Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-29

10 10 without waiting Tor the alu |
or consent of any other nation. |
There is no law to prevent the ma
tion from making fool of itself. |
Foreign nations really at heart
give their consent for the United |
States to do so freely and unask-
ed. This nation involved in mex
tricable financial difficulties would
remove it as IA possible rival to the
great nations of Europe, and they
would gain such an advantage over
us before we could return To ra-
tional practices that they would
have no need for laws directed
against our products. That whim-
steal laid and consent phrase is
as pretty as the petulance of a
wilful spoiled child.
FoRBIDDING GOLD CONTRACTS.
To make the assurance of sill
yer law banishing our gold doubly
sure, the seventh also declares in
favor of legislation against a
person STIMULATING by contract what
he shall receive in payment of an
obligation. That is seeking to take
away right that no government
can justly infringe upon.
KEPT ALL CURRENCY GOOD.
The eighth in effect opposes the
policy adopted by the Administra-
ton and its predecessors of presery-
ing the parity of gold and silver by
giving the creditors of the Govern
ment the option of what sort of
coin they will take in discharge of
the Governments debt to them.
Had the Government done other
wise we should now be enjoying
the evils of silverlsm despite the
) injunction of the law that gold and
silver should be kept at parity
and the equal purchasing power
of all currency preserved.
BOND ISSUES.
The ninth declares against bond
issues in time of peace. The 1882
000.000's worth of bonds were sold
for gold to preserve the parity OF
our currency. The threat of sill
verism, and nothing else, made the
bond sales necessary. The silver
50-cent dollar standard can not
keep the paper currency up to pal
unless the issue of paper is strictly
limited; and Il silver reserve to re.
deem on demand the paper curren.
: cy will be as necessary as the gold
t reserve has been. The issuance OF
+ Populistic greenback currency t.
= the amount demanded will driv,
silver out of circulation as certain
1 as the depreciation of greenback'
! did gold during the Civil war er,
\ unless big silver reserve is helo
I to insure silver payments. The
Government will have just as mucl
t difficulty To keep up a silver re
serve as it has had to keep up 4
} gold reserve, and how Is it to ge
: silver unless by bond sales?
e LEGAL-TENDER PAPER.
e The tenth and eleventh denounc,
b national bank issues as unconsti
e tutional, and demand Government
Y issuance of all legal-tender paper
= currency, to be redeemable in coin
p How that agrees with the quotation
s from Jefferson's works, vol. 4, pag,
d 260, we leave it for the reader t
r determine: "The Federal Govern
= ment: 1 deny their power to max
y paper money legal tender"
v The platform appears to declar,
s for irredeemable paper currency
: in effect at least.
e TARIFF.
e The eleventh brushes aside tarif
: reform with slight notice, and con
d tains the threat of making the Su
: preme Court over to suit the par
o tisan desires of the time. Their
E are just sixteen words to the
i threat in regard to the Suprem
6 Court; that attack on the integrit,
d Of that judicial body is one of tn
: very worst things in all Bryanisu
J. and if carried out would mean tn
n destruction of the independence o
e our Federal judiciary and the de
:. struction of our institutions ulti
v mately.
a FOREIGN LABOR IMPoRTATIoNs.
J. The twelfth starts in against i'm
e ported laborers and jumps onto tn
: money subject again.
e COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.
n The thirteenth favors Legislation
:. to secure arbitration between EN-
: ployers and employees in interstat
a commerce when they have differ
= ences.
J. srRICTER CONTROL OF RAILROADS.
;, The fourteenth declares TO
q stricter control of the railroads b.
n the Federal Government. Tha
n could only end In vast govern
e mental machine that would ulti
s mately precipitate the nation int
Il a socialism. 1t is a bait for tn
e Populists, and if insincere is
fraud. If sincere it commits tn,
t. so-called Irregular Democracy" L
v another of the main tenets of Pop
e ulism.
:. INCONSISTENCY.
The fifteenth declares for a re
t turn to simplicity and econom,
h and complains of the lavish appro
d priations of recent Republica al
o Congresses, but in the twenty-fiftI
h negatives it partially by declarin,
d for river and harbor extravaganza
a ANARCHICAL PLANK.
f The sixteenth is dangerou
e declaration. That is the Altgelt
: plank in indirect rebuke of Presi
e dent Cleveland for putting dow
d the Debs riots. If for no othe
f reason every voter who loves peace
a law and order should oppose Bryan
= and every man who stands on tn,
p Chicago platform as long as the,
s uphold the hidden doctrine of tina
a sixteenth plank. The danger doesn'
o appear in its diplomatic wording
:. it is in the course and purpose o