The Florence tribune., 1897-12-25
THE PEOPLE OR TAg pLUTocRATs.
Senator Chandler Asks the President
 Which lie VII Act for.

Which He Will Act for.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. l9.-senator Chandler of New Hampshire has writ ten letter to the Washington Post. in which he says:
 'if tue Secretary of the Treasury and his single gold-standara associates will cease their demand for impossible currency legislation, Congress will pass the necessary appropriation bills probably take care of Hawaii and Cuba; there will be no serious partv division during the session, and there will be an adjournment in May. Busi- ness will revive, the balance of trade will continue in our favor, and the Republican party will, in November, lS98, elect majority of the House in the fifty-ffth Congress.
 "on the other hand, if Secretary Gage continues to press upon Congress bill, the object of which, he says. is first to commit the country more thor oughly to the gold standard and the immediate result of which is to throw doubts upon the sincerity of the presi- dents declarations in favor of contiu- ued efforts to secure bimetalIism. q political turmoil will arise in Congress which will split the now united Repub- llcan party ints fragments. ghile it will unite and consolidate the now in- congruous opposition.
 It is not feasible to retire the green backs. There is more probability that 3 bill will be sent to the President to increase their amount. It is not possi- ble to secure the passage through eith- CT House of bill making the green backs into gold notes lor authorizing bonds payable in gold. The effort to do either thing will probably result in the passage of bill for the redemp- tion of the greeubacks in silver dollars, and for the payment of all United States bonds in gold or silver coin in the discretion of the President, who will be commanded to exercise his op- tion for the advantages of the govern ment, and not for the advantage of tine creditors.
 With such an uproar in Congress as these proceedings will create, with certain Congressman embroiled there in; with Presidential vetoes. as threat ened by Secretary Gage, under angry discussion, it will happen that all busi- ness enterprises and fluids and stocks will be disturbed, prices will fall, in- solvencies will increase and the Repub- licans win lose the Congressional elec- tions in 1898 as disastrously as they did in 1880, and beyond the hope of a favorable reaction in 1900, at which time, therefore, a Bryan Democrat President and Congress will be chosen.
 Whether we are to have one of these results-political safety-or the other-political destruction = depends entirely upon the courset to be pursued by Secretary Gage and those who are pressing him forward, namely, the Gold-Standerd League of New York and the self-constitnted monetary con ference. How much Secretary Gage cares for the Republican party is not known. Whether President McKinley, whose good faith toward bimetallism is coming to test, will stop his secre- tary is not known. It is to be hoped he will. But no political situation has been clearer than the present one is to sound eyes since the Republican party began it's marvellous career forty-two years ago. There are times for all things. There is time to move and a time to keep still, and now is the time to so keep.
 It is1simply political suicide for the Republican party in this Congress to aairmatively open the discussion of the question and the bringing of yea and nay votes on currency Legislation. We ought to await the progress of interna- tional bimetallism, the advent of busi- ness prosperity and the filling of the treasury by the normal workings, soon to be seen, of the new tariff law. Shall we wait for these things or rush on to self-destruction? President Mckinley must decide. Will he act for his peo- pie or his plutocrats? Upon his an- swer will depend the events of 1898. fSiguedI
 ''WTLLIAM E. CHANDLER. -.@----
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