South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1896-08-06


more than two-thlrds majority
candidates were nominated FOR pres
ident aid vice. presiden. OF these
Uoitcd States.
A platform OF principles was adop-
ted which some think will bring
prosperity aud an eracf good times
TO cur country. Others think that
II will precipifate business panic
aud reputation OF debts.
However this may be, we have the
Young, enthusiastic, magnetic Bry-
an, as our candidate, and Mckinley
rs substitute.
Let US remember that we are
prone TO cxagerate present evils that
we think and talk of much, tn the
neglect of others as great, or per-
baps greater.
Whatever might be the evils Of
fres silver coinage 1t the ratio of
sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce
of gold, can we hope to shun them
and OF hers as great ty voting for
Mckinley? Shal; we forget that
Mckinley is the very embodiment
aud irnpersonation OF protection it.
sell?
And which is worst: to put 100
per cent. protective tariff on goods,
and double their cost to the poor
man, or reduce the value of the dol
Ter one half and thus lesson, by a
lax, amount, the debt due rich
man: Justice would decide one as
wrong as the other, but mercy is on
the side OF the poor man.
Then the Republican platform
pledges that party to promote the
Tree coinage Of silver by information
al agret How much better is
that than free coinage at home?
Coming ouf silver free will not pre-.
vent our trading with foreign coun-
tiles. They don't care whether our
gold is coined or rot. If it goes to
aprenium so we don't coin it into
money, they will just as readily
take 1t in bars Ind get it coined at
home. We don't trade them silver
ever now.
But the absurdity OF the Repub-
Iican protectionist party talking of
agreement with leading commercial
nations is amusing. That "Home
market party which claims that
all, or most that we consume, should
be produced at home; and it were
better for this country if the busy
Atlantic were an ocean of fire.
What does 1T care about agreement
with commercial nations for free
coinage? The makers of it's plat
form know there was not the least
probability in the world of an inter.
national agreement for the free
coinage of silver.
Do you say the Democratic pla..
form is sCcialistic, and populistic,
because it declares for strlcter con-
troll OF the railroads by the govern
mcnt. to protect tie people against
robbery and oppression? 1t says
not word about owning the roads;
and government that does not
protect the people against corporate
power and greed, is hLrdly worthy
the name.
What does the Republica plat
form say? 1t says "The Nicarau-
GUAM canal sbould be bult, owned
aad perated by the United States"
III this canal would be a paying in
vtssENent, why do not Mr.. Warner
NllIsry and his company, build it
with sheir own money? If it is q
dc Stfal experiment, what business
ms rhe ( nited States experiment.
log Win vt at cost OF % hundred
null, " dollars? Which is the more
soc alistic and paternalistic, the
y, mocratic or the Republican dec
. t'rsc ion?
We believe tAere can be but one
monetary standard, and that the
propJ sition to seSare bimetalsn, by
the free coinage OF silver is mis-.
take. But dangerous disease re.
qnIres desperate remedy. ALI
parties agree that tbs farmers of
this country have suffered from bus
mess depression and low prices.
We have suffered ourselves to lapse
into that dire malady, chronic com
plaintSof hard times, and corrup-
ton inthe government. No doubt
this disease has been agitated by
,qrack political doctors and calami-
ty .demagogues. 1t has become 80
serious that those who suffer from
it.aTc determined to make some DIES
per"te experiment, or keep the
country in continual unrest.
We have been threatened with
free coinage for several years.
Bo da have been sold at loss to
the government because of the fear
OF silver standard. The country
could hardly be better prepared for
the experiment thal now. Let ns
support Bryan and Sewall. Wiser
counssls may have some influence.
II not the platform in plain terms
! opposes monometalism, and il free
silver brings us to silver monomet-
allsm, il will be the swiftest and
surest course to teach our free com.
age friends a valuable lesson. It
may bring upheaval, followed by
. return to correct nrtncinIcs oil