The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-27
! month, or $500, 900 for every business day

money out OF the country or getting too
little in, or both. We have lost steadily
in both directions. Our foreign trade
has been diminished and our domestic
trade has suffered incalculable loss. Does
not this suggest the cause of our present
depression and indicate it remedyg
st is not an increase in the volume of
money which is he need of the time, but
an increase in the volume of business.
Not an increase of coin, but an increase of
confidence. Not more coinage, but a more
active use of the money coined. Not open
minis for the unlimited coinage of the
silver of the world, but open mills for the
full and unrestricted labor of American
workingmen.
"Our farmers have been hurt by the
changes in our tariff legislation as Sc
verely as our laborers and manufacturers
badly as they have su fered. The Repub-
lican platform wisely declares in favor of
such encouragement to our sugar inter
ests as will lead to the production on
American soil OF all the sugar which the
American people use.
1T promises to our wool and wooden
interests the most ample protection, a
guaranty that ought to commend itself to
every patriot" citizen. Never was more
grievous wrong done the farmers of our
country than that SO unjustly inflicted
during the past three years upon the wool
growers of America
Although among our most industrious
and useful citizens their interests have
been practically destroyed and our wooden
manufacturers involved in similar disas-
ter. AT no time within the past thirty
six years and perhaps never during any
previous period, have so many OF our
wooden factories been suspended as now
The Republican party can be relied upon
to correct these great wrongs, IL again
entrusted with the control of Congress %
The letter here treats exhaustively of
the advantages of American trade and the
Republican principle of reciprocity.
of foreign trade under the reciprocity
clause of the tariff act of 1890, and re
turn to the system is urged.
The declaration of the Republican plat
form touching foreign immigration is
treated as one of peculiar Importance at
this time, and Major Mckinley announces
himself in hearty sympathy with the
present legislation restricting foreign
immigration and as favoring such extern
sion of the laws as will secure the United
States from invasion by 1.-The debased
and criminal classes of the Old World. I"
The next paragraph is devoted to the
soldiers and sailors of the Union, who he
says, gave the Government the best they
had in its hour of peril, and who in their
age are justly entitled to governmental aid
in their increasing necessities. The
declaration of the st. Louis platform in
favor of upbuilding the American mer-
chant marine is heartily approved, as is
also the plank endorsing the civil service
reform. Continuing, the letter says:
strhara ora otba, i'm, ID
declarations in the platform which can
not here discuss. l must content myself
with saying that they have my approval.
If, as Republicans, we have lately adj
dressed our attention with what may
seem great stress and earnestness to the
new and unexpected assault upon the
financial integrity of the Government,
we have done it because the menace is so
grave as to demand especial considera-
ton, and because that we are convinced
that if the people are aroused to the true
understanding and meaning of this silver
imitation movement they will avert the
danger. In doing this we feel that we
render the best service possible to the
country, and we appeal to the intelli-
gence, conscience and patriotism of the
people, irrespective of party or section,
for their earnest support.
w e dNOIQ llO ISSUES. WI meet the
sudden, dangerous and revolutionary as
sault upon law and order and upon those
in whom is confided by the constitution
and laws the authority to uphold and
maintain them, which our opponents
have made, with the same courage that
we have faced every emergency since our
organization as party more than forty
years ago. Government by law must
first be assured; everything else can
wait. The spirit of lawlessness must be
extinguished by the fires of an unselfish
and lofty patriotism. Every attack upon
the public faith and every suggestion of
the reputation of debts, public or pri-
vate, must he rebuked by all men who
believe that honesty is the best policy, or
who love their country and would pre-
serve unsullied its nauional honor.
The country is to be congratulated
upon the almost total obliteration of the
sectional lines which for many years
marked the division of the United States
into slave and free territory, and finally
threatened its partition into two separate
governments by the dread of civil war.
The era of reconc iliation, so long and
earnestly desired by General Grant and
many other great leaders, North and
South, has happily come, and the feeling
of distrust and hostility between the sec.
tions is everywhere vanishing, let us hope
never to return. Nothing is better cal.
culated to give strength to the nation al
home, increase our power and influence
abroad and add to the permanency and
security of our free institutions. than
the restoration of cordial relations be.
tween the people of all sections and part.
of our beloved country. II called by the
suffrages of our people to assume tn,
duties of the high Office of President oil
the United States. shall count it priv
ilege to aid, even in the slightest degree