security; no business stabil ity; no real prosperity where the policy of the government as to that question is all matter of doubt. Gold is the one standard of value among enlight- ened eorn'-s "-. ltions.
 rial Library, sl6 nsactions of what - - s---sser, dH H7business enterprises, all individual or corporation invest ments are adjusted to it. An honest dollar worth one hundred cents every- where cannot be coined out of fifty. three cents worth of silver plus a legislative fiat. Such debasement of our currency would inevitably produce incalculable loss, appalling disaster and National dishonor. It is a funda- mental principle in coinage recognized and followed by all the statesmen of America in the past and never yet safely departed from, that there can be only one basis upon which gold and silver may be concurrently coined as money, and that basis is equality, not in weight, but in the current value of the metal contained in the respective coins.
 'NThis commercial value is fixed by the markets of the world with which the great interests of our country are necessarily connected by innumerable business ties which cannot be severed or ignored. Great and self reliant as our country is, it is great not alone within its own borders and upon it's own resources, but because it so reach es out to the ends of the earth in all n Y-fyt ,tc Nf hr,rs change and commerce and must sus- tain with honor its standing and cred it among the nations of the earth.
 "The question admits of no compro- mise. It is a vital principle at stake, but it is in no sense partisan or sec tional. It concerns all the people. Ours, as one of the foremost nations, must have a monetary standard equal to the best.
 Tt is Of vital consequence that this question should be settled now in such way as to restore public confidence here and everywhere in the integrity of our purpose. A doubt of that integ- rlty among the other great commer- cial countries of the world will not only cost us millions of money, but that which, as patriots, we should treasure more highly, our industrial and commercial supremacy.
 My estimate of the statute value of a protective policy has been formed by the study of the object lesson of a great industrial state extending over a period of thirty years. It is that pro- lection not only builds up important industries from small beginnings but l that those and all other industries flourish or languish in proportion as protection is maintained or withdrawn have seen it indisputably proved that the prosperity of the farmer, mer- chant and all other classes of citizens goes hand in hand with that of the manufacturer and mechanic.
 T am firmly persuaded that what we need most of all to remove the business 1 paralysis that aff1icts this country is the restoration of policy that, while afford1ng ample revenue to meet the expense of the government, will re. open American workshops on full time and full handed, with their operatives paid good wages in honest dollars. Ani this can only come under a tariff which
 will hold the interests of our own peo pie paramount in our political anC commercial systems.
 "The opposite policy, which dis
 courages American enterprise, reduce. labor to idleness, diminishes the earn
 ings of American workmen, opens oul
 markets to commodities from abroad which we should produce at home
 while closing foreign markets agains our products and which at tha earn. time steadily augments the publi,
 debt, increasing the public burdens while diminishing the ability of tn,
 people to meet them is policy whicl
 must find its popularity elsewhere thai
 among the American citizens.
 T shall take an early opportunity
 gentlemen of the committee, to an nounce to my fellow citizens witt
 somwhat more of detail my views con : cerning the dominant question of tn hour, and the crisis which confronts Ill as Nation.
 ''With this brief expression of my ap preciation of the distinguished mono that has been bestowed upon me an this signif1cation of my acceptance Q the trust to which have been sum moned, place myself at the service O the Republican party and of the coun try"
 TWO WOMEN ASSASSINATED.