The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-10-03
|J. h MITCHELL OF OREGON.
Continued from thard page.

UOO,UOO and industry and prosperity
again reigned. When the Republican
party took hold of the greatest rebellion
of modern timesit grappled it courage
ouslv and successfully. The war cost
100000 precious lives and ten thous-
and millions of money, and when it was
concluded there was great national
debt to pay of three thousand million
dollars. In twenty eight years of power
it had 81 900, 100000 of this debt paid.
Interest rates of I2 per cent under
Buchanan fell to 2 per cent under Harri-
son. The Republican party not only did
this, but it made millions and millions
of dollars of paper money equal to
gold.
"This,'' said the senator, 'sbrings me
to the financial question, and on this 1
claim to stand where l have always
stood. have nothing to take back,
and if any one.in the audience can point
to one of my speeches. whole speech |
and charge me with Inconsistency want |
him to do it now, and will have eome- |
thing to say about the railroad to Mars, |
too. The Republican party, from its
birth up to the present time, has never
desired nor advocated as a permanent
policy. the single gold standard. 1t has
always advocated the bImetallic stan
dard-both gold and silver. The Demo
cratic party never did anything for sill
ver, and the Republican party has done
great deal. The Republican platfoi m
of 1896 merely assum fact-that we
have the gold standard. But it pledges
itself TO re-establish the bimetallic
standard, and there is only one way to
do it-by international agreement with
the leading commercial nations of the
world, and the party pledges itself
to do all in its power to hiring it about
by an international agreement. It is
no difference where 1 stand. / am not
an issue. We are trying to elect presi-
dent and we are going to do it. (Tre-
mendous applause). But 1 claim to
stand with my party even on the fnan-
cial question. have always contended
that if there was any chance to settle
the financial question by international
agreement, that is the way to do it. I
said last January that there was no
more chance of securing an inter-
national agreement than there was
of building a railroad to the planet
Mars. That was true when I said it.
The conditions are different now. Then
Cleveland was IN power and he had no
desire to bring this end about. He
stands unequivocally for the mainten-
ance of the single gold standard. On
the other hand Bryan proposes to es-
tablished the bimetallic policy without
this agreement. It cannot be done.
Therefore neither wing of the Democrat
ic party has a feasible remedy. The
only way to get it is through the Repub
lican party, which pledges itself to do
all in its power to promote an interna-
tional agreement. England is now max
ing move to this end. Never since
: 1916, when England first adopted the
gold standard, has it showed a disposi-
tion to adopt bimetallism until March
18th last, when the house of commons
passed two resolutions, the first that, ,ow-
ing to the instability of the relative value
of gold and silver since 1873, it has
proved Injurious to the interests of the
country. The second that we urge upon
tue govern menu the aQVlSaDlllCy OF doing
all in it's power to secure by internation-
al agreement the free coinage of both
: gold and silver. When these resolutions
were presented to the Cleveland admin
istration it stood mute. If the Repub-
lican administration had been in power
at this time we may have succeeded -
One of the strongest points scored by
Senator Mitchell was his deIineation- of
: the wonderful and unexampled pros
perity of 1892, under Harrison, and the
fearful distress and disaster of 1898
t under Cleveland. while the same fnan-
: cial policy was in effect throughout both
t years.
i The senator than followed with an
o earnest appeal to his silver Republican
:, friends that in Wow of the principles oi
reciprocity, of protection, and with the
t chance of securing an international
e agreement, is it not better 10 stand by
the old party and the old banner, instead
of turning their backs to it to go off with
d one wing of the Democratic party? In
It conclusion the senator called for an ex-
o preston of sentiment of the house by
! asking all who proposed to vote the Re-
= publican ticket to stand up and give
II three rousing cheers for Mckinley. Al.
/. most with one accord, and like huge
n wRve5 men and even women and child.
rem arose and ewelIed the volume oi