The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-07-08

sylvania had become mintarv camrs 8ss;sz.--
manifold oppressive features, tho Mckinley
law had thrown away S50,0JJ,OO0 Of revenue de
rived from sugar under the sccptral plea of a
free breakfast table and had substituted boun-
ties TO sugar planters, decreasing revenue and
increasing expenditure, thus burning the can
die at both ends and making the people pay at
least for the alleged free breakfast
So far as revenue TO support the government
Is concerned the Democratic party with but a
slender majority in the senate, was not long
providing it, and had not the supreme court of
the United States reversed its settled doctrine
Of one hundred years the income tax incorpo-
rated in the tariff bill would long since have
abundantly supplied IL.
The Republican party has now renounced the
creed of its platform and of our national
pledges, and presented 10 the country the issue
of higher taxes, more bonds and less money
1t has proclaimed at last throwing away the
DISCUSSES, the British gold standard we can
only expect should they succeed, my country
mon, . specimen Of panic and long protraoted
period Of depression Do not ask us, then, 10
join them in any of their propositions, Least
OF all ask us not to Join them upon the money
question and fight a sham battle over settled
tariff, for the money question is the paramount
issue before the American people, and It in
wolves true Americanism more than any eco
nomic issue that ever was presented to presi-
dent at presidential election.
No authority has ever been conferred by
congress for the issue Of any bonds payable in
gold, but distinctly refused. The specie re-
sumption of 1873 gave the surplus revenue In
the treasury, not gold only, the money Of re-
demption. Provision made by the Bland act of
1873 added to our circulation some S35O,000,0OO
of standard silver money, or paper based upon
II, and all that mass of silver money Is sus-
tained at parity with gold by nothing what
ever on earth but the silver in it and the legal
tender inn, TOD tn ~ INV 1at a
have no outstanding obligations in the United
States except the small sum of S44,000000 of
gold certificates which are specifically payable
In gold, and they, Of course, should be so paid.
AS we have 500, 900 100000 of public and private
debt, 1t would take moro than three times all
the gold in this country to pay even one years
interest upon it.
We pray you, Ro more malteshifts and strad-
dies. Vex not the country with your proph-
ecies of smooth things to come from the Brit
ish-Republican propaganda. The fact that the
European nations going to the gold stan
dard renders it all the more impracticable that
we should do So for the limited stock of gold
In the world would have longer division and
smaller share for each nation.
Instead Of increasing wages, this policy has
further decreased them. Instead of multiply
Ing opportunities for employment, this policy
has multiplied idlers. Instead of increasing
the prices Of our produce, this policy has low
cred Them and it is estimated at about 10 per
cent in three years. Instead of reviving conf
dence, this policy has banished confidence. In
stead Of bringing relief 1t has brought years of
misery, and for this reason, it has contracted
the currency Of the United States 81 "a head for
every man, woman and child since Nov l, 1893.
The public revenues have fallen, wages of labor
have fallen and everything on the face of the
earth has fallen except taxes and debts, which
have grown in burden, while on the other hand
the means OF their liquidation has been dimin-
tshed.
But the people now do well know that the
conspiracy of European monarchs, led by Great
Britain, has for its purpose n war upon Amer
lean silver money. With their credit they seek
TO enhance the purchasing power Of thousands
and millions which is owed to them all over the
world and which you owe TO them. They draw
upon the United States of America for their
food supplies and raw material, and they seek
TO get 1t for the least money
No nation calls itself free and Independent
that Is not great enough 10 establish and main
tain a financial system of it's own. The pretense
that this, the foremost, richest and most power
full nation Of the world cannot coin its own
money without suing for an international
agreement at the courts Of European autocrats
who have none but primary interests to sub
serve, has for many years been held out ut
every presidential election. To wait longer
upon thom is 20 ignore the interests of our own
people and degrade our national dignity and to
advertise TO all mankind our impotence and
our folly
The majority Of this convention maintain
that this great American nation, with natural
base of fixed empire, the greatest ever estab
lshed by man, with more territory and more
productive energy than Great Britain, France
and Germany combined without dependence
upon European nations for anything that they
produce, and with European nations dependent
upon much that we produce, is fully capable of
restoring this constitutional money system Of
gold and silver at equality with each other
And our fathers in ITO declared our ma
tional independence of all the world, so today
has the great Democratic party appeared here
in Chicago to declare the financial Independence
of the United States of all other nations,