The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-08-14

little timely legislation could mal,e u a
Its chief value lies in the sub.fitntiiu"
of an interest bearing bond for a NJ
Use to pay without interest.
The national debt is one of tho Co..
emOluments of the war that stiIl brir"
revenue to the politician and Ing
his patriotism in proportion 10 tba;s
magnitude. Nor has Hanna souarden
ed his party's patrimony when he oer
command the support Of the Who'll na
tional banking system-even with Fni'
els thrown out.
Hanna's platform SAYS thar bo =.
"unalterably opposed to every No. +
ure calculated to debase our corra,1as,
or impair the credit Of our cqrrtr-.9,
So are we, most emphaticaIv 81
once more we ask, Uho has DID,
the currency, and lOho has irrnsiroJ
the credit of our country? What r-a.,
nificent republic alone among tts c;5.
iliZed nations of the earth mass ,[o.
force stand to-day as a suDI,Ii.s,tl 80
aims before banking syndicat- na,,,
erful enough TO build up and uavarfnI
enough to destroy. But wI,v such 81
licitude for the credit Of The cao,tr,-S
If we are 10 have only such measures
as are destined to maintain =
all our money, whether coin on ra,.r
at the present standard, " and # We aro
therefore, to strip Congress of rs c4r'
stitutiOnal duty and power ato cnin
money and regulate the value Thereof :
and confer that sovereign rlyH- "a. a,
unconditional privilege upon osnl.
ing syndicate, why not oppose onIr
such measures as are cal.anr-d Il
impair the credit of the New Yor5
| banks?'
But for the fact that the money
plank has been defended hv .r--raof-
able authority we might BE- r.r+rfad
10 believe that it is mere -u.t.u.4 If
Hanna's own irresponsible. financial
ldlosyncrasIes. 1t declares fir ..-.u..in.
tenance Of the present standard aud n
"all our silver and paper currency At
parity with gold" though era-v ~
/ tional newspaper reader Iu tie ard
knows that the history Of tie 4-t fonr
! years demonstrates the utter .r.Das.i.
/ bility of doing so, and that 1t Tie very
/ hour that declaration wa. made. ne
/ New York banks were uncertain
whether they should take s- last
whack at the Treasury or r8- over
/ election times by restoring ii rart IF
/ the one hundred and eighty g mons
! of dollars which that wild estl.meBt
/ has cost Us.
! To speak Of maintaining E.s..v ha.
+ tween an outlaWed metal and metal
/ nldde by tar unequal to demand. a
metal whose purchasing power The
+ law has declared shall be u.tof
/ value" alone, unlimited bis .. ron.
/ sideratiOn Of intrinsic value a ,Ur.
/ erned only by he ability g.. .s.
+ crete, contract and mOuou. ..a
: mere absurdity. Where. tl- S.. E.-s
/ banking syndicate add iu Ve
/ are therefore opposed O. ta. FL.
/ age Of silver, tXcep by
+ agreements. and the exc. Fiji.
? o. ed a saving clause. "a -f.eU --r.
national joke, as mu,a sy
I their foreign corresp .udt ty
themselves
According 10 one B4I.r
the farmer. and the iu1.-. 8
producing classes, generally
ing under an insane deIu~i.I ..-r
are worse of now than t... ..
1873, and that they are gr.a
aud poorer. day by day. N. H..
+ j. "a mere delu-iou or 81 Il. .aat
fact, Il question that " 6v
be best decided by the
most Interested To him / le 1.-The
+ question, and with him I ase
il. IL the future looks dark ..r.
rover 70 him slways a. it lis Is
i the present, and the past seem 4se
Z been one long, bOotless, fruit --rl.-
+ gle against hopeless odds. and ~.
as corollary 10 his own clt aa
T class. side by side with hu grown
I rich-always growing richer rs
Y mo- p FFfaFr, ion
/ Itism and its complete eXenI. FROM
\ governmental burdens, and pl
( tiently and trustiugly turuIlz.uT %
\ party for relief from disc0uu- il-
equality. / ask him to care. read
the Republican platform. aaa find
wherein 1t proposes any RENEE. 0 BAT
/ sOever, unless taxation l. "a cue.
! Does any one think he can Hz him-
self into a condition Of Dr. uty
/ Does any one seriously iula-.. that
/ by taxation he can correct a5 0iIs,
monopolistic system of fiuauc. Dough
/ Indeed we must now raise RI. lue to
pay the interest on the uev 3-Ut Of
two hundred and siXty-tw0 lIons
with which that system, Whic Ue are
now asked TO maintain, has ready
burdened Us, and some day te will
have to provide for the princiu Does
any one, except Major Mckinney,
think for an instant that wg San 10.
crease the quantity or the qHajtyot
the circulating medium by tax our
selves?
The tariff and money plank- srei n-
deed part of the same system rhe one
demands taxation, and the o.herpro-
duces the necessity for it: Tie one
means taxation without limit, and the
other contraction without end
EDWARD |. k0aNTZ.
Ralf nr,rcn A a.