Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-06-02
The Money Issue.

The Republican party demonetized
silver and is responible for the act
which deprived us of one-half OF the
money of ultimate redemption as rep
resented by gold and silver, designat.
ed by the constitution as the money
metals of this country. They are re-
sponsible for all the financial havoc
and disaster wrought by that infa-
nous legislation and they must stand
by their record and face the just ret
ribution that awaits them at the
hands of IN outraged people. They
can not dodge the issue by bowling
protection" and placing before the
people as their candidate for presi-
dent, Mckinley, as the embodimento of
the idea of ultra protection, as set
forth in the tariff legislation to which
his name has chung, although he was
the author of scarcely u line of that
repudiated law. The currency issue
is and must be the paramount issue..of
the coming campaign and the great
political parties must take stand on
one side or the other of that issue.
There must be no straddling. The
people demand that this question be
settled fairly and squarely. There is
no doubt as to where the Republican
party will stand; 1t must father its
own child-gold monometalism-but
| it still remains to be seen whether the
| RI rfr Of
great mass of the common people of
this country, will desert Its time hon
ored traditions and principles as the
exponent of equal and exact justice
to all and special privileges to none" "
and follow a few goldbug Shylocks
and Wall street gamblers into the
camp of the financial vampires who
are sucking the life blood of this ma
ton, and destroying its prosperity
by taking from it the constitutional
function of coming money and en-.
downing themselves with this govern.
mental prerogatime to be Iexercised
by them in way to promote their
personal interests instead of the well
fare of the Nation at large. If the
democracy stands by its principles
and declares for the free coinage OF
gold and silver, it will succeed; if not,
it will be defeated.
We believe as Governor Boies saws,
that there is no room in this country
for two gold standard parties"
The boast Of the democratic party
in all the years of its history has been
that it is the party of the common
| people, the champion OF their rights
II has never espoused the cause OF
classes of any kind as against the
masses of the people. 1t is too late tt
do SO now. 1T cannot climb upon 9
gold standard platform without tres
passing upon ground already occu-
pied.
The republican party is in full pos
session there, and has been ever since
Senator Sherman set aside gold re-
serve in the treasury with which To
redeem the paper national currency
of the country, and thereby planted
the flag Of that party in the gold stan.
dard camp.
The statute of limitation has run
against all other parties on this sub.
ject. They could not steal the thun-
der of the republican party on that
question if they should try.
To follow senator Sherman into the
same camp would not add vote to
the democratic party. 1t would drive
away millions of as loyal democrats
as ever cast ballot.
Those who urge it have not counted
the consequences of what they pro-
pose. If they would succeed in a
party sense, they would SOW to the
wind and reap the whirlwind. Sen
eca (kun.) Democrat.
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